Question: What do you think about travelling outside the body? Does such travelling help the soul develop? Answer: Certainly it is a reality, astral travelling it is called. When the soul leaves the gross body, it is still covered by the subtle body. It can travel in this dimension but it is still material, it is the subtler aspect of the material world....
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Question: How one can choose his own path? Answer: Well, with knowledge you can decide what path you want to follow. The more knowledge we have, the more we can make an educated decision. There are only like four yoga paths and then the path of materialism which is the path everyone is following now. That is a path, too. And we have chosen that. But if you...
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Question: If I chant meditations every day can I come back to God? Answer: If you do it with sincerity, yes. You see, we have to… It is not mechanical. We like things to be mechanical. I don’t have to do anything but just mechanically say these mantras. But think just again in terms of relationships. Say, there is a husband and wife relationship. And...
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Question: Mantras and Christianity. Do they not contradict each other? Answer: Another point you have to understand. Jesus Crist came to teach love for God. He was the perfect lover of God himself. He told everyone… he didn’t tell, he commanded everyone to love God with all your heart, your mind, your entire being. Now, he is the person around which...
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Question: In the soul there is warmth, there is kindness and understanding but also there is arrogance, pride. What to do? Answer: The warmth and love and caring that you have mentioned is the natural function, condition of the soul, they are the qualities. The arrogance and the pride and jealousy, etc., is the contamination covering the soul. So as the...
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