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Can You Meditate in a Noisy Place?

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Question from Subhasish Bhattacharya: I recently joined in online course of “Meditation for Busy People.” I live in an apartment complex which is middle of New Delhi where there is lot of noise all the time, even in the early morning. It is becoming almost impossible to find a quiet time for meditation. Can I use any soothing music in my earphones so that…

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How Do You Meditate with Your Eyes Half Open?

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Question from Kavitha: Hi, I am a newbie in meditation and practicing half closed eye meditation as taught by Yoganandaji. When I try to gaze upward at spiritual eye with eyes slightly open, my eyes automatically open, and I can see the object in front of me, but still my gaze or concentration is at spiritual eye. My doubt is during half-closed eye…

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Pain Due to Breathing Practices

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Question from Vishwas Angira: I have intense pain in the middle of the forehead after performing the breathing exercises for a long time. Please help.

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Balance Meditation and Service

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Question from Ashutosh: It’s easy to feel the power of our spirit when there is less work and it’s a relatively relaxed part of the year. I reach the heights of having a good grasp of religious philosophy and spirituality — in theory as well as practice — in a world devoid of deadlines and inflexible secular obligations. The real challenge is to keep going despite the…

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What is the Ideal Time To Meditate?

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Question from Liu Shen: Greetings from Wuhan. Which is better — Meditating according to a fixed routine — at fixed times every day? Or meditating randomly whenever we want?

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What Is Will Power?

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Question from Siddharth Kumar: What’s the difference between “want” and “will”? I do not “want” to exercise but I use my “will” to push myself to exercise. Which part of us “wills” and which part “wants”? How can we even oppose ourselves? Is will-power a real form of energy? Or is it just our habit? What’s the spiritual significance of our will?

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How to Stay God-Centered?

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Question from Pereha: It is said that we remember God more deeply in sorrow, than in happiness. How can we keep ourselves even minded even in happiness, so that we can still be unruffled and detached, centered on God. Because I have always felt that for me happiness is followed by equal pain. How do we negate the two and stay God centered…

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How to Practice Meditation Correctly

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Question from Benedikt Kaffanke: I am meditating now for a year 30min/day sessions, mainly focusing on the breath in sinus area (root of the nose, near third eye). I feel the breath more clearly on the in breath, coolness, slight pressure. But not so clearly on the out breath. I could also hear my breath inwardly when I got (in the course of a…

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Heat as a Result of Meditation

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Question from Baba: Despite of taking bath I feel a lot of heat in my body all the time. When I started meditation 5 months ago it was normal but now I feel my body warm all the day and night. Can you help me in this regard?