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Having Trouble Following the Guru’s Advice

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from Ankur: I was initiated years ago by a Guru in the Shri Ramakrishna tradition. However, for reasons not clear to me, I am unable to follow my Guru’s instructions though I want to. In my eyes my spiritual life is in ruins. I need help but know not where to turn to.

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Is It Normal To Cry During Meditation?

Mary Kretzmann

Question from Shaili: Hi! I am doing level 2 or deepening meditation level. My kundalini was forcefully evoked by another group of saints that I used to follow earlier. Now when I practice meditation I sometimes feel like crying. I pray to God that everything in my life should happen with God’s will and not mine. Is the negative effect of my previous…

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Do We Need Physical Contact with the Guru?

Nayaswami Gyandev

Question from Marie Altman: Hi, this question bothers me even though it has been answered in a couple different ways. I just read in Journey to SR, p. 16, pg. 3, Master says, “…the guru transmits to you the light of God that flows through him….He gave me by his touch what I could not attain by the power and effort of my meditations…

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How to Find Your Guru

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from sutikshan: Sir please help me to find a guru .who can help me for meeting god .i want to know who am i and i want to feel god and i want to see god and i have a lot of questions for my guru please help me to find a guru who have already achieved brahammsamadhi . please help me

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Reiki

Mary Kretzmann

Question from Rita W.: Good afternoon and blessings, please could you advise me I have been reading Mary Kretzmann book a healers handbook. As a reiki master I’m torn as I read Mary prayed deeply and asked that the reiki initiation be revoked. I feel I channel the energy from the ananda line but feel if I leave the reiki I’m doing them an…

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Nayaswami Hriman

Question from pushkar: Greetings gurudev, Why did yogananda portrayed himself as an average student who use to get minimum passing marks in examination? I mean sure enough his intuition was so developed that he could have outsmarted professors! Thanking you,

Finding One’s Guru

Question from Vaibhav: Is it true that once u make sm1 your guru, the same person will be your guru in all lives? If in one life u haven’t found your guru yet ,then what should one do in order to attract his guru and to receive his guidence(as we don’t know who our guru is,but guru knows we are his disciples )

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Why Discipleship?

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from ashok: Why in Ananda, much emphasis is given to the pledge of discipleship to the gurus before? Rishis of such high caliber like revered Babaji, Yoganandaji, Yukteshwarji etc i think does not require any commitment 4rm themselves to the seekers as their Gurus. As this type of commitment automatically comes to seekers who shows magnetism to such gurus & this certainly…

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Is God Formless?

Nayaswami Diksha

Question from Vaibhav Agarwal: In his Autobiography, Parmahansaji raised a question about”when shall i find god”.His Guru explained that “He had already found god -Ever new Joy is God”. God is the universal consciousness, the ocean of bliss which can only be experienced.If this is true then how Paramahansaji was able to have an argument with God, talk or even see God(as GOD has…