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Longing for Divine Mother

Nayaswami Hassi

Question from Petals: Hello. Please tell me how I can connect to Divine Mother. I am already doing some advanced meditations. But i want to connect to her. Please help?

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How to Love God!

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from Pereha: How to turn attachment for others into love for God? I get very easily attached to people and start hoping for them to reciprocate the love and affection. But it always disappoints me and god has shown me time and time again how unpredictable human love is. How do i love god wholly and be free of the need to…

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It is Difficult For Me To Pray To The Divine Mother

Tyagi Jayadev

Question from Kailash: Swamiji and Master emphasized seeing God as the Divine Mother, but I still have difficulties in doing so. I’m very used to the ‘Fatherly’ figure, and have a ‘Krishna-like’ image of God. Other than Master’s image, I’m not able to relate to God in any lovable form nowadays. I wish to see God as the Divine Mother, but Swamiji also…

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How to Love God

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from Raani: I am a vedantist. I am wondering how to reconcile that with “loving God” and devotion. Thank you.

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How to Relate to Various Gods and Goddesses

Nayaswami Pranaba

Question from Aishwarya: Hi, I was raised a Hindu and have been worshiping and loving the Gods and Goddesses of my faith.Image and idol worship has always been the norm. And I was fine with it all along. But now as I am trying to live more consciously I’m disturbed about the images/idols. Disturbing thoughts grip and shake me. I’m constantly, inconsolably in…

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How to Be More Devotional!

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from G.H.: I am in the process of reconstructing my life so that I am less distracted and can put more time into becoming a true devotee of God. I could use help in how to better my meditation process to become completely adsorbed in spirit, thereby not hearing, seeing, or feeling any of life’s distractions around me. In other words, directing…

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Tingling Sensation in Forehead While Meditating

Tyagi Jayadev

Question from Phalguni Dave: Aum Sri Sai Ram, Please advise and help. I am not trying to focus on my midbrow slightly above and between my eyes, but I feel that tingling, tickling sensation there that opens my nasals and makes me smile. I feel it especially when I am chanting stotrams. It is an autonomous sensation that something during my chanting is too…

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What It Means to be Pure-Hearted

Nayaswami Pranaba

Question from S: There are so many versions of what it means to be pure hearted..Could you tell me what are the traits of a pure hearted person and apart from meditation, what are the ways to achieve it..Also with life and experiences, is it truly possible to be aspure hearted as a baby or a child?

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How to Open the Heart

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from Lois: When attempting to do a heart opening meditation or any guided meditation that focuses on the heart chakra…I feel numb. I feel no sensations, no warmth…no glowing light…nothing. There is a sense of a big void there…a black whole…is the best way to describe the “nothingness” I feel.