me a simple, true to my self, believeing my own experience, willing to accept if i were wrong, sports perwson, interested in spiritual sadhana(practices)
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I am a Christian and I believe in God... I love God. It's just that more and more I feel I'm drifting away from my Lord. Sometimes I'll pray and promise God I will pray more and talk to him more, but I either forget to and rarely but sometimes I will say in my head, "I need to pray," but then I don't(purposely).
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get closer to God, or ways to strengthen my relationship with the Lord? I don't want to be this way... but when it comes to praying...I just don't. Any ideas? Express your feelings! Thank you so much! (link)
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if you are searching god(divinity) really, me can suggest one practical path, which does not require any belief, and a scientific approach towards divinity from the dimension right now you know. it does n't even to change your present lifestyle or religious activities. one such experiential path was offered by isha foundation run by mystic, realized master sadhguru jaggi vasudev. you can get knowledge on what he speaks about, from the books of mystic musings, and encounter the enlightened. there are many vcd also available now. you can visit the website www.ishafoundation.org or ruralrejuvenation.org
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Today I decided to completley put my faith and trust into God, I really took him into my life today. However, I just started going to church last year so I was never baptised and never confirmed. Can I still expect to go to Heaven? What exactly does being confirmed or baptised mean? (link)
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So atlast you made upyour mind. that is ok. but it does not have anything to go to heaven or hell. it is still a belief. you have said, all with my faith and trust...where this question will come for the person who has faith or trust in somebody. the question shows, that your logical mind needs some solace, nice words from somebody. a person who has faith on something will never worry about future. because of this belief or that belief you cannot go anywhere. but if you make it as a experiential process, you can enjoy the heaven right here. will you have faith about your 2 hands, is it not experiential. similarly whether you believe god or demen - will not make any difference for this life to live in this world. but you can make yourself to evolve such higher dimension thro scientific processes such as yoga. it doesn't mean you have to give up your faith, religion, culture for that. you can verywell keep them with you. it does not any impact to pursue thepath. the path like "isha yoga" taught by realized master sadhguru jaggi vasudev- who runs isha yoga centre under his guidence is a suitable one for you in myown experience- however if you wish you can visit the website www.ishafoundation.org
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Well, I kinda have a probably sometimes at night. I think about death. I wonder, what will it be like when I die? What will it be like if my family dies? Why do people have to die? Can't we just live our life? When I die, I will die. I give deep thought into being gone.
Sometimes, to cheer myself up, I say to myself that there will be another life after death, another life in heaven where it's the dream I always wanted! Then, I just cry myself to sleep.
I hope you can help with my problem. Please don't tell me to go to a therapest. I really don't want to.
~Jazz~ (link)
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first i am seeing 2 things from your question. somewhere there is fear about death in your mind. so you have to console yourself by any number of thories. me too have the same experience. anyway i have to die one day. may be next moment also. it is ok. it can't be avoided. but i took today is the day that i am going to live last. let us make it useful for me and others around me. so i did everything with utmost involvement, as it is my last work inthe world. so i was very happy , to see atleast this i can offer it to somebody. second thing i underwent thro isha yoga programs conducted by sadhguru jaggi vasudev , 10 yrs ago, a living master who founded isha foundation to spread yoga in its total depth. the program made me more joyous and found myself useful to so many people . when i saw this, my joy went to manymore times and enjoyed the life , ofcourse offered to more people also. i am not suggesting this as soultion. but i am sharing my own experience. the day that i am going to die is not at all important, but the day or the moment that i am living is more important. to realize this , any number of theories cann't help you unless you transformed yourself into an experiential process.definitely isha yoga programs will be one like that for provideing what is unanswered for you. if you wish, visit the website www.ishafoundation.org to know more details. i am sugesting this solution not to promote it. it is natural , if you eat something nice, you can guide other person whom you are meeting. that's all.but once agaain i assure you, if you attempt this , may be very new dimension of life can wait for you.
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Hey im agnostic, a pretty strong agnostic i guess... which might seem weird cuz when i was younger i was the most religous person in my family! None of us ever went to church but i really wanted to and stuff, and then as we got older everyone except my dad whose athiest got big on religon, except me, who just stopped believeing. I dont know why i just started to really think about it, and ask myself questions about it, and i just couldnt believe it anymore. Then later on i became wiccan for awhile, but i went through depression and stopped believing again. I think mostly religon is something that people really need to hold onto and believe in, and so they create it. I totally understand that religons tend to be good, and they have good values and things like that, but i dont think they're true. im not likely to change my mind [and yea i HAVE been to church], but i figured id give anyone a chance to explain to me how they know their religon is true... please don quote the bible unless ur gonna tell me how you know the bibles true too. And dont say you just KNOW, because people always tell me that they just KNOW that their god is the real one and not someone elses, and then that person comes up and tells me the same thing.
Dont be stupid. I rate high! Thanks... (link)
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first , honestly , i don't want to convert you at all. because i know, a believer will definitely have this kind of situation because he dont have any experience in what he believe. as you said, all the religions one way or other way , has many people's interpretions in its. inthe ancient days, media is not so powerful. everything transmitted verbally. and you know , you may get so many thing in your life, and when it goes from you to some one, it will go added with your stuff or preferences etc with that. in thousands of years, nothing will be except for this change,. the question came within you, when your logical brain does not found proper reason for your belief or in otherway, it does not satisfy with what it got. that's all. i can suggest an experiment process. may be you can do some experiment with it in your day to day life. experiment is a scientfic process, and definetily has a result, eventhough it may not be match with others. but you will definitely get a result according to your application and involvement. yoga is one such way of scientific application eventhough it came from eastern culture. i know the yoga centre, situated in coimbatore, tamilnadu, south india, named isha yoga center run by charitable organisaation ishafoundation under the guidence of living master sadhguru jaggi vasudev. his approach is more realistic and
applicaple to day to day life in very easy way. if you wish you can found the website www.ishafoundation.org for more information or classes.
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I would like to be more spiritualy intact with myself?
Id like to maybe start yogo but i duno what kind of things to do!
Any tips on how I can become more spiritualy intact?
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if you are seeking just knowledge , quotations from books , scripturs you can find it anywhere
but if you want to go thro as your own experiential process, i have something for you. you can visit the website. www.ishafoundation.org
ishafoundation is an charitable trust, runs isha yoga centre at coimbatore, south india at the foot hills of vellinangiri mountains under the guidence of living master sadhguru jaggi vasudev. i have roamed alll over india. and i offering the best i know.
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I am a once athiest who has now become agnostic and what I want to know is :
Why do you or why do you not believe in god?
Why should he/she/it be praised?
Why should I believe or not believe in god? (link)
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whether you believe something or not , which is not in your experience is not at all making any difference for his life. if you are a believer, then anybody can make you to belive anything. instead if you make it as an experiential process, no need of believe it or not. do you ever belive that you have 2 hands or 2 legs. even if medical science changes its names tomorrow , you won't feel bother, because you know how to use it for your life. all that is needed only for that. if you really want more details, i can suggest one book, which has the collection of question and answer from a living master sadhguru jaggi vasudev the founder of ishafoundation. you can visit its website if you are interested. otherwise it is not compulsive. you can read the book "encounter the enlightened" , at last, if there is anything god, either he must be everywhere or he must be nowhere. if he is everywhere he must be within you also. if you not explore him within you, the closest destination to you, no matter, whereever you roam or search, -----.if you need any help don't hesitate to contact me. i will try to help you as much as i can from my little experience
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Why does everyone think you HAVE to believe in something? Do you feel it's wrong to not put faith in a religion? I'm not religious in the tiniest bit. I know some people think that you never know what you're missing out on until you try it. However, I've never even cared or have been concerned with trying to find religion in my life. Why is religion so important? (link)
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sir, all religion are a path for a human being to reach their divinity nature. i will tell the basic few quotations from each religion, it has the essence of what it is. jesus said, love thy neighbour. -it means you have all contradictions and conflict only with your neighbour, if you love him, your contradictions, you will become whlole being, then there is no suffering, or you will move into compassionate- a quality for divinity. in islam, i read it some where, as mohammed said, don't do anything which hurts you if somebody does same to you. it is also path of non violence- if you follow this also, you will not create any himsa-suffering - to any body in the world. the other major is hindu- first it is not at all religion, it is a culture identification for those people who lived in the banks of sindu river to ganges river or who lived in this undivided country. where people lived with inner wisdom. anything that you call as religion, is reached you from books, scripters, from somebody as word. in the ancient times they created this scientific path , do's and don'ts for life - since people are illiterate and not heiginie. also all schools which taught religion only taught to that person to evolve his inner nature not like present day system of mere knowledge. it is an experiential process. but as man get educated, when his logic started work, he needs explanation for everything. also on the other hand, people used this tools very long time, slowly missed the essence and had only stories. so this person could not reply for the other and other start neglecting the whole process since it does not suit his logic. so somewhere the connection between the science and experience has lost. and logical people added their own interpretation to whatever they got, and reached many people because they are sound in logic. rather on the other hand, people who followed also not evolved themselves to higher dimensional experience. ok let us come to your topic. the word religion means turning inward. walking towards your core identity. still in this new technological world, tools like yoga are powerful media and effective since it does not require any believe or devotion or anything. there are few living guru's (master's) now also available for you to explore your innerself. as a practioner of yoga and a walked all over the country i know this from my experience. unless you doesn't turn inward, suffering will not end to you. how to turn inward, why i should turn inward is next step. but i can refer a book , which has collection of question and answer from a living master. if you wish, get one and read it yourself. if you does not satisfy just ignore it, or on the other hand , if you really search for a religion, (inward journey) definitely it can help you much better way. encounter the enlightened is the name of book , relised by isha foundation, which promotes yoga and spiritual aspect to the depth. but one thing i want to tell you, if people not turned inward, they will simply blame others or something for their suffering and created suffering for others also. it is like you must sleep, if you have to work . like that only if you can maintain your inner engineering best way, you can reach people much more effective way and a joyous society around you. for any assistence you can contact me. if you wish you can rate this answer.
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hello. im a muslim and ever since 9/11 i know there has been a lot of sterotypes on muslims. Very bad ones. i had a lot of racism especially during that year at which i was 10 years old. people would stare at me and my sisters and be like go back to your country. now i want to know what are peoples views on islam and muslims?
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any body who knows his/her religion will never do such activity of ill treatment. the world religion means journey towards inward. you can become truely religious only when you accept other person or not to hurt other beings by any way. let you evolve into a beautiful human being.like how mohammed said once, don't do things for others, which you will not like it if somebody does if for you. that is the path of religion. no people will view islam or something. but they will look up when a personn with great humanity , careing, reaching for other.only because of those people, religions are valued and not because of any religion people are valued
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is god there? where is he, how do i know... (link)
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if any thing god is there, he must me everywhere. what you called as god is only that. if he is everywhere , he will be within you also. you can not find any closest place than this. if you cann't see godliness within you, which is a very closest place for you, every other place will be little faraway. now how do we find. you can't find yourself. may be it can happen rarely for very few. but you can take the help of a realized master, who normally called as GURU in hindu tradition, to reach your destiny. now the question, how can i trust him, you can't trust him not evolve him. that means you have to walk in believe system. it is too dangerous. if you are believer, anybody can make you disbelive you at anytime of your life. but you can make your self experiential. is there any master or path is there. yes definetly, yoga is scientific way to reach our divinity. you don't need any belive or trust to pursue path. nor you need not bring any change in your present life style or in your religious activiteis. all this is external. the path for divine is only internal. if you wish i can guide you to a living master, mystic , yogi . Sadhguru jaggi vasudev, a realized being is guiding millions of people around the world with his inner experience, the founder of isha foundation and isha yoga centre at india. you can found in web site www.ishafoundation.org for more details and his tour. i can assure if you are really thirsty , the god is not just believe of story , you can experience .but all that needed is constant perseverance and following a master with total sincereity. it can not be fit into your logical but it can be taken itnto experiential process of yourself. before you can go, you can read his books encounter the enlightened , mystic musings, which will give you a glimpse of what you searching
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I am completely confused about what I am. In regards to religion. I know i am christian, but I know nothing about it. I have never read the bible..and I know that most of the stuff in it I don't truly believe. And does God look down upon me for choosing not to believe parts of the bible? (link)
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don't worry about your religion . if you believe anything which is not in your experience any body can make you to belive any thing. unless it transformes as experience belive is nothing to do with life. conflicts are happening only because of the people who firmly belive what they know. every path leads to same destiny. once our logical mind functions, it can't accept anything unless you have clear answer . science is a logical presentation. because it has result for anything and everyithing. even result may not be the same . but definetily it has a result. a result is what i call as experience. once you got experience you need not believe it. because it is in your experience. see are you believeing that you have two hands? did some body told you? even if medical sciene change the name of that organ in yourbody you won't bother or felt lost. because you know how you should use it. that is experience. a knowledge can be given by any body or book but experiance one should earn by himself. but a person can give you a tool which lead you to experience if you apply your self. the process of appliing yourself to the path is what refered as sadhana in hindu culture. the person who gives sadhana is referred as Guru. eventhough all masters work will definetiley guide a sadhaka or person who with thirst, a living master can bring the same transformation in muchmore faster. that 's all . because of his presence and wisdom and acceceblity to you. if you really seek to know the answer within you , maybe i can't tell but i canguide you to Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev--the founder of ishafoundation to promote spirituality in its totality and depth of our traditional way
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