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  1. Gurudev, were you mischievous during your childhood days?

    Yes, very much! I was very mischievous. When I was a kid, I emptied my father's brief case and stuffed all the toys into it. When he went to office and opened the briefcase during the board meeting, all the toys popped up. He was very embarrassed. But ...
  2. Gurudev, how do we bring back the trust in the press which has been lost?

    Put yourself in their shoes. Suppose someone loses trust in you for some wrong or mistake you did and if they hold it against you all the time, would you like it? I want to give you an example. Nine out of ten diamonds are made in Surat (a city in Guj ...
  3. Gurudev, as school going students, how can we participate in the anti-corruption campaign?

    Tell your parents about it. And you also take an oath, 'I will not be with corruption.' We want to see a radiant India where there is no corruption. When there is belongingness, corruption automatically disappears. When everyone is child-like and ...
  4. Gurudev, can we get a bhajans CD in your voice?

    I don’t want to dominate everything. There are great musicians who sing so well. I want you to listen to their voice. I do just So Hum and for the rest you listen to the musicians. Of course talks and discourses are also there. Otherwise it ...
  5. (A member of the audience asked a question and it was inaudible)

    Yes, they are similar. Buddha said, ‘everything is emptiness’, and Adi Shankara said, ‘everything is full’. Buddha said, ‘life is sorrow’, and Adi Shankara said, ‘life is bliss’. What Buddha said is right for the first instance. Unless you s ...
  6. Gurudev, there are times I have a lot of faith and sometimes too many doubts. How to overcome this?

    When there is positive energy, there is faith. When there is negative energy there is doubt. But never mind if doubts come, so what! Life is a play and display of all these. Doubts come and then faith comes. You should not be afraid of doubts. I ...
  7. Why does the mind clings on to the negative and not to the positive?

    Yes, that is its nature. You give someone ten compliments and one insult, the mind holds on to that insult. When you become aware of this, a shift happens in you. When you are unaware of this, you get trapped and get carried away by this. But in ...
  8. If we have to become 'hollow and empty', why do we have to fill our minds with knowledge?

    A thorn has to remove another thorn. See, this is like asking, what is the need to put soap on your body when you have to wash it off anyways. To wash clothes, what do you do? You put the soap and then you wash it away. Similarly, it is like ...
  9. What caused the big bang?

    There was matter. Without matter big bang cannot happen. What would bang on what? Even for something to bang on each other there needs to be something. A mass, a field, energy, so that field of energy was never created nor destroyed but there was only tran ...
  10. How can I start a kindergarten?

    Just get some children. I think I am in kindergarten all the time. Even adults who come here, they become kids. There is a beautiful story in the Puranas. There is a particular garden up above Tibet called Kumara-vanam and the Lord lives ...