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About Satchidananda

About Satchidananda

Please tell us. What did you learn from master Shivnanada?

Honestly do you enjoy your fame?

Have you ever wept as a adult or as a child?

Please tell us about your experience in the cave when you were freed from illusion.

If you could do anything different in your life what would you change?

Why did you choose the life of a swami?

Who do you see yourself as?

Thank you for being with us.

Family

What is the state of contentiousness of babies? Are they the same as saints only nonverbal?

How do you be patient when your children fight?

Can you incur karma from an abortion?

My partner always wants sex. What can I do?

I want to live in the community but my husband lives somewhere else.

Other

Do you see a new age coming soon?

What are the differences between give and take and give and receive?

VA Lottery: Should I or should I not?

Relationships

Is it possible that there is a difference in development of men and women that make it diffucult to sustain a relationships?

What is the ethical thing to do when a fellow employee is doing something you don't feel is right?

What should we do when someone wants something from us that we cannot or should not give?

How does one keep his heart open after being hurt being hurt or insulted?

A person has harmed me in many way's. How should I confront this fact in my mind?

Please speak of tantric yoga the sexual path to cosmic contentiousness.

What can you say about the physical and emotional attraction between man and man and woman and woman?

How does one develop a love relationship where neither the boss?

What should any of us do who witness angry and abusive exchanges?

Do identical twins share the same soul?

Meditation

What does it mean to be one pointed in meditation practice?

It's back to six to ten people attending morning meditation. Could you inspire everyone to attend?

In meditation I saw my guru. He spoke to me but I do not know his name how can I find out?

One year ago I experienced the union of Shiva Shakti. How can I experience this again?

If you feel engulfed by a problem such as loneliness fear or grief. What are the critical steps for a beginner wanting to surf?

Wouldn't beating up phone books with a rubber hose be more effective than mediation for releasing suppressed rage?

What are the benefits of burning incense while sitting for meditation?

What does the mantra Om Gum Gurave Namah mean?

Hatha Yoga

Asanas

In Savasana I feal like I am falling. What should I do?

Pranayama

Heightened Experiences

Heightened Experiences

What is it that a realized being has realized? Have they all realized the same thing?

How long do human beings have to reincarnate? Why do some have to come back more than others?

Why should we be afraid of death?

Can someone be enlightened and still do harm?

Can you explain the burning sensation I feel in the third eye?

What happens to the spirit after death?

Can a person realize in one life and return as a non-realized person?

Lifestyle

Do you know Babaji the immortal yogi? Can the physical body last hundreds of years if properly cared for?

I my business life is out of harmony with my spiritual interests. What should I do?

Is homosexuality wrong?

Self Improvement

Self Improvement

How do I get myself to work enthusiastically with all my heart?

How best can one achieve a thinning of the mind? Especially in stimulating environments.

Please talk on the subject of mental illness. Specifically maniac depression (aka bi-polar) and schizophrenia.

I am reluctant to make commitments in my life. How can the path of yoga help resolve this?

After many years of regular yoga practices. I feel proud and superior. Advise me.

How can I develop the ability to see all women as the divine mother?

You instruct us be disciplined and also say relax and follow your nature. Which one is the truth?

Can I repress negative thoughts while I'm trying to replace them with positive?

How can I be more laid back and humorous?

How can I tell wrong from right?

Religion

If I become your student would I continue to pray my own way or would I prey to you?

In what sense do you advise devotees view, in regards to you, your teaching and example?

Is there an evil one like the biblical satin if so what is our best protections?

Do you think it is dangerous to practice christian prayer and yoga together?

Is it necessary to be initiated by a guru in order to be fully realized?

Could you please tell us why you and many other masters teach in the form of stories?

Did the Jewish of Bible times have any contact from holy people of India?

Christian ethics and asatisms have lead me into a dead end. Why? What should I do?

Lecture on Mother Durga and distraction.

How do St. Ramalingum teachings relate to the LOTUS shrine and Nataraja?

Spirituality

I am confused about the death experience?

What are some of the best ways to tune into the pure God intuition within?

Why does the ego see itself as the center of the universe?

Please speak to us of the power of the heart.

I am in need of strengthening words.

Why would somebody, who never hurts anybody or anything, not be lucky in life?

Under what circumstances is it accaptable to break a law or vow?

After seeing a horror and therafter suffering from deppression. How could one heal this wound?

How do we practice contentment?

By worshiping you or any other figure, are we not taking our energy and focus off what the purpose of life?

Teaching

Why do we take the puja water that is not offered to the deity as prasad?

As a yoga teacher I have not been directed to teach others? Do I need to refrain from teaching?

Yogaville

Why is no picture of Rev. Martin Luthar King on the wall in Shivananda hall?

Ashram

Why is the ashram like a treadmill?

A swami told me that I did not belong here. What do you think?

Householders

How can we develop a fuller sense of community?

LOTUS

Extended Community

Extended Community

Monastery

Diet

Non-Vegitarian

Vegan

Vegitarian

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