Question: What is the purpose of bhakti yoga? To help people to be successful in life or to improve their karma? Answer: The purpose of bhakti yoga, I guess I didn’t make it quite clear enough, is to develop love for God. That is the purpose of bhakti yoga. That lost relationship which I talked about last night. To reestablish that, revive it, bring it...
More5. What is the difference between Maharishi’s teaching and your teaching
Question: What is the difference between Maharishi’s teaching and your teaching? Answer: Actually quite a lot. The Maharishi Mahesh yogi came to America in the mid-1960s. He became very popularized because of the Beatles’ contact with him. And he was one of the first Indian yogis on the western arena. And he presented what he called ‘transcendental...
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7. Are you familiar with the Tarot system?
Question: Are you familiar with the tarot system? If you are, then do you know about the card which was eliminated from the deck? Why was it eliminated? Answer: You know, all these kinds of things are the approach of pseudospiritual life. Tarot cards, psychic readings, astral travelling. Yeah, all these kinds of things are just pseudoreligion. This is not...
More8. How did you meet your spiritual master? For how long have you been practicing yoga?
Question: How did you meet your spiritual masters? For how long have you been practicing yoga? Answer: Actually I’ve been practicing yoga since 1969. So whatever that is… 45 years. And I was a surfer, that was my lifestyle that I chose. I’ve heard there is surfing now in Kamchatka. I started doing hatha yoga to improve my surfing. Because three of...
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