Q: When meditating, lots of negative thoughts arise. Will they come to reality?🔗

Don't bother about their coming into reality. You are not that powerful - fortunately. Fortunately, we are not that powerful to project our thoughts into reality. Otherwise we would have created a worse hell than what we are having now.

Fortunately, god did not give so much of energy to us to project our thoughts into reality. If at some time your thoughts have become reality, if you have seen your dreams or thoughts becoming reality, do not use that power; try to divert that energy into your consciousness.

Q: Can we practice different types of yogas?

According to me, truly authentic yoga methods do not contradict each other, they only complement each other. So you can practice different yoga methods. Only thing, do not mix and make your own technique! Practice one method independently, say for 20 minutes and finish it. Then, go to the next; continue. If you mix everything and start thinking, 'I know all these things, I know the core thread, I think I can make my own technique,' that is where you will miss.

Q: You said karma means unfulfillment of desire and experiences. But our elders say that if you suffer from poverty, it is because of karma. Will any soul be willing to experience poverty or illness?

First thing, I want you to be very clear; if somebody is in poverty, they consciously chose it. Please understand, even if it hurts, I have to tell the truth.

Let me give one small incident that really happened in my life. It is a bit mystical, but I am narrating exactly as it happened. I can say, I can take an oath that I am stating the simple straight facts! You can make what you want to make out of this incident.

In the USA, an autistic child was brought to THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM for healing. The family is from North Bharat, settled in the USA. The child was about 7 or 8 years. They brought the child to THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and asked me, 'Swamiji, he is autistic. Can you please heal him?'

The family is from North Bharat and not a single person in their family or their surroundings knew Tamil.

I put my hand on the head of the child and started healing.

As soon as I started healing the child, the boy just said in village Tamil, with no respect, 'Remove your hand.'

I was shocked. In the whole family, not a single person knew Tamil. They were shocked and told me, 'There is no way that this child can hear Tamil words, because none of us speak and none of us know Tamil. He is always with us. How could he speak in Tamil?'

I thought maybe some spirit or ghost had possessed the child. I asked him, 'Who is speaking?' He said, 'I am the one in this body speaking. Don't you understand?' he continued in Tamil.

I asked him, 'Why are you asking me to remove my hand? I am healing you.'

He just retorted back, 'I don't want to be healed. It is not your business, just get out!'

I was shocked. He said, 'I do not want to take the responsibility of my life, going through the regular routine. I just wanted a comfortable life with somebody taking care of me. That is why I took this kind of body and mind.'

I said, 'That is ok. You have freedom, but your parents are such nice people. Why are you torturing them by being born to them?'

He said, 'I took birth because they are nice people. So I know they will take care of me. They will not put me in the hospitals or asylums or somewhere else. That is why I took birth in this family.'

This incident gave me a very big opening of clarity. Every soul consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly, chooses its place, birth, and lifestyle. That is what we call prarabdha.

When you come down, you choose your body.

This truth may hurt you.

Understand, it hurts because you are not able to tolerate that you chose what you are having now. I tell you, we may choose poverty because it is a big freedom. With wealth, there is too much responsibility; it is a big bondage.

Start looking at yourself and think why you chose what you chose. Maybe that can help you to enjoy and celebrate what you have chosen. Instead of constantly turning your attention and awareness towards cursing and abusing what you chose, if you start looking at why you have chosen what you have chosen, you will suddenly see new things revealing. You will see that you are exactly where you wanted to be. That is the ultimate truth. Whether it hurts or heals, truth is truth. Usually, with a little patience, it heals; it never hurts.

I tell you, karma is unfulfilled desires and experiences. Your lifestyle and everything is straightaway consciously chosen by you.

Your present is the totality of decisions that you made in the past.

Your future is going to be the totality of decisions that you are making in the present.

So, if you want, you can consciously alter, rearrange, edit, reduce, delete, or recreate. You have complete freedom.