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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.
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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
What is the concept of hell and heaven? I don’t find any particular reason to have this concept so then they people made this concept🙄?
Heaven and Hell simply mean that there are places in the universe (there is not one but many universes, each with its own Time Space
On which date we should celebrate our birthday, according to English calendar or according to previous calculation as (panchanng) counting of purnima to amabashya etc.🤔?
The solar calendar has certain advantages over the lunar in terms of the date returning cyclically after a fixed number of days. I suppose it
If your parents have not been responsible and taken care of you properly in your child hood why do they have so many useless expectations from their children when they grow up? And how to deal with this😠? Like they are still not there when you need them as their priorities are different even today, can you explain this from dharma point of view as well?
Dharma is about our individual conduct regardless of what others do or do not do. One thing is obvious that parents (as well as others)
My mother was and is still is biased towards my elder brother🫤. I do understand she is just a child of an environment that has been biased towards male child. Today I do understand it and to an extent dont hold her responsible, but still the lifelong hurt is there. But this question is more about her than me, has she created Karma? Can she resolve it in this lifetime? But for that I have to tell her that I have been hurt.
She has created karma by attachment and its inevitable result is suffering regardless of the nature of attachment. It is not good to judge people
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
Saint Paul and Early Christian converts in Rome literally believed the second coming of Christ and the apocalyptic judgement was going to happen in their own life times, when someone asked Paul about marriage he said why bother with these earthly things when the cleansing fire of apocalypse and new creation is just on the edge and this belief continued up until the 4th-5th centuries and slowly the disillusionment started coming in with occasional outbursts of prophecies throughout medieval Europe and gradually it just became a scriptural literary allusion. What’s the prospects that the whole supramental creation you talk about suffer the same fate🤨?
As far as the second coming of Christ or of the Buddha, and Sri Krishna himself is concerned (all have said it one way or
As I read Savitri, I get doubts about the context. 1. In spirituality, –Go with the flow, don’t ask God for anything. Accept situations where u cant do anything,..4 kinds of bakhtas described by Krishna, is what I was getting to understand. But here Savitri insists on getting her husbands life back?
Spirituality is not about go with the flow. It is about go with the Law, dharma, Divine Will. There are in fact two levels at
I again seek your views on the following passage of the book – Shakti Mantras: Tapping Into the Great Goddess Energy Within by Thomas Ashley-Farrand 🤔
The influence of planets and all other forces of destiny is ultimately governed by the Divine Mother. Ordinarily however, in her state of sleep, She
Could you please explain the concept of “Tri Sandhya or Sandhyavandanam” of Gayatri given in scriptures? The mata is worshipped daily three times in the Morning, Afternoon & Evening in three different forms – Brahmani/Saraswati, Vaishnavi/Lakshmi & Rudrani-Shabhavi/Kali-Durga respectively. On the basis of this, can we consider Mother Gayatri or Savitri as one of the complete forms of Adyashakti for her worship🤔?
The three times sandhya vandana recommended for worship relates to the movement of the earth around the sun. Each phase is symbolic of the cosmic
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
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
What is difference between psychic realization and the realization of self🤨?
The psychic realisation is the realisation of the individual soul, the true individual self within us. It brings us the realisation of being a part
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
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
Who was prophet Mohammed? What were his influences? How does he relate to the Arabs🤨?
The Dark Ages of mankind saw the birth and rise of two Religions, Islam and Christianity. It was a time when post Buddhism and Mayavada,
What is the difference between the truth of the Individuality (Swabhava) and the Truth of the Collectivity. Which one is the goal of individual sadhana? When each one of us will be able to reach our highest individual truth which is Jivatman can we say that we have realized the Self or the Divine🤔?
Swabhava and swadharma is the expression of the individual soul, the true self through nature, temperament, way of life and being. Similarly there is a
This is not a Question. I am little weak in English. Many times I need to take help of online translation facilities to understand your answers. I used to simply copy your answers and paste in translation apps. However this copy & paste facility seems to be deactivated in the site. Can you please look into this🫤?
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