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  1. Gurudev, what is the easiest way to overcome thoughts of obsession, lust and desire?

    Keep yourself busy. Put your passion to a bigger cause. Be passionate about creating something or making something. Be busy in spreading knowledge, and spreading Dharma. Day and night think of how you can reach out to people, and do some g ...
  2. Gurudev, could you talk about Tantra and Khajuraho temples? I have been visiting these temples with different groups and each guide says different things, and I do not find truth in it.

    Tantra means technique. Yantra, Mantra and Tantra - these are three things. Mantra is the sound. Yantra is the diagram. Like the Star of David, it is one such Yantra which Judaisim uses as its ma ...
  3. I have many erotic thoughts. Are they harmful?

    Never mind, don’t worry; don’t identify yourself with the thoughts. Thoughts are thoughts, they come and go, don’t worry. As long as you don’t give them power, you don’t act on them, you are very safe. It takes time for your consciousness to be so di ...
  4. I am torn between spirituality and sex. I feel a sense of guilt mixing both. I am married and have a good relationship with my wife

    When you are married you have that dharma; that is your duty. So when you are married then you have to grow together with your spouse and help them to grow. Have you read Yoga Vasistha? There is a story of Lila in it. Read Yoga Vasistha. ...
  5. Is living a life as a celibate the middle path? How do we get to know of God’s expression in its totality without the feminine-masculine principle?

    See, you are made up of both, feminine and masculine. Both aspects are in you. Now, celibacy is not the only way. It is not a practice. Celibacy is something that happens, when you know that you are not the body. And the genders masculine and feminine are ...