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How to make sure not to be born again?

How to make sure not to be born again?

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Aversion, Birth, Choicelessness, Death, Desire, Dispassion, Enlightenment, Equanimous, Just Be, Liberation, Meditation, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Samadhi, Self- Realization, Silence, Vichara marg

Question:How to make sure not to be born again? How to stop the cyclical nonsense of birth and death?Answer:That’s an invaluable question, dear. But, It does not have a straight answer. There is NO way to ensure not to be born again. At the most, you can work hard on...
Intellectualization of Spiritual Knowledge is a MAJOR obstacle!

Intellectualization of Spiritual Knowledge is a MAJOR obstacle!

by | Mar 10, 2019 | Awareness, Buddha, Concepts, Ego, Enlightenment, Intellect, Karma, Karmaphalam, Knowledge, Liberation, Meditation, Purushartha, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Samsara, Self- Realization, Vairagya, Wisdom

Question:Ekta ji, can you point to any references in scriptures or your own experience on how to identify the symptoms of being half baked in vedanta knowledge or being caught up just in the theory of advaita?Answer:It is a big danger if you are caught up in the...
Thoughts during meditation and sadness after!

Thoughts during meditation and sadness after!

by | Mar 1, 2019 | Buddha, Concepts, Dhyana, Energy, Existence, Knowledge, Kriya, Meditation, Meditation, Mind, No-Mind, Pranayama, Purushartha, Scriptures, Silence, Thoughts, Upanishad

Question:Dear Ekta didi, I have been doing my Kriya and meditation but I just can’t get my mind to shut up! It constantly brings thoughts. I don’t resist them. But I am slightly concerned. I am in no way impatient, I will continue to do the 20 minute meditations until...
What to do when you have problems in life?

What to do when you have problems in life?

by | Feb 28, 2019 | Awareness, Awareness, Guru, Intellect, Knowledge, Knowledge, let go, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, Miscellaneous, Present Moment, Purushartha, Scriptures, Surrender, Vedic

We all have problems in life, now what to do when your emotions are high and you are just not able to cope?1 ) First of all calm your self down with some 10 minute knowledge video from here- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCS0FPDb7sVS8YWtNd78NwNKt4w6–jBy2) You...
Dealing with Anxiety

Dealing with Anxiety

by | Feb 28, 2019 | Aagami, Anxiety, Awareness, Awareness, Buddha, Commitmment, Concepts, Courage, Destiny, Divine, Emotions, Faith, Freewill, Guru, Guru, Impressions, Intellect, Karma, Karmaphalam, Knowledge, Knowledge, let go, Life, Maaya, Masters, Maya, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, Niyati, No-Mind, Prarabdha, Purushartha, Purushartha, Raaga/Dvesha, Reaction, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Samsara, Sanchita, Sankalpa/Intention, Scriptures, Self- Realization, Self-Effort, Self-Effort, Sensations, Stress, Surrender, Surrender, Surrender, Tapas, Thoughts, Types of Karma, Wisdom

Question:Dear Ektaji,How should one deal with anxiety through Karma Yoga? I understand the role of gyana and bhakti/surrender when we are anxious about something in future but it is still prabhava gyana. Therefore I end up reasoning with my racing mind to settle down...
Why do I feel stagnant in my spiritual growth?

Why do I feel stagnant in my spiritual growth?

by | Feb 28, 2019 | Awareness, Commitmment, Consciousness, Dispassion, Doership, Ego, Enlightenment, Guru, I, Ignorance, Intellect, Knowledge, Liberation, Life, Maaya, Maya, Meditation, Meditation, Moksha, Present Moment, Purushartha, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Scriptures, Self, Self- Realization, Self-Effort, Serious, Service, Seva, Soul, Soul, Tapas, Truth, Vairagya, Vichara marg

Question:JGD Ektaji – As you are aware, I have been in knowledge for about 3 years now. I have also been involved with some seva and regular sadhana but I feel like I am not growing. I watch my self all the time (sakshi Bhaav) and as an outsider I see that I am still...
Journey from external to internal

Journey from external to internal

by | Feb 28, 2019 | Awareness, Awareness, Bondage, Brahman, Breath, Causation, Chanting, Commitmment, Concepts, Courage, Dispassion, Doership, Drama, Ego, Freedom, Gnyani, Guru, Guru, I, Illusion, Intellect, Karma, Karmaphalam, Knowledge, Life, Maaya, Masters, Meditation, Meditation, Mind, Niyati, Pranayama, Purushartha, Purushartha, Rumi, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Samsara, Sankalpa/Intention, Self, Self- Realization, Self-Effort, Soul, Tapas, Temporary, Thoughts, Truth, Vairagya, Vichara marg, Wisdom

Question:Dear Ektaji, I have been with Guruji for 15 yrs now, have done courses, seva, satsang( less of seva though :-), could be better) … However, one question that has never been understood is going within. Journey from external to internal. I am referring to your...
Buddha taught that there is NO SOUL!

Buddha taught that there is NO SOUL!

by | Feb 27, 2019 | Awareness, Buddha, Consciousness, Enlightenment, Just Be, Meditation, Purushartha, Satipathana, Scriptures, Self- Realization, Self-Effort, Soul, Soul, Sukkha, Truth, Uncategorized, Vichara marg

Question:Buddha taught that there is NO SOUL! Please, can you enlighten us on this?Answer:To understand Buddha first, we have to understand his basic teachings.Buddha was a prince, who saw riches/name/fame/relationships but did not find True Sukha in that. His did not...
Meditation is not for me!

Meditation is not for me!

by | Feb 21, 2019 | Buddha, Meditation, Mind, No-Mind, Silence

Question:While meditating, not even once have I listened to the whole meditation, there are variety of things happening every single time:1. As soon as I close my eyes, even when I am paying attention to the voice, my mind starts drifting.2. or a dreamlike state comes...
The greatest fear!

The greatest fear!

by | Feb 20, 2019 | Courage, Ego, Fear, I, Liberation, Meditation, Vedic

Question:Jgd didi, your recent post made me realize that the ego is the cause of my beginning. Now that I have taken a step towards liberation there is a strange fear of becoming no one again, the mind says-  what will happen to’me’ after liberation, there will be no...
Is there something like “too much spiritual knowledge”?

Is there something like “too much spiritual knowledge”?

by | Feb 20, 2019 | Bhakti, Brahman, Consciousness, Devotion, Ego, Gnyana, Guru, Intellect, Knowledge, Knowledge, Kriya, Meditation, Meditation, Mind, Upanishad, Vedic, Wisdom

Question:All who worship what is not real knowledge, enter into blind darkness: those who delight in real knowledge, enter, as it were, into greater darkness.This is excerpt from Ishavasya Upanishad, what struck me was that people who worship worldly knowledge are far...
Karma and its ways

Karma and its ways

by | Feb 20, 2019 | Alcohol, Ashtavakra Gita, Commitmment, Emotions, Happiness, Hurt, Karma, Karmaphalam, Knowledge, let go, Life, Love/Hate, Marriage, Meditation, Memory, Mind, Misery, Pleasure/Pain, Present Moment, Problem/Struggle/Calamity, Purushartha, Scriptures, Self-Effort, Self-Effort, Spouse, Suffering, Temporary, Thoughts, Vedic

Question:My husband is an alcoholic all he does is work and sleep alone.  there is practically no interaction or no marriage between us. I feel extremely lonely and very depressed at home.What should I do to come out of this loneliness and depressed feelings and give...
Emptiness IS Fullness!

Emptiness IS Fullness!

by | Feb 20, 2019 | Bhakti, Brahman, Buddha, Consciousness, Devotion, Emotions, Emptiness, Enlightenment, Form, Formless, Fullness, Gnyana, Gnyani, Intellect, Love, Meditation, Mind, No-Mind, Scriptures, Silence, Thoughts

Question:How can emptiness be also called fullness on the spiritual path?  Please clarify.Answer:On the spiritual path, many different kinds of people walk.  Some people are in the head and some people are completely in the heart.  The people who are in the head use...
Wanting to look good….. Raaga or not?

Wanting to look good….. Raaga or not?

by | Feb 18, 2019 | Consciousness, Desire, Emotions, Gnyani, Knowledge, Meditation, Memory, Mind, No-Mind, Raaga/Dvesha, Satvik/Rajasic/Tamasic, Self- Realization, Sensations, Sex/Passion/Celibacy

Question:I have a desire to have clear pretty skin. I was wondering if it is Raaga or it is part of nature? Is it a bad karma or a bad desire to want to look pretty not with make-up but with normal skin?Answer:You are the best judge, dear! Only you would know whether...
Is being a witness and being 100% aware the same?

Is being a witness and being 100% aware the same?

by | Feb 15, 2019 | Ashtavakra Gita, Awareness, Awareness, Body, Breath, Buddha, Dhyana, Doership, Equanimous, Flow with Life, I, Intellect, Just Be, Krishna, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, No-Mind, Non-Doership, Patanjali Yogs Sutra, Present Moment, Purushartha, Purushartha, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Self-Effort, Self-Effort, Senses, Silence, Spontaneous, Thoughts, Vichara marg

Question 1:I was practicing 100% awareness for most of the day. But it seemed to me that as I was 100% aware, I was also totally aware of what I was experiencing through the senses – I was totally aware of what my body and mind were doing. It seemed to be an excellent...
How do I experience Silence during meditation ?

How do I experience Silence during meditation ?

by | Feb 7, 2019 | Awareness, Awareness, Buddha, Dhyana, Emptiness, I, Just Be, Meditation, Meditation, Mind, Non-Doership, Purushartha, Purushartha, Seeking, Seeking, Self-Effort, Self-Effort, Silence, Thoughts

Question:“Drop the small mind”. I understand one way is to keep saying I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am not the ego etc. I do this during meditation, yet I am unable to TRULY drop the mind just does not go away.A few thoughts come then they stop but I am...
How to experience the spiritual knowledge?

How to experience the spiritual knowledge?

by | Jan 16, 2019 | Awareness, Dhyana, Enlightenment, Gnyana, Gnyani, Guru, Guru, Guru, Knowledge, Knowledge, Meditation, Meditation, No-Mind, Present Moment, Purushartha, Purushartha, Samadhi, Scriptures, Seeking, Self- Realization, Self-Effort, Self-Effort, Silence, Thoughts, Vichara marg

Question:I am starting to get to a point of reading/listening/understanding this spiritual knowledge where I am “making it a concept” as Guruji puts it. How do I “experience” the knowledge rather than “learn” it? Just wait out prarabdha? It almost feels like I can...
Connect with the Master internally instead of the external physical body!

Connect with the Master internally instead of the external physical body!

by | Jan 13, 2019 | Attention-Seeking, Buddha, Devotion, Dhyana, Dispassion, Gnyana, Guru, Guru, Guru, Just Be, Knowledge, Meditation, Meditation, Mind, Purushartha, Self, Self- Realization, Self-Effort

Question:Jai Gurudev! I’ve joined The Art of Living with Yes+ course and I’m 19 years old. I did feel a strong connection to Guruji when I did the course. But 3 years laternow, I don’t feel anything. When I go to Ashram, I see people in crowds getting excited about...
Ego is a major pitfall on the Spiritual path!

Ego is a major pitfall on the Spiritual path!

by | Dec 14, 2018 | Company/Association/Sangha, Compassion, Ego, Guru, Guru, Guru, I, Karma, Knowledge, Life, Maya, Meditation, Problem/Struggle/Calamity, Purushartha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Reaction, Scriptures, Self, Senses, Truth, Vichara marg

Question :Dear Didi, I tend to be influenced by those who are having too much fun and less awareness and don’t take the spiritual path seriously. I feel that we are not even eligible to learn this beautiful knowledge from Gurudev. He is so compassionate towards us in...
How do thoughts generate in the mind?

How do thoughts generate in the mind?

by | Jun 10, 2018 | Awareness, Buddha, Company/Association/Sangha, Elements, Food, Meditation, Meditation, Mind, Prakriti, Present Moment, Purushartha, Satvik/Rajasic/Tamasic, Self-Effort, Sub-conscious, Thoughts

Questions:How does the thought generate in our mind?Answer:Thoughts generate out of the subconscious. Now what is the quality of your subconscious? It depends on the conditioning of your mind from:Associations [people] – associations are the types of people you...
KARMA!

KARMA!

by | May 6, 2018 | Aagami, Brahman, Consciousness, Dukkha, Elements, Gnyani, Impressions, Karma, Karmaphalam, Knowledge, Maya, Meditation, Prakriti, Prarabdha, Raaga/Dvesha, Samsara, Sanchita, Self- Realization, Self-Effort, Space-Time, Surrender, Upanishad, Vedic

Question:Please explain the sentencesExcerpt 1 -The space is not afflicted by any action. Similarly, you are free from karma. Answer:Look around you right now. You are surrounded by space from all angles. Can you touch the space around you? Can you wet the space...