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Overcoming Self-Consciousness About Body Image

Tyagi Jayadev

Question from Chandan: How can one overcome self-consciousness about looks whether good looks or bad?Everyone seems to value looks a lot.How can one overcome such superfluous attachment?

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What Are Ghosts?

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Question from Kailash: Do ghosts and evil spirits exist? If they do, are they also souls? If they are, in what ways do they end up as evil spirits? Then aren’t they too on the road to the Ultimate Union? This seems quite contradictory to what an ordinary human like me can imagine of ghosts! :D But if my question is eligible to…

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Discovering the Essence of All Religions

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Question from KJ: Master talked about great saints from all religion. But I never found anywhere Master taking about Mahavira or any other Jain Saints. Was there any special reason for this? In Jainism the main emphasis is on liberation thru meditation and right living. As per Jain principles as far as I heard and read, liberation is not possible without leaving all…

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Psychics, Prophecies, and Self-Effort

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Question from Terri Ellen Holt Vroman: 1985. I went to have a reading, the woman made us hot tea, gave me a notebook and pen (she said because I was a non-believer, she wanted me to write everything she was going to tell me in the notebook). She talked for close to two hours. Everything she said that day has come to pass. When we were…

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Inner Energy Experiences

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Question from Maia: 2 experiences I wanted to ask about: First when I was not meditating these things occurred: I heard/saw internally a wooshing sound — like a river or wind — when I was praying for a child with Leukemia and then in the middle of the night half asleep. As if I was cuaght sleeping by the teacher I called out…

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Handling an Unwelcome Friendship

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Question from James: I’m trying to end a friendship that I feel is an extremely negative influence on my life, but the person is very resentful and insecure about it, and is trying to keep in contact with my by any means possible. It almost feels like a demon that is chasing me through this person, although that’s a metaphysically presumptious way of…

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Kundalini and Developing Concentration

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Question from Santosh: Om Kriya Babaji Namah Aum, I’m a beginner in mediatation. When i try to sit for meditation, i feel rather heat at the sitting area. My question is whether my complaint is normal or not? does meditation suit me? I’m asking this question as there was a problem, something like fistula at the sitting area. So,please suggest me the solution…

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The Danger of Siddhis (Yogic Powers)

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Question from Niraj Sharma: Did Paramhansa Yoganandaji make any comment on occult powers siddhis etc.? If so what were those comments? In his Autobiography it is mentioned in one chapter that he himself had some occult power ie the power to see immediate future. If am not mistaken in his childhood days he knew that he would get a boil on his hand the…

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A Spiritual Answer to Scientific Atheism

Tyagi Jayadev

Question from jon: dear ones Can you give your response to the following from Stephen Hawking who is quoted from his new book as saying, “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist,” and “It is…