Nayaswami Shivani

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Effective Prayer
Dear Simon, Let’s say you are wanting to open your own small business, and are looking for advice about the nature of assistance available to small business entreprenuers. Or someone dear to you is having a health crisis and is ... Read More
The power of prayer
Dear Aditya, The power of prayer is truly astonishing: it helps seeds to germinate, plants to flower, and human beings to overcome their difficulties and limitations and grow in their divine nature. Your intuition to pray to the divine Self ... Read More
God will give you strength
Dear Shruti, Life sometimes brings us situations for which we think that we haven’t the strength, or time or wisdom to solve. But these moments can be precisely what we need in order to find within ourselves a far greater ... Read More
Energy in the Spine
Dear Jeff, It is quite “normal” for a regular meditator to feel energy rising up in the spine. As you have experienced, it is enjoyable, and an indication that your inner journey is bearing fruit. In meditation we focus our ... Read More
How to contact departed loved ones
Dear Neil, The veil between the astral worlds and the physical are not as impermiable as we imagine. Yogananda says that “a continuous desire to know about a departed soul is the best astral broadcasting that you can send forth.” ... Read More
Universal destruction or salvation?
Dear Don, Yogananda spoke often, and forcefully, of future global events. A realized Master is able to see past, present and future more clearly than we are able to perceive current events. He saw great upheavals, natural cataclysms, global economic ... Read More