Q: When someone criticizes me I switch off and go into hiding. How to handle criticism without arguing and fighting?

Q: When someone criticizes me I switch off and go into hiding. How to handle criticism without arguing and fighting?

Guruji : Know that you’re magnanimous. Every time you face a criticism know that you are vast like the ocean, and you can take in anything. When you feel small that is when you don’t feel like taking criticism. When you feel you are very big, then you think, 'I am much bigger than this criticism, let me take it in'.
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Q: Can one choose their parents and time and place of birth?

Guruji : Yes, you will always choose as per your karma.

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You know, when you run feverishly after material gains, your attention is no longer directed towards gaining knowledge. Then you cannot learn.

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When mistakes happens, see it as a happening. Through whom it happened is secondary. If you adopt this approach, it makes you very centered, and you feel connected with everybody. The mind becomes free from anger, jealousy, greed, and all these negative imperfections

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Q: What is that one primary mantra to success?

Guruji : The one primary mantra to success is to digest failure.

Om Namah Shivay