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02/17/2025

Types of Prayers and Aspiration

There is the purely mechanical, material prayer, with words which have been learnt and are mechanically repeated. That does not signify anything much. And that has […]
02/15/2025
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Prayer can change the destiny

Who says that a sufficiently sincere aspiration, a sufficiently intense prayer is not capable of changing the path of the unfolding? This means that all is […]
02/14/2025
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What is being sincere?

..If you are sincere in all the elements of your being, to the very cells of your body and if your whole being integrally wants the […]
02/09/2025
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Why the need of exchange?

Why do human beings always want to have something in exchange for what they give? Because they are shut up in themselves. They sense their limitation […]
01/04/2025
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Knowing Oneself

Isn’t it more important to know oneself than to try to know others? Very important, of capital importance! Besides, that’s the field of work given to […]
11/24/2024
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Establishing Quietitude

When one aspires for something, if at the same time one knows that the aspiration will be heard and answered in the best way possible, that […]
10/06/2024
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Discovering latent Powers

Sometimes there are latent powers in us of which we are unaware. To do a work, how is one to know whether one is capable of […]
10/04/2024
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Ego in the Spiritual Consciousness

How can one meet one’s ego in the spiritual consciousness? There is a spiritual ego even as there is a physical, vital and mental ego. There […]
09/29/2024
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Outer Equality and Equality of the Soul

What is the difference between outer equality and the equality of the soul? The equality of the soul is a psychological thing. It is the power […]