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  1. Please tell us about Sanjay. This is because Sanjay had the opportunity to meet Lord Krishna even before Arjuna. Please also tell us about his far-sightedness.

    You must have experienced having a gut feeling where something deep inside tells you, I should do this or this is going to happen. When such an intuitive ability gets enhanced in you then suddenly at one point of time the inner eye can feel and gather ...
  2. The meaning of ‘Aasakti’ is interest, inclination or intention, while ‘Nirasakti’ means the absence of interest or inclination. How to perform an action when there is an absence of interest or inclination to do that action?

    Now I will ask you a question. You bathe in the morning. Do you bathe with a lot of interest? Do you brush your teeth with a lot of interest? No, you don’t. Just because you have to do it, you do it! It’s natural and effortless. Anything that is ...
  3. When things change from I want to do it to I will have to do it, it becomes very difficult to act. What to do in such situations? It happens to me when I do seva?

    Commitment is essential. Without commitment there is no stability, no happiness, and no progress in life. So if you take a commitment you have to fulfill that. ...
  4. Gurudev, you have said to overcome habits one should take a vow. What is a vow?

    If you have any bad habits, you can take a vow. If you are habituated towards talking negative, then you say, ‘today I am not going to talk negative. I am not going to complain about anybody.’ So taking such steps makes a big difference. If ...
  5. Gurudev, Part 2 course is a journey from head to heart. What is the place of logic in spirituality?

    Logic has a very important place. It is through logic only that you get into spirituality. Logic makes you see what is life and what is the world and how you are wasting your time! A logical mind says, ‘no, I should not waste my time. Life is sho ...
  6. If you are pure in your intention and action and yet you are perceived as just the opposite and blamed, what should we do?

    Just smile through it. Don’t worry about what others blame. You should not keep quiet also, you should educate and ignore. ...
  7. Gurudev, In Shiv Sutras, you have said ‘Gyanam bandhanam’. I am confused; does knowledge make us free or put us in bondage?

    See after meditation when you become aware of your body and surrounding, your limited mind comes into understanding of limited things. At one time you can understand only history, or mathematics, or physics or chemistry. Only one thing at a time you c ...
  8. How to deal with people who always give negative vibrations? Should we avoid them?

    Don’t think somebody will only always be negative. In everyone there is some goodness. You see how you can help kindle that goodness. ...
  9. Gurudev, how do we ensure that people around the world get basic opportunities like education, food and shelter? There are so many people without basic needs.

    You must know that it is not just the basic needs that a person wants. Basic needs anyway get fulfilled. But one needs something more than the basic needs. It is up to you, what you think is ‘basic need’. Inner peace is so essential. If ...
  10. Is female life a punishment?

    No, who said that? Male cannot exist without Female. Every male has come from female. It is both ways, female cannot exist without male. That is why this Prakriti and Purusharth are two integral aspects of creation. How can you say one is sin or not ...