by Ekta | Mar 10, 2019 | Awareness, Body, Buddha, Doership, Energy, Flow with Life, Gratitude, Mind, Misery, Pleasure/Pain, Prana, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Self, Self- Realization, Self-Effort, Suffering, Truth, Wisdom
Question:Ekta ji, during Vyadhi, even as small as a headache, the Prana takes a hit and is focused only on the body. Should one wait for the phase to finish, and take it as tapas to come back and settle in the Self, what do you suggest?Answer:No dear, what’s the point...
by Ekta | Mar 8, 2019 | Ignorance, Karma, Maaya, Present Moment, Suffering, Vedic, Viveka
Question:Guruji, why do bad things happen to good people?Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Why do bad things happen to good people? Somewhere sometime in the past they may have also done something bad. From some lifetimes, somewhere they have become a victim of it. It is...
by Ekta | Mar 8, 2019 | Desire, Flow with Life, Impressions, Meditation, Mind, No-Mind, Silence, Suffering, Surrender, Thoughts, Truth, Unconscious, Vichara marg
Question:Desires and tendencies – it’s one thing being aware as they come up, suppress them, reduce them, possibly even eliminate them. But there is always a danger lurking of reviving them. I am going through one right now. It’s a line in stone, not on water or sand....
by Ekta | Mar 1, 2019 | Buddha, Depression, Divine, Emotions, Flow with Life, Just Be, Life, Love/Hate, Mind, Misery, Pleasure/Pain, Problem/Struggle/Calamity, Stress, Suffering, Surrender
Question:Everything around me seems to go against me. My son has been sitting doing NOTHING since he graduated. My brother has been fighting a fierce divorce case with his wife and lost his home, money, kids and job. My father has shut himself up. My mother remains in...
by Ekta | Feb 28, 2019 | Anxiety, Awareness, Awareness, Buddha, Concepts, Doubts, Emotions, Equanimous, Fear, Flow with Life, Gnyani, I, Just Be, Knowledge, let go, Love/Hate, Mind, Misery, Present Moment, Sakshi Bhav/Witness, Self- Realization, Sensations, Stress, Suffering, Surrender, Viveka, Wisdom
Question:At times I feel like I have dropped a desire, but again it pops up with more intensity. And at times I feel I am dropping the desire but doubt arises if I am just resisting it. How to differentiate between dropping a desire and resisting a desire?Answer:When...
by Ekta | Feb 28, 2019 | Enlightenment, Existence, Guru, Guru, Knowledge, Liberation, Misery, Moksha, Rishi, Siddha, Swamy, Vichara marg
Question:Is there a difference between a Rishi and a Guru?Answer:A Guru is a Siddha, he has been liberated and has returned back to the world to help others attain liberation, to spread peace, to help humanity in various ways. His teachings help people come out of...
by Ekta | Feb 23, 2019 | Anger, Attahment, Depression, Ego, Emotions, Feverishness, Freewill, Girlfriend/Boyfriend, Hurt, I, Mind, Misery, Raaga/Dvesha, Relationship, Soulmate, Stress, Suffering, Vedic
Question:JGD Ektaji, I have been dumped by my boyfriend and I just cannot find the courage to let go and move on. My ego is hurt and I really want to know why? Why has this happened to me? I want to still make it happen but he just won’t listen. I keep begging him and...
by Ekta | Feb 23, 2019 | Dukkha, Emotions, Impressions, Karma, let go, Mindfulness, Misery, Present Moment, Raaga/Dvesha, Reaction, Self, Sensations, Suffering, Vedic
Question:Didi, how to overcome the bad habit of reacting to other people. I always react and then regret that I should not have behaved so. Please guide me.Answer:Very few people realize that the actual problem is ‘with their own selves’ and ‘not with others’ and ‘not...
by Ekta | Feb 23, 2019 | Attahment, Aversion, Choice, Craving, Emotions, Kriya, Love/Hate, Preference, Raaga/Dvesha, Seeking, Suffering, Vedic
Question:Dear Ekta Di, if getting rid of karma is the sole purpose and to then to get enlightened is what we want, then how should we deal with this present life? I mean what should we do with this life ? If I should not have any Raagha or Dvesha, then that means I...
by Ekta | Feb 20, 2019 | Attahment, Commitmment, Desire, Emotions, Expectations, Feverishness, Guilt, Just Be, Mind, New year, Present Moment, Suffering, Temporary, Thoughts, Truth, Vedic
Seeker: Can you help me make a firm new years resolution and stick to it?Answer: At this junction in life [new years], most people run after resolutions or they sit and sulk about the past years resolutions that they did not keep up to. Haven’t you learnt a lesson...
by Ekta | 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...
by Ekta | Feb 20, 2019 | Emotions, Flow with Life, Karma, Karmaphalam, Mind, Pleasure/Pain, Problem/Struggle/Calamity, Relationship, Silence, Stress, Suffering, Temporary, Vedic
Question:I am going through a lot of stress in relationships, too much storm of emotions in relationship with one particular individual. Please help!Answer:There are definite steps to always follow irrespective of who/what is the cause of this storm of emotions:First...
by Ekta | Feb 19, 2019 | Consciousness, Expectations, Feverishness, Flow with Life, God, Karma, Karmaphalam, Land/Bhoomi, let go, Misery, Parents, Suffering, Universe, Vedic
Question:My parents are old and they live alone in their country and I live here in the US. I want them to come here but they do not like to live here. They are really suffering as they are old and I cannot leave my family here and go there to take care of them. How...
by Ekta | Feb 18, 2019 | Courage, Desire, Maaya, Misery, Temporary, Vedic
Question:How does one deal with desires? Whereas some desires may be frivolous like clothes, jewelry, material things and others seem to be existential like taking an extra leadership role at work or leading a volunteering project. But eventually, I have now realized...
by Ekta | Feb 17, 2019 | Awareness, Body, Enlightenment, Gnyani, Guru, Intellect, Masters, Matter, Mind, Physical, Pleasure/Pain, Prakriti, Suffering
Question:I have a question, although it may sound silly. I was wondering, do enlightened beings feel sadness? Do they actually feel sick? As I look at Guruji, I see consciousness and whatever is emanating from him is just natural. Since he’s in a human form, he’s not...
by Ekta | Feb 15, 2019 | Adwaita, Duality, Dwaita, Ego, I, Misery, Rumi, Samsara, Vedic, You
Question:I really liked the Sufi poem about the stranger who knocks on the door, and then last time says “I am you”, etc etc. Can you send a link to this poem?Answer:It is a poem by Rumi, that I heard in Urdu long ago. Here is the English translation:“There came one...
by Ekta | Feb 15, 2019 | Buddha, Fear, In- Laws, Marriage, Misery, Relationship, Samsara, Self-Effort, Temporary, Vedic
Question:JGD Ekta ji, I have registered for the Silence course but I am so scared of my in laws. They would not approve my absence for 5 days. I have almost decided to not attend the course. But I am very restless to attend. I am stuck between family and spirituality....
by Ekta | Feb 15, 2019 | Anger, Aversion, Consciousness, Divine, Ego, Greed, Hurt, Jealousy, Karmaphalam, let go, Mind, Pleasure/Pain, Present Moment, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Suffering, Surrender, Surrender, Surrender, Thoughts, Vichara marg
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 time. Tolerance is just a temporary cover-up. When you are tolerating...
by Ekta | Feb 7, 2019 | Aagami, Anger, Anxiety, Attahment, Attention-Seeking, Attraction, Aversion, Awareness, Buddha, Causation, Craving, Desire, Dukkha, Emotions, Expectations, Fear, Fear, Greed, Guilt, Happiness, Hurt, Impressions, Jealousy, Karma, Karmaphalam, Love/Hate, Memory, Mindfulness, Misery, Pleasure/Pain, Present Moment, Raaga/Dvesha, Raaga/Dvesha, Reaction, Samsara, Seeking, Selfishness, Stress, Sukkha, Thoughts, Vasana
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, anger,...
by Ekta | Feb 6, 2019 | Attraction, Buddha, Courage, Craving, Dukkha, Equanimous, Happiness, Just Be, Knowledge, Life, Mind, Misery, Pleasure/Pain, Raaga/Dvesha, Samsara, Seeking, Seeking, Self, Self- Realization, Sukkha, Temporary, Truth
Question: Why am I not happy with my-self? why am I continuously looking for someone/something/some situation to make me happy or make me feel that I am happy? Answer: There is no Happiness/Sukha in this world, but the mind does not want to recognize this truth. Life...
by Ekta | Dec 13, 2018 | Attraction, Dukkha, I, Karma, Misery, Silence, Stress, Suffering, Sukkha, Vedic, You
Question:After doing so many knowledge sessions with you, I have realized that I have a tendency to think that I am perfect and others are wrong. My ways are correct and theirs are wrong. I understand this is the cycle of Sanchita, Prarbdha and Agami Karma. But...
by Ekta | Dec 8, 2018 | Compassion, Destiny, God, Karma, Karmaphalam, Misery, Service, Seva, Suffering, Vedic
Question:Guruji says that, “Do not help anyone unless he or she asks for help”. My assumption is Guruji is saying this because we will feel hurt when he/she do not appreciate us but I feel like helping others who suffer. Can I drop expectation and just help? I am...
by Ekta | Aug 2, 2017 | Aagami, Ashtavakra Gita, Attahment, Desire, Doership, Freedom, Happiness, Life, Misery, Pleasure/Pain, Present Moment, Vasana, Vedic
Question:Ektaji, at present, I am on the verge of going through a big change in life. Whatever I have known till now is suddenly being metamorphosed into something larger. All three aspects of people, situation and things are in transition.From a materialistic and...
