What is an Ashram? What do you do there and who lives there? Should you be able to stay for free in an Ashram?
These and more questions are answered in Swami Ji's blog in this category. He writes about the origins of Ashrams in India, about his own Ashram, the idea of sharing and also the Yoga Holidays and Ayurveda Retreats that take place there.
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Doctors in India often have signs against evil energies at the main entrance door of their practices. In hospitals there are signs saying ‘We serve, he cures’. Many doctors don’t work on Thursdays, as they believe it is a bad day for people to go to the doctor – they might have to come back, because actions on Thursdays always are repeated. Superstitious people even make medicine a question of superstition!
SourceYou can never be satisfied with material because there is no limit. There is also no end to love or God. When you are in love you want to feel it more and more. You want to feel God more and more deep.
SourceIf you leave all religions and just surrender yourself to love, you will be free of the feelings of sin and guilt. Love will liberate you. Choose this path and you will be free from fear.
SourceDon't buy in shops where you see children working. Ask the shop owner, get him to think about it and let him know you don’t buy there because of the child he has employed.
SourceNo difference in faith and superstition - lose the faith in your faith!
SourceDevotion to the wrong person or cause can be harmful!
SourceCheating never works and never makes you happy. Talk with your partner about it instead. Show your husband or wife that you cherish the love in between you and that you won’t do this step that others have done in your situation.
SourceThere is a difference in between friends and customers. Customers want something from you. Friends want you.
SourceOnce you have lit the fire of love, you need fuel to keep it alive. Trust is the fuel for love.
SourceDon't take everything personal!
SourceWhatever you do, offer it to God. You are not acting, whatever you do is for God and from God. Put your heart and love in what you do and enjoy doing it.
SourceOfficially, all Indians are virgins when they marry.
SourceApproaching a future friend does not work with expectations.
SourceIf you know that something is impossible but you still believe, you either want to close your eyes from reality or you are stupid. You will keep on cheating yourself and others - or will end up disappointed!
SourceI cannot understand how anybody or any religion can see woman as second-rate. A woman brings you to this earth, how can she be less worth? Without her, how could you exist?
SourceWhy should sex be forbidden? Can sex, being physically united in love, keep you from being in higher consciousness? On the contrary, suppressing your sexual feelings does not bring you closer to God!
SourceGyan Yogis say that there is no duality. Everything is one and everyone is the same because god is in everybody. So if God is in you, in me and in everyone around, against whom do you want to direct your aggression? Anger can only exist in duality. When everything is God, then everything is the same, everyone is love.
SourceThere are many religions and sects in which the leaders and gurus are those who communicate to god for the other ‘normal people’. You can have this relation to God yourself!
SourceYou can stop smoking right now; it is only your willpower, only your wish and only your decision. Promise yourself not to touch any cigarette in your life anymore even if you die because of it. I can guarantee that you will not die without smoking.
SourceWhy is a woman’s virginity or her sexual purity called her honour?
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