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  1. Gurudev, these days keeping the family small is recommended. Is this not destroying the extended family structure of maternal and paternal relationships, such as aunts and uncles?

    No! The family should be united. It need not be small. There was a time when people thought population is a curse to our nation. Now they think differently. Population is a boon to our country. Do not think it is a curse. If Brazil, China and India are ...
  2. Gurudev, will corruption be eradicated by the Lokpal Bill, or do we have to do something else for it?

    Lokpal Bill is like the treatment of the disease, after it has manifested. I do not believe that just a law will stop all corruption. However, that law is necessary, absolutely necessary! They say, 'Bhaya bin preet hoi na gopa.' So if there is fear, corrup ...
  3. Gurudev, people say that politicians are corrupt and need to be reformed first. However, there are corrupt people in the society as well. Who needs to be reformed first, the politicians or the corrupt people in the society?

    Both. There isn’t much time to wait till one group gets reformed! First of all, politicians must consider themselves to be one among the common man. All youth get together to build a Divine society. ...
  4. Gurudev, the whole system is very corrupt nowadays.

    See, you cannot say that the whole of Kolkata is dirty. Only a few areas are dirty. The rest are clean and green. Similarly, it is incorrect to say things like, ‘The whole city is sick’ or ‘I always think wrong’. We generalize and eternalize things. W ...
  5. You just said that those who are corrupt must be stopped from entering temples and mosques. Valmiki (author of Ramayana) was a robber who, while uttering Ma-ra, Ma-ra started uttering the name of Rama. People who are corrupt have deviated from the path. If we stop them from entering temples or mosques, are we not sending them towards something wrong?

    The corrupt people go to temples or mosques, offer their prayers and think their sins are washed away, so that they can continue doing it. I am not in opposition of reforms. Every person can be transformed. There is a couplet in Hindi, which says, ...
  6. Gurudev, Muslim leaders in MP have raised a fatwa against Surya Namaskar. Can you comment on this?

    Perhaps they think the sun is different from God or Allah. That is not so. Namaskar means what? To give thanks. It should be interpreted this way. Give thanks to the sun and to the earth. Everything in nature, from grass to the sun is beneficial ...
  7. Dear Guruji, my family is from Kashmir and we were forced to migrate to other places due to terrorism. When Kashmir had so much spiritual and religious knowledge and produced so many Saints and Sufis, why is there so much violence over there?

    Well times keeps changing. Fanaticism had entered Kashmir, but now the next generation of people are realizing it. So, keep your hold there. Go back to Kashmir valley. Still there are some people in the valley. Now people are realizing that we have lo ...
  8. Gurudev, what is happening with our monetary system and with the economy in the world? There is so much debt and there is a debt crisis. Also do we still need capitalism?

    You know there is enough wealth in the world. It is just the greed of few people, that they make the market fluctuate and economy crash. All this is happening. If there are some basic reforms in the share market, the economy in the world would become ...
  9. Could you please speak about the burn out which is happening in the society including each individual, and the burn out of the planet which is showing in climatic problems, etc. What do you see as a solution for mankind?

    More values, ethics and morality in society. When human values go up, when people start relating to each other as human beings and when we consider the whole world as one family having a sense of belongingness to everybody then the whole atmosphere c ...