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  1. Is there any connection between DNA and our ancestors? If so, please throw some light.

    Yes, absolutely there is. Where do you think your DNA originated from? It didn’t drop from the sky. Obviously,it has come from your ancestors. But I can tell you one thing that you may not know, a banana contains 50% of your DNA. A human being and ...
  2. The question ‘Who am I’ has been pricking me since childhood and has not gone away and it drives me absolutely insane. Nothing makes sense. What to do?

    You are such a fortunate person. If other questions are driving you insane, I would not say so, but if this question ‘Who am I’, is driving you insane, you are the luckiest person, and you are the best seeker. This is good. Hold on to it!
  3. Out of the three doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha, which prakriti is good for doing meditation?

    By doing meditation you can go beyond all the three doshas (imbalances): Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Meditation is the destroyer of all the three doshas. If you first do meditation and then check your naadi (pulse), you will see that it has changed. If there ...
  4. Adi Shankaracharya went around and had debates to bring people back onto the right path; bringing unity while preserving the main philosophies. Is a similar thing needed in today’s world also. How?

    Yes, spirituality needs to be uplifted. 2000 years ago, people were so much caught in rituals that they forgot the real essence, the real knowledge and the experience of meditation. They forgot spirituality. So that needs to be revived. Nature takes car ...
  5. Dear Gurudev, can an atheist get liberated?

    Absolutely yes! But he should remove the label ‘I am an atheist’. If he is a ‘nobody’, he can get liberated. If you simply say, "I don’t know whether there is some other power or not, I have no idea&quo ...
  6. Gurudev, it has been 15 years since my father passed away, but I am still not able to forget him. I remember him a lot. What do I do to overcome this?

    Why are you making efforts to forget him? It is okay to remember him. You do not need to do anything about this.Just like your father, there are thousands of fathers who will leave this world one day, and there are so many who have left, and there ...
  7. Gurudev, you teach us to have a yes mind. Sometimes I say yes to too many things and then I am unable to complete them. I am experiencing a conflict between a ‘yes mind’ and good time management.

    They are not in conflict. Having a ‘yes mind’ does not mean blindly saying yes to everything. It means thinking positively with wisdom.A ‘yes mind’ always goes with wisdom, not foolishness.If someone says that the lake is ve ...
  8. Gurudev, what is more powerful between surrender and resolution? How should we believe that what we are resolving to do is good for us or not?

    Leave everything and relax. Why are you thinking so much and getting worried? First of all, what do you have to surrender? You have nothing to surrender. Is this body your own? How long have you been able to control on it? When you were young, this body ...
  9. Gurudev, you have written a book called 'God loves fun', and yet you say that if we follow fun misery follows us. It is correct?

    Yes it is very correct. If you follow fun misery follows you, but if you follow wisdom then fun will follow you. ...
  10. Gurudev, for a Yogi this world is a penance, and for a Bhogi being alone is a penance. Can there be life beyond penance?

    Penance makes us strong.A Yogi is all alone in the forest and he feels happy. But when he is amongst people, and they pounce on him, pull his leg, or cause him pain, yet if he does not get angry and remains calm in his mind, then he has won.< ...