Questions and Answers

Questions by various friends,
and Answers by Swami Nirmalananda, abbot of Atma Jyoti Ashram

From time to time, friends have asked Swami Nirmalananda questions on various subjects. Below is a small sampling of the questions. On the right find various Question and Answer topics. Follow the links to discover the answers.

•Do you believe God is the all-powerful Person? That is, do you believe that God has also a personal feature, a more or less human form, but with all the powers?

•Would you say that all creation is God?

•Doesn't the Genesis account of the sacrifices of Cain and Abel contradict the position of vegetarians?

•When I listen to people on TV that talk to spirits that have passed on, they say that we chose to come back as who we are in this life, so that almost sounds like it was a script we chose to live out. That seems to be that it was all written and what happens is predisposed.

•What is life in the astral plane like?

Q&A Topics:

• God
• God & Creation
• Religion
• Spiritual Life
• More On Practical Spiritual Life
• Vegetarianism
• Christianity
• Channeling
• Reincarnation & Karma
• Life After Death
• Angels & Satan
• Animals
• Astrology
• Samadhi
• Monastic Life
• Miscellaneous

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