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We know of so many people who are facing impossible situations and problems and they are helpless. They do not know what to do or whom to ask.
This is a dedicated site for those who are searching for answers, who want to break from their present repeating circles of life and looking for answers that will understand them, help them find a new way-a new solution towards life beautiful and Divine.
Can you please tell me what this dream 😴 means, it had different sequences. [1] There was a scene where I was in village and my dad give me something to eat and I toss it and there are centipede in it. I drop it and then many of them fall out and my dad pick up each in hand and I stop him but he does pick up to clean and in dream I was thinking why am I so dependent?
[1] Generally it would mean inheriting certain ambitions from the parents. These are like contaminants to the straight natural line of expression that is the
Most of us worship gods 😇 for a better life. Do they really respond to our worship or is it just a psychological tool developed by our rishis so that a person in need does not lose hope?
he gods are not psychological tools but cosmic forces, energies, powers that stand behind the various workings of the cosmos. Since these forces are not
If Sita and Rama 🏹cannot be even called a happily married couple they why are they given as an example of ideal couple in India, don’t you think this example needs to be change?
Rama and Sita are rightly the names that have governed the Hindu psyche for long. What Shiva and Parvati are on the subtle planes, Rama
The Divine 😇 comes down into the cycle of rebirths, makes the great holocaust, endures shame and abloguy, torture and crucifixion, the burden of human nature, sex and passion and sorrow and suffering, manifests many births before he reveals the Avatar. And when he does reveal it? Well, read the lives of the Avatars and try to understand and see. [CWSA 35:424]
Just as the Sun sends light to the earth in two modes, – a steady stream of photons and as special intense outbursts or solar
What do you feel about Religious extremist movements with insults on the Indian flag and other anti national behaviour 😠 , what can we do as these are insults to our Mother India?
Your reaction at the insult of Mother India is understandable and many of us share it. But we should be clear that these so-called khalistanis
Sita’s Banishment is very tragic and upsetting, how can Sita 🌎 let that happen she could have refused, why she accepted it? One feels for Sita, I feel she was bichari to go through all this, no modern self woman would let do what Sita did, how can any modern woman relate to her?
This is the other angle of the story of Sita’s banishment. Painful as the story is, apparently ending on a tragic note, a closer look
I have met a person 4 years back and he was a complete stranger to me But it felt like I had already know him, his face is known to me he often comes to my work place but we never talked only eye contact and than I left that place later that year and moved to another place but I was not happy, I might have missed him and suddenly I got his request on insta and we started chatting, he also felt the same . I knew that he drank but still I fell in love with him. Everything was going right, after a year we met at a mall for 30 mins, again we started talking we never had fights for 1.5 years but relation was on and off, he was not serious but after that he proposed me for marriage and than our fights started because I wanted him to quit his drinking habits and he assured me he will if we get married but slowly our fights increased and he abused me verbally on call😪,
It is better to be safe than sorry later on. What you experienced is not love but some kind of vital affinity leading to a
Why did Rama 🏹 not change the law if he was the king and why did he not change the law for the love of his wife? Can we not say that for him Sita did not mean much?
Even though Rama’s Rajdharma compels him to abandon Sita to keep intact his people together as well as to set an unprecedented example of public
If we have a soul in our body then how come ghosts 👻 enter in the body and take possession of it?
Soul is there in everyone but it is veiled. To bring the soul in front, ordinarily man requires few births. It’s like a son of
Since some time, I see that philanthropy has become like a fashion in the society I live in, I find it absurd and feel its just showing off as in look how good I am doing or what a good person I am as if they are not sure and they need people to tell them so. I find it absurd how people call themselves a philanthropist. Can you please explain about this idea😏
All these are three inferior kinds of philanthropy. The third may prepare us for spiritual life but generally they keep us tied to the circle
They call Rama 🏹 an ideal man but I think he must have been ideal thousands of years back, how can he be ideal and relatable today?
It’s a mistake to think that Rama is not relatable today as even today he is an example of a perfect man. Rama lays the
Please help me with analogy for understanding this passage from the book, The Synthesis of Yoga 🧐
It means that on one side we say that ultimately it is the Divine Will that happens. So in that case are our prayers and
Correct me if I am wrong, I believe there is no concept of Dharma in the west so there is no concept of Adharma thus everyone has become selfish and they want to do what they feel like basically follow their impulses, so how can we save India from this false sense of Freedom, how to teach children and how to help the west out with our Indian ideals🇮🇳?
Yes the idea of freedom means different things to the East and the West. In the Western context there is the liberal idea of doing
What is the meaning of true individuality, and what is the difference between being rude or mean and having an ego? Are these three concepts connected, and if so, how🤔?
True individuality is the psychic being. But before it is developed nature erects a temporary individuality that is the self of ego and desire that
Why we need to know about Rama or Krishna and old India, isn’t all that outdates? What will we learn in Modern India from them today?
Rama and Krishna are the two names that have governed the Indian psyche and moulded the Indian thought and temperament for so long that it
How was Arjuna related to Sri Krishna🦚? Kunti was the biological daughter of Shurasena, a Yadava ruler. Her birth name was Pritha. She is said to be the reincarnation of the goddess Siddhi. She was the sister of Vasudeva, Krishna’s father. Thus, Kunti is the sister of Vasudeva who is Krishna’s father. Her son, Arjuna thus becomes Krishna’s cousin. I found this information online, can you please tell me if this information is correct.
Krishna and Arjuna were first cousins. But their relationship goes much deeper. Sri Krishna reveals in the Mahabharata that they are Nar (human) and Narayan
Many times we see a person with mediocre talent and efforts get success (sometimes unprecedented) quickly and others with much better abilities and hard work keep on struggling to get their rightful dues. What could be the reasons for this disparity🤨? Could deity worship and performing some specific rituals influence the outcome?
We feel a sense of injustice because we assume that outer success is some kind of a reward that God should give for good deeds.
For most of us moksha (liberation from the cycle of birth-death) is the ultimate goal. Isn’t this an escapist and pessimistic approach? In my view this is not true. Instead of Moksha, we should seek peace, power, prosperity and happiness/bhoga in this world itself. This world must have been made for this, otherwise these things would not have existed and whenever we fell short in our efforts to attain them, God helps us at our call through his different forms. Is my belief correct😕?
You are absolutely right. If the Divine wanted Nirvana then there would have been no world at all. The real meaning of Moksha was freedom