by Gnyana Sangha | Mar 13, 2022 | Anger, Commitment, Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma, Mind, Mind, Mind, Mind, Mind, Mind, Mind, Mind, Mind, Mind, Mind, Mind
Mahati Vinashayati – The greatest disaster! Question : When I am upset with someone or angry I tell myself to be calm and not to throw any agami seeds. My mind comes back saying I am ready to take rebirth. How do I get out of this cycle? Answer: You must...
by Gnyana Sangha | Oct 31, 2021 | Advaita, Body, Desire, Direct Path, Doership, Ego, Enlightenment, Feverishness, Just Be, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Self- Realization, Truth
Intense longing for self-realization Question:I have a strong and a very old habit of indulging in story creation and I realized it only after studying Chapter 12. This is the reason why I am not able to move ahead on the path, I am still at the level of doer and...
by Gnyana Sangha | Sep 30, 2021 | Consciousness, Divine, Greed, Independent Spirituality, Karmaphalam, Let go, Pleasure/Pain, Present Moment, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Suffering, Surrender, Surrender, Surrender
What is the difference between Tolerance and Surrender? Question: What is the difference between tolerance and surrender? Answer: Tolerance is like a potential volcano. There is a dislike hidden within which just churns and burns inside and can erupt at any...
by Gnyana Sangha | Aug 19, 2021 | Ashtavakra Gita, Awareness, Dreams, Emotions, Equanimous, Mind, Reaction, Reaction, Sensations, Sub-conscious, Types of Mind
Reacting in Dreams Question: During the daytime a thought came to me, to say something nasty to my colleague in office. But I stopped myself and I let go of that dvesha [aversion] and I also forgot about it. By the time it was evening and I came home, I felt very...
by Gnyana Sangha | Aug 3, 2021 | Attraction, Body, Body, Causation, Commitment, Craving, Destiny, Elements, Equanimous, Freedom, General Spiritual, Happiness, I, Karmaphalam, Karmaphalam, Karmaphalam, Karmaphalam, Karmaphalam, Knowledge, Life, Patanjali Yogs Sutra, Prarabdha, Purushartha, Purushartha, Raaga/Dvesha, Relationship, Samsara, Self-Effort, Self-Effort, Tapas
Dealing with Possessiveness Question: What if it is not me who is possessive, but someone else is possessive of me , rather obsessive almost to the sick levels of possessing me, what is that I should or should not do. Answer: Recognize that it is just a play of the...
by Gnyana Sangha | Jul 27, 2021 | Aagami, Aversion, Aversion, Aversion, Aversion, Aversion, Aversion, Awareness, Awareness, Children, Children, Flow with Life, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Jealousy, Niyati, Parent/Child, Parents, Sanchita, Sanchita, Time-past/present/Future, Types of Karma
Karma in babies Question: At what age does a person starts creating karma? When a child is born, he does not have this attachment to action and he naturally does what comes to him, but again the child does not have any understanding of awareness and knowledge. so both...
by Gnyana Sangha | Mar 30, 2021 | Attachment, Death, Fear, Impressions, Impressions, Impressions, Impressions, Impressions, Impressions, Impressions, Kabir, Knowledge, Knowledge, Love/Hate, Love/Hate, Love/Hate, Love/Hate, Love/Hate, Love/Hate, Love/Hate, Maya, Meditation, Scriptures, Seeking, Self-Effort, Seva, Silence, Thoughts, Thoughts, Thoughts
Fear of the ‘last thoughts at death’ Question: Ektaji – Is it fair to have Dvesha to control the last impression (not to think certain thing)? If it is something out of control why not make it like “come as it comes” like spontaneously? Can we train our subconscious...
by Gnyana Sangha | Sep 8, 2020 | Anger, Anger, Anger, Anger, Anger, Anger, Anger, Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Attention-Seeking, Attraction, Aversion, Awareness, Causation, Craving, Craving, Desire, Dukkha, Expectations, Fear, Fear, Greed, Guilt, Happiness, Impressions, Memory, Mindfulness, Misery, Pleasure/Pain, Pleasure/Pain, Present Moment, Samsara, Seeking, Selfishness, Stress, Sukkha, Thoughts, Vasana
Vasanas Question:Can you clarify what vasana means?Answer:The mind is stuck in 3 factors –PeopleSituations andThingsThe association with all these 3 will lead to impressions in the mind.Association with people leads to – Impressions of entanglement, jealousy, lust,...
by Gnyana Sangha | Aug 2, 2020 | Buddha, Buddha, Compassion, Gossip, Kabir, Problem/Struggle/Calamity, Samadhi
Gossipmongers on the spiritual path are wrong numbers! Question: I just figured that one of my spiritual world colleagues is jealous because I am meditating longer hours and have become quieter than her. She herself acknowledges that she is a loose cannon. She gossips...
by Gnyana Sangha | Mar 29, 2020 | Aagami, Aagami, Aagami, Aagami, Aagami, Aagami, Aagami, Aagami, Courage, General Spiritual, General Spiritual, Reaction
Wrong Karma or Right Karma? Question:Didi – in everyday life situations if I start to ask myself ‘why am I put into this situation?’ and be with awareness and observe without attachments & listen to the inner voice – will I find the answer? ( trying to understand...
by Gnyana Sangha | Mar 6, 2019 | Awareness, Awareness, Awareness, Awareness, Elements, Faith, Guru, Hurt, Maya, Prayer, Raaga/Dvesha, Sankalpa/Intention, Surrender
How to deal with emotions of negativity ? Question:I am going through storm of emotions and all negative like anger , jealousy. I feel frustrated, guess fire element is dominant. Though I tell myself it’s not me it’s the effect of fire element but it...
by Gnyana Sangha | Mar 6, 2019 | Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, Drama, Dreams, Gnyana, Ignorance, Independent Spirituality, Intellect, Mindfulness, Opinion/Behavior/Judgement, Self- Realization, Sub-conscious, Suffering, Types of Mind, Viveka
Who are you listening to? Question:Hi Ektaji, Is Drishti/Nazar real? My son gets sick OR runs to emergency with some stiches/fractures etc after he achieves any trophy OR he exposes his skills in a group. Mostly, whenever I get ready and am happy, immediately...
by Gnyana Sangha | Mar 1, 2019 | Bhagwad Gita, Boss/Colleague, Compassion, Compassion, Dharma, Ego, Ego, Ego, Emotions, Emotions, Emotions, Emotions, Emotions, Emotions, Emotions, Emotions, Hurt, Hurt, Hurt, Karma, Knowledge, Name/Roles, Personality, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Relationship, Relationship, Spontaneous, Vedic, Wisdom
How to deal with misbehavior? Question:After working with a person, some habit/pattern and memory came up. It reminds me that she acted like my ex-boss who needs us to respect her and follow her lead; but at some points, my ego tells me: No, this is not right! I...
by Gnyana Sangha | Feb 28, 2019 | Ashtavakra Gita, Bondage, Doership, Fear, Flow with Life, Flow with Life, Freewill, Guilt, Guilt, Let go, Life, Life, Love/Hate, Niyati, Prarabdha, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Sanchita, Scriptures, Scriptures, Types of Karma
Life is a flow of events on account of Karma Question:If life is a flow of events, where everything that is happening has to and we have nothing to do with it, then how does the karma theory play in with the above statement, where we alone are responsible for our...
by Gnyana Sangha | Feb 27, 2019 | Truth, Truth, Vedic, Vedic, Vedic, Vedic, Vedic
Overcoming Jealousy Question: We are all social beings. We need to socialize once in a while with our friends just to get away from the home environment. All our friends are very mature, happy and well to do. They drive better cars, they have better homes, they have...
by Gnyana Sangha | Feb 21, 2019 | Doubts, Energy, Sankalpa/Intention
Fear of the ‘Law of Attraction’ Question: It is said, ‘whatever/wherever you put your thought to, you dissolve into it’? I understand the gross meaning of this that wherever I put focus my on, my mind starts working towards that or on the way of achieving that....
