Question from Ashu: I am morally fragile. I struggle to keep my devotion and honesty at my work intact. I have a feeling that I can achieve God only through excellent performance at my work. But, frequent lapses of judgement and backslidings from my ideals and cherished habits deter and disappoint me. I become concerned at the loss of health and freshness because…
Question from Ørn: Isn’t it rather unrealistic of God to expect you to love him more than anything else? He is rather silent and seems to be arrogant, never answering anything. He seems like a cold “person” or quite “shy”… hehe ….no matter how many books about God I read, I can’t believe that God loves me, because I don’t feel His presence.…
Question from Anonymous: How can I weaken my attachment to my physical appearance? As a teenage girl, I am sick of the anxiety that worrying about my looks has created in recent years. In at least one of my millions of incarnations, I must have had great physical beauty, but my current existence and desire prove material fulfillment was insufficient. Still, my ego…
Question from SS: Can you explain the 2 statements ? “The laws governing spiritual success and material success are the same. Money-making is the next greatest art after the art of realizing God.” What exactly does “spiritual success” mean?
Question from David Chen: Namaste, I have been reading Paramahansa Yogananda’s wise and beautiful words and have some lingering confusion. How should I look upon the beauty of this world right now, as a spiritual climber of Kriya yoga? Am I to be dissatisfied or doubtful, as the beauty I see with these two eyes are but an illusion compared to the Ever-Blissful God?…
Question from Komal: I (married) was doing spiritually well until a problem arose in my family. My sister is getting divorced (forced into arranged marriage). My father is one who listens to everybody, except for family members and hardly earns income for the family. My mother (a housewife) is suffering a lot as my father keeps talking badly to her, as to how…
Question from John: Hi I feel very disconnected from an inner spiritual life and god. I feel lost and not sure what the barriers are or what to do. Have you any recommendations? Thanks John
Question from Kevin: Hello, I have been developing spiritually for some time now. While this has no doubt had many benefits I have noticed one challenge recently. Mainly, I realize that there is so little that I know and understand. Not just about the world around me, but about myself as well. This lack of certainty and sudden synchronicities that cannot be explained…
Question from Philipp Anton: I don’t understand some things that worry me a lot. 1. what happens after death? What if, for example, my daughter or wife dies? Will I never see them again? 2. What influence does karma have on my worldly life? Can I be ambitious at all and have desires (e.g. a big house for my family) and work towards them?…
Question from S: Yogananda said that God loves us always no matter what our mistakes. But in the Gita Krishna said , “i hurl the cruel haters and evil doers in demonic wombs again and again, falling to the lowest existence they fail to attain me.” God here seems to be more like a tyrant than an “ocean of mercy” as described by…
