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Sri Aurobindo

I’m telling the truth when I say I just know for a fact that, despite my limits and flaws, I know I want The Divine enough to do whatever I need to do. When I was sharing that I have doubts, I was observing the hesitation in parts of me in order to acknowledge and overcome it instead of hiding it; I was not choosing or identifying with those doubts. 😊🙏🏻🌸❤️‍🔥[…]

I know that and there is no question of doubting any of it. I know your love for Them is genuine and so is your

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Sir Pranam. Now since some days I am going through Sri Aurobindo’s Record of Yoga, Part 1. I am just reading it with only a little understanding. But I am coming accross a word “KAMANANDA” frequently in the book. A simple example: “Recurrence of intense kamananda throughout the day”, Page 671. Please enlighten me about the use of this word in such a manner. 😐🙏🏻🪷🦋[…]

Records of Yoga were actually never meant to be read by anyone. They are Sri Aurobindo’s personal notes and neither the Mother nor Sri Aurobindo

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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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