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  1. No Choice

    The choice is always between good and the best or bad and worse. Choice is never between good and bad. When there is a good and bad in front of you, there is no choice. Your choice is only between bad and worse or good and the best. And when it is good an ...
  2. If I have to choose between the career of my choice and that of my parents, which one should I choose?

    Negotiate with them to some extent. Tell them that you don’t like the career they are choosing. Talk to them. Also, if they are telling you something else, they could be telling you with some broader vision. If they have a family business to take ...
  3. Gurudev, what should we listen to first, our heart or our mind?

    When you do business, listen to your mind. And when you live life or do some social work, then listen to your heart. When you are with your family, listen to your heart. ...
  4. Guruji there are so many things which are wrong only for us, but right for the whole world. Should we do them?

    See, anything that inflicts pain to you and your family and people around you, in any manner, we should desist from doing it, we should not do it. May be somewhere else, in some other country somebody may be doing it, but you have a social circumstanc ...
  5. Gurudev, you always say, ‘choice is yours and blessing is mine’. But all troubles lie in making a choice. How to make the right choice? Is there any formula or does it come with the blessings?

    Time will tell you what the right choice is. A little while after choosing you will get to know whether you made the right choice or not. Why do you leave everything for me do? You also do something. ...
  6. Gurudev, I wanted to ask you what is good and what is bad? And how do I know if the things that I am doing in life are good or bad?

    There is a very simple definition to know what is good and what is bad. 1. That which you do not want others to do to you is bad and that which you want others to do to you and you do to others is good. 2. That which gives you short term joy and long ter ...
  7. Jai Guru Dev, why should one person after understanding the fact that happiness is just a state of mind choose to be a world famous scientist rather than being a sweeper in a local place?

    Then one could ask why would someone become a sweeper rather than becoming a scientist?! There are 2 different things, anyone who becomes famous does not just crave for fame but they do something good so they become famous. Like if you have a passion t ...
  8. Life is a Dream, a Burden or a Joke

    Often when you are happy you feel life is a dream because you do not believe in the reality of it. When there is misery you feel life as a burden. And we take trivial things very seriously. But one who has really gone through the pleasure realizes that pl ...
  9. Letting Go of Control

    Many have a problem of letting go of control. This results in anxiety, restlessness and it sours relationships. Wake up and see, are you really in control? What are you in control of? Perhaps a tiny part of your waking state! Isn’t that so? You are not in ...