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Social groupings can be centred around the vital physical, largely surface life of man. This life caters primarily to the bodily existence and vital pleasures and comforts.
At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
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The important question is not whether one is meant for this path or not; the right question would be whether this path is consistent with one's core aspiration and demands from God.
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One has to also shift the motive from satisfying one’s ambition and desires to making action as a means to serve Her and grow in union with Her.
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Karma is essentially about learning and growth that the soul in Ignorance must go through as its primary schooling. But the soul is never alone.
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Ordinarily, motivation comes from the Desire-self and takes various forms in our thought and feelings such as ambition, lust, greed, wishes for various objects and hungers of various kinds.
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... whatever you decide do it as an offering to God to whom alone the results belong.
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... every fall leaves us somewhat stronger and wiser and if we keep the will for progress intact then one day we rise never to fall again.
We are not saying whether man has no right to complain. We are only saying that it doesn't help us one bit.
The relation between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is an earthly representation of the truth of Ishwara (The Lord) and Shakti (His Eternal Power).