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  1. What is the significance of the Birth and Death process? I do not feel anything after doing the process.

    That is alright. See, some of you would feel something or have an experience in some process, some of you may have an experience in another process. Everybody will get something somewhere. It is because your mind is so tricky, it is stuck in so many ave ...
  2. Gurudev, what is better – to do the course or stay here like a guest? Guests seem to have a nice time compared to us. Last year, I did the Advanced Meditation Course here four times and the same guests were here enjoying. Who gets more of your blessings and why?

    You know, the guests miss it. They miss what you are having, what you are enjoying. The meditation and the silence, this is even more important. Since they cannot come for 4-5 days, they come for 1 or 2 days and I just meet them only once. Don’t i ...
  3. When I do the Art of Silence Course, I feel hollow and empty. But again after a week I find that I am full of desires and botherations. How can I be hollow and empty all the time?

    This is like asking, 'How can I eat once for this lifetime and not have to keep eating every day?'You know, it is such a boring job. Every day you have to cook and eat. If you eat today, again tomorrow you feel hungry. If you eat in the morning, the ...
  4. Dear Gurudev, is it better for couples to come to the course together or each for him or herself?

    Sometimes you come together, sometimes you come separately. Even if you come here together, sit in different corners and do your own meditation. Don’t watch each other and see what the other is doing. They are sitting and meditating and you are th ...
  5. Gurudev, in one of the meditations you say, ' The nose is hollow and empty, the throat is hollow and empty '. When everything already is hollow and empty, then what is the use of taking our attention there during meditation? Should we not meditate upon God instead?

    To get there, at least make yourself hollow and empty first. First you must become hollow and empty like a flute. Then you will see that the harmony of the Divine will flow through you.This is why in the great tradition of our Masters, it is said, & ...
  6. Dear Gurudev, kindly explain the meaning of Asangoham (a phrase often chanted by Gurudev in the advanced course).

    I am not this – that is what Asangoham means. For example, I am wearing the cloth, but I am not the cloth. The body is mine but I am not the body. I am not the thoughts, I am not the mind. Like this you go on to negate one by one all the layers ...
  7. Dear Guruji, I know that you love me, but I don't love myself. I wish I was more comfortable within myself and with others around me. What to do?

    You are doing the right thing; Advanced Meditation Course. That is the first thing we do in the course, praise yourself and praise your partner. Didn’t you do that? Do that sincerely. Don't think that this is just another exercise and they are just asking ...
  8. I practice pranayama and kriya for about forty minutes every day and take it as a way or an attempt to silence myself to go deeper within, and also tune in to you. May I ask, what more should I do to advance deeper?

    Once in four to six months, it is good to do an Advance Course. That can enrich your meditation. At least twice a year do the silence program. Like you service your car, servicing your body, mind and spiri ...