I was reading your thoughts about the law of least effort. Accepting people and your situation every day is a very helpful and joyful experience. My question is that I am in a loveless and emotionally abusive marriage. I have exhausted all means to try to make it work. If I am to accept people and situation then how do I handle this. Is a person suppose to stay in a relationship that is unhealthy physically and spiritually and try to accept. I am just trying to understand where we draw the line of acceptance.

I have read few of your books and one of my favorites is The Path of Love. I always wonder about the quote that you gave at the end of the book. It says that “Love is not the way you feel and behave, but it’s the level of awareness”. Honestly, I have failed understanding the meaning of this quote since I have read it (which is about more than one year). Would you please kindly explain the meaning of it to me?
I also want to ask you that what is true love (love for your life-partner)? Can it change with time? And if it does, then is it a true love? May be I have made a wrong definition of love in my life, and that’s probably the reason I’m suffering emotionally. I will look forward to the right guidance from you Dr. Chopra.

I am having doubts about the beliefs of a path I have been seriously following. This path, Akram Vignan from Dada Bhagwan, has an enlightenment ceremony in which one can have direct experience of the Pure Soul, after which one follows five basic steps for life which will take one towards moksha. This path does not hold that meditation is useful for this spiritual development; it is considered an experience of phases of mind, not direct experience of the soul. I had been meditating and reading widely until finding this path a year ago. I did not know where I stood about God, but was searching for spiritual connection.

In recent days I have started to question the fact that this path does not hold that there is no God as creator of us and the universe. God is simply within all life and the universe is created by “scientific circumstantial evidences”. Some part of me believes there is a higher power we are from and also can connect with. I also feel that surely meditation is one way of connecting and a truly spiritual tool that can also lead one to final liberation.

My questions regarding leaving the path:
I will try meditating again. But I am confused and worry that if I resume meditating on my own, I might get lost or not progress as I would under a guide. I have read before that meditation requires a teacher to help one navigate and stay on the right path.

Which brings me to finding a teacher – an enlightened guide. Again, I am concerned about how to find a guide and teachings that I accept entirely. I am scared because I have heard that one can be deluded (for instance in leaving my current path), so can I trust my own judgement? Shouldn’t I be able to tell the Right Way for me when I find it?

Do you believe that the right guidance will always come to someone sending out a fervent request to the universe for help?

I’ve read a few spiritual books which discuss ‘transmutation of fears’ – specifically, that by releasing your fears to the heavens they undergo transmutation. Do the ancient text/practices support the idea that fears can be ‘changed’ by taking them to a higher level? And if so, what does it mean to be undergo this ‘transmutation’ – do they become a ‘good’ intent or do the fears just become no more?

Any clarification on this would be greatly appreciated…

Thank you and may brilliance continue to shine on all you do.

I`ve been passing through hard, painful and difficult period in my life. After my boyfriend left me (some 6 months ago), I started to ask myself what I did so wrong. To be correct, he wasn`t the only one who couldn`t work out in the relationship with me. So I turned to work with my inner world to solve a brunch of my problems. my love life was the most problematic among the others. So, my question would be: If I ever become a capable person for a relationship with men, will any of them want to involve with me?? Because of my experiences with partners I am full of doubt and I just can `t believe that I will ever meet any person who would like me.. After the recent breakup I can`t imagine the situation I meet someone I like and at the same time he likes and wants to be with me.