Question from Chetan: I have been meditating from the last 3-4 months. I am taking lessons from Yogoda. I am feeling difficulty in keeping the eye gaze up, as it lowers down after a while. Then again lifting it up & so on. It creates a tension in eye. Also, focussing attention in between eyebows or spiritual eye, is also difficult as strain…
Question from Kailash: In the “Autobiography of a Yogi”, Sri Yukteswar says that only souls who have reached the state of nirbikalpa samadhi in their earthly existence can enter Hiranyaloka in the astral world. But having reached the state of Nirbikalpa Samadhi, which is complete union with God. Why do they have to reincarnate again?
Question from Chan: How can we overcome jealousy and envy?I find that if I am no longer envious of one person I’m envious of another. Jealousy is a painful emotion. Is there a simple technique to transcend jealousy? Thank u for all the good u r doing and God bless.
Question from carrie: blessings. I have a question pertaining to fear of death. lately I feel like any pain or circumstance of potential illness of this body creates this intense fear that I am dying. and it bothers me. I want to confront and transcend this and realize there is no need for fear. I know this but these thoughts still keep arising….
Question from R: Is worship of Shiva equivalent to worshiping death, destruction, and catastrophe?
Question from H.J.A: How do you know that God is real when there is no proof that God is real ? Not that i can see anyway
Question from Rachel: I started meditating a couple weeks ago, and I’ve been finding that I seem to be incapable of relaxing completely. There’s always a tension in my back and shoulders that I can’t seem to ease. I’ve tried stretching, ignoring it… is this normal? I used to meditate when I was younger, and I don’t remember having any such problem. (I’m…
Question from Kailash: I read a post from the Ask Ananda Experts column, where a friend asked 2 doubts about the state of Samadhi, wherein the answer stated this too that experiencing Samadhi does not necessarily free us from reincarnation. Why is that? Samadhi is the state of oneness with God, which is the only true goal. Then what is the need to…
Question from livehho: hello. I have two questions: – while in meditation, when you concentrate deeply in the point between the eyebrows and finally see the spiritual eye and merge with it and feel this immense ecstasy or bliss.. is this state samadhi or superconsciousness? – if you reach samadhi do you become free from reincarnating in the physical plane?
Question from A.: Back to the topic of ahimsa, if there are bugs in ones home- particularly in one’s bedroom and particularly spiders- what is the proper way of dealing with such a situation. They seem to sit mainly in their web, but it is still quite discomforting having multiple, fairly large spiders just hanging out in a place where I sleep.
