Hindu Guest Speaker chaitanya Charan

Question 1

2 assumptions

Answer 1

1. People everywhere are similar

2. Religion or spirituality is support to life. Adopt world view so that it helps you to move forward

Question 2

Evolution

Answer 2

Better understanding of ourselves

Reality of life- there is no happily ever after, everything has to end

Question 3

What is in us

Answer 3

Indestructible soul

Beyond the mine there is a soul

Question 4

Three models of being

Answer 4

Body
Kind
Soul

Question 5

What happens at death?

Answer 5

Physical body: dead on the departure of the soul

Move onto another reality

Question 6

Elevation

Answer 6

Personality is not determined by genes only, depends on the type of soul you have

So is present in every being

Question 7

Our disposition at death

Answer 7

Our destination after death

Question 8

Our attachment through life

Answer 8

Our disposition at death

Question 9

Cremation

Answer 9

Visible bodily destruction brings closure for the soul to move on to its next body

Body is unworkable the soul can move on

Body is burned- Paul can move on
So is no longer attached

Life is temporary
Serves a constructive purpose

Question 10

Past life memories

Answer 10

Dr Ian Stevenson 
Four types
1. Recollections
2.recognitions
3.behaviors 
4. Birthmarks

Question 11

Emigration

Answer 11

Emigrate to this world of matter

Whatever we find attractive in anyone, it is all present in its fullness in the divine

Question 12

Kushna

Answer 12

Someone who attracts everyone

Question 13

Horizontal

Answer 13

People beside us, temporary; doesn’t last forever

Question 14

Vertical

Answer 14

With the divine

When we learn to love the divine that is when we attain the divine

Question 15

Yoga

Answer 15

Connection

Perceive a higher reality

Connection with the soul and the divine
Connection with the finite and the infinite

Question 16

Bhakti

Answer 16

Divine love
Connection of the divine is developed by the power of emotion

When we love the divine more than the world, the divine takes us out of the world to his abode

If we become spiritually aware, we can live with pain but we don’t have to live in pain

Question 17

Ghosts

Answer 17

Soul with no body
Ghosts are themselves in a state of rest distress

Souls can enter- body and possess the body

Takes over
Once the soul is gratified then it will leave