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Life Problems And Psychological Difficulties

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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How should I deal with fighting for the truth while being selfless. Should I focus on assertiveness while giving my point and not letting the ego come in front. What happens is that the other person always tries to prove himself / herself right by being angry or being loud which I cant do. How should I confront such people while surrendering😥?

Truth is very difficult to know, even more difficult than understanding its foster child Justice. It is hidden within layers after layers and while it

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What causes restlessness, lately I feel very restless there is a sense of weird urgency as there is some I should be doing but I am not getting a hold of it. My 9 to 5 feels suffocating as if a part of me resisting to be bound to a place and time. In a recent talk you Mentioned Jonathan livingston Seagull, I read it and it is one of the best books I have ever read. Dada I would love for you to suggest similar books you know 🙂

Restlessness comes due to some desire or the other of which we are not yet conscious. The desire pushes from behind, the nerves respond trying

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In my early teen years, I went through sexual abuse very intense, the whole night, all freezed, dark, cold, really horrible, now at i am in my thirtees taking therapy from very authentic person, Shri Maa follower, much needed I suppose. So leading life now in present is very traumatic experience itself.. awareness hits and hurts triggers, I know Mother is, has been watching, she knows it!

I can fully understand the trauma and its deep impact as a child. But one has to move towards the future rather than continuing to

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