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  1. Does ethical awareness come from the heart or the mind?

    Ethics is a combination of heart and mind. It bridges both. ...
  2. At the dinner table at home, we all sit with our children and teach them good things. But when it comes to business, actions of greediness and selfishness are explained away so easily with phrases like, ‘It is only business, don’t take it personally.’ How do we explain this contradiction?

    Business is formal and family is informal, but business cannot become impersonal. The human touch, the personal touch needs to be there, but at the same time we should not do business emotionally; we must be very clear about this. Business should be d ...
  3. Do we have the right to help somebody who has refused help. Keeping in mind that their free will is sacred, should we help them?

    I want to ask you a question. Suppose there is a child who is running around on a small parapet wall, and there is a danger of falling, what will you do? Let the child have its freedom? No, you will guide the child and bring it back, right? Similarly ...
  4. We have to imbibe the value of sharing in children

    There are two tendencies that are within us, one is of taking and the other of giving. What is worth noting is which value system we are imbibing in our children. If they are hesitant to take or ask, then that is a sign of good values. But if they are hes ...
  5. Gurudev, in Uttar Pradesh, in most places it has become a tradition to give things away for free. Politicians also promise to the public to give them things for free. In such a case, how can self-pride of the people increase? Everything is expected to come free.

    Doesn’t matter. Let it go on for some more time. Self-pride will increase naturally and then the individual will himself say, ‘I don’t want free things.’ Just as when an individual’s status improves, he says, ‘I don’t want to send my children to a fre ...
  6. How to forgive truly?

    Truly? Is there any false forgiveness? I don’t know false forgiveness. I know only true forgiveness. Forgive means forgive, that’s it. Gone is gone, people did mistakes, finished. Move on. You know why something comes back is because of your atta ...
  7. Gurudev, I am a housewife and my movement is limited to my home and family. Though your blessings are always with me, I have noticed that people who have more faults than me, are prosperous. And even after so much painstaking, we are not able to achieve that. Why so?

    It may seem that people who are doing wrong deeds are happy, but that is not the case. It just seems like that. This is an illusion. It may seem so for some time, but one day they will fall and will not be able to save themselves. ...
  8. Gurudev, it is said in the Bible, ‘You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free!’ Even then there are so much lies in the world about so many issues. How can one live happily in a world like this where there are lies, injustice, violence and misery?

    When we ask these questions, we are able to point towards ignorance, lack of human values, and lack of spirituality in people. If a person is sensitive, he will not do to someone that which he would not want another to do to him. Why does a perso ...
  9. What to do if a person is fulfilling all their duties of life on a day to day basis but still lack humanity, compassion and truth, then how much value does such a life have?

    Zero! It has no value. Nobody can act without these values. Listen, in our country we have been taught about Yama, Niyama, Aasan, Pranayama, Pratyahara , Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. These are the basics of life; the A B C D of life. It is ...
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