Question: To live in the society, you have to do something all the time, even if you don’t want that. Is it possible to get free of it or the only way is to go to the mountains and live separately as a hermit? Answer: No, going to the mountains is not the answer. If everybody went to the mountains, the mountains would be crowded. So the art of...
More7. WHAT IS THE SOUL
Question: What is the soul? Where is it located? Where is the true «self» of a person? Answer: The soul is the «self.» You are the soul. I know we’ve been taught that we have a soul. It is not correct, we are the soul, not we have a soul. We, the spirit soul, are contained within the body and the mind. In the Bhagavad Gita it describes very perfectly...
More8. WHAT IS PLEASING TO THE SUPREME SOUL? (VIDEO)
Question: What else is pleasing to the Supreme Soul except mantas? Answer: Many things. Hearing. Hearing about the truth. Hearing this knowledge tonight is very pleasing, hearing the knowledge from the Vedas, hearing the knowledge from the pure representative of God. Hearing is very, very pleasing to the Lord. Chanting. Chanting mantras. Also...
More10. The meaning of the mantras (VIDEO)
Question: What is the meaning of the mantras? Should be the length of breath the same as you did or it’s an individual thing? Answer: Each one of these words in the mantra has a specific meaning. GAURANGA means He whose body is more beautiful than molten gold, describing the form of the Supreme Lord. HARIBOL means Chant the Names of the Supreme...
More11. Continuing one’s generation (VIDEO)
Question: I might get it wrong but from what you say it follows there’s no any necessity to continue one’s generation, is there? Answer: Our philosophy is not that you leave your family in this life. But by the arrangement of the laws of nature you do leave your family when you leave your body. It’s just the design, that’s the way it works....
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