Category: Question and Answers with Swamiji

Question: What are the obstacles in being a well-wisher of all?  Swamiji: Selfishness is the main obstacle. As such, selfishness is due to ego (self-identity), By giving up selfishness and (having the sentiment of) seeing to the well-being of all, our own well-being takes place ! He who has the feeling – “May all be […]

“Cheerfulness of mind, gentleness, calmness and contemplation, self-control, purity of thought – are called, the penance of mind.” (Gita 17:16)  Manah prasaadah saumyatvam maunamaatmavinigrahah Bhaavasamsuddhirityetattapo maanasamucyate.” (Gita 17:16) Let us focus just on the first word – “Cheerfulness of Mind.” It is called “Manahprasaadah. Cheerfulness due to contact of persons, things, country, time, situations, circumstances, incidents etc., is not […]

Question:   How to concentrate (fix) the mind? Answer:    I will share with you a very easy method to concentrate (fix) the mind.  Practice constant remembrance with your mind, repeating “Ram, Ram, Ram..” Do it in this manner –  “One Ram,  Two Ram, Three Ram, Four Ram …” but within your mind.  Neither say one, two, three, […]

Question:  How to cultivate love and devotion?  Answer:   Reading the lives of those devotees and saints, who are freed from bondage of worldly life, will purify the mind, because it is more necessary to wipe out impurity of mind than its volatility.  By purifying the mind, the volatility of mind will be wiped out very […]

Question –  What is the gist of “arpan”  (making an offering) ? Answer –  To give up ‘apnaapan’  (affinity, sense of mine-ness)  || 1 || Question –   After offering everything to the Lord,  can forbidden actions take place, due to the influence of past tendencies?   Answer –  No it cannot take place.   || 2 […]

||ShriHari|| Question: “What is the mark of a man of steady wisdom, one who is stable of mind and established in equanimity?” The Lord spoke: When a man abandons all cravings of the mind is satisfied in the self by the Self, then He is called a man of steady wisdom (sthithprajya). (Gita 2:54-55) Question: […]