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May 15
2013

Zain-UL-A­bdin
Pakistan

Question

HELLO ... IM TOO LAZY IN MY STUDIES AND WANT TO BE TOPEST STUDENT AND WANT TO TAKE EXCELLENT % IN MY UNIVERSITY. IM TOO WEAK IN STUDIES AND IM ABSENT MINDED TOO AND I LIVE IN A IMAGINATION (DREAMY WORLD) AND I TALK WITH MYSELF !

AND I WANT TO BECAOME A SUCCESSFULL ENGINEER.

WAHT SHOULD I DO ? WILL U PLEASE HELP ME ?

Nayaswami Hriman

Ananda Seattle

Answer

Dear Friend,

Many people suffer from the problem you describe: we want success but we don’t want to put out the effort that it takes to become successful.

One of the keys to success is to start small: start with things you can do today! Right Now! With day-to-day duties, if you say you are going to do something, SIMPLY DO IT!

April 28
2013

Tina Sahdev
india

Question

I married 10 months back & met my husband around a year before marriage. Two months back I learned that my husband has been sleeping with strangers. During counseling it was revealed that he felt rejected by me physically as well as emotionaly.

I admit that owing to my lonliness & age I could not push him away at the right time, even though I saw lots of flaws in him. But today I’m torn between helping him recover to repay the karmic debt & wanting to run away not being able to forgive him. What should I do?

Nayaswami Diksha

Ananda Village

Answer

Dear Tina,

Marriage is a sacred bond and loyalty is the foundation for building trust and love between two people.

I am glad that you have gone to counseling to clarify and understand what happened.

If both of you are willing and committed to re-build the marriage with loyalty and trust, then there is a chance to restore the marriage. Both of you need to do your best, and to communicate your feelings and needs with each other with respect and support.

April 27
2013

Faith
Canada

Question

Hello! My question is concerning fears. For a while now I have been having panic attacks, and fear has made me a different person than I used to be. I used to think that I could do anything, but now is the opposite. Fear is not letting me move forward in life and take new chances. I always think that I will fail in whatever I do. What is the best way to overcome fear So that I can move on with my life and not be afraid of welcoming new opportunities?

Thank you and blessings!

Nayaswami Hriman

Ananda Seattle

Answer

Dear Faith,

Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita makes this immortal promise: "Even a little practice of this (meditation and right attitude) will free one from dire fears and colossal sufferings."

I, too, used think of myself as fearless. As the years rolled by I realized that, though not especially plagued by fears, everyone is challenged (aka stressed) by life’s many seeming obstacles and opportunities.

April 1
2013

Sangita Sanyal
India

Question

Namashkar,

Could you please tell us more about the significance of people who dream about the future? I heard some people do and I often get dreams about future events and surprisingly they happen most of the time. At times I dream before a day, at times before a week and even before 9-10 months, but most of them happen. Isn’t it strange? After these experiences, I feel future is per-determined. Can prayer help stopping events which aren’t desirable?

Nayaswami Savitri

Ananda Village

Answer

Hi Sangita,

Yes, many people have what are called "predictive dreams," meaning that they dream about a future event, and then find out later that what they dreamed did come true.

I made a study of dreams for a book I self-published called The Meaning of Dreaming: Paramhansa Yogananda’s Teachings of Why We Dream and What Our Dreams Mean. In my research for that book, here is what I found out about predictive dreams.:

sharmila chakravarty
India

Question

Jai Guru,

Whenever I think about someone whom I may or may not be knowing personally, I will come across some piece of information about him, if he is a celebrity then on television or if someone of a passing acquaintance then over the phone or some piece of information through someone about him. This takes place whenever a passing thought about some person pass my mind. What does it all mean? Does it have any significance? This had been taking place since my childhood.

Nayaswami Hriman

Ananda Seattle

Answer

Dear Friend,

Swami Vivekananda, the well known disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once reported to his guru that he was having telepathic vision of people at far distances from him. Ramakrishna advised him to "forget it, it’s just a distraction!"

I think these incidents you report, too, are not significant spiritually speaking, for you or for these people, some of whom you do not know personally. Therefore I would not pay them much attention.

kandy
United States

Question

I spoke with a clairvoyant who said I had 30 entities around me. Is that possible? Why so many? I myself believe to be a little clairvoyant ... not positive though. Do these entities try an communicate with me? I have had an uneasy feeling in my house lately. Is it from an entity? Or I just need more religion in my life? I don’t know if you'll be able to help but thought I’d give it a shot.

Kristy Fassler-Hecht

Ananda Maine

Answer

Dear Kandy,

Numerous life forms in other dimensions of reality are described in Yogananda’s book, The Autobiography of a Yogi in the chapter where his guru, Sri Yukteswar, is resurrected and shares about souls who inhabit the planet Hiranyaloka. In addition, Yogananda shares about disincarnate souls in some of his talks and other books.

October 10
2012

Mary
USA

Question

I am in love with someone who is experiencing enlightment. I think it’s beautiful but we are no longer in a relationship but we see each other sometimes and the feelings are still there. I am experiencing such great love for him but struggle a little for we are not together. I know that this is a sign of attachment and that’s why I’m struggling. At this moment he says he can’t commit to anyone because of what he’s experiencing. I keep reading about detachment as I know thats best but I still struggle. What to do?

Kristy Fassler-Hecht

Ananda Maine

Answer

Dear Mary,


Your question regarding how to transcend attachment is an important one for anyone sincerely seeking truth. You have two choices. One is to contract and suffer as your ego laments the perceived loss of a love relationship. The other is to expand and let go of him in loving faith.

Sonia
England

Question

Hey,

How do you know if someone is trying to communicate with you? It seems as though every time I cry about the same thing, that night something happens. Such as my bracelet got snapped in my bathroom, my chair moved in the kitchen, and I get cold chills as though something walks through me. My boyfriend stayed over last night and I was upset about the same thing and we both suddenly felt a cold chill and felt as though something was in my room.

help!

Nayaswami Savitri

Ananda Village

Answer

Dear Sonia:

I will answer you as best as I can, based on what Paramhansa Yogananda said about this subject and on other similar situations, which have come up for us over the years.

It sounds like an "unhappy" spirit has gotten confused and is hanging around your home, when he or she should be going onward into the astral worlds or getting ready for another incarnation.

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