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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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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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Question: Which religions does yoga combine? Answer: Yoga is the pure religion. It is not about sectarian beliefs and faiths. Union with God is the pure condition of the soul. There is only one religion and that is love for God. There is only one religious activity and that is doing the will of God. This is called Sanatana Dharma. Sanatana means...

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Question: What is death? Does one have to prepare to it? Is it possible to be prepared to it? Answer: Death is the soul’s leaving the body. When the soul departs from the body, it is called death. Should we prepare for it? Absolutely, that is what the human form of life is for. To prepare for death. If you think of it in terms of education or in terms of...

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Question: How to change negative karma in this life? Answer: There are a lot of different purifying activities to burn off bad karma: different austerities and penances, etc. But that does not really solve any problems because you just create more, because we are still acting and still creating more karma. So that is also a teaching that people like to...

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Question: Why don’t we remember out past lives? Answer: Mainly because we came here to enjoy independent of God. We really came here to forget God because remembrance of God in my position means ‘He is the master, I am the servant’. So I cannot really play the game of enjoyment ‘I am the enjoyer, I am the master’. So we play this game of ‘I am...