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Sometimes I wish I was driven by a mad vital desire for self improvement, physical fitness, and getting into high income high skilled job. This would have driven me to exceed myself in these areas, whereas now, in the absence of these desires, and also in the absence of the psychic fire to prepare the instrument for the sake of the divine, I find myself utterly incapable driving myself to work on becoming better than what I am right now 🫤

Well desire is certainly better than tamasic inertia, but it need not be a mad desire. Desire restrained by the sattwic mind, a discerning reason,

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On training the will power. Mother says that will power is trained by using it. I am a very systematic person and would like to take a systematic approach to everything I do. I try to become conscious of myself and apply my will whenever possible but the trouble is that it takes a long time to become conscious of what needs to be done. Can you give some general guidelines on how one can take a systematic approach to this training of the will? Something in me has a deep necessity of developing this will, all I need is the right approach where I can measure the results and see the progress in a tangible form. If you can be very specific, it would be really helpful🤨

It is desires and impatience that weaken the will, especially the sense of urgency to gratify an impulse.

By not acting impulsively, by postponing

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I’m 35 now, and I find myself sitting with a tender and important question: whether or not to have a child.When I was 33, I was going through a deep process of separation from my teacher, like a mother. During that time, the desire to have a baby started to surface—it even began to appear in my paintings. It felt like a natural longing [conti]

It is surely possible to do both, raise a beautiful child as well as pursue your ideal in the field of health and healing. But

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Can you share your views and ideas which led to the aircraft disaster in Ahmedabad. Can it be viewed beyond human, technical error in a higher plane above human hands. If so how best these accidents can be avoided? What is the way a spiritual seeker or a true devotee or a true believer in Divine should feel and act by witnessing the most grieved families of the deceased. If possible you can give a video talk to this respect. 

I will surely give a talk on this. But meanwhile it is not the result of a human technical error. It is the result of

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The desire for wealth (to enjoy the luxuries of life), power and sex appear to be the driving forces in human beings. Without these desires there would be no activity. Is it not true that life cannot be imagined without these desires. Can you help me understand why then we are told to get rid of these desires that seem so natural and should be created with purpose by the creator🤔?

Life without desires is not only imaginable but also the most wonderful life one can conceive of, it is a life of peace and freedom

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When I see something is bad happen in my surrounding (selfish activities, blaming others, jealous, anger etc) I don’t bearing this things, feeling sorrow in my inner part. But I am not condemning to anyone, still i think I also same responsible for this situation, if i can change these things myself then it’s affect will be down. I feel detachment inside, not the exempt everything detachment but peace and joyful state i feel inside and every world still the nature will affect me. If sometimes I loose the inner peace or pressure of my heart then remembering, aspiring her will suddenly this contact is establish. In this stage what should i do? How I can liberate the cruel behavior of the nature? How will be establish the relation among those people who have around me🤨?

The sorrow you feel is a psychic sorrow and the need for harmony and peace among people a psychic need. It is in answer to

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Actually I get conflicted. Sometimes I’m thinking of Krishna 🦚and talking to him and sometimes to mother. Now that I’m remembering Mother more and more. I feel like I’m moving away from Krishna. How do I overcome this puzzling situation. When I sit to meditate I get confused about whom to imagine. So I end up with both of them together. Is it fine or I’m too much stuck in ignorance and all. I keep a small Krishna in my pocket always and talk sometimes and you told me before to take Krishna everywhere with me like a living being and I forget to buy when I remember sometimes I think of him in my chest like he is watching from there and talk to him. I’m definitely not fully sincere, I feel like I’m making simple stuff more difficult and getting stuck in mental thoughts. What can I do Da?

The conflict is coming due to too much focus on the outer form. But there is no reason to be conflicted. Sri Krishna and the

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I am facing a contradiction in my mind regarding the fate of the soul who are at an advanced stage of spiritual life but not reached the highest and have to discard the physical body in a violent manner like the last plane crash . Will they have to halt at the subtle – physical and vital domain for a longer period, because at the moment of death the psychic being can not take any decision.  In this case moment of death must have passed in fear. I have purchased the book Death, dying and beyond written by you and started reading it. It is really wonderful book. 

Sadhaks that are really advanced have no fear, absolutely no fear. They see and find the Divine everywhere and neither life nor death carries any

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