Question from L: In the world today it seems that it is almost wrong to believe in God. It is almost as if it is shamefull to believe. How do you stop feeling shame in believing ? I know i should not feel ashamed of it but sometimes people make me feel ashamed that I believe in God.
Question from John C: Namaste. I presume that the Spirit/Soul is more subtle/fine/powerful than the mind, which in turn is more subtle/fine/powerful than the body. Does this mean that mental prayers/chanting are more powerful than physically audible ones because the consciousness/attention is more interiorized? Or the physically audible ones are more powerful because they automatically carry the mental thought behind them in addition to…
Question from Irina: Yogananda told his disciples to learn poems written by saints and to repeat them during the day, and to sing song throughout the day because they help to attune oneself to master’s conscientiousness. My question is: English is my second language and as I know it’s better to use your native language for this purpose? But at the same time…
Question from Simon: Should mankind pray like the jews do and only praise/worship god or is it ok to ask for personal things (isn’t it “overbearing”)? E.g.: Why pray for a special person. Why not pray for whole mankind?
Question from KJ: How can we love God without experiencing him? We can experience and feel God in Meditation. Meditation as Yogananda Jee says is like experiment within our self to find God but until we we are successful in meditation and have that experience…. loving him will not be just blind love? And how can we pray with devotion chants like ‘Oh…
Question from Anonymous: Swami Kriyananda said in one of his discourses that master said we should offer to god even the mistakes we make and make him responsible for them so that he gives us the power to change them.How do we offer to god?
Question from Samuel: I often hear the phrase, “chanting is half the battle”, from Swamiji and other devotees, as well as in Yogananda’s writtings. I come from a Catholic background and hymns and singing in church was something that turned me off to the chuch and did not inspire or uplift me. I prefer solitude rather than community when it comes to spiritual…
Question from Nick: How do I know that my attraction to God is not merely a manifestation of my desire of something more than this world?
Question from Ashwin: Hello, I am doing my Ph.D in neuroscience, and my intellect is my greatest strength and my very worst enemy! I have a deep love and connection to Babaji and Yoganandaji and I feel an intense yearning for liberation. However I tend to over analyze everything. Eg. when a spiritual teacher advises me, I tend to constantly question their true…
Question from ashwin: Ive been meditating for three years now and though I haven’t experienced very deep states of peace during my meditations, yet I am experiencing a strange phenomenon.Every time I listen to certain devotional songs or new age music I am overcome with emotion and I start to weep. Its a state of rapture, of such unfulfillable longing and at the…
