Spiritual Questions and Answers with Radhanath Swami
Question to Radhanath Swami: What is the purpose of temples?
Radhanath Swami Answers: A temple is a place where people are in a selfless spirit of compassion and love, and are truly worshipping God and surrendering their hearts to him. A temple is a place that transforms your life, by illuminating you and bringing you to higher states of consciousness and higher states of living.
Question to Radhanath Swami: How can one be in the state of blissful spiritual consciousness in the office?
Radhanath Swami Answers: If you are actually in the state of God Consciousness, you will be in that state anywhere. We need to have a good spiritual foundation for…
Question to Radhanath Swami: Is it the innate nature of the mind to be disturbed continuously and ultimately get depressed? Radhanath Swami Clarifies…
Radhanath Swami: It is the not the nature of the mind to pursue selfishness and egoism and thus experience frustration and depression in due course of time.
Question to Radhanath Swami: Is the modern man more depressed than his ancestors?
Radhanath Swami: According to statistics of the World Health Organization, incidents of serious depression have increased by 50% in the last 10 years.
Question to Radhanath Swami: When only in distress one is able to pray from the heart, otherwise those prayers spring from the mind, and are mechanical offered. Why is it so? Why only in distress does the mind shut down and allow us to pray from the heart?
Radhanath Swami: What you are talking about is sometimes human nature. But we should cultivate a higher standard.
