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I am drawn to the Mother’s Teachings, and for the past couple of years spent quite some time reading and taking notes on a variety of subjects. I now feel that I have read enough and it is time for me to start living them. I am doing that, slowly and steadily, notably in work and in parenting. Also, with regards to my health, I am making efforts to regularly exercise, eat a good diet, etc. The Mother herself said this: “It is best to live a Divine teaching”. 😊🙏🏻🌸🌏[…]

Your aspiration as well as anguish is quite understandable. Yes, there are so many things in the writings of Sri Aurobindo that would be of

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A few days earlier, I was in a state of consciousness where I used to feel something inside. I was feeling something different, which was around Krishna Janmasthmi and Sri Aurobindo’s Birthday. It was joyful. I think it was Higher Consciousness. If yes, how to be in that situation consistently? What should I do about that? Sir, after meeting different people, how to be in that Consciousness, as it’s very difficult?🌅✨☀️🕉️🕊️

It was, in all likelihood, the doors of the psychic being that opened sensing the special atmosphere.

Yes it is difficult initially to keep

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Sir, in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, you practice Integral Yoga. What is Integral Yoga? Where to learn about it and how to practice as a complete beginner? In the Ashram, deities are not being worshipped like Bhagwan Shiv, Maa Durga and Rituals are not performed. So what are your opinions on Rituals and Festivals like Mahashivratri or Navratri? 🏡🪷🌳🙏🌸[…]

The Integral Yoga is a way to complete God realisation, not in one or other but all aspects. Its eventual goal is a complete transformation

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Dada, there is a professor at IISC who is a sadhaka in the sampradaya of Madhvacharya, and he says that, according to him, the way to find your Swadharma is to do what you can persistently despite failure. I want to ask, is this a good way of practically knowing, or is it too reductionist? And according to you, what can be the best practical way for a young child?🧒📚✨🌱

That is one way of looking at it. But a slightly negative and outer way of looking at it. There are plenty of things we

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