AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER

World As It Is

I don’t quite understand the concept of doing vrats. Many women around me observe fasts on Mondays, Thursdays, and other specific days. These fasts are usually done with a particular intention—like, “I’ll fast for 5 Mondays, please help my husband get a job.” And surprisingly, after completing the 5 Mondays, their wish often comes true. This strengthens their belief that the fasting made it happen, and then they start encouraging others to do it too🙄.

People say and do all kinds of things for fulfilling their wishes. When things happen the way they wanted, they believe in it more, and

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Is khandava daha parva basically about the clearing of the forests in the ancient times to make a way for the cities and civilized life? Agni desires to devour all the creatures and animals and Sri Krishna and Arjuna fullfill his desire without any mercy in slaying the animals in their warrior like frenzy and they later build Indraprastha over it, Even Ramayana too describes the dreary forests in all their gory and grim details, are the epics very much entangled in those times where clearing vast swathes of forests is a necessity for civilized life🤔?

But how else has any of the city developed? Even the place we are sitting and the cellphone on which we are typing is built

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Third question, you are going to laugh at, I did! I listen to old Hindi songs when I am cooking/cleaning, old habit. But a song came on from Hathi Mere Sathi 🐘 that Rajesh Khanna sings after K N Singh, kills his elephant Ramu, Nafarat Ki Dunia Ko Chodke Pyar Ki Dunia Me Khush Raho Mere Yar. This was movie, but in real life what would happen to that elephant’s soul?

Most animals do not have a crystallized individual soul. They are generally governed by the soul of the species. That is why they rarely have

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Wanted to share something with you that happened to me in the last 1 week. So I’ve been together with my father celebrating his birthday. I don’t know enough about all of his friends to make judgments, but one of the “friends” living with us was a businessman who is very influential and supposedly has tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. He is relatively young for his success — 39 years old. He has great charisma and is very knowledgeable, his intellect often shining in discussions. I always knew that he was into some shady things in terms of money-making. But I just didn’t know to what extent. It turns out, my father told me, that his entire business is actually based on ripping poor people off😡. He has “call centers” where scammers working for him call innocent elderly people, war veterans, students, and all kinds of other vulnerable people, and tell them that their “bank account is frozen and they have to pay a certain amount of money to unblock it”, and other similar lies — all aimed at scaring and threatening these people to make money off them. And the worst thing is that these people are often times already highly vulnerable and poor in the first place. Another business that he has revolves around microfinancing, where people are given short term loans that quickly rise in interest. Again, the whole thing is meant to scam people. . A person takes 100-200 dollars to buy something, and in many cases they do it under difficult circumstances such as having to buy medicine, or under influence of drug addiction or gambling addiction. And the interest rises every week or month to the point where the initial 100 dollars becomes 10 thousand dollars in a matter of months! And then, they take away that person’s apartment [conti]

I truly appreciate your idealism and fully endorse it. It requires a great courage to stand up for what you consider as true values even

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Alok Da, You keep saying that Education should always be Free. Then, what has been the need of Guru Dakshina is not an honorarium. It is a spontaneous expression of gratitude in a student who has been trained and equipped to meet the challenge of life, whose mind and heart have been shaped by the Guru, and in? Isn’t this some form of honorarium to the teacher🤔?

Guru Dakshina is not an honorarium. It is a spontaneous expression of gratitude in a student who has been trained and equipped to meet the

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Rule of ego may be over but it doesn’t appear so in the outer life today, especially in India – I just went there for month and saw it myself how the culture has turned to worship anyone with 100 Cr + and all the rest of the nonsense – how 50% of the people are living in horrible conditions and the 2.5% are controlling everything. Now one thing about these ‘big heads’ is that they all have a massive ego – ego beyond anything – they live in the vital and hold a lot of lower vital force😥.

Appearances are often misleading and as far as the average mass of mankind is concerned, especially the breed of politicians and business houses, it is

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What to do in situations when you feel uncomfortable going to social functions because of people getting drunk there, etc. when it’s your close relative’s invitation😥? Socially, it would be considered rude and devious to decline attending such events. In terms of one’s career, it can even be harmful to do so because you will miss out on a lot of business opportunities, as ridiculous as it may sound. But on the other hand, I find myself really feeling uncomfortable in such events, almost suffocating. Is it okay to openly share that due to your spiritual path, you don’t want to engage in such activities, or is it better to come up with some excuse or other, such as you have some important work to do, etc? This is a situation I’m facing on a regular basis, and so far I’ve only been submitting to the pressure, to my own discomfort and dissatisfaction.

I can understand this very well having gone through it during my Air Force days. I can share my formula with you and it is

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Yesterday on my morning walk when I saw workers out there sweeping the roads it suddenly struck me that how much do we have to battle against the dust, rust and filth from our own homes to the entire ecosystems of cities. Corrosion, decay, smell and bacteria keep us on vigilance every single day. Is this cos of the inconscient foundation of the cosmos?How to understand it metaphysically🤨?

Not taking care of the material basis of life is the sign of unconsciousness and stems from the old idea of disgust of the world.

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