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  1. Why does someone get addicted or attracted to non healthy habits like smoking, drinking, etc.?

    Because you feel that you are going to get some pleasure out of it, that is why you get addicted to it. Meditation is a big help in removing you from addictions. ...
  2. Gurudev, God wants for me to become a good human being. You too want the same for me and my parents also want the same. Please tell me why did God create evil in the first place?

    Who said you are bad? I never said that you have to ‘become’ good. You are already good. Just wake up and see, you have the ability to drop all the small little habits that you are stuck with this moment. Okay? So just drop them. ...
  3. Gurudev, sometimes while doing something, we know it is wrong, yet we do it. So how should one control it?

    The main thing is that one feels that one is getting some pleasure out of it. The temptation or desire for pleasure is lurking there; only then a wrong action happens. ...
  4. Gurudev, many times I promise you that I will never repeat the same mistake. I repeat it again, and I get very upset and I feel very bad after that.

    That is good. It is good to feel that pinch. Once, twice, thrice or four times it happens, then the tenth time at least you will be aware of it and you will move away from it. Don’t worry, it is good to have that pinch, and keep promising me. ...