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Is Karma Created Unknowingly?

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from Mona: Hi! If I am not wrong, human beings incur negative karma even when they do something wrong as kids or ignorant in their youth when they are 20-21.They don’t know that they are doing something wrong, yet what they do is considerd to be sins. Then when animals kill, they are not considered to be sinners. Why? After all in…

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Does the Soul Choose to Be Evil?

Nayaswami Gyandev

Question from Sana: Hi!!! Master had said that it is we who with the guidance of other spiritual masters choose what kind of life would lead bfore we take birth and people we would encounter to enable our spiritual growth.There are many people who are murderers, cunning, harmful and selfish. I have seen so many (sociopaths) men who are full of lust confess…

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Do Negative Thoughts Create Karma?

Nayaswami Parvati

Question from Mona: Dear Parvitiji! Thank you for your answer on suffering and sensitivity. In one of your questions on whether bad thoughts are as good as bad actions, I read your answer. There have been times when I got harmful thoughts towards people who have ill-treated me. However, I didn’t harm them in reality and controlled myself even when I had the…

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Yogananda’s Opinions About the Nazis

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from Carina: All my life i have always felt a deep ache in my heart because of what happened to the Jews (and others) in during the Holocaust in Germany. I am very much interested to find out about Master’s opinion on Hitler and Nazi Germany. I am sure that he was aware of the happenings and knew about the execution of…

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We Are Actors in God’s Drama

gopal

Question from Shivo: Namaste, What is right between these two things? 1. Doing everything that we take up using all our intelligence, taking full care with much industry to come up in life. 2. Leaving everything to God, taking whatever comes on our way as HIS prasad and going spiritually. Second question: Why everything goes wrong whatever I take up even if I…

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Can We Fix the Past?

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from Kay: I wonder about the concept we have about going back in time to fix something; would things really have gone another way? Physics now tells us that life is not fluid, but more like a frozen river and it would be possible to go back in time. I realize it may not be in our best interest, for we can…

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Does the Soul Require Kriya Yoga?

Nayaswami Dharmadas

Question from Brendan Anderson: Hello! I have a few questions. Do all souls require an internal practice of meditation, Kriya or something similar to it to escape Maya? Or is that only one way? Can Karma Yoga alone suffice to be enough to become free in Nirbikapla Samadhi. Also is Karma Yoga only effective when all aspirations and work and the fruits of that…

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How Do You Deal with Unwanted Guests?

David Eby

Question from Som: There are 3 stray cats using my home as their residence. One of them has given birth here twice! The cat & its kittens now run around the home, mewing from behind the bookshelf etc. I want them out. Is it wrong to do so ? I don’t wish to harm them, but they’re inadvertently creating a general nuisance! If…

Distinguishing Bad Karma from Spiritual Tests

Question from Alexandra Baez: While all results of bad karma are also surely spiritual tests, my understanding is that the reverse is not necessarily true. When caught in a trying situation, I often wish I knew for sure the root cause. If it was bad karma, then I would be prompted to introspect as to what I did wrong and strive to avoid similar…

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Am I Going Through a Karmic Pattern?

Nayaswami Diksha

Question from Arthur: Over the past few days I’ve “done more harm than good”. A lot. It’s been something as simple as keeping a door open for someone who doesn’t need to walk through it, to jumping the gun at work and trying to do something that ultimately gets in the way of other people’s progress. Am I going through a karmic pattern…