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Guilt

I feel completely lost on my path and overwhelmed by academic and inner struggles that may force me to leave my PhD. Unable to burden my parents, I carry this pain alone, yet whenever I look at the Motherโ€™s photograph, an intense guilt arises that my mistakes are too many and that it is too late to fix anything. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐Ÿ’›[…]

One can never be lost enough as to not connect with Her. In fact, the more we feel lost, the more we should call Her

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1. If everything happens for a reason, and every suffering or misfortune we experience is understood as the consequence of some past karmaโ€”possibly from a past life that we do not rememberโ€”then where did the first wrong action or โ€œoriginal sinโ€ come from? โš–๏ธ๐ŸŒฑ […]

These are assumptions, not facts. Suffering comes because of imperfections, limitations and attachments. Actions done under ignorance, attachments, desires etc bring pleasure and pain. Since

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As I look within me, there is one part which is luminous, wants the Divine and at the same time there is this another dark part which is creating so much trouble. Sometimes thoughts linger on desires and ambition and I consciously pull them back; sometimes past wrong tendencies come up. ๐Ÿชท๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป […]

This division is in everybody. It is by sadhana that one becomes one-pointed. It takes long time. Faith, sincerity, aspiration and surrender hastens the process.

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Brother, Vande Mataram. Brother, two months ago I told you that I was unable to practice Brahmacharya (celibacy), and you advised me not to dwell on it but to keep myself busy. I tried, but since then, even more impure thoughts have been filling my mind; my mobile phone is the main cause of my downfall. ๐Ÿ˜ฃ๐Ÿ“ฑ๐Ÿฅ€๐Ÿฆ‹[…]

Instead of promising to the Mother pray to Her to help you come out of this habit. Meanwhile do not brood upon it especially with

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