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Dealing with Inner Darkness — Your Own and Others’

Nayaswami Parvati

Question from Anonymous: I am becoming more sensitive to other people’s inner lives, but in a bad way. For instance, with one person, I will feel white-hot hostility and rage in me while talking to them, but it is a very hostile and angry person… it’s not me. It’s the unacknowledged shadow of the person, what is not being seen or expressed by…

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Unrequited Love, an Enemy of Happiness

Joseph (Puru) Selbie

Question from hari: I recently met one girl and i am very much attracted to her. But she just treats me like a stranger . So i am having a bias in my mind . So what should i do ?

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Put the Past Behind You!

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from Amrita: I love my parents and my parents love me too. But like most other parents,they have also made mistakes in parenthood which has caused prolonged problems for me in childhood. I used to bedwet till about 15, 16. Instead of showing sympathy, they used to shame me on purpose in front of kin and blamed me of being lazy and…

Honoring Mothers on Mother’s Day

Question from Annapurna: How can we truly honour mothers on Mother’s day as per Guruji’s guidelines?? Is there any way we can show our love and respect for them in group meditations? Can you suggest any way by which we all can meditate together in a group asking God to bless them? How is it done usually in Ananda group meditation centres?

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No Love Is Ever Lost

Mary Kretzmann

Question from Geeta: Hello, my father passed away in June last year. I miss him everyday very much. I pray to meet him after I die. I never get his dream Never to meet him, such thought is unbearable. He was good.I live with my old mother. Thought of being alone after her causes great fear of loneliness, anxiety comes almost every night…

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Healing the Bruises of an Intimate Relationship

Nayaswami Diksha

Question from Fran: An older man in my meditation group who has been meditating for decades began giving me lots of attention. He began calling me, writing me spiritual love notes, etc.. I enjoyed this friendship because I felt supported in my meditation efforts and nurtured in friendship. We had a couple of nurturing moments on the more intimate side. Then he wrote,…

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How to Attract the Right Relationships

Nayaswami Diksha

Question from shiffali: Namaste, I am not able to understand what is the basis of relationship in this world? every time i feel some guy is suitable for me, he ditches me in the most horrible way known and i have always been truthful in all my relations. Is it karma or my ignorance that i am not able to see through people…

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Don’t try to guess what your partner is thinking

Nayaswami Diksha

Question from Jen: Im on the spiritual path and this is the most important thing in my life, my partner is jewish and we have three years living together. I love him so much but he feels very bad about my path,since the last year that I started seriously. Because of his beliefs, he think that is bad lucky that I meditate and…

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How did Yogananda treat his relatives?

Nayaswami Diksha

Question from APS: Hello Ananda Family, Firstly would like to thank you all from my heart for answering each and every question with patience and love. God bless you All. My Question is out of curiosity. Q: How have all Great Masters in past maintained the relationships with their siblings, even after attaining enlightenment? Although I have heard that there is no mine…

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Is My Husband My “True Soulmate”?

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from Tanya: I am married to a good man who always supports me and treats me well. I also try to be supportive, kind and good to him. I would love him to share my interests: meditate like I do, be interested in yoga and other things that enjoy like sport, travelling, and walking. But, unlike me he spends a lot of…