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(A member of the audience asked a question and it was inaudible)
Everything is energy, everything is made up of one energy, but practically it is very different. In this room, this all wood, but you can’t use the chair for the roof or the roof for window, or the window for the door. But they are all wood. In th ... -
Gurudev, how do we grow higher in evolution and how do we get there?
When trivial things, unimportant things lose their significance in life. When you wake up and realize, ‘Oh, these are small things’, and you stop complaining and talking behind others back, and all these little little tricks of the mind. ... -
Gurudev, why and how did you come up with the Shakti Kriya? Can you please explain a little more about it?
Why and how? Just like I came up with the Sudarshan Kriya, this dawned on me some two-three years ago. I mentioned this last year after Navratri that we are going to experience something beautiful, and so we did it. The technique is there, knowledge i ... -
Gurudev, you say in the Yoga Sutras that those who are not doing good, one should educate and ignore them. But Gurudev, what to do if that person is our life partner and we have to live with him? How do I ignore him or improve him?
We have to ask him also, what’s his opinion about you. I am not qualified to answer this question, I have no experience, I don't talk about subjects in which I have no experience, still I would say create a space for him as he is. -
I am a student and there are so many distractions around me. When I start studying I easily get distracted. Is there any permanent solution this?
No way! Why do you want a permanent solution? There is no permanent medicine in life. Whenever you get distracted, see what is distracting you? When you’re watching an interesting movie, the mind is not distracted. There i ... -
Dear Gurudev, If Shiva is not a person and only a tattva (principle), then how are there so many shakti peeths (seat of energy) which are formed from the parts of Sati’s body?
Shakti peeth means a seat of energy. How many of you felt that as soon as you came into the ashram, or even before coming to the ashram, the whole energy changed? (Many in the audience raise their hands) Shakti peeth (seat of ... -
My question to you, your holiness is: At what stage of the nine month pregnancy does the soul enter the baby? (Naida Glavish: Māori Party president from New Zealand)
Well, I don’t know! But I can tell you, the ancient scriptures say there are three occasions when the soul enters the body; during conception, or in the fifth month of pregnancy, or at the time of birth. Among scholars there are differences i ... -
Gurudev, there is so much inflation happening today. Many people do not have food to eat or run their own homes. How can one live in such difficult times? What can we do for the poor and downtrodden today?
Yes, it is true that inflation is very high nowadays. India is on fire. It is getting torn because of the widespread corruption, injustice and bad governance. India is struggling in all spheres. We all need to rise against this together, and do someth ... -
Gurudev, nowadays everyone gives me free advice. Each one is trying to be my Guru (Teacher). Without asking I am getting the advice. Whose advice I should listen to and whose I should not?
This is not only nowadays, it is happening successively since many decades. One should listen to everyone and do what one wants to. There is no cover over the ears, they are open. Why? So that you can hear everything, but see only that which you wa ... -
Gurudev, in Mahabharata, many of the warriors were killed by the Pandavas through wrong means. What was the reason behind this? All the bad that happens, is that also Divine will?
Yes, Mahabharat is a very beautiful story, and very symbolic also. Don’t think that it happened once in the past, it is happening every day, especially in this country. There are many Shakunis (the devious uncle in the story of the M ...