How often do we fail to follow the dictates of our heart? How to distinguish which of our deeds are dictated by the Nature and which are the demonstrations of our ego? According to Shailendra Sharma, usual moral criteria are not always able to help us here. Guruji states a yogic opinion on such problems as good and evil, virtue and vice.

On microbes, ants and men

The planet will continue to survive, but we have little time. I was calculating once – Earth time and human time: 100 years of human life comes only as 1/700 points of the 1 second of Earth time. It’s not time. Q: Then the human kind can’t inflict real damage to the Earth even in 1000 years? ...
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The Most Nonviolent Beings on Our Planet

The most nonviolent beings on our planet are vultures. They never kill anyone. They never fight among themselves. They are established in ahimsa. Vulture is a patient bird. If somebody is about to die, it will just wait patiently till he is dead, never hurrying his death. When I first came here, ...
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Real Beauty

Q: If a person is beautiful, what does it mean? Was he good in his previous life? Sh: Physical beauty doesn't matter. What is really important is the beauty of the mind. A beautiful person without mind will remain too busy trying to look beautiful and achieve nothing in life. Q: Some people ...
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God Is What We Live Upon

The existence of Earth is the most mystical thing ever. It has gone through many suns. Nobody knows its origin. I am still trying to concentrate on that problem – where is the origin of Earth? And when the energy of this sun is over, a period of hibernation will come, but Earth will continue ...
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About the Pollution

Well, I will say and it’s a statement from me that the pollution is not bad for our development. In fact pollution is the only solution for human beings. You look back in the history and see: when there was no pollution at all there was no social system, nothing; we were living naked in caves; ...
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Carlos Castaneda and His Techniques

Speaking about Carlos Castaneda I can say that his practice not self enough. They will make you contact with certain forces of nature and also remember Dondvan the guru of Carlos Castaneda, worship in Datura (Indian medical plant – editor’s note). You know datura which is a certain plant ...
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Emotions: to Understand, not to Disown

Yoga is not just a set of physical exercises, it is playing with your own consciousness, when you are trying to explore your own mind. You are going inside your own heart to see what is there. How many emotions are living there? So even when a simple emotion comes to surface, the person becomes ...
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