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How to get rid of negative karma? How does it come into existence?
I want to ask you a question. When the lights were not on in this room, there was darkness here, right? When the lights came on, where did the darkness go? Did it go to that room? Did the darkness escape through the window? Got it?In the same way, i ... -
Gurudev, if all the pain I am going through in this life is because of the karmas of my previous life, then that makes me feel more sad. How do I face it?
Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!What good will you get by analyzing the past? It is all not ... -
Gurudev, in the Puranas, it is said that Lord Vishnu’s secretaries, Jaya and Vijaya, were banished because they stopped the Rishis from meeting Lord Vishnu. Do people have to bear the karma even though they are doing the right thing?
Mythology has many dimensions. The anger of a good person is also beneficial, that is what was depicted here. When the heart is in the right place, even anger is good. For example, if a mother is angry at her child because he is pulling a wire repeatedl ... -
Gurudev, we have to bear the consequences for bad karma from previous lives. How do I know if the problem I am having right now is a result of karma from my previous lives or this life?
Why do you want to sit and dissect it?They say ‘Gahano Karmano Gati’, the ways of karma are unfathomable.If something good is happening, then you must have done something good. If something bad is happening, then you must have ... -
Gurudev, can fate be changed, if so, how? I want to wash off my bad karma.
You are in the right place, doing the right thing. Meditate, chant, take part in lot of service activities and the past karma will get washed away. ... -
What is the best way to dissolve our karma?
Just keep acting. Don’t worry, karma is past. Knowledge, awareness, meditation and good action, these things erase the past karma. Being aware and knowing that the past is past, that it happened for whatever reason; the awareness of this knowledge its ... -
Gurudev, are bodily diseases or disorders linked to our karmas?
Yes, some of them are linked, but not all. Some are linked to your actions of the past, and some are a result of your own wrong deeds that you have done now. That is why it is called Prajnapradha (a wrong deed committed despite having the knowledge ... -
Dear Gurudev, whenever we ask our teachers about Karma (doership), they reply, 'Gurudev says that it is a complicated play'. We want to know more about this complicated play.
Karma is very complex. There are so many types of Karma, there is individual karma, family karma, society karma, karma of the nation, karma of time. Then there are karmas which are Sanchita, i.e., karma which have been accumulated; ... -
Gurudev, I understand that you are equally dear to everyone, but why don’t we all have the heavenly experience of talking, walking, chatting and playing with you? What kind of karma have some of the other volunteers done to be so close to you?
Listen, do not worry, you have all good karma! When I am walking, just elbow some people, come forward, and ask me what you want to ask. Do not be shy, stay in the back and expect me to call! I do my visits; today one of the volunteers was cryi ... -
Gurudev, in today’s world, America is going through an economic upheaval which is affecting so many other countries. Is there some karma that affects nations as a whole as well?
America took a very wrong step when it went to war with Iraq. It spent one billion dollars every day for so many years. For five to six years, America kept spending one billion dollars per day. Can you imagine, trillions of dollars were spent in this war o ...