Question from BP: Is it any use at all praying to help a relative who’s been heavily dependent on drugs for a long time and has no will to resist? I cannot do anything else since he lives across the ocean, has little to no support from family who are also desperate. And, how do I pray? I feel an aversion to standard…
Question from Paige: Does Swami Kriyananda take disciples and do they get to travel around with him?
Question from joyd: In my job I have got a new boss, against whom I developed a strong aversion right from the start, bcoz of his behaviour and character. Almost everyone dislikes/disrespects him, but I have this really strong aversion and irritation. I had this problem a few years ago with another person, and I couldn’t reconcile my feelings then. So I feel…
Question from Ganesh: I always wish to have mind that feels good for everybody. I am trying to control my mind and body but I am struggling very badly. Physical affection thoughts disturbing my mind very badly. Why is like that? Do we have anything So I can keep myself far from physical affecton thoughts… I wish to getting into life which won’t…
Question from Micheal: Hello, I have a problem concerning my meditation. I’m doing mindfulness of breathing meditation where I must focus on my breathing without consciously manipulating, following it in its natural flow. However, I find that when I’m not forcing the breathing, I’m unable to focus or find the breathing located in my nostrils. Also, it feels that when I’m aware of…
Question from SA: Hello, I have been practicing Trancendental Meditation for 31 years. I am now looking forward to visiting Ananda and would like to know if someone could answer a question for me. As both disciplines are branches of Patanjali’s teachings how do they differ and why would my mantra be considered a less effective tool than the Kriya meditation technique? Thank…
Question from Vogeti Bapuji: What will happen if I chant the Bagalamukhi seed mantra “HLREEM” every day even when I have no deeksha given by any guru. Will it make any harm to me.
Question from Max: I have a PhD but my academic career didn’t work out. Now I have a dilemma: if I put the PhD and postdoc years in my CV it will be next to impossible to find a “normal” job like in a supermarket; if I don’t put it I have a big gap in my CV. I think finding a job…
Question from Hari Prasad Sahu: Are psychological upheaveal and mental disorientation a part of the burning process of past karma or sanskaras ?
Question from Joseph: I sometimes experience visual phenomena and images pictures with open eyes also closed in meditation, sometimes the pictures are vivid other times they are somewhat blurred. My question is: Are these phenonomema just projections of my mind? Or are they real?
