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Since Then I Am Never Alone by Swami Satchidananda
Question: There are times when I feel very deep loneliness that no friend, family member or lover can seem to satisfy. Do you ever get lonely like that? Answer: Long ago I used to feel lonely until I realized that there is a lover who is always in me, with me, next to me, closer than my heart. That is God, or the Self. Since then, I have found that I am never alone. If you depend on anything or anybody outside you to be a companion, it is impossible to have that companion always with you. Even if another person wants to be with you always, he… Read more
Yoga Is Eternal Life by Swami Sivananda
Yoga is a perfect and practical system of self-culture. Yoga is an exact science, it aims at the harmonious development of the body, the mind and the soul. Yoga is the turning away of the senses from the objective universe and concentrating it on the mind within. Yoga is eternal life in the spirit. Yoga aims at controlling the mind and its modifications. The path of yoga is an inner path, whose gateway is your heart. Yoga is the discipline of the mind, the senses and the physical body. It helps to control and co-ordinate the subtle forces within the body. Yoga brings perfection, peace and everlasting happiness…. Read more
Questions are answered at the highest level:
- I have great difficulty in controlling my senses. I always want to do things that are not wholesome or healthy. What can I do? Read the answer from Swami Satchidananda
- There is so much injustice. Why do rulers do so many wrong things? Read the answer from Dada J.P. Vaswani
- How does mantra initiation work on me? Read the answer from Swami Satchidananda
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The Knower
by Swami Satchidananda
There is an eternal silent entity within us all. And that is what you call the “silent witness” or the “Knower.” The scriptures talk about that as the eternal witness. That is the light in you, or the Self in you, or the Atman. It doesn’t talk or do anything—it just is. And that is what you call “God.” It is due to our own limitations that we say, “God did this, God did that, blessed me, or punished me.” God never blesses or punishes. God just is. Still, we tend to say, “God created the world, God sustains the…
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