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What is a living being and what is a soul?

The living being is a wave, the soul is the ocean. ‘Eeshvar ansh jeev avinaashi’, the living being is a part of God. ...

Gurudev, people say that love is the union of two hearts. Then why is there a need for marriage? Is it to please society?

Once two hearts unite in love, they don’t want to stay apart and that is called marriage. When they live together, they multiply into three, four or five hearts! Those three, four or five hearts need the two hearts; hence the institution of marriage came i ...

Gurudev, I used to lose my temper so easily. But now it has stopped altogether. When my work does not get done, I do not react but when I get back home I look at your picture and get upset at you.

Doesn’t matter. You are expressing your frustration in the right place and to the right person. That is a safe place; so safe that it won’t bounce back. ...

Science says that the sun is a planet. Then in the Mahabharata how did the sun father a son called Karna. Please shed light on this.

The son of the sun does not imply he was fathered by the planet sun. He was born out of the sun mantra chanted in prayer. The sun God resides in the form of a mantra within us. So Kunti chanted the Surya mantra and bore Karna as a blessing. ...

Gurudev, please explain the following couplet written by Ghalib: ‘Jab teri razaa ke bagair patta tak nahin hilta hai, tu hi bataa aye khuda main gunaahgaar kaise hua?’ (When without your will, even a leaf does not flutter in the breeze, you explain to me, Oh God, how I became a sinner?)

When I am doing everything, I am experiencing everything, how did you get into the picture? ...

Gurudev, please throw light upon the law of attraction.

As you sow so shall you reap. Whatever you have inside, you attract similar things towards you. If you have a lack in the realm of the mind that is what happens. Like attracts like on the subtle level whereas in the gross the opposites attract. ...

There is a lot of longing and pain when ego is there and because of that one takes refuge in sadhana. When ego dissolves and love blossoms, there is very high energy but the small mind is not able to take that high infinity and again there is a lot of pain.

That is why you have to go step by step. Don’t be in a hurry to do it all in one day and get enlightened. You have to go slowly. Do only as much as your body can take. ...