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Dear Gurudev, how to get rid of doubting oneself, like our abilities, our capabilities and also faith in the master?
Just increase the Prana that is it. When Prana goes down, self doubt arises. When self doubt arises naturally that doubt will be projected on the teacher and the master as well, and then on everybody, your friends and family. It gets projected on the whole ... -
Dear Gurudev, In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna talks about ‘Yogakshemam Vahamyaham’. What I get is from the Divine, but I fail to understand how the Divine can take away as well.
Well keep wondering. The whole world is given to you and one day the whole world will be taken away from you. So this is a part of the creation. It is not that there is some Divine sitting somewhere up there doing it. The whole world, the whole univer ... -
Gurudev, what is austerity? How to become austere?
Living with minimum needs; reducing our needs. I need this, I need that, I need that, no. Whatever is there, be satisfied with what you have. You have a vehicle that is good enough. You do not have to say that you need the vehicle which is 50 Lacs or ... -
Dear Gurudev, the wise have said that if someone slaps you on one cheek, turn the other cheek as well. I got slapped twice in this bargain. What to do, is it my ignorance?
You got slapped twice by the same person or a different person? That makes all the difference! You know, you can keep turning your cheek to different people and they will only slap once, that does not show you of your intelligence. Got it! You sh ... -
Dear Gurudev, the Bible states that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. Does this mean a wealthy person is doomed to hell just for being wealthy?
No! These words of different Saints and Prophets were given to different people at different times. Jesus says that I have not come to make peace; I have come to put mother against daughter and the son against father. That doesn’t mean he did not like ... -
Dear Gurudev, when we meditate we experience such bliss, how can that state continue with or without meditation?
With knowledge and with dispassion. When you see the whole world is a dream, the meditative state remains in activity also. But do not make a mood out of it; you should not do mood making. Live life naturally, as everyone else lives; simple, natural. Do no ... -
If you have whatever you wanted, then are you happy?
Patanjali Yoga Sutras- Knowledge Sheet 10 Contd. from knowledge sheet 9 Vitrushnasya vashikara sanjna vairagyam The mind that gallops is an obstruction. An expectation in meditation is an obstruction. You have heard somebody's experience that light a ... -
Love In The Time of Insurrection
How simple it is, to characterize an event as black, or white. This is exactly how the sordid Assam riots have been viewed, or made to be viewed. ‘Communal, anti-national and violent,’ have been the common sentiments, printed or verbal. But the truth lies ... -
Yoga Rave: Partying with Yoga
Over 1,200 people, performed yoga, meditated and swayed to the electronic beats of bhajans (devotional songs) on April 30, 2011. The success of Yoga Rave continues, as the party returned to the city of its origin, Buenos Aires. The four-hour long, non-alc ... -
Rajshree Patel: How I Found My Guru
‘This one simple sutra, Change your breath, change your mind. Change your mind, change your emotions- I felt if we could spread this thing, the universe would be a different place’. And that is exactly what Rajshree continues to do close to 25 years after ...
