Question from S: I was reading Sri Aurobindo’s article where Mother Mirra Alfassa was having an interaction with goddess Durga. Mother said that Durga has surrendered to the divine, meaning that before this she was only acting as an unconscious instrument. But now after the surrender, she is much conscious of the divine and it makes a large difference. Why is there such…
Question from Pardeep: What is a self realized soul? Is it someone who has attained god realization?
Question from Daniel: Can you shed some light on the nature of the “soul”, once it achieves Moksha. Correct me if I’m mistaken, but to my mind it appears Adi Shankara implies that the soul once liberation is attained merges back into a state of Oneness, and loses all sense of individuality, like a wave merging back into the ocean. Is soul individuality…
Question from XYZ: How to overcome pride and excessive self-involvement? I struggle a lot with these bad qualities and don’t know how to get rid of them
Question from Vivek sharma: Sages say that God realisation is like finding a necklace on our neck which we were searching outside. But do we need to have special heightened perception abilities to realise this or not.
Question from Vivek: The Bible says about God-realization (experience) to ‘ask and it shall be given’. Then why do we have to do spiritual practices? Just ask from the heart. Secondly, God is our loving Father. Do we need to pay a price (spiritual practices) to get something from our Father?
Question from Krishna Vasudeva: Namaskaram. I have read books and watched videos of many yogis and what they had to say about enlightenment. From what I have understood, to reach enlightenment or absolute emptiness within oneself, One has to either “jump or fall into a bottomless pit,which is called “falling upward.” I want to know what the last step towards enlightenment is like. Does…
Question from SS: Does the term higher Self refer to our individual soul? and lower self refer to our human personality? In the Bhagavad Gita, it is written that God exists as the supersoul or Paramatman along with the individual soul or jivatman. can you please explain?
Question from Self: The chakras are in the astral body. Then who is entering into the spiritual light? Who is the I who is concentrating on the spiritual eye? If I am the light body, then where is the spiritual eye located? Thank you.
Question from SS: I have read from many sources, that Hinduism or originally known as Sanatana Dharma, the eternal way is non sectarian, and can be applicable to anyone regardless of religion or race. I am Hindu, but don’t understand how the Bhagavad Gita for instance is non sectarian, as Lord Krishna Himself says he is the Supreme God. I don’t see how…
