At the feet of THE MOTHER

ASK ALOK DA

Questions asked to Alok Da
AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
Ask Alok da

We know of so many people who are facing impossible situations and problems and they are helpless. They do not know what to do or whom to ask. 

This is a dedicated site for those who are searching for answers, who want to break from their present repeating circles of life and looking for answers that will understand them, help them find a new way-a new solution towards life beautiful and Divine.

I am also The Mother’s child. When I was in my student life I came into the contact with The Mother & Sri Aurobindo due to my employer CA. Later I started going to the center and read the books of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. At present I am CA. In my early career I started teaching as profession but due to voice box issue I need to left. So I started with share market work but from last few months I am making losses. Recently I read The Mother’s literature where she say not to work in the field of Share Market. Now I don’t have enough client to even maintain my office expense. How should I earn to manage my livelihood? 📈💰💸

I am not sure why you did not continue keeping CA as your main profession and instead went into the Share Market as the mainstay

Read More >

I have been scolded and banned from using headphones in wards , which I used to listen to your videos or Mother’s music in free time. I keep feeling that I should just leave this pg seat and join Sri Aurobindo Ashram I know life won’t be easy n chill anywhere if I am not peaceful within but at least in Ashram I would be able to remember Maa all the time and wouldn’t have so many restrictions. Any advice on this how to deal with such situation??🤯🌀🌫️

Do not leave the work you are doing. It is She who has given this work to you to prepare you for the future. Instead

Read More >

Could you please suggest me any Book by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother which I can recommend to them or say to all highly educated contemporary young adults having ingrained analytical thinking based on logical reasoning without any spiritual bent of mind?? Meanwhile, I will continue pray to The Mother for all these youngsters and finally trust Divine Grace which alone can infuse aspiration into their hearts. 🌅🖋️🦁🌸

There are some good short compilations from the writings that work best. It will depend upon the kind of interest that the children have. A

Read More >

I just listened your response to the question about ‘Positive Thinking, Negative Thinking and Thinking Divinely’. The examples you gave and what you said about wanting only the Divine Will to prevail, no matter what happens to oneself, I feel that’s what Love means, that’s the Ideal in my Heart, not what I’m doing now. How does one make that choice at each moment or at least at every turn?🤔💭💡

It is best not to think too much about oneself in a self-critical judgmental tone. Quietly one should keep progressing upon the path offering our

Read More >

Why does Sri Aurobindo appear to be so severe and repetitive in his critique of Shankara’s Mayavada  compared to other schools like Vishishtadvaita, and is this intensity necessary to dislodge a 2000-year-old dominance from the Indian psyche, or is there a more gentle path for Mayavadins to transition to the Integral vision? 🧘‍♂️✨📖🕉️

Yes. That is quite a pertinent observation. But first we must understand that his remarks are not about Shankara and Buddha as a person, –

Read More >

When I visit some Shakti Temples, I sometimes happen to encounter many people who start shaking in front of the Deity. Some even make noise while they are shaking and some shake very intensely. What may be the cause of this? Is it real Shakti entering into the body, or is some bad powers overpowering them, or is it some mental disorder? Can you please explain the Phenomenon?🛕🫨🕉️⛰️

These phenomenon of shaking and sometimes jumping in some temples, in the presence of certain deities is due to the presence of and possession by

Read More >

In Gita while revealing the secrets of Vibhuti and even later in eleventh chapter Krishna says to Arjun that what you are experiencing is not accessible even to Gods and Maharshis. And the vision of Vishwarup is not of exclusive oneness where multiplicity is lost but rather there is the totality of world, God, creation, destruction combined. So is this the supramental experience?🏹🎯⚔️🐎

Both your understanding is true and right.

Before the Gita, there is the main emphasis is primarily on the two sides or aspects of

Read More >

I have a very problem since childhood and still persist. I start something in a very enthusiastic after resolution but drops it in few weeks or months either because of priorities or lack of interest or insincerity. Its both in case of ordinary & spiritual life. For example I plan to paint or read spiritual books or do some certification etc. How to fix this problem?🌅🆕🌱📅

This is because the vital is unsteady. Practice equanimity, apply reason to control the vital from jumping from one thing to another, above all, call

Read More >