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Prologue
Some 5000 odd years ago when HE walked on this planet he came with the Sudershan Chakra.
This time he has come with the Sudershan Kriya.
From time immemorial HE is that conciousness which is pure and is bliss. Today we see the
entire knowledge of the universe in front of us.
It is a fool who talks too much, so I shall stop now only to say, a Thank you, a deep heart-felt
gratitude to everyone who has been part of my life and made this journey so wonderful, and a
poem I wrote before Ashtavakra Gita.
I asked for light in the darkness of the night
I asked for rain as the sun scorched bright
I asked for life when death was close
I asked for help when the doors looked closed
You've given me more, there cannot be complaints
You've given me a smile, it's taken away all pains
You've given me people who love me failsafe
You've given me you - such a blessing - I feel so safe
It's long you've gone
and Im waiting for you
Tears well up in my eyes
at the very thought of you
Am I so bad Im away from you
you are in me, yet I yearn to see you
Come back to me
Come back real soon
Im waiting for you just once to see you
no need of wants
no wants of need
Ill trade it all for a glimpse of you
Come back to me
Come back real soon
Ill trade it all just to be with you
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Contents
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Q) Guruji, I did a bad karma.. Now what do I do in order to make sure the result of this can be
lessened in some way??
A) You know, if you have done something bad - you should actually hope you get the result you
deserve or go thru what you have to.. You should pray you that whatever i should get - give it to
me... because only then there is "paschatap" (actually feel for your mistake / repent)
And then you see - when you do this 100% you see how you will cured... those tears of
gratefulness will wash away everything....
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Then someone got a cap for Guruji and suddenly guruji says - I know some of you are anxious
on meeting me - dont worry - I WILL meet you all.....
1) Where there is a lot of respect for people, there we find we are less close to them... when we
are close to people, we find we listen to them a little less.. Take it for granted that they are
ours.... wise are those who learn how to respect and yet feel the oneness.
2) Of the 4 limbs of Purusharth - Dharma, Arth and Kaam are those which can be a bondage.
Actually even Arth and Kaam are not really bondage's - it is your limited knowledge and
foolishness and small mind which is bondage.. Moksh is that which liberated you.
3) So any people do not even know they are bonded. Who wants liberation? Only those who are
bonded and know they are bonded? Only a person who is tired would need a pillow to sleep. If a
person is running - can take a pillow with him and run?
4) What is truth? Truth is that which is not affected by time. Truth is neither changing with past
not present nor future.... look at your own body - is it the truth?
5) I'll share 3 stories which were said at different times to convey different points :)
Two stories on how people are unhappy and dont even realize and what is truly being free and
happy!
It is said in one of the stories in Ramayana that a man once mercilessly beat a dog - and so the
dog went to Ram for justice. The man was caught and Ram asked the dog - what punishment
should I give him? The dog said - Make him a head of an ashram!
Ram found it very strange and asked why do you say that? The dog replied saying - I was one
last life! I know what a punishment it is :D
The moral here was how people remain unhappy! Some think that being in this world is bondage
and be unhappy! Others think they have renounced the world and yet remain unhappy! And it's
even worse - because then you have followers!! And your followers wont keep you at peace for
sure :D
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The next story was about how a man complained to a swamiji about how his children were no
more paying attention to him and leaving him to do all the work and shouting at him etc etc. The
swamiji felt compassionate and advised him - why dont you come to my ashram? I will make
sure you have food and shelter and you dont need to work and when your kids wants to meet
you let them come!
Suddenly the man got angry and started shouting at the swami saying - do want to break my
family up??? What are you advising? I should move away? Who will take care of them etc etc
The swamiji got up and left.
The moral here was how people are unhappy and yet in that they find pleasure and not even
aware they are stuck in this bondage!
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Q) Guruji, Krishna had 16 kala's (16 attributes which made him "complete"), Ram had 12 and
Hanuman had 14. Does this mean Ram was not really an incarnation? How is it possible?
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Q) How come there is so much +'ve energy inside the ashram - but even as we step out we can
feel the change in energy?
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--------------He ended AG today saying You are made up of joy/love... and it's when we forget this we are sad... the more you repose and
relax in yourself - the more you are free....
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When you have got angry - see the storm which has brewn up - time and again this happened but all those events have gone - you still are here... you dont need to look anywhere... just look
at your own life and see - you will learn so much.... just be aware of these emotions... these
storms... dont fight them - because then that is an action and you will be stuck again - just
observe them - dont force stop them - observe...
Q) Guruji, I have done many sins till now.. Am I worthy of being on this path? I want to atone
for the sins - how do I do this?
A) Youve felt this - now youre free... you are free and in the present moment - thats why you
even felt the need to do a "pashchyatap". In the "ashudh" state (not a pure state) you will cover
up and defend the actions...
dont feel guilty and give up... in the olden says that's why the students would go to the guru and
he would tell them do this or that... it would be enough...just give it up and dont get into the
guilt consciousness.... take the wisdom and in the present moment - then all is taken care of.
Q) There is so much being said on bhramacharya in the scriptures... yet we are stuck with food
and desires.. Could you talk about this please?
A) tomorrow/later,,,
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3) Jaisi mati - waisi gati (as your thoughts - so shall be your life)
you are greater than this feeling of joy/sad and everything.... and as you think - so it shall be
reflected... if you think you are useless - you will remain and be useless... if you think you can you will..... if you have to feel proud about something then feel proud about being "free" (mukt)
stop thinking you are carrying the weight of this world... that is not your job - god is doing that....
but this doesnt mean you run away from your responsibility either.... you cant say - I wont
cook for my kids or take care of my husband etc etc - god is looking after it... dont use such
incorrect logic....
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1) <Story time> Mullah Nasseruddin had a donkey... and one day the donkey went missing - and
suddenly mulla started thanking god!!!! So someone walking by him stopped and asked him why are you thanking god when you lost the donkey???? He said - well - if I was with the
donkey even I would have lost my way!!!!
Nevertheless he starts looking for the donkey but is unable to find it - so he puts up posters
saying anyone who finds the donkey gets to keep the donkey + gets a cash reward!
Again this confuses someone and he asks mulla - hey! Why are you giving both??? So mulla
replies - khojne ka kuch alag hi mazaa hai (there is quite another joy in just the search)
Just the search is joy.. Joy is in finding and joy is in losing also.. But when will you drop
everything and where will you search??? Wishes/Desires will only take you in a circle - like a
merry-go-round - and you'll end up where you are!
2) Listen to knowledge and then become empty..
When can you leave something - only after you have caught it right??? You know, every particle
in this universe has knowledge in it.... nothing is impermanent and nothing is permanent - there
is no end - and nor is there a beginning - you cant say it is there but you cannot say it is not there
either....
There is something which is present inside you - as well as outside you... that is the empty
space... and it is that empty space which has value
3) <Story time> Mullah Nasseruddin got up one morning and decided he is dead... so he told his
wife - I am dead...
She thought he was joking - so she said - now eat food and go to office... so he said the dead
cant eat food and why should the dead work! And he continues with this absurd behavior - so
she got fed up and took him to a doctor.... the doctor talks to him but to no avail - so he tells
mulla - see the dead dont have blood in their body right??? mulla says yes... so the doc takes a
needle and pricks him... blood trickles out... the doc has a smug look on his face and says - so
have you understood???
Mullah gasps and says - yes doctor! I have discovered - even the dead have blood in them!
Get out of those concepts we have built around us Dont live stressed out...cut this bondage with the sword of knowledge and wisdom......
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1) How can you get joy? He who is Nishkriya and Nisangha is only one who can attain joy.
We have burnt out prana/body/mind over and over again and have died... and have been born
again to "find" joy and you are still doing the same...
Nishkriya is very easy to speak about (Niskriya is "doing nothing") but it is very very difficult...
just ask someone to sit quietly for 15 minutes and see... they cannot... it is so difficult... either
their body or mind is restless.....
So then how do you and what to do to get to nishkriya??? Decrease the rajoguna in you... even
singing a bhajan is a kriya.. so what happens - you sing and sing and then you get tired and so
you sit - and then relax - and it's in those few minutes you are happy and content...
That's why in the olden times the rishi's and others said - the god's are in the mountains... so in
the process of going up and down the mountain you are inevitably doing the sudershan kriya!
And observe and see - after all the walking what happens - you are tired and so you rest and
when you rest what is your desire it comes true! And that's what we are doing here without
climbing mountains... just sit and do the kriya!!
Our 5 senses have limited ability but the want of the mind is limitless... and this greed is what
keeps us away from our "self"...
2) Dont get attached to Samadhi
Dont get attached even to Samadhi... it is even here you will find people having a big ego on the
Samadhi.... no... go beyond that... if you buy a shampoo and apply it on your head will you say no I spent so much on this shampoo - I cannot wash it off???
When you are happy you remain untouched by anything! Thats when you can give... giving is a
sign of richness.. it's not money but the "bhav".... give and see - how happy you will feel... and
when you give dont worry about how and who is taking it... be like a flower - it just gives the
fragrance - it doesnt go and check if the smell has reached the nostril or not....
dont get stuck in this small mind... you are free... and when youre happy you want nothing...
sahajta aur saralta poornata ka lakshan hai (simplicity and naturalness are signs of fulfillment)
For a stream (derya :D :D :D) to flow it needs direction and so let your desire be the highest
form of "chin-mat vasana"... it is your desire to hear AG and hence you are here! This is a desire
- but this is the right kind of desire.. Let it be :)
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Q) Guruji you have said that everything we do is for joy - ultimately that's what we want and is
there... then why is there sadness and trauma around?
A) Mullah Nassruddin's wife was pregnant and due to deliver a baby (yes - he started answering
this question with a story :)) and despite the expected "arrival" of the baby it was not yet born..
So the doctor called mulla and said - look, I think we need to do an operation... then mulla said no no no... Wait.. Ill come back in a few minutes.. dont do anything.... so mulla goes to the
shop and buys a toy and comes back and gives it to the doctor and says - give it to my wife
now... the kid is mine - it must be greedy - let's give it a toy - it will come out for sure!
and this is what we all do in life - like a carrot kept in front of a rabbit - we are running behind
this "joy" never knowing what it is... it is with those who are stuck in the world and also with
those who are on the "path".... we are only wondering how we will "get".. How will you get joy
like this???
Q) How and why is it that some people are born in very rich families while some are born in
such poor families that they cannot afford even a single meal?
A) of the 5 secrets in this universe - janma rahasya - is one of them... the secret of birth has been
kept a secret by god on purpose... else you would be stuck with the last impressions... there is
one point of time in your life where you will come to know it all - everything on this... some will
remember and some will forget...
This whole universe works on a "cause and effect" phenomena.... there is a reason - reason for
something to happen the way it happens or happened.... there is freedom and yet somethings are
written...
Once a man went to the astrologer and asked about his sons future - the astrologer said - he will
be the one who will feed 1000's of people....
The man went back feeling happy thinking his son would become a industrialist etc etc... Many
yrs later the son became a waiter (the prediction was true after all)
There is freedom of your karma and yet something has been written... where you are born is
because of your past karma but where you will be - is in your own hands....
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Gun Shot at ashram No AG
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3) Sagar mein ek leher uthi tere naam ki, tujhe mubarakh khushiyan aatma gyan ki
Tujhko hai ananth mein jakar mil jana - tu hai sundar phool is sansar ki
(Guruji spoke this out today :) )
He said - the ocean is the nameless and formless... the wave is part of this ocean which takes this
form... there is no "fight" between the waves - waves are part of this ocean.. they come and go...
and thats why in AOL we wish in this manner that let this wave remember today it is from the
ocean and may it be blessed with knowledge of the self... you will return back again and you are
beautiful/truth.....
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With what skill we see something - like that we see the truth too.... gross is diversity and subtle is
one/unity.... we have to go from the gross to the subtle and that's why we need skill (kushalta) to
see god....
Meditation has 3 rules to follow I want nothing - I am nothing - I do nothing.. Only when you follow these 3 - you can meditate :)
only when you stop seeing this world - can you see god.... move from the diverse to the one....
like a hologram - from 1 side you see one image and other side you see another... like light bulbs
- 1 switch is able to light up 100's of bulbs.... find the switch - not the bulb.... and thats what
janak discovered - he was looking only at the bulb - but now he found the switch... like a mobile
phone and tower... know the tower and you have control over all the mobiles... dont throw the
mobile - but dont get stuck in the mobile either....
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1) Vikar se chootna hai toh vishram karo (rest is the way to get rid of "disorder/change/habit" sorry - I am not able to find the right word for vikar in English :))
we say we have understood - but we still make mistakes.... if you think you have understood - it
still doesnt mean you have understood... it's like eating coal thinking it's food and drinking sand
thinking its water... if you "know" then you wont do it... and if you still do it despite at one
level "knowing" sand is not something to drink - then something is not right... you are doing it
because you think you will joy out of it! until you separate the act from the want of joy you
wont know the "self" is the truth.... till then you are stuck in these bad habits.... we say "i know
it's a rope" - but we are still scared thinking it's a snake... that's the trouble... when you get
"wisdom" - all this drops... we think these habits give us joy - and thats why we havent
progressed,,,,, we our only putting ourselves into trouble by doing this.... dont do anything - just
rest - only is rest you will be able to drop all these habits... and that deep rest is meditation... and
there you will realize - I am what I am searching for :)
<story> I missed the crux of the story because 2 gentlemen next to me coughed at the moment
guruji said he last line of the story and some exceptionally smart person left their mobile on
"ringing" :(
but it was a story on Mullah Nasseruddin going in search for funds for charity and finally he gets
nothing and visits a rich man's house... so the man asks him to read something and when mulla
does - he also reads or says the same and questions mulla - we both know the same - what is
different or more you know from me,,, (and then his answer I couldnt hear)
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Guruji said - someone asked me today: How do you handle all problems? Everyday 1000's of
people come and ask you for solutions and tell you your problems (my wife is like this - my
husband left me - my kids are not studying - I have this health problem - I am financially in need
etc etc etc) how can you be in peace? How can you manage everything so easily and not get
irritated or troubled?
guruji answered saying - I find all this a play... everything that happens is "leela".... see someone
shot a bullet - it was aimed at a stray dog - instead came here - neither the dog nor the person
who got hit were injured! :)
Police came in for inspection and they look at everyone so unconcerned and smiling and not
worried - they thought - "is all this true??? did a bullet even get fired???"" if we look at it from
their view it is not wrong - it is not a small incident - but they dont understand the state we are
in :)
when we have attained the highest we dont feel the need for anything else - nothing worries
you after that,..What else is needed then?? This is realization :)
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2) Only when you are happy you expand and when you expand you relax and when you relax
you are free
Drop that identity/upadhi you are carrying - I am a doctor and I am a student and I am a wife
and I am this and that... you are not that identity.... all these are roles you play like puppets....
Until you dont see you are the observer and not the identity - you can never start the
"journey"..... Any title/identity is an obstacle to realization....
Ashtavakra told this to Janak and Janak understood... He was a king but he was free from the
clutches of identity...
you are neither wise nor fool, neither man nor woman, neither old nor young -- age has never
touched you and nor will it ever.... everyday remember this and become empty... the mind is
not in the body - the body is in the mind... the more you relax the body the more free you
become... expansion happens with happiness... only when you are happy you expand and when
you expand you relax and when you relax you are free...
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Q) Does everything happen by the will of god? They say, even a leaf doesn't move without HIS will... is it
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A) Yes... even a leaf doesn't move without his permission... But he has also given you a brain which
functions and that is his will :) :) :) Adi Shankaracharya was once talking about illusion to people and
suddenly a mad elephant ran towards them... So Shankaracharya started running... one person asked
him mockingly - everything is an illusion right? Why are you running??
Shankaracharya continued running and said - yes! Everything is an illusion.. And so is my running :D :D
Mullah nasseruddin was dreaming about a deal he was doing... and in the dream he was selling
something for 10,000 rupees... the man in the dream was bargaining and said - no! i will give it for only
9,000... And so the argument continued... suddenly mulla woke up and he looked in his hand he had
nothing... what 9000 rupees.. he didn't have 9 rupees also in hand.. So he quickly closed his eyes and
decided to take the 9000 deal :D :D
we need the knowledge of what we do... we eat... do you know how food gets digested??? right form
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<story time> once mulla nasseruddin was going for an election campaign on his donkey... there
was a marriage band passing by and suddenly the donkey got crazy and threw mulla off it's back
and ran away... people laughed at him and asked - mulla what happened? You cant take care of
yourself over the donkey how will you fight an election?? Mullah got up smiled and said - I was
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2) There will never be less when you have faith and walk with wisdom
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<story time> there was a man who had a wishing bowl - and whatever he wanted he would get
twice when he asked for it... Once his neighbor happened to see it and asked him where he got
it from... the man said it was from a saint who he met and did some seva... now the neighbor
took down the "address" of where he could meet this saint... and then he went there - and he
started praising the saint and tried being all-important... finally he went and asked the saint for
the "magic" bowl... he said - see you give my neighbor such a bowl - please give it to me also..
Just that let mine be a little bigger than his in size.. because I have a bigger family than his... so
whenever I ask for something it should offer me twice as much...
the saint looked at him and said ok - he knew this person was a cheat - but he still gave him the
bowl.. so the man went home all happy and he asked the bowl for something... and the bowl
said - why one - take twice of it.... and nothing came out... then he asked for 2 of something and
the bowl replied - why 2 - take 4 of this... but nothing came out of it...
the bowl went on talking back to him but never gave him anything....
Money is like that - it gives you the feeling that you will get happiness - but you wont... joy is
elsewhere...
you know, almost 30% of Europe is depressed today... people have money to eat food - but they
have diseases which do not let them to.. People have money to have a big comfortable bed - but
do not get sleep.... all your life you are running behind money and have destroyed yourself and
your family in the process... I am not saying dont earn money... money has its importance but it
needs to be only where it is... so much money people have - what do they do? get drunk...
alcohol is the biggest poison in todays world... it is so sad - they drink and get unconscious and
then wake up feeling sick and drowsy and yet they drink because they think it will find them
joy.... joy is within.... money is important but it will not keep you satisfied.... The search for joy
doesn't end until you go deep within... I have never thought about money till today.. In AOL we
start off with the projects and then see the money coming our way... we have never waited first
for funds and then the work... AOL is based in 150 countries today and nowhere have we
thought about money....it has come... more than needed and before time (samay se pehle aur
zaroorat se zyada) everything will be given and taken care off...where there is "Narayan" "Lakshmi" has to come there :)
(the whole yagyashala was clapping :D :D) the more you give the more you get... dont worry
about money....
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1) The search for joy doesn't end until you go deep within
Man has become crazy about money... he thinks money can make him happy/ There is no
greater hallucination than this. scientists took a happiness quotient survey and saw that people
in poorer countries were happier than the so-called "rich and developed" countries.... people
never understood this - they now have 2 cars but a frown on their face... there is so much fear
and feeling of separation within the "rich" families...
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Q) My wife does kriya but still is on the path of "Adharma". What do I do?
A) Talk to her and make her understand... let her come to the programs and do the courses again.... here
people follow either the ram dharma or the Krishna dharma..... For the married ones it's best to follow
the path of ram :D :D :D
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Q) You said money doesnt give you joy... when do we realize this - before or after we get a lot of
money?? :D :D :D :D :D
A) If you are smart you will understand it before :D :D :D :D :D :D it's up to you... and this will be an
authentic understanding if you are intelligent and can see people who have earned so much and still
have no smile on their face... some people after earning so money money understand it's not everything
- others after having so much still havent understood... it doesnt mean you dont earn - but certainly
money is not joy....
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Q) What did Ashtavakra say to Janak that just made him actually realize and say - AHO!???
A) Rishinam yata chitanam, vacham artanhu dhavate.. A Rishi is one who is complete.. and what they say
- the meaning comes behind those words... these are not simply words - they have a depth behind
them... and when you listen to it from the guru - it is an experience which comes along with it... more
than words it's the very presence that matters... it is from the presence we communicate... when we say
love is not just an emotion it is your very nature - you can give a lecture for 2 hrs on it and yet not get to
the point and you can simply stand there and people can experience it... our presence speaks.... truth is
not something from the mind... it speaks of the very existence... when we become a yogi - the existence
is enough not so much the words....
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Q) I am in a lot of confusion... will I get past this stage?? Will I get more peace after this??
A) it's this "more" that has got us in trouble... dont think of what Ill get... that's the mentality of a
beggar... think of what I can give... that's the sign of one who is "rich"... just rest... he who wants to give
- get's more............
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Q) I was a staunch follower of the guru granth sahib but after meeting you i believe in you.. i am
confused.. Please help...
A) What's the confusion???guru is a "tatva"... you are believing the same knowledge... one is from the
book and other it is from the person... dont confuse yourself with such thoughts and doubts... honor
all... mother is the first guru,, teachers at school are the second... the satguru is one who gives you the
knowledge of the truth... live naturally and live with joy...
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2) The outcome of the doubts you are made to burn in results in faith
there is a saying in English which goes - Before enlightenment he cut wood.. After
enlightenment he continues to cut wood...
A prince went to a master to learn something from him and see what in his life made him
enlightened... what were the "special" things he was doing etc.... but when he went he saw the
yogi's life was normal... it was just like any other mans... there was no magic he was doing... he
ate food.. he slept... he searched for vessels in the kitchen like any other man... the prince found
it strange... why would he need to search for anything? He should know it all??? He had so many
concepts in the mind... and hence his mind and heart was in a conflict! The mind said no - but
the heart said - yes! Something is there which I cannot see,,, doubt is the state when you are
neither here nor there.. The work of the master is to make sure you have more doubts... once
you get cooked in this fire of doubts the outcome is faith! Where there is truth - there even a
1000's doubts cannot stand in the way.. And more the doubt - the more the truth shines!
The yogi told the prince to sit down.. relax... quite the mind... because only the heart can
understand the heart and truth will dawn only when youre quiet....
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Q) I want to be a selfless devotee... right now I am still doing business with you...
A) this thought itself is a start.... it has begun... and dont worry about the business part of it :) you can
do that also... in this case you are always in profit... you give 1 and you'll get 10 in return.... just stay
happy!
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Q) You talked about souls never dying but then when a person dies the soul waits again for a while
before coming back.... but population is increasing! More births than deaths! How come?
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