What is the connection between our personality and our soul? Q: Swamiji, what is the connection between our personality and our soul before we reach enlightenment? A: What do you mean by personality? The body and mind. Ah, so you want to know the link between t...
Can we trust an avatar? Q: Swamiji, someone once said never to trust an avatar… (Swamiji laughs:) Very good! Sometimes it seems everything Swami says is true; sometimes it seems otherwise. What is the correct attitude of the...
Can God get angry with us? S wamiji, I would like to know whether God can get angry with us in our daily life, and if so, how? God doesn’t get angry in daily life. Why do you feel that God gets angry? I agree and accept that pe...
Should we know about our previous lives? Q (A devotee from France:) Swamiji, earlier you said that we should not think about previous lives. Yet we all have previous lives. Do you not think it is good for us to know about our previous lives,...
The key to the spiritual world Question from a devotee from the UK: “Swamiji, the external world is not the real world. What can help us look inward to find the real world?” Your question is: living in this world, we are all attach...
Preparing for Mahashivaratri The weeks or days before Mahashivaratri are a perfect time to practice purification of our bodies and minds, so that we can be more receptive for and, therefore, more deeply experience the spiritual u...
He is there for us! (By Surya, India) I grew up in the Ashram and was looking after an elderly bedridden devotee in the Ashram when I got married and moved to a house in the nearby village. My husband was then working in...
God works in creative ways! ( by an Ashram resident) During the first year that I lived in the Ashram I was in charge of a larger department that also included the library (then located in the present-day Om Namah Shivaya or med...
How we came to know about Swamiji (By Sivakumaran and Lakshmi, Sri Lanka) Sivakumaran: It was during my college days that I first came to know about certain spiritual leaders, such as Sai Baba, Swami Sivananda, etc. I then read a book...
Gokula – The cowshed in the Ashram (Interview with Chitrangani) Q: Could you tell us something about when the first cowshed was built in the Ashram and why? A: When the first Indian hostel children came to stay in the Ashram, I think i...
The world tour comes to the Centre of Unity Premananda in Amelia and Rome ( By Rosa ) This past November 17, 2019, we had the great pleasure of receiving the delegates from the Sri Premananda Ashram during the world tour, which gives everyone the opportunity to receive the ...
What is the teaching of Swamiji regarding the animal kingdom? Extract of a speech by an Ashram resident at the Bhumi Shakti Conference Speaking about environmental issues, Swami pointed out that “human beings’ wrong policies, especially when it comes to pollutio...