Dear Yoga Mentor Articles 
Is it normal to want to do both yoga as well as finance/business? Is it necessary to give up family life to focus totally on spirituality and self-realization?
18 November, 2016 @ 10:01 pm
Swami Rama has said many times that a householder can attain moksha and cites Rama, Sita, many married saints, sages and highly evolved spiritual persons, such as Gandhi.
What does this sentence mean from Swami Veda? “When you will have exhaled inwards and inhaled outwards twelve breaths without pause, you will have entered the Great Reservoir.”
29 October, 2016 @ 10:12 pm
Over the years Swami Veda often quoted the classic texts on Yoga in which there were quantitative prerequisites given for attaining samadhi. One text said that if a person could sit ABSOLUTELY still for such-and-such a period samadhi could be attained.
When it comes to Sannyasis, use of Samadhi appears to be a fashion. Is it a word used to refer to the death of a Sannyasi?
20 July, 2016 @ 10:19 pm
Mahasamadhi is the yogic process of consciously leaving the body at the moment of death, having gathered the pranas in the heart center and then utilizing the udana-vayu to conduct the pranas from the body through the “solar gate,” the brahma-randhra at the crown of the head. Such a yogi returns to rebirth only by choice.
Is it possible to attain samadhi without having a guru?
27 June, 2016 @ 11:10 pm
Guru is not necessarily a separate physical being. Understanding the connection/immersion of the self with the greater Self is important as there is no separation when realization occurs. Guidance happens then when the connection is made because Ego disappears and that is what samadhi is about.
Please tell me about sun gazing in the morning/evening as a practice of Tratak to improve steadiness of mind.
29 May, 2016 @ 11:18 pm
In the Himalayan tradition Trataka practice is done in steps where one starts the Trataka practice by gazing a reflection of a flame. Trataka practice is only done when one has learned basic breathing practices.
To which Guru am I linked? Do we need a physical presence to be guided, to receive eventually shaktipata when, of course we are ready?
25 April, 2016 @ 11:21 pm
The Guru is a force of consciousness (cit-shakti) that moves through people because we need form in order to comprehend. It is the same Guru that moves through Swami Rama, Swami Veda or a regular yoga teacher to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the degree of emotional purification and the degree to which there person can move their ego out of the way. In our tradition, it is Swami Rama that gives the mantras.
Why full moon meditation is given so much importance?
18 March, 2016 @ 11:25 pm
"When all sit together at the same time even in different parts of the world, they connect to the Universal Guru mind and generate a strong field, like so many magnets being joined together and forming a much stronger magnet; the strength of each then equals the combined strength of all."
How can you differentiate between a spiritual condition and some psychosis states?
21 January, 2016 @ 11:31 pm
“I can tell you, there is no journey more interesting than your spiritual journey. For your worldly journeys you need to pay for a sea cruise, you need to buy airline tickets, you need to service your car, but for this journey: free of charge. Everything is free of charge."
When meditating I generate too much saliva. How can I solve this problem?
18 December, 2015 @ 11:44 pm
The main instruction is to relax the mouth, lips, tongue etc. In beginning meditation, the mouth is gently closed without any tension in the jaw, tongue or root of the tongue. The teeth gently touch and the tongue rests gently at the roof of the mouth (the soft palate).
I need your advice and guidance regarding attending a three day spiritual retreat in Bodhgaya in Buddhist Mahayana Tradition.
17 November, 2015 @ 11:48 pm
One should taste of all paths but keep to one only as one’s permanent path. Mahayana has many paths and each of the Mahayana paths has a sub-path. Then there are other Buddhist paths.