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    Are we truly seeking answers, or do we just want to get into an argument?

    Most people consider life as entertainment. Instead of finding the true meaning and purpose of life, they do everything else that is fun, interesting, and intriguing. If something is boring and time consuming and it requires a lot of patience, then it’s not their cup of tea. But then, what...
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    A Mystery

    Whenever we do something, how do we do it? We do it either from our experience of how we have done it before or through the experience of someone who has done it before. We can recollect from memory – we may have read about it, seen it being done or heard about it. But if we have not read or...
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    Why question the way the world has been created?/ Different lifespans

    Why do we live for 50 to 80 years? Why do human beings live for 70 years on an average when the lifespan of a mayfly is less than a day? A butterfly can live for a couple of weeks or a few months; dogs can live between 8 to 15 years - why is it that different animals have different lifespans...
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    How can one truly enjoy life?

    Shouldn’t we enjoy ‘life’ - the show called ‘life’? How can one truly enjoy life? If one imagines this world to be a theatre, and if whatever happens here is considered to be a show, a production directed by God, then what is there to worry, to fret and to be stressed about? Should not one...
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    Why do bad things happen when God exists?

    If there is God and He is good, then why does “bad” exist? What is the reason for God to create all that is bad? Why couldn’t God create a world that has only bliss and happiness? Why has God made suffering? Why has God made problems? Why has God made poverty? Why do we suffer? Why do we fall...
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    Why Do We Worry?

    We all worry. We are constantly stressed. Somehow or the other, we lose our peace of mind. We live in fear, and we live with concerns. Of course, there are circumstances that may cause us stress, but why do we worry? Have you ever thought about this? If we analyze this spiritually, some truths...
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    What is the True Purpose of Life?

    Do we truly take time to ponder about one of the most important questions about life: What is the true purpose of life? Is most of humanity busy living, enjoying, seeking happiness, or are they actually introspecting and trying to find out the meaning of life? What is the true purpose of life...
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    Why go through Spiritual Stress?

    We may wonder and question: Why should we go through all this spiritual stress? What is the necessity to break our head to find out who we are, where we have come from and what is God? Quite a valid question, isn’t it? We feel that we are wasting our time in life on matters that will hardly...
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    What am I?

    I have a suggestion. Instead of asking the atoms directly, just go deep within in silence, and introspect, contemplate, and ask yourself. I believe you will get the answer. AiR
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    What am I?

    I would be happy to participate in my own threads when there is a direct question to answer. If you have a specific question that needs to be addressed, please do let me know. AiR
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    What am I?

    When this question is asked, most people answer it in three different ways. The first person answers - I am the body. I look like the body. I have a name. I have a title. I have a designation. I have an appearance. I am this appearance. But fortunately, some of us are lucky enough to go...
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    Discover Happiness Within

    I believe that one can derive happiness from yoga, but yoga is not what most of the people in this world consider it to be. Yoga is not just physical gymnastics. Yoga is union with God, and one can create this union with God through four distinct methods: Karma Yoga – union through action...
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    Discover Happiness Within

    The method I recommend is “to go within”. When you go within, you understand and experience everlasting happiness. One can go within through silence, which means to switch off the mind. By doing so, one will be able to tame the monkey of the mind that keeps jumping aimlessly from one thought to...
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    Is the Soul Within Us?

    A spiritual aspirant who is on the path of God realization soon realizes that the statement “The soul is within me.” is erroneous. The soul is not within us. The soul reflects upon the mind and intellect and creates life. The soul, therefore, is not within us. Then the question that arises is...
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    Discover Happiness Within

    Most of us in the world are trying to search for happiness. There are so many books that talk about the pursuit of happiness and how to be happy or that list out the different methods to be happy, wherein in reality, happiness is within us. We don’t have to go looking for happiness. We have to...
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    In the Cave till our Grave

    Many of us stay in the cave till our graves because we are so restricted and protected by our belief systems that all our lives, we choose to live and die in the cave. Just like a frog in the well, we are not willing to explore the reality of who we truly are, what we are, where we have come...
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    The Cause of Sorrow

    What is the cause of sorrow? Sometimes, in the entire scheme of things in this world, we don’t seem to realize why sorrow was created. Well, if this world were full of joy, bliss and happiness, then we would all truly forget God. It is sorrow that reminds us of our master, our creator, our...
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    First Experience and then Realize God

    For pilgrims on the path of spirituality, the realization first lies in experiencing God, then realizing God, then again, experiencing God. What does this mean? The first step of realizing God is to experience God. You experience God in the sun, the moon, the stars, the birds, the animals and...
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    I should not criticise

    The one who is on a spiritual path must realize that he must not criticize. Why? Because this whole world is an illusion, it is mithya, everything is a manifestation of God. God is in everyone. God is everywhere and because I'm not the body, I am the soul, then in the same way that I have a God...
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    What is the Purpose of Life?

    Life escapes us, we don’t realize that life just zooms by and we live without purpose. We don’t even know what life is all about. We are born, we grow up, we educate our self, we take up a profession, occupation, we earn, we build a family and soon it’s time to go; we die, we pack up and we move...
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