Questions Answered by Swami Satchidananda

During life transition, how can I find direction?
How can we practice Yoga in an unsupported environment?
How do thoughts, prayers, and wishes influence reality?
What is the purpose of doing Yoga practices I don’t believe in?
Should smokers practice yogic breathing?
Why Bow to the Guru?
How do I know what my purpose is?
How can I move beyond negative and unloving thoughts?
What is the meaning of life?
Please talk to us about raising and disciplining children.
Can you recommend specific yogic practices that may lead to a longing for a much simpler and less material-oriented existence?
Is it possible to do time travel?
Is it possible to change our karma in this life or are we destined to suffer?
How can I live in the present and yet have goals?
What is the benefit of committing myself to one Guru?
Years ago, I had an abortion. Now I understand my big mistake. The suffering is still with me. Please help.
I have great difficulty in controlling my senses. I always want to do things that are not wholesome or healthy. What can I do?
How can I overcome a feeling of being powerless to change my life?
Can pranayama really help one’s physical and mental health?
Could you please talk a little on which is more powerful: God or His name?
After one leaves the body, can one interact with those left behind?
Does the yogi pursue a legal course of action or accept the insult and injury and do nothing?
Please could you talk about what led you to become a monk?
What should one look for in a person in order to have a successful marriage?
How can I see who is virtuous?
Why are we humans so obsessed by the body?
How do you know when it is right to surrender or when to take action?
Until I can move from a negative living environment, what can I do to improve the situation and to improve my peace?
In a traditional Indian Ashram, what is the normal relationship of nearby householders to the Ashram?
How important is it for an Integral Yoga Hatha teacher to meditate?
How can we integrate Yoga into a high school curriculum?
How is the best way to deal with anger?
How can I live a spiritual life in a world filled with chaos?
If you write off a person you are in conflict with, stopping all relations, will you have to face that person in another life?
How does one develop compassion and deal with the world?
How do I keep the peace I have found here at the ashram, when going back to the outside world?
How can I be less judgemental?
How does mantra initiation work on me?
What is the essence of letting go of a negative experience and to be free then?
How does one motivate practice?
If you go through a period of suffering, is it always because of something you did in your past?
How to decide the path one chooses?
How does one motivate practice?
How can I keep my serenity when I witness ignorance, racism, and violence in my community?
Having chosen a parentage, is one obliged to give happiness to that chosen parentage?
Fear and self-doubt are robbing me of all my strength. Please help me. Thank you.
Can guru can temporarily raise the kundalini of someone else?
How can I integrate meditation and work?
What can one do to have an unwavering faith in you as guru?
How should one hold the hands and eyes during meditation?
How can I have faith in God when so many terrible things happen to living beings?
Do you believe that each of us came into a body with a mission to achieve, a task other than our own spiritual growth?
What do you think of organizations that are always aggressively going after new recruits?
Can you explain why vibrations do not come out in the laundry, or do they?
How can I cure myself of impatience?
What is the best way to pray for someone else who is sick?
What is the best way to find a marriage partner?
What is the function of the archangels and the Elohim?
When daily life is tough, how can I have more harmony with the woman I love?
At a certain point during meditation I feel a presence, maybe God. But then I get afraid. What to do?
How can one face one’s fears?
What is a failure?
How does one overcome depression and grief from the death of a loved one?
What is the cosmic Guru?