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Life Problems And Psychological Difficulties

Alok da, how does one flourish and use spiritual values at a toxic workplace? Especially when your seniors are ensuring that you are crushed for being on the right side in a place ethics are violated, especially those very seniors ensure that lackeys are given power over you so that one’s morale and courage is destroyed and one falls in line. How does one act spiritually in a workplace as bad as that🤨?

The spiritual consciousness remains completely indifferent to the human play in ignorance. It watches it as the means lower nature uses for its purposes, itself

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One feels the basis of all good work in a solid peace that nothing can disturb. Just when you think you have attained some foundation in peace, something or the other attacks you and disturbs it all. How does one cultivate a peace independent of outward circumstances?  What are those required qualities or actions that need to be done🤔?

Yes thinking about it almost soon enough makes us vulnerable. Over the years the one perfect remedy I have felt and known is to shift

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I feel that by nature, my mind is quite restless. I don’t find comfort in peaceful or quiet places. For instance, when I once visited Samadhi, I stepped out almost immediately, I just couldn’t bear the silence. I’ve tried meditation too, but it didn’t work for me. I think the reason is that I came to materialistic pleasures a bit later in life, so my mindset is: let me enjoy them first. Maybe, once I grow tired of all this, I’ll begin to seek peace. Perhaps only then will I truly understand the value of Samadhi. In my understanding, spirituality is equal to peace😥.

One never gets tired of pleasure except temporarily. Pleasures, whether material or vital, are like an addiction. It satiates temporarily but never satisfies. It returns

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Why do people say that money can’t buy happiness or peace? With money, we can buy branded things that bring joy. We can fulfill parents’ dreams and our own. We can afford all the material comforts we desire, and these things make us feel happy and content. If we want to visit the Ashram, we can easily go, and that gives us peace. Money gives us the freedom to travel the world, which also brings happiness and peace. So, doesn’t money actually make it easier to experience these things🙄?

Of course if buying branded cloth, traveling around the world, fulfilling parent’s dreams and material comforts is all that one seeks then surely money may

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I often feel pressured to get married, buy a house, a car, and follow all the typical expectations society sets. Even though deep down I’m not someone who genuinely wants marriage, I still get influenced when I see others tying the knot, having children, and making good money. It sometimes makes me question my own choices 😥and the direction of my life. They seem to be living happy, fulfilling lives and that sometimes leaves me wondering if I’m missing out.

First thing needed is be clear about the goal of one’s life. Whether marraige can give happiness or not is a later consideration. First thing

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I have a really big problem. I’ve been through lots in life and when it just seemed to get a little brighter again its sort of plunged. And I feel so weak at heart, not because of anybody else but myself. I have everything in life outwardly, but I was so depressed before. Then I had a psychic opening and everything became light and sun, but I’ve lost it now and this time I’m in some deep darkness that is worse than anything I’ve felt before. [Conti]

The first thing is to stop believing in the night and get into the mire of self-blame, guilt etc which only makes matters worse. There

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There’s something very fascinating about the apocalyptic imagery to the human mind from ancient flood mythologies to the fascination with nuclear armageddon, something in the spirit craves destruction and blowing it all up, Many actually crave Kali’s dance of destruction. How to understand this psychological impulse and phenomenon😐?

Yes, human mind is always caught between these two forces, Love and Death. Love gives birth to new life, nurtures and nourishes it, releases the

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My grandmother is a very pessimistic and depressive person. And I noticed that relating tends to attract some accidents and bad luck in my life. She always says things like “I don’t wanna live”. But because she is so alone in life I feel a certain sense of guilt if I don’t relate to her and speak with her more often. Am I a heartless person if I choose not to sympathize with her self-pity and thus stay away😥?

Each one is responsible for what they do, the attitudes they take and the inevitable consequences they have to go through. No one can undo

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