Wisdom Search

Search results

  1. Gurudev, Ramji's guru was Vashishtha and Krishna's guru was Sandipani, who is your Guru?

    Sandipani and all the Gurus are still there in the omnipresent guru-tattva. Adi Shankaracharya is among the lineage of Gurus. In my childhood and youth I had the satsang of many great saints. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was there, Shankaracharya, and some very ...
  2. Gurudev, why are there seven days a week and twelve months in a year throughout the globe in all communities?

    It had started in the Vedic time in India. The ‘zero’, the ‘seven days’ and the ‘twelve months’ were first given here in India. Then Egypt copied it from India and from there it went all over the world. In India there are seven major planets ...
  3. Gurudev, I have been doing my kriya regularly for almost a year. What percentage of my past karmas have I repaid?

    I will answer this if you tell me how many hairs you have on your head. As long as there is hair and you have a comb, the job is done! What is the point of counting the hairs or counting the teeth on the comb? Karma is unfathomable. Nobody k ...
  4. Gurudev, you say opposite values are complimentary. Then how can we be happy during good times when we know that bad times will follow?

    There is a beautiful couplet in Hindi: ‘Dukh main sumiran sab karey sukh main karey na koey; sukh main jo sumiran karey dukh kahe ko hoye.' Everyone prays when they are miserable. When there is nowhere to go and when all the doors are shut, i ...
  5. Gurudev, when things change from ‘I want to do it’ to ‘I will have to do it’, it becomes very difficult to act. What to do in such situations?

    If you have a commitment then you better do it. Otherwise you will not be able to do anything because the mind is your most unreliable friend. The mind says something now and a little later it says something else. You can rely on your friend bett ...
  6. Gurudev, is developing wisdom a constant effort on our part or just pure grace?

    Wisdom is natural. We can’t do anything about it. You simply need to recognize it when it comes up and not brush it aside. That is all you need to do. That is why there is something called ‘Pratyabhijna Hridayam’, which means the heart of recognition. ...
  7. Dear Guruji, I want to know why do we have to get moksha?

    It is a natural tendency of every human being to be free. Freedom is not luxury, it is a necessity. Not just human beings even animals want freedom. Babies want freedom. If you tie a scarf on the neck of a baby it just wants to remove it. You put a ch ...
  8. How do you decide as to what is the right balance between selfishness and selflessness?

    That depends on you. You have to see what is needed. Whatever your consciousness can do, that much you do. You cannot donate the shirt you are wearing but suppose you are having two idlis and the person sitting next to you is hungry, you will sha ...
  9. Gurudev, today is Dutta Jayanthi. Please tell us something about Lord Duttatreya!

    Today is also Hanumath Jayanthi and today is also Pitaji’s birthday. This is the first year he is not physically there but his spirit is here. Birthdays are there to celebrate and to remember and recollect what good qualities they possessed. ...
  10. What is the difference between God and an enlightened master?

    If you say God is love, we all are made up of. If God is creativity, everybody has creativity. If not everybody has procreativity. Then God is Satchitananda, which is truth, existence and consciousness. You have consciousness and you have existen ...