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Life Problems And Psychological Difficulties

When in life we face challenges or we have to make important decisions, then the mind comes forward with its different analyses and makes us confused, or tries to create fear in the being, or sometimes it makes us believe that we are taking decisions based on preference, not on valid reason, so that it makes us doubt our own decisions. What should we do in that situation? How to deal with the mind? 😣

Fear and anxiety are of course the worst counselors. One has to make oneself quiet, as quiet as possible before we can truly decide. Mind

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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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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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I’m not doing any work and staying at home all day. I tried working, as I had told you earlier that I went to the mines, but everyone there was drinking alcohol, and I became sick. I don’t know if I’m becoming lazy and dodging work or if I simply don’t want to do all of this. It feels like living for money is a selfish life, and I don’t want to live like that. If I do any work apart from serving God, it feels futile to me😥

Work is indispensable for progress. Selfishness is an inner attitude and not in the work that one does. Of course doing sewa (service to the

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