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  1. Gurudev, is there a punishing God. If not, who is punishing me? I want to live without punishment.

    No, there is no God punishing you at all, don’t worry. It is only your karma that comes back to you. If you don’t chuck the karma, the karmas come back to you.Karma is, you do some action and the reaction to the action comes back to yo ...
  2. I do my Sadhana very regularly. How can I know for sure that my bad Karmas or their ill-effects are getting cleansed and removed?

    I tell you, drop everything and just become a Sharanagati. Being a Sharanagati means to have this firm faith and belief that all your Karmas have been cleansed. There is no balance that remains to be cleared anymore. Why are you st ...
  3. Gurudev, how can I know whether what I am experiencing is because of my Karmas from my past lives, or is it because of my actions in the present life?

    Whether the action is from a past life, or something done 10 years back, or done just yesterday, or even 10 minutes back – it really does not matter. Ultimately, all Karma is Karma, that’s it. That is why it is said that the wa ...
  4. Dear Gurudev, could you please explain how we are responsible for all our past, present and future karmas yet at the same time we are not the doer?

    There are two things in you, one is that there is something inside you which is changing. Do you know that? Your thoughts are changing, your emotions are changing, your body is changing, isn’t it. And there is something inside you which is not cha ...
  5. How does one actually keep a check on their emotions and be aware? And when one's emotions are shaken, what to do?

    Yes, if your emotions are shaken, let it be shaken as much as it can be. You know, there is nothing called compassion here. In higher knowledge, compassion is stupidity. Why? You can be compassionate only to somebody else, who is not you. Suppose your h ...
  6. Is one lifetime enough to clean all our Karma?

    Yes! If a room is locked for 20 years, it does not take 20 years clean the room and bring light there. ...
  7. I understand that whatever a person faces is related to some past life karma. But when the person is good in the current life, why should he or she face all those old painful karmas?

    Just understand, you cooked food in the morning. By afternoon, you had forgotten that you cooked the food and found the food very spicy. Then you can't say, "Oh, I put spice in the morning, why is it spicy now?" You ask this questi ...
  8. Where does the good go? We have done so much good for people still we have to suffer sometimes, for no reason. Why?

    Remember one thing, if you have done something good, bad will never come as the result of it. If you have sown a mango tree, you will only get mango fruit, you will not get cherries. So, if you are suffering, there are two reasons:1. Either ...
  9. How to come out of the cycle of karma?

    By not reacting, and through wisdom and meditation. All this takes you out of karma. I’ll tell you a story. Lord Buddha had a devotee who was also his cousin. He was a brilliant man, and very devoted. In the beginning, Buddha ...
  10. Gurudev, King Agrasen was Kamsa’s father, and Kamsa turned out to be evil and hopeless. On the other hand, the demon king Hiranyakashyapu’s son Prahlada turned out to be so noble and devoted. Do the samskaaras (impressions or virtues) of the parents also pass on to the children?

    Yes, they do pass on to the children. There are four factors that affect the life of an infant. 25% is attributed to the impressions that they carry from past lifetimes. The next 25% of impressions come from the mother and father. 25% of the impressions ...