Art of Living

Imagine there are many pots filled with water from the same well. All living beings are like those pots. The soul is like water – it is from the same well – from the Supreme Reality. So if we realise that, then we know that we all arise from the same Supreme Soul. Therefore, there…

Please guide those who are blessed with both wealth and children, and want to help others?

He who has achieved through destiny and hard work both wealth and children, but failed to give good sanskaars (values) to his children is a pauper despite being rich. Unethically earned wealth and asanskaari children (children without good values) are potentially destructive. One’s life would be wonderful if one were to use one’s wealth for…

A person works very hard earning his livelihood, saves some of his earnings for the future and suddenly finds that he has lost all his savings and his business has come to a standstill. He had always worked very hard and was about to reach home in this ‘snakes and ladder’ game of life when suddenly he finds a snake at 99 and he is back at ‘start’. So, Pujya Bhaishri, why has God punished this hard working person who fought so hard in his life for survival?

This world is dualistic by nature. In life, where there is happiness, misery is also present. Similarly, there is joy and sorrow, success and failure, meeting and separation, profit and loss, life and death, etc. This dual characteristic is the nature of this world. Continuous change is the ruling factor. No situation remains permanent; it…

What should we do if after much labour and pain we fail in achieving our goal?

Man has the right to work. The results are not in one’s hands. You should work with ethics and commitment. Devotion combined with work will result in ethical and committed Karma yoga, which is the perfect combination of hard work, honesty, selflessness and dedication. You should work with complete dedication, unceasing labour and great patience.…

What is life? What is the meaning of it? We take birth and then we ultimately die and again we take birth. I do not understand the real meaning of this cycle.

Life is a gift of God; it is His blessing. Accept it wholeheartedly with love and gratefulness. We have got this human birth by God’s grace so that we may sing his glories. Tulsidasji says “Tan bin bed bhajan nahīn barnā” i.e. our body is an instrument; it is a means for singing the Lord’s…

When we are living in a sick society where ego, selfishness and material gains are important then how does one deal with this society?

This world is full of contradictions. Goswami Tulsidas ji says: Tulsi is sansār mein, bhāt bhāt ke log, sab se hil mil chālīye, nadi nāv sanjog’ The world is full of all sorts of people; one must aim to live amicably and peacefully, adjusting with the circumstances of one’s life. One must bear three things…

Why do people remember or pray to god only when they want some thing or in difficult times and times of sorrow and why not in times of joy and happiness? What should a person do to avoid this?

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says that there are four types of my devotees. “Aarto jignāsurathārthi gnāni cha.” One who is distressed or pained. One who worships God with an intention of knowing and understanding God and Godliness. One who worships God with the motive of fulfilling his needs. One who has known the…

What are the advantages of developing our character?

Character is everything. People with character make good citizens. And a society of good citizens contributes to building a great nation. Your personality is external, what you look outside but your character is what you intrinsically are. Character has three aspects 1. Action 2. Thought and 3. Emotion. Our life is a part of God.…

There is a phrase in Gujarati – “Nana vinano Nathiyo, nane Nathalal”. (The poor man is contemptuously called “Nathiyo”, the rich man is accorded great respect and addressed as “Nathalal”.) A person who believes that the poor man commands no respect, would be obsessed with the pursuit of money. How would you motivate him in another (spiritual) direction?