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At the Feet of The Mother

Essays on Yoga

Essays and Letters by Dr Alok Pandey on Yoga

Healing System and Faith

If only we could learn to be simple and humble and open like a flower to the Grace, then life would be so much wonderful. But the sceptic mind stands in the way and an aggressively selfish consciousness opens doors to fear and closes it to the Grace.
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Ayurveda and Allopathy

We are living in an age of synthesis and any exclusive approach is not in sync with the demands of the Age. Instead of taking a confrontationist approach, it would have been more mature to call for a discussion as to how different approaches can help improve the quality of human life.
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A Bhakta and the Death

TEXT IN ENGLISH
True bhakti is in fact very rare and if one finds it then it is a special Grace. Such a person is always happy with the Lord since in life and in death he is always with Him, which is what the bhakta truly seeks.
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Pooja and Spirituality

TEXT IN ENGLISH
True spiritual life begins with an aspiration, a seeking for the Divine, to discover and become one with Him. Whatever helps in process is good whether it be a ritualistic worship or doing one's work with dedication to God for the joy of serving Him.
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Life’s Too Short?

This is in response to a comment by a fellow devotee that due to our short life span when we realize our goals and learn a few things about life, the time is up to leave the body and start afresh.
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How do I Find My Psychic Being

Finding the psychic being is a journey rather than a process. It is much more a movement of the heart that defies any method. And yet we can speak of methods that certainly hasten the finding of the psychic being and its emergence in our life. 
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Time Presses

The essence of all that is happening and would happen is to push humanity through the doors of the inner being into a higher and greater consciousness.
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The Shadow

The way to deal with this shadow is to persistently offer it to the Divine Mother until it is transformed. No human effort can deal with this. Precisely because of the difficulty of this task we are told to rely more and more on the Grace.
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The Cave of Tapasya

An Essay by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT IN ENGLISH)
"The 4th April is the Ashram New Year, date of Sri Aurobindo’s arrival in Pondicherry." The Mother
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The Inner and the Outer Guru

Since the Divine dwells within man, the Guru also dwells within man. All Gurus in fact derive from this aspect from the Divine and are His conscious or half-conscious representatives. However, since it is difficult for man to discover the Divine Master within, He comes to us in a human form.
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Soul, Psychic Being and Evolution

The soul is a seed of the Divine that has come from the Divine into this world of ignorance and pain where darkness and unconsciousness and falsehood and death presently reign. The purpose of this implantation is precisely to change this world into a world of Truth and Light and Bliss and the marvel it is meant to be.
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