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I sometimes feel that money is important too, and if I continue with commerce… MBA and job, then only I’ll be able to fulfill this wish. The mind is very bad. It keep questioning. Sometimes it get satisfied with my nature and choose a work like philosophy professor, sometimes it looks at my parents and wish to get any job asap to become independent, and sometimes it wants money😥. […]

It is quite natural at your age. Best is to go through sanyama which means to regulate rather than nigragaha or forced repression. Take the

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It seems that everything I do in life seems to be wrong. Even if I do something with good intention in the end it ends up different to what I expected. I’m finding myself hyper reasoning with decisions to justify them, I feel like I’ve ruined everybody’s life around me. My parents are so unstable and I’ve lost my connection with my best friend😥 […]

You are too young to even think such things. Life has just begun for you. To want to end it is never a good thing.

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It is really unfortunate that you are equating the insistence by aging in-laws or parents for wearing sindoor with the practice of hijab & snatching away the girl’s right to education. While the former is not causing any real harm to the women, the later ones are affecting her confidence and restricting growth respectively. This is precisely why I said you were overreacting…[…]

I understand your point about hurting parents etc. But don’t you think the parents too need to also understand the generational shift which is part

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How can I definitively cure my chronic illness of ingratitude? How to grow so that this is actualised in us – “we may never forget even for a moment all that we owe to Thee” – the gratitude towards the Divine. And what helps in becoming more grateful towards the humans, animals, trees, flowers, nature around us? 🌱

To feel this way is itself such a rare and beautiful movement. Most human beings simply keep a transactional relation with the Divine. They ask

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