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  1. How do I identify that what I am doing is wrong (adharma)?

    There is something that pricks you, 'Oh no, I should not be doing this'. That is adharma. ...
  2. Gurudev, it has become difficult to be a good person and raise your voice nowadays. Where do wrong people get so much strength from?

    Where is there strength, it is only noise. Wrong people can only create noise. The right people may speak only a little here and there, at some point of time, but behind that there is strength. And it their tasks that are accomplished. ...
  3. Gurudev, in the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna says that whatever comes naturally keep doing that, even if it is not the perfect thing to do. Please advice.

    Yes, be in your nature, don't be unnatural. What is not in your nature, do not project that. But that does not mean you be foolish, okay! Let us say you are attending a funeral and you feel like dancing. You think, ‘Gurudev said be natural’, and so yo ...
  4. A person believes in God but cheats and robs. Another does not believe in God but never cheats. Who is right?

    You have already given the answer! It is like asking me, ‘I have kept coal in one plate and butter in another. What would you like?’ It is so clear. If someone believes in God, how can he cheat others? I don’t understand this. It could also ...
  5. Dear Guruji, I just want to know, are there many ways to live life correctly? Are you always supposed to do the right thing or is it okay to be wrong sometimes? Are there many right ways?

    Listen to your own conscience. Your conscience will say, ‘No, this is not right.’ What is not right? What you would not like others to do to you, that is not right. If something inside pricks you, then don’t do it. ...
  6. I do a lot for my family members and yet they are all always saying I am wrong. What should I do? How to deal with it?

    No, don’t say that they always say you are wrong. If they always say that you are wrong then it would not bother you or even touch you. You would take it as their nature. Sometimes they would have said that you did right as well. Isn’t that so? If yo ...
  7. Is there more moral ambivalence today? Has the definition of right and wrong become fuzzier? Is that part of the problem?

    Right and wrong is always relative. That which gives you long term benefit, maybe with a short term loss is good. And that which gives you short term benefit but long term loss is not good. That could be a criteria. If you want a simplified criteria b ...
  8. Why does it happen that the society keeps troubling one who works honestly? Though he wants nothing for himself and wants to work for the society, why does the society trouble him?

    It is happening this way nowadays. There is no rule that it will continue like this in future. For doing a big work, you have to sacrifice something from your side. You cannot think, ‘I am doing good work, but why are people criticizing me?’ It is their n ...
  9. Gurudev, what is the relationship of dharma (righteousness) with God?

    With what does God not have a relationship, tell me this? God has a relationship with righteousness (dharma) as well as unrighteousness (adharma). To destroy adharma and to uplift dharma is also God’s responsibility. So God is r ...
  10. What is sin?

    Sin is that which gives you suffering and suffering to others in the long term. That which gives you pleasure for a short while but causes you to suffer for the rest of life is sin. But that which may appear painful in the beginning but in a long run uplif ...