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Sri Aurobindo

Dear Alok Da, I write with deep respect to navigate a personal dilemma as I seek to purify my bhakti in the flames of knowledge rather than rely on borrowed piety. While I fully embrace Sri Aurobindo’s vision, I struggle with praying to the Divine in human form when subtler, transcendent dimensions of that same reality exist, and I find opening to The Mother through mental instruction or tradition challenging from a distance. 😥🙏🏻🌼🍂[…]

There is nothing disrespectful about what you write. There are many seekers who start this way. The Mother herself has confirmed that generally seekers turn

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Alok da, I certainly do not at all have an inclination towards the leftist like ways of protests, anarchy and then using the language of revolutions and what not but I also feel in a warped and distorted sense, all of Sri Aurobindo’s writings in Bande Mataram can be appropriated by them because Sri Aurobindo here talks of the ways of iron chains of beuracracy and their suppression of movements. ⛓️‍💥🌄🫡🪷[…]

That is quite a correct observation. What people forget is that the Sri Aurobindo of Bande Mataram days is the pre-yogic Sri Aurobindo. He himself

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