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Question: Would you please say something about fear? Sometimes I wake up at night and don’t know who or where I am, except that my heart is pounding because I am so frightened. Answer: The part that sleeps in a sleeping state is the conscious mind. The… |
Do you know who you are? I shall tell you. Hear me. You are the master of the body and the senses and the mind. You are the master of your life. All power is within you. You have to know this and manifest it. How can the mind torment you? How can despa… |
I’m sure you must have had at least a glimpse of God, otherwise you would not even be reading this. Unfortunately, we seldom see that reflection of God inside, which is in you as you. The duty of the spiritual teacher is to act as a mirror to show you… |
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Still the mind. Listen. Enter the silence. In silence one becomes aware of his soul-consciousness. Silence is a pre-requisite for the apprehension of the reality. Enter the silence, realise the reality. Silence the tongue; silence the desires; silence… |
Question: As a child I learned a basic Jewish prayer, “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One.” Please explain what this means? Answer: The meaning is very clear here. I don’t think it’s just the name of a country. Israel is what is real.… |
In vedanta there are only two kinds of moods – joy, exultation or exhilaration and grief or depression. Now there is joy and five minutes later there is depression – the currents alternate. They belong to the sad urmis (six waves, i.e. grief, delusion,… |
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Be a good person, do good things, be happy, be peaceful. Don’t allow your peace and joy to get ruined, not even in the name of God. If God doesn’t want to come to you, let God do what God is supposed to be doing. You don’t need to go and beg. When you… |
True freedom results from the dis-enthralment of the mind. He is a real potentate and ruler who has conquered the mind. He who has conquered desires, passions and the mind is the richest man. If the mind is under control, it matters little whether you… |
When you pray, you send out healing vibrations and good thoughts into the cosmos. They circulate there. If you pray for a particular individual, no matter where that individual is, your thought forms go there and reach that person. The person may not e… |
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He who has controlled his mind is really happy and free. Physical freedom is no freedom at all. If you are easily carried away by surging emotions and impulses, if you are under the grip of moods and cravings, how can you be really happy, O sweet belov… |
Question: If we pray for others, is their karma taken away? Answer: We are not praying to have the karma of others taken away. We pray so that they can get insight into their karma and get the strength to face it and purge it out. Your prayer should be… |
Vairagya (dispassion) does not mean abandoning social duties and the responsibilities of life. It does not mean detachment from the world, or a life in a solitary cave of the Himalayas or in the cremation ground. It does not mean living on neem leaves,… |
