Question from A devotee: Hello, This question has always bothered me lot…All the great masters claim that there are innumerable planets where one can incarnate or re-incarnate. If so, then why don’t they ever talk about someones re-birth or a past life in a planet say in the ‘Andromeda Galaxy’ or in the virgo constellation etc..?? They only talk abt past life’s on the…
Question from KJ: How can we love God without experiencing him? We can experience and feel God in Meditation. Meditation as Yogananda Jee says is like experiment within our self to find God but until we we are successful in meditation and have that experience…. loving him will not be just blind love? And how can we pray with devotion chants like ‘Oh…
Question from Simon: Hello again, two further qeuestions, please. 1) Should mankind pray like the jews do and only praise/worship god or is it ok to ask for personal things (isn’t it “overbearing”)? E.g.: Why pray for a special person. Why not pray for whole mankind? 2) Is God almighty? When yes, how can you explain evolution? Why does God need such regulation/circumstances?…
Question from Travis: I have a question about other practices that I’ve been told would be detrimental to continue while I pursue the path laid down by Yogananda. I am referring to Trance Channeling, Spiritualism, and Hypnosis. I am having a very hard time understanding why these subjects have been labeled as bad.
Question from carrie: greetings… lately I have been feeling quite sad and overwhelmed. no matter what happens I feel an overwhelming feeling arise in me that I begin to cry quite intensely. during meditation the thoughts that flow through have been quite strange almost dark and menacing. and it is quite difficult to concentrate at all. I feel that I already know that…
Question from Ashleigh Vilk: Hi, I have been trying to mediate for a while. I’ve used recordings and sadly only once felt a wonderful, addictive buzz from meditating. What I most often experience is after meditating I become ‘out of it’. I literally can’t concentrate, I drop things and fell pretty weird and spaced out. Is there something I am doing wrong or that…
Question from Kristen: What is the difference between culture and Truth? Truth can inform culture, but it seems that culture also informs “truth.” For example, humans rewrite truth to tailor it to our cultural habits and beliefs. Conceptions of the right way to think and behave change and change again. If it’s true that “Truth is one and eternal,” how can we be…
Question from BBK Pillai: Can anyone give me a job for my daily bread?
Question from Kirti: 1. Few days back while thinking about Mahavtar Baba ji that whenver a true devotee calls he reciprocates, I thought If I call sincerly will he come? At midnight I got up and found that my whole house was filled with beautiful and strong chandan smell as if incence stick burning. What was that? 2. Yesterday while meditation in the…
Question from Deepak: When I start meditation, I am able to sit with erect spine for 40 minutes easily. But I am unable to exceed that duration. I want to meditate for longer time, but can’t do due to that reason. Please suggest how to get rid of this problem?
