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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.
How can I get rid of the greed for money and wealth 😓?
Money and wealth are two different things. Wealth is ordinarily what money can create. It need not be material only as people use their money
A girl who has faced harassment, mental exploitation, teasing and unwanted touching in her teenage years and was bullied by boys in school and college. These painful experiences affected her deeply. Even now, she can’t forget the boys who hurt her. Whenever she thinks about the past, she feels nothing but hatred toward them. How to move on😪?
The girl has two choices before her. She can live with the trauma and nurture hate and a skewed view of life. Or she can
This is the context of one of your answer today. Are the mantras and other rituals mentioned in our scriptures useless? If so, why did our sages invent them? Please help me understand this😳.
Nobody says they are useless. Each thing has its own place and purpose. Besides there are scriptures and scriptures. Not all sages reached the same
Mother has always informed that human mind is a formative instrument and not an instrument of Knowledge. Can you please clarify that a little more🤔?
Knowledge and Power are embedded in Consciousness. They are attributes of the Divine so to say. Animals, for instance act instinctively with a sure knowledge
Some celebrities are intentionally choosing to have their babies born on dates associated with the number 6 (such as the 6th, 15th, 24th, or 31st), as numerology links this number with beauty, harmony, and peace. What is your view on this😐?
People who resort to these outer means are generally quite foolish and ignorant. They are ignorant because they do not understand how destiny operates.
In the present modern time no one wants so-called liberation (moksha). Every civilized person having little knowledge about the Hindu concept of life will desire a blissful, strong and meaningful life for himself and family. How can we live such a life when we have so many weaknesses, fears and ignorance? I know we have to overcome them but how to do that? I don’t find myself capable of overcoming those things😳. [Conti]
Pray to Her with faith in Her Grace and surrender to Her Will. The Divine Mother acts in Her infinite freedom and Wisdom. She is
When I finish work I can’t seem to switch off. I end up thinking about lots of things I missed in the chaos of hospital as we’re often seeing 2-3 sick patients at a given time. Then it affects my sleep, and I focus very hard at work, I make sure to get enough sleep, I read, walk, have quite a balanced external factors. But fresh out of graduation it’s inevitable things gets missed here and there, and if mistakes are picked up by seniors then they threaten to sue you🫨 [Conti]
First thing is to cultivate an inner quietude as it is only in a peaceful inner state that one can see better, think better, act
Sir, is there any arrangement in the ashram to volunteer for a short time? I wish to take a break of a week from work and come to Pondicherry (whenever it’s possible). Will I be assigned work? Also, I have never been in Pondicherry for more than a few hours. Whenever I come for a day’s visit, what is the best way to spend my time😊 ?(apart from Pranam and meditation at the samadhi which the first priority naturally) [Conti]
There is generally no such arrangement for a week-long volunteering since one needs to learn the work first. It will be better to come and
Why is it important to say or write ‘Sri Aurobindo’ instead of using just his name? What is the significance of the prefix ‘Sri’? Does the same applies when referring to The Mother🤔?
Sri Aurobindo is the full name of Sri Aurobindo and it has a mantric power in it. Sri is not a honorific but the name
I’ve developed mutual romantic feelings for my cousin. We’re not very closely related, but not too distant either. Some of my muslim friends say there’s nothing wrong with it, also I feel a strong physical attraction toward this person. I’m wondering if this is wrong, especially if we end up getting physically involved😥.
It is quite likely a physical attraction alone. Regardless of being a cousin and setting aside moral notions, physical relation before marriage comes with a
One feels the basis of all good work in a solid peace that nothing can disturb. Just when you think you have attained some foundation in peace, something or the other attacks you and disturbs it all. How does one cultivate a peace independent of outward circumstances? What are those required qualities or actions that need to be done🤔?
Yes thinking about it almost soon enough makes us vulnerable. Over the years the one perfect remedy I have felt and known is to shift
I have read that as we are part and portion of the Divine, we share a very special bonding with Him. Kindly put more words into it🙏.
It means that our real identity is the child of the Divine Mother. But it is hidden and covered by ignorance of earth-nature. It is
I wanted to know who carried which warrior’s blood to Druapadi for her to rub it in her hair so that she could, at last wash and braid it once again, according to her pledge. I can’t find it anywhere. Duhsasana has been killed and his blood drunk by Bhima. Duryodhana is about to be killed. This is an important event which I am missing, without which I can’t proceed. As usual, please help me😳.
Bhima killed Dushasana and as promised to Draupadi smeared his face with Dushasana’s blood and then took it to Draupadi to braid her hair. Though
Why isn’t The love and daring of seafaring that you see in European history and culture right from the homer’s epic of odyssey to Vasco De Gama to the British mastery of the ocean in creating a world empire isn’t anywhere nearly as visible as it is in Indian culture except for chola expeditions? They went so far as to even ban sea travel in medieval ages and seafaring fishing communities are often placed very low in the social order from Gujarat to Kerala. Like Sri Aurobindo said regarding the village republics on how irrespective of the march of empires in the country they were undisturbed and hibernating in their own villages for centuries without any curiousity. As I understand it too much obsession with the order and not embracing love of chaotic flow of oceans and it’s unknown vasts as it is visible in European naval history and literature is an inevitable evolutionary decline in spirit. I was a bit disappointed recently knowing that when European merchants reached in medieval times Japan the Japanese were very curious and quick to enquire about their map making and cartographic equipment while none such Indian records exist,there are many foreigner traveller records of them coming to India and writing the records of their observations of India while there’s no Indian who went to foreign lands and wrote such observations and records cos the foreign lands are inhabited by mlecchas and it makes you impure entering them. What explains such close mindedness, Is this what Sri Aurobindo meant by decline in thought power that happened🤔?
The India you are comparing with the modern European is the India of the dark ages. But even till the last few centuries, Indians also
Could you please talk about Operation Sindoor and the current situation on Auromaa 🙏? Thank you.
Will surely give a talk on the subject on auromaa. The situation is still evolving and the Operation Sindoor is still on. Three things have
“Each time a progress is to be made there is a test to pass” This was posted in Alokda recording group chat today. My understand is that Mother does not test but in the passage its says there are three categories of test, one of which is divine and spiritual force. Its quite confusing to my understanding😳.
It is not the Mother who takes any test but the cosmic forces. If you read carefully She mentions the three kinds of forces that
As you said, choose the career as per swabhava and swadharma. I have concluded that my nature and temperament best fits for, a professor in university. I don’t want to get added in the rat race of MBA and UPSC people. I want a peaceful life, lots of time, exploration, travel, and a platform from where I can bring some changes. I can see myself doing best as a professor in future. This is my highest aspiration. But not with my subject commerce, I can go with psychology, philosophy, history but not commerce😊.
Basically into teaching. So you can shift to graduation in a subject of your choice such as philosophy or ….
Often driven by comparison and jealousy, people in today’s fast-paced world are eager to experience everything quickly, from switching careers, traveling, and earning more, to staying fit and competing with others. Can this be called over-ambition? Does the age-old saying by Rahim still hold relevance😳?
This feverish fast-paced hyperactivity of our modern times, whatever its outer reasons (and there are quite a few) is because evolution has been put in