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Mind

Sometimes, when we sit alone Or during also a work, a known person’s image comes to mind all of a sudden though we have no physical or mobile contact. Then with unconsciously, I think about him or her for a while, then I suddenly wakeup to my conscious state & tell myself ‘what are you doing?’. 💭🧠[…]

This kind of sudden intrusion of images generally happens because of the sudden activity in the physical mind which is closely connected to the subconscient.

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Alok da, I was going through this work by the philosopher Descartes called Rules for the Direction of the Mind. So much of this work is about how to better purify the various human faculties of sense perception, memory, judgment, imagination, etc., so that one can observe minute facts of nature with precision and without prejudiced universal presuppositions and arrive at a true universal knowledge, which is arrived at only after mastery of minute particulars. 🇮🇳🔬📖🌄[…]

Certainly the Hindus knew the various means of purifying the mind and intelligence and, during the heydays of ancient India, the Vedic period and even

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It’s been more than a month now; I feel pressure in my neck every time I read Savitri, even sometimes when I am simply walking on the terrace or just sitting quietly. It started happening very concretely on the night of 24th April when I was meditating; that day I experienced a kind of pressure and a few sensations in my head. 📖🧘✨ […]

It is the pressure of the higher consciousness trying to open the centres of the Mind and speech. It is a good thing, the sign

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I have a question regarding bhakti and the nature of a true bhakta. I have read about bhakti in various spiritual texts, but it never fully resonated with my inner experiences. I seem to have arrived at a few tentative conclusions: The ordinary mind alone appears incapable of sustaining genuine bhakti in the sense described by the scriptures. 😊❤️🙏🏻

Bhakti is not a movement of the mind but of the heart. It is somewhat like falling in love, a movement that is spontaneous and

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During a recent visit from my parents, I struggled to convey Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s teachings to my action-focused, property-oriented father, raising the question of why transmitting subtle spiritual ideas to an intellectually capable mind can remain so difficult. 👨🏻‍👩🏻‍👧🏻‍👦🏻😣🥀🌾[…]

Yes, it is my general observation that the present generation, for all its other difficulties, is more open towards the spiritual life. It believes in

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Whilst playing hockey, I found myself so confused. There really was no reason for it. And it continued and I had a bad game day. Not knowing where to position myself, etc. It was bizarre. In hindsight, it felt like something that came over me to confuse. I called Mother, rejected it, and it feels lifted now. How can I protect myself against these attacks constantly? 🏑😕🦋🌾

Oh yes that is a very real experience. Something comes between the mind and the body or simply puts a subtle blinder on the mind.

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