Question from Mavi: Namaste! My family recently met with a huge car crash. My mom (67), my aunt (59) and my younger brother’s wife (27) all of them left their bodies. My dad & uncle luckily made it with several injuries. I understand the different types of deaths & that death is a boon for all living creatures. However, I am kind of…
Question from KK: Beloved Ananda, I’d like to know how to protect myself. A person living next door to me has been attacking me psychically for 5 years. Now, when I’m trying to sleep (when in REM sleep), she makes a loud noise from over the wall & it startles me. I cannot sleep & most nights in apprehension of this happening, I…
Question from Kaitlyn: I began spiritually awakening over a year ago. When I closed my eyes the light was red/yellow/orange, with silhouettes walking around, and faces etc., showing me things. It was crystal clear with images, but I blew open so fast that fear hit me. I fogged up. The past few months the fear is going away, but it’s still dark and…
Question from Sukhmandeep: Why didn’t Paramhansa Yogananda prohibit the usage of onion and garlic as in Indian yogic tradition? These are considered tamasic and are strictly prohibited.
Question from Chris: My partner is travelling to the US for work and will be staying there for a significant amount of time. I will be missing him a lot during this time, as I have before, and I’ve found it quite hard to cope with. What can I do, in terms of spiritual practice, to relieve myself from this feeling?
Question from Sukhmandeep Singh: Should I recite the prayers and affirmations penned down by Paramahansa Yogananda in my mother tongue, or in English? If I recite them in my native language i.e., Hindi then I feel very much connected to the prayer, but I think that reciting them in the original classical English version would be better as they were written by Gurudev himself….
Question from Sukhmandeep Singh: Should I visualize a golden star during meditation, or should I just let it appear on its own and just concentrate on the third eye in darkness?
Question from Rush: How much karma can be made through online posts? I would imagine it would be similar to karma spoken aloud to someone, but at the same time posts can be seen by numerous people long after they are typed. So is your karma more if more people happen to see and respond to it? Is it less if nobody sees…
Question from Kabir Advani: ??I have been suffering from anxiety for a while and it’s been really difficult. Some of the intrusive thoughts I get is that if I look into someone’s eyes, I’ll lose my spiritual essence to them. I get various other thoughts like these which I know are stupid but they cause me anxiety anyway. Could you please help me with…
Question from Vanshaj Upadhayay: Does the great Mahavatar Babaji know me and my nature completely? Does he hear and know everything that I say about him verbally or in my thoughts? I just want to see a glimpse of the greatest Babaji, that’s why I am asking such childish questions.
