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  1. I feel this practice makes me feel even more lonely rather than expanding my sense of belongingness. Please advice.

    No! Come on, wake up! It can give you that sort of feeling just in the beginning, but it will pass. You just be with it, be with that loneliness. Go deep into it and you will find that it is giving you so much more strength. ...
  2. (A member of the audience spontaneously asked a question without speaking into the mike. The question was inaudible in the recording.)

    No! Sensations are already there in our body. Every pleasant thought has a sensation and an unpleasant thought also creates a sensation. So when you observe the sensations, the unpleasant ones disappear and the pleasant ones increase, that is what happens. ...
  3. Dear Guruji, please give me some tips to have a strong resolution towards doing sadhana. I am so busy in my life with two kids, work and studies.

    The tip is ‘just relax!’ Relax with the intention that you have to do sadhana and that itself will keep you on the track. ...
  4. Gurudev, can you please share with us your experience of Sudarshan Kriya.

    That is what I am doing. What do you think I have done? I have shared with the world the experience called Sudarshan Kriya. That is what we have been teaching everywhere. I have translated the experience to everyone. ...
  5. Dear Guruji, what is your sadhana every day? Do you run into the same issues as us like too many thoughts, anxiety, or do you live your natural state all the time?

    There is a code of conduct for a teacher not to share their experience. Do you know why? Because the student will start to think, ‘how come I am not having this? I want to have it.’ This wanting to have, this questioning oneself will go on. The ...
  6. What to do when people do the course and then do not come for the follow-up?

    They come back sometime or the other. See when you have eaten a full meal you don’t think about food again because you feel so satisfied. But when you get hungry again then you come and look for food. The basic course itself is so complete and so ...
  7. Why do we chant ‘Om’ three times?

    Om is made of 3 syllables ‘Aa’, ‘Uu’, ‘M’. That is why we chant 3 times. You can say that it is for the lower body, middle body and upper body, like we do three stage pranayama. If we do it 4 times, even then you will ask me why 4 times? If you w ...
  8. Gurudev, please speak something about jaap and sankirtans.

    When someone is in love with somebody, they keep repeating their beloved's name, this is called jaap. And when they sing their beloved's name, it is called sankirtan. Everyone hums sometime or the other, whether in the shower or while doing some chore ...
  9. Gurudev, we know that we should do sadhana regularly, but sometimes it becomes very boring to do it. What to do at such times?

    Exercises are always boring but we know for our good health we have to do it. Like eating is boring, but still we eat. Sadhana is boring but still we should do it. Make it a routine, sit for a few minutes, do some rounds of bhastrika. Sometimes yo ...
  10. Gurudev, in the earlier days it was a big thing to initiate someone into Gayatri Mantra. Today, you’ll find it playing everywhere.

    When you take the mantra in a ceremony as an initiation, like you take Sahaj mantra then you keep it a secret. ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ when it is sung in the satsang like music then it has different value. But when it is initiated as a mantra for you which ...