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You say, "Make peace with your past", but when you move on and the same situation crops up then how do we deal with it?
Now wake up and see, all the situations that happened from the morning till now, is it there now? Is it not like a dream? You went to school, you had so many fights, is it there now? It’s all gone! Everything is gone, why are you hanging on to the ... -
During meditation, an energy shock happens. And during this time where does the consciousness go?
Isn’t it amazing? The vibrations are so beautiful, isn’t it? Just relax. Sometimes all these different energies rise, and changes do happen. ... -
You mentioned that on the spiritual path one needs a Guru. How does one identify their Guru, or what are the qualities one should see in a Guru?
You tell me, what should it be? If you have an idea (of the qualities you should see in a Guru) then you have a pre-conceived notion.Do you feel comfortable here? Are you happy? Are you making progress? That’s it, done! ... -
Please tell us more about 33 divine impulses within the human body which you mentioned in one of the Upanishads.
Yes, see it is one egg and a sperm that got together and made one living cell. Now that one cell has made the eyes, ears, nails, hair, bones and skin, isn't it? These are the divine impulses! It is because of these 33 different things. These 33 Gods ... -
There is a part of me who is aware of the quality of my meditation, if its deep, if it’s not deep, as it is happening, and even later I tend to gauge the quality of meditation.
Actually you should not gauge your meditation. You should just be. When you are gauging, the gauger and the one who is experiencing are two different things. Meditation is getting into the experiencer and not getting stuck in the experience, that is why ... -
Learn To Keep The Balance
(Below is a continuation of post How to Find the Joy Within) There is a temple on the southern end of India, it is called Thanumalayan Temple, and it is in a town called Suchindram. That is where Indra (leader of the mind) became pure. Now, the concept of ... -
Gurudev, in the mythological story, Ganapati went around his parents and was considered to have gone round the world. Should we also keep our parents as our top priority?
See, these are okay in stories, but if you actually start only listening to your parents and doing only what they say, soon you will land up frustrated. And if you get very frustrated, you will land up turning all your frustration on them. So in life, a ... -
Gurudev, with the migration crisis happening in Europe, how do people like us who live there, contribute or help?
You know, just giving the migrants food, or shelter, or money is not good enough. We need to infuse values in them. Educate them because they come from an area where there is only trauma. There is so much trauma in their minds that they will feel everyo ... -
Gurudev, on the political situation in our country, if you look at the political parties and how they function, the basic flaw is how they get their funding because of which all the corruption happens. You have established this organization in so many countries, is there any near perfect system that may have existed in the past which we can learn from and implement?
Every system has some good things and some bad things in it. So we should take the good things and leave the bad things. Hong Kong and Singapore have some very good systems by which they combat corruption. Similarly Switzerland has an excellent system, ...