Guruma shares an adventurous story from her life that was similar to experiences Gurudev had in the Himalayas. She originally planned a trip only to Vaishno Devi with her family, but they ended up exploring many other unplanned places far from Vaishno Devi, using up the kids' full vacation. She notes that in ancient times, trips covering India's four main sacred places ("Char Dham") representing the gods Shiva and Vishnu in all directions were recommended to experience the diverse beauty and energy of spiritual sites across India.

1. CM2021: Nov 09’2021 (Day3)
Questions & Answers session with Guruma

2. Opening by Moderator Sadhika:
Thank you for being live to address questions and answers session Guruma!!!
Just the way light can’t be shown to sun and depth of ocean can’t be measured, same way you are full of love,
affection and joy.
Ocean plays a very big role in supporting life system inside as well as outside. Same way, we are very grateful to
Gurudev and Guruma for providing great inheritance of spiritual knowledge to this whole world.
We are deeply touched with your autobiography, through which we find profound knowledge and inspiration on
how to deal with real life situations.
All the discourses from you and Gurudev are a great treasure and performs a unique spiritual programming on us.
Before starting this session, we would like to pray for your guidance and sincerely pay our gratitude.
All these questions are categorized in spiritual, personal problems, kids related and cultural.
Question:
Many yogis naturally obtain special spiritual and supernatural powers, and a lot of social work gets done by them
very easily. Seeing and reading all this, many seekers are attracted towards these powers, and they start to wish
for same. Is it alright to wish for these supernatural powers? While walking on a spiritual path, does everyone get
this kind of powers?
Answer:
By watching movies and listening to stories, mostly everyone while growing up is attracted towards the supernatural
powers.
Our culture has a special place for Yogi life and spiritual powers of Sages and Saints. Spiritual powers are mainly
byproduct of tough spiritual practice(sadhana) and cannot be ultimate goal or wish.
One such example of this powers is developing a strong intuition or feelings for future events about to happen.
For example, think that you would like to reach Himalaya and have different paths to reach there with scenic vista
points on every path, but it wouldn't be a good idea if you were distracted and spent your whole life on one or more
of the scenic vista points on the way to Himalaya.
Similarly, your goal should have sole goal of reaching to ‘moksha’ (karma free state) during your lifetime while alive.
This means one should not get distracted with anything in between.
Moksha is a state where you don't have any more wishes and you have full satisfaction. With that also you can
continue to do your duties.
Guru keeps you focused on your destiny and regular meditation helps you reach there.
Although you have not wished for such powers in this life, you still gain it as you progress on a spiritual path just
because you might have wished for it in your past lives.
For example, once I started seeing weird stuff around people either related to what’s in their memory or past life.
Rarely I could see good aura of places as well but mostly negative things. It wasn’t a pleasant experience at all and
upon request Swamiji guided me that it was due to my past life wishes for gaining such powers.

3. Gurudev guided me that only way to get rid of those powers is to light a lamp/diya and make a pure wish for it to go
away, which I did and I was relieved from those experiences coming from those powers.
Sometimes we wish for things without knowing or understanding the outcome of that wish. Powers like seeing
future makes you aware of future incidents but you cannot really change anyone's fate and a very thing will make
you uncomfortable.
Also, these powers will invite attention from many people which is not good for your spiritual progress.
If you are in for a long-haul, you would not pick up pace from beginning, rather go steady and would stay in the race.
So overall, it's not a good idea to wish for supernatural powers or to show it off since these powers are attached to
your body and Moksha is for your soul, So, real focus should be on your soul’s progress.
Question:
Many people are connected with Gurudev from birth and believed in him as a God. However, question is, how
much we have really absorbed the concept of “Guru”? What is our eligibility or capacity? How do we increase our
capacity to absorb the true meaning of “Guru”?
Answer:
Very good question. Although we are on this path but not 100% sure and often have doubts.
When Gurudev met his own Guru, he put his full trust on his Guru.
Karmic settlement is real so it will surely take you through journey of joy and trouble in your life. This trouble or
problems of life makes lot of people think about their path of spirituality.
Look at small kids, they have undoubted trust and faith on their loved ones and just the way their loved one would
never let their kids run into problem, if you trust and put all your faith on your Guru, he will also never let you down.
Problems of life is only there to make you a better person and draw your best qualities out.
Do regular 30 minute meditation, try to stay in thoughtlessness state for rest of the day and put full faith in guru and
things will always be positive.
Complete surrender will slowly come and you will have to start with small steps.
Just learn to use your intellect constructively for your daily routine activities and not be a road blocker in your
spiritual progress.
Question:
It is scientifically proven that mothers’ feelings have greater influence on baby in her womb as in the form of
babies PQ (Physical Quotient), EQ (Emotional Quotient), IQ (Intelligent Quotient) and SQ (Spiritual Quotient).
What are your suggestions for parents wanting to have spiritually developed baby?
Answer:
Science says your baby will only follow your DNA. So, in other words, characteristics of a child heavily depends on
the state of parents. So, if you are seeking for a baby with high spiritual quotient, you will have to ensure that your
spiritual state is good.

4. A perfect statue never comes from a bad mould. Generally, more balanced parents would invite balance kids.
Demand of time and place also plays a bigger role in birth of holy and highly spiritual soul. When certain place in
timeline has lots of spiritually mature souls and ready to get self-realization, His Holiness like Shree Shivkrupanand
takes birth to provide guidance and show the path of moksha through self-realization.
Gurudev's mother was very spiritual person but not father so due to demand of time and place Gurudev chose a
womb of mother who was highly spiritual. So, it shows the significance of mother’s spiritual state in inviting spiritual
soul in this world.
Become responsible and joyful person to invite responsible and joyful soul.
In nutshell, regular meditation is again the key to success here.
Don't attach yourself to anyone’s problems, if you feel bad then light a lamp and pray for them and then detach
yourself from that problem.
Question:
Apart from regular meditation and reading of holy books, what pregnant seekers can do during their pregnancy to
improve their receiving of positive energy from Gurudev?
Answer:
Regular meditation creates habit of receiving energy from Gurudev in a subtle way so when you are in need, energy
flow naturally happens.
Seekers who are always in proximity of physical presence of Swamiji, finds difficult to establish that subtle
connection in absence of that habit and this creates trouble for both seeker and Gurudev.
Hence, it is very important that pregnant seeker establishes a connection with Swamiji’s subtle body because even
Swamiji himself (physical body) doesn't do anything, but everything is done by subtle body.
Many seekers around the world have created this subtle connection and receives needed energy in the needful
time. So, surrender yourself and establish your personal connection through regular meditation throughout your
pregnancy and Gurudev’s subtle body will assure the rest.
Guruma now requests to switch to questions coming from kids.
Question:
I try very hard not to complaint about my teachers and try to be very respectful, but I still get angry and end up
cursing my teachers when they give me lot of homework. Please suggest what to do.
Answer:
This is a very common sentiment among all children.
Take a lot of homework as a practice to address different type of problems in that area. If you did only one or two
problems, then you won't see the variety of problems that possibly could appear in your exam.
Without practice through homework, you don't get fully prepared. Homework makes you read and write
simultaneously and that is what sharpens you.

5. Thinking and writing is the best way to increase your writing speed and it helps you remember things.
In my college time, I took statistics subject just because I was very weak at it. My professor used to teach and give
me lot of homework. Even with so much of time constraint after college is over, I used to ensure that full homework
is completed to improve on that subject, and I ended up passing that subject with the highest score in the college.
Only reason I could leave other brilliant students behind in that subject is purely due to regular homework. Practice
through homework makes it easier to understand the difficult concepts.
Only good teacher gives you a lot of homework because it is an extra work and effort for teachers also and no one
would take up that extra effort for you unless they are interested in your success.
Question:
Even though I do meditation I'm unable to focus on my studies and cannot remember things, what should I do?
Answer:
Try to study small portion, understand it and then try to close your eyes and remember the same.
Do not try to just mug up, rather learn, understand, and try to repeat your understanding in writing. Towards the
end of your day before you go to sleep try to rewind everything you studied in your school.
First, you pay attention as you learn in the school, then second time you would revise during your homework, then
daily you rewind all those things third time in the night and these practices will help you remember concepts of your
study and understanding.
Everybody is same and everybody can focus and remember everything, you just must get out of laziness and make
sincere attempt.
Question:
Why do we have cow shelters built first in all Samarpan ashrams?
Answer:
Cow carries very unique aura and purity, so it purifies the place as well.
Cow urine also carries many holy characteristics and it’s been long used for various purposes like as a medicine to
remove diseases, for purifying house etc.
Ashrams are built as a source of good energy and cow shelter plays a very big role in achieving that goal.
Question:
What is the significance behind use of haldi (yellow turmeric powder) and kumkum (red turmeric powder) in
religious ceremony as well as wearing it on your forehead?
Answer:
Based on what I know in my experience, we used to wear haldi kumkum on forehead on a regular basis during
evening pooja.

6. Wearing haldi kumkum or chandan (sandalwood) is very beneficial to skin. It also helps you maintain state of your
third eye chakra. It acts as a filter for any negativity coming at you and protects you from that.
An incident also came to my attention where a lady was recovered from severe gynecological issues with properly
directed use of haldi kumkum provided by professional to her. So, this incident suggests health benefits of haldi
kumkum as well.
Question:
What is the significance of flowers in our life? Do all flowers emit same energy?
Answer:
In general, all flowers are very important for everyone. We tend to only like beautiful flowers without knowing
energy aspects of it. Every flower has unique energy signature.
Some Indian flowers (Rose, Jasmine, various types of jasmine flowers like juhi, chameli and parijat) carry beautiful
energy.
For example, Parijat flower is very delicate since it’s so much connected with nature energy that it cannot stay in
physical form for long time and its subtle form merges with nature. Typical roses carry immense energy and easily
clears your heart chakra. Mogra(type of jasmine) is another such flower which is full of divine smell, and it has a
unique way of throwing periodic bursts of its divine smell.
Smell of flowers acts as a medium of clearance and helps remove negativity.
All these benefits are main reasons why you would see lot of flowers during Indian marriage ceremonies.
Some typical flowers (Crape Jasmine or tagri) do not do clearance as much, but they make you look beautiful and
stays fresh longer.
Since flowers are mostly seasonal, one should try to plant flowers according to every season to enjoy their benefits
all year round.
Flowers absorbs negative energy around you as you wear them, so it is suggested to wear and ensure to throw them
away at end of the day or as soon as they are not fresh.
Question:
Some homes/families with senior/elderly people carry depressive environment, can you please suggest ways to
improve positivity in that environment or reduce depression?
Answer:
In ‘BabaDham’(Swamiji’s Residence) we have lots of coconut trees and hence coconuts are in storage all the time.
When I experimented to plant one of the sprouted coconuts in my room, I realized very positive energy throughout
its growth until it became very big and had to be taken out in the soil one day. Same experiment was repeated
couple of times with another home and family and same energy transformation was observed there as well proving
that growing plant could really emit positive energy and can help in cleansing process for your home.

7. Question:
Even though we are connected with Samarpan Meditation, we still see faults in others, get angry and complaint
about others. We don't want to do this, but it still happens. What to do?
Answer:
From childhood we are taught and shown problems directly in negative ways rather than addressing them
constructively. Easiest solution is to light a small lamp in front of Gurudev and pray that you don't want to see faults
of others.
You need to find ways to take everything in positive ways and it is always possible to find positive aspects of
everything. If someone criticizes you in front of others, then take that constructively and as a challenge to improve
yourself and become better person.
Try not to pay too much attention to negative aspects of people, rather try to find positive and good things even
within those people. This exercise will ultimately improve you.
Question:
Can spirituality help various gynecological problems that have been emerged in this modern lifestyle?
Answer:
Spirituality is the master key of every problem.
In my times, there used to be toe rings which essentially used to put pressure on certain points and act as an
acupressure technique. Similarly, many other rituals and cultural traditions follow same principle of pressing on
certain pressure points to indirectly benefit your health by introducing them as a way of your living.
Jewelry used to play a key role in ancient culture where tradition was to always wear gold jewelry above waist and
only silver jewelry to waist and below. Probably that was due to cold nature of metal silver which helps keeping your
liver cold. Gold bangles in hand helps keeping your throat chakra Clear.
Silver is cold in nature whereas gold brings heat, so it's recommended not to wear gold below waist.
There are many reasons for gynecological problems. One of the reasons is late marriages and pregnancy at higher
age. It is recommended to have first child before 30 years of age and generally two kids to ensure that siblings have
a support of each other in their life.
Having babies at early age reduces possibility of having gynecological problems.
New generation deals with lot of stress and competition which creates a major problem in healthy creation of child
within you. Meditation helps you manage that stress and keeps you balanced and happy in all situations.
Constant stress would create hormonal imbalance and eventually results into various gynecological problems.
Try to take shower after back home from work to purify yourself from negativity and put your clothes to wash since
they also absorb negativity around you when you're outside.
Kumkum tilak or sandalwood oil on forehead can be used to reduce stress and amount of negativity affecting you.
You can also light a small lamp or candle in your sleeping room.
Use natural flowers in your rooms for smell and try to avoid synthetic fragrances since it can never give you that
natural positive energy coming from nature.

8. Stay balanced, get married at right age, try to have kids at right age. Male sperm and female eggs also lose their
quality with age.
Don't be sad if you can’t have kids or can't get married or don't have wish to get married since that is all indication
that you don't owe anything to any soul.
Even IVF is alright to have babies and invite pure souls since soul only enters body after three months and mother
will hold embryo a well as start nurturing by then so think of that as a god's gift and cultivate it properly.
Question:
Book “Samarpan Yog of Himalaya” gives us glimpse of very adventurous life of Gurudev. Can you please share any
adventurous story of your life?
Answer:
My life’s most adventurous experience is very similar in nature to what Gurudev has experienced in Himalayas.
I visited “Vaishno Devi” very often with my parents so used to talk about it with my kids a lot and specially about the
whole experience of beautiful journey to reach there. So, one day we all (family of Swamiji) planned for “Vaishno
Devi”.
We originally planned for “Vaishno Devi” only and enjoyed thoroughly but from there we ended up going many other
places far away from “Vaishno Devi” that was never in plan and used up kids’ full vacation time as well in that whole
trip.
Even in ancient time, it was recommended to do trip of “Char Dham” (four sacred places) in which there were two
places were related to lord “Shiva” in north and east and another two places were related to lord “Vishnu” in South
and West indicating that one should trip whole India.
There are many beautiful and divine places around whole India and some places as well as temples are full of
energy.
Four such places are 4 temples situated in same energy line in kutch only (District where CM2021 was held) which
are full of so much energy. All these 4 temples are four sisters of goddess “Parvati” who is wife of lord Shiva.
Don't worry about the comfort when you go out for a trip, try to merge yourself in nature, understand and enjoy the
people and culture of that place and feel proud of your country and culture. Richness of culture that India offers is
hard to find in any other country.
This is your last birth on this earth so make sure to travel the world, absorb as much positivity you can, build good
memories and enjoy your life.

9. Closing Remarks by Guruma:
Meditate regularly, merge yourself in nature and only good souls will reach your family. So, don't even worry too
much about only inviting highly spiritual souls.
“Jay Baba Swami”