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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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Why do people always say that everything happens for a reason or that whatever happens, happens for the best? If my relationship is going really well but for some reason we still have to part ways, I don’t want to see that as something Good or as part of God’s plan. I do have faith in God but I don’t believe that something that Failed or didn’t Work out should automatically be seen as “Good”. The relationship itself was good, but its ending isn’t. So why do people insist on saying that everything happens for a Good? How can I look differently apart from tagging it Good or Bad🤨?

Good and bad is obviously a question of perspective and hence cannot be the arbiter. One person’s good may be another person’s bad given exactly

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To what extent are we bound by our biological inheritance from our parents? It is said that one’s bodily characteristics are predetermined by one’s parents. But to what extent do one’s vitality (sensitivity/crudeness/strength/refinement/etc.) and mental characteristics (intelligence/plasticity/depth/etc.) inherited too? If one has inherited certain vital or mental characteristics, are they malleable; can one make one’s vital or mind into what one aspires them to be for a work one wishes to accomplish🤨?

Everything can be changed. There is no such inevitable iron law or absolutely fixed determinism. Yes, by and large things follow a certain pattern, a

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