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		<title>Do you believe in heaven and hell existing as some independent planes apart from this earth-plane of ours?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.H.Sri Swami Sivananda:  Why not? They are also planes of existence just like ours. They are as real as the earthly plane. All the worlds (Lokas) and all the Tirthas (sacred rivers) are existent in the human being himself, if he has belief in the scriptures. One can enjoy heaven or hell in this birth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1284</link>
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		<title>I meditate every now and then on God&#8217;s glory and omnipotence, but seem to derive no tangible results therefrom. Reasons for it please.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.H.Sri. Swami Sivananda:         There is no use of praying to the Lord by fits and starts or every now and then. Do Japa and meditation regularly without any break even for a single day. Just as you do not give up tea and meals even for a single day, and just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1282</link>
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		<title>Swamiji, why do you allow your feet to be worshipped, allow regular Puja to be offered to your feet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.H.Sri Swami Sivananda:         The materialistic modern mind needs a good flushing before it can understand this. To the spiritual aspirant, the Guru&#8217;s feet are not feet merely, but are the channels of divine grace. From time immemorial, the Indian seeker after truth has known that his receptive centre, viz., the head, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1279</link>
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		<title>Why is it that the life-span of the modern man is so short as compared to that of his ancestors?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.H.Sri Swami Sivananda:         Our ancestors used to have a well-regulated, disciplined life. They were not slaves of their senses as the modern people are. They used to do Japa, Pranayam, Sandhyavandana (Trikala) and Svadhyaya (study of religious books like the Gita, the Bhagavata and the Ramayana). They used to do charity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1277</link>
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		<title>When death is predestined and also is nothing but a pause to change the clothes, why is it, then, a sin to commit suicide and also to kill living beings for a certain cause?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.H.Sri Swami Sivananda:         Suicide as well as killing of other beings are both considered to be great sins, as they block the course of evolution of the Jiva. Moreover, putting an end to the present gross body by force does not help one to put an end to his sufferings. Sufferings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1270</link>
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		<title>Should the means to achieve good ends be always good? Medicine tastes bitter, but cures diseases. Arjuna fought against the Kauravas to achieve good ends.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.H.Sri Swami Sivananda:         Indian thought has no hesitation in answering this question in the affirmative. Except the rank materialists, the Charvakas, the founders of all other systems of Indian thought boldly declare that &#8220;one should not adopt a foul means to achieve a desired end, however covetable that end may be&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1266</link>
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		<title>Is conscience not the mode by which we can listen to the inner Atman?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.H.Sri Swami Sivananda: The pure conscience itself is the &#8220;Inner Voice&#8221;. But the difficulty in the ordinary man is that the voice of the lower mind, the voice of the brutal instincts, is often misunderstood as the voice of conscience. As a result of such misunderstanding, guided by his animal tendencies, he commits colossal blunders, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1264</link>
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		<title>How can a married man practice Brahmacharya? Is it possible especially when the couple are young?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.H.Sri Swami Sivananda:         To live and enjoy Grihastha life, with one&#8217;s own wife during the Ritu period subject to the imposed restrictions of the Sastras is itself Brahmacharya. Sastras say that the married man should not indulge in sense-satisfaction as and when his senses prompt him to do so. He should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1263</link>
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		<title>CD Neuerscheinung &#8220;Hab vielen Dank&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Der Initiator und Projektleiter des Homa-Hofs, Horst Heigl, bringt eine neue Musik-CD heraus. Sein besonderes Anliegen bei der Musik ist es, die feinstoffliche Schwingung anzuheben, ähnlich wie es auch beim Agnihotra geschieht. Freuen Sie sich auf 53 Minuten Stimmungs- und Schwingungserhöhung. Es gibt verschiedene Arten, Danke zu sagen: die leise, verträumte Art, die freudige, verspielte, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1256</link>
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		<title>Is procreation a sin?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.H.Swami Sivananda: Neither manhood nor womanhood nor procreation is a sin. A seeker after Truth can beget children and later take to the path of renunciation either in and through the world or entirely out of the clutches of the world. The moment one begets a male child for the upkeep of the progeny, one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnihotra.ch/?p=1255</link>
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