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Your Light Will Be His Blessing

Tyagi Jayadev

Question from SRIVIDYA: My Father passed away last month. Now he comes in our dreams but appears very weak. I would like to know what he wants to communicate to us by appearing weak in our dreams. please let me know what I have to do right now to make him HAPPY…..

When the Miracle Is Withheld

by Mary Kretzmann

Although healings and miracles are certainly wonderful, and are indeed signs of God’s presence, His withholding of such gifts does not mean His love is not there. As Paramhansa Yogananda taught, “Sometimes God works through misdiagnosis, when it is your time.”

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Healing After a Devastating Loss

Mary Kretzmann

Question from vihar: My wife passed at 33 years age in a train accident 2 month ago.in 8 years of our married life she left me with my 7 years daughter. Will she forgive me for any mistake of mine that ever I hert her intensionaly or unintentionally.?is this accident took her away from me & my daughter due to any negative karma…

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No Love Is Ever Lost

Mary Kretzmann

Question from Geeta: Hello, my father passed away in June last year. I miss him everyday very much. I pray to meet him after I die. I never get his dream Never to meet him, such thought is unbearable. He was good.I live with my old mother. Thought of being alone after her causes great fear of loneliness, anxiety comes almost every night…

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Losing Faith After My Mother’s Death

Nayaswami Hriman

Question from Padma: Hello, I believed in God all my life, until my mother died recently. On her deathbed, she said, “Lord Rama is standing with His big bow, but He cant kill my cancer cells.” Now, I have suddenly begun to think this whole religion, karma and rebirth was created by a few wise souls who wanted righteousness to prevail on this…

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Death and cremation: What are Yogananda’s teachings?

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from Costin Chiroiu Boteanu: Hello , and all the very best to everyone involved in every form in spreading Ananda’s teachings worldwide. I want to ask you what are the spiritual implications for both after death rituals: cremation and interment . Thank you very much.

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“Seeing” Our Loved Ones Who Have Passed

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from RE: A few times a year I speak with my aunt who lives overseas. This week she confided in me that every few nights she “sees” her two closest loved ones that have passed. Both her husband and son passed at rather young ages as a result of illness due to alcohol consumption (both were very much loved). I include all…

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Contacting Loved Ones Who Have Passed On

Nayaswami Seva

Question from nat: I lost my brother this year he was only 18 and i didnt really know him that well, we only spoke every now and then, and I was just thinking how could I get in touch with him. I just wanted to see him one last time as I didnt get to before he passed.

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Being with a Dying Loved One – as a Kriya Yogi

Ananda Sangha Worldwide

Question from Diana: I have been a nurse in both oncology and the ICU for most of my career. I am “comfortable” with death of the body, and have witnessed many. Several were quite significant gifts to me spiritually. My question now, as a kriya yogi, is, what is the “best” way to be with someone who is dying? On what, or where…

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Contacting the Dead

Tyagi Jayadev

Question from Christopher Eaton: What are Ananda’s opinion on the afterlife? Is there a Spiritual realm in which we can contact the dead? Upon discovering Ananda I have had a difficult time finding these answers. I consider myself a Spiritualist and do attend a Spiritualist church, does Ananda offer any similar teachings?