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.

As I’m studying for my end semester exams, I am suddenly developing interest in studying these boring subjects, which I never even tried to open. Maa is working in me, turning and twisting me for the journey ahead. What do you think can be the reason for this sudden change?
You have yourself felt it is Grace and most likely it is so. She is preparing you for something. Go for it…

I struggle with procrastination and reluctance to ask for favors at work place. I somehow fail and hesitate to ask as simple as casual leave etc I am always thinking what the other person might feel and I shrink.. I am vocal when it is to speak for others but somehow if related to me I shy away.. I though this I must share with you for some remedy.
It is because you are sattwic and sensitive person. Add a little rajas to your personality. May be difficult to ….

Sri Aurobindo writes in the life divine that Matter and Spirit are truly reconciled only in the cosmic consciousness. He explains why it is so: For in the cosmic consciousness Mind and Life are intermediaries and no longer, as they seem in the ordinary egoistic mentality, agents of separation, fomenters of an artificial quarrel between the positive and negative principles of the same unknowable Reality.(Ch. 4, Pg. 29) If Mind and Life are intermediaries in the cosmic consciousness, does that mean that philosophies like that of Advaita and Buddhism that deny the reality of Matter, are not seeing the Truth from cosmic consciousness? How come they are missing this truth of reconciliation?
Obviously they missed, in fact from the accounts available it is unlikely that they truly experienced the cosmic consciousness especially because their problem was the