Should One Marry One’s Passion or a Person? Manish Malhotra Asks Sadhguru

The Fall Equinox was last week and I decided to clear my garden of the debris that remained as a shadow of the bounty produced during the growing season. Aside from the herbs and a random pepper, everything else is gone. It is a bittersweet moment to stand in front of the plants you have grown and watch them die as the winter prepares to set in.

What is true Strength? True Strength lies in being who you are. You are so much more powerful than you know.

Keep in mind that relationship villains and windows of opportunity can be anywhere-which is why we have to open our eyes and watch for patterns and life scripts. Let me tell you about the strangest place (so far!) that I’ve discovered a window of opportunity waiting for me-in the grocery store!

We are spiritual beings living in physical bodies trying to navigate our way through the worlds of duality to reach our true home; the world of true spirit the soul plane. One of the most difficult challenges we face on our journey is known as cause and effect.

Without the interconnectivity to our true and authentic self and a true knowledge of who we are and why we are here, we can literally lose our soul on this plane of existence. We can trap ourselves in patterns of self-destruction or trap our lives in cycles of reincarnation to this very plane.

I have always been told when you die in this human body, you immediately go to heaven and into the Lord’s waiting arms or into His presence. This is a commonly used consolation statement for those who are grieving over the loss of a loved one. It is a nice thought, but is it true?

When we learn that the only things we can control in this life are our choices and our attitudes–not the outcomes, not the consequences, not other people or their reactions, then we are FREE to completely trust God for our answers, our resolutions to problems, and our futures. And if we trust that because of our prayers, God is actively working to direct our lives towards our best outcome, then it becomes much easier to “trust the process” and view the steps along the way as important and necessary, even if we don’t yet understand them or even like or agree with them!

Have you ever heard people pray, “Lord, be with me,” or “Lord, just be with Aunt Sally?” What does it really mean for the Lord to “be with” someone?

Karma is a Universal law based on action and reaction-kind of a “reap what you sow” type of law. If we take an action against another person or nature, we will pay the piper for it during this incarnation or during a future lifetime.

The key to a simple life filled with love and joy is to build a work life balance that doesn’t exclude those people nearest to your heart. When you focus more on work than on family and God, you’re actively creating an imbalance that could become unhealthy both physically and emotionally.

Should we treat our pets as if they have souls? Do they have souls? Whether they do or not, we treat our pets very well. There are those who abuse pets and they are deemed criminal by society. Pets are life, creatures of God. Assaulting life is assaulting God. This raises another, deeper, more personal question: Is there God?

As there are numerous signs mentioned to take place prior to Christ return, none are more explicit than those Jesus Himself declared. The book of Matthew gives the account of, when Jesus’ disciples pointedly asked Him, “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” Matthew 24:3.