Yes, do your hatha yoga, very good for the body. It is our responsibility to take care of the body. It has been given to us by God to use in His service, take care of it. So He gave us the system of hatha yoga, etc. All kind of yoga lifestyles He gave us to make it so our material existence can be as good as it can, live in harmony with nature, with each...
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Question: What has to become the core of the human being’s life? Answer: The desire to know and love God. That has to be the core. That is what you operate from. If there is no desire, then there is not going to be any strength there. But by practicing the process of bhakti yoga one will develop that desire. This is stated in the Bhagavad-gita in the...
More9. Where do the talents in a person come from?
Question: Where do the talents in a person come from? Why is one a poet, another one is an artist, etc.? Answer: Well, they usually or not usually come from previous lives. Somewhere along the line we have developed these abilities. Poets, for instance, generally are in the mode of goodness. So they are naturally inclined under this influence to kind of...
More10. What is the form of the soul?
Question: What is the form of the soul? Answer: Well, this is a quite advanced question but I will try to make it simpler. See, originally the soul has a spiritual form. And that form is based on the relationship with the Supreme Soul, what will be the activity, the service and so on between the soul and the Supreme Soul. But in the material world the soul...
More11. Hell and heaven?
Question: Hell and heaven? Answer: Well, we all understand I think hell means suffering, heaven means pleasure. So in the material world which is very vast there are higher, middle and lower planetary systems. And on these different planets life is more or less enjoyable or suffering. So there are higher heavenly planets where life is very, very enjoyable...
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