A two-day youth retreat was conducted in Irvine, during the USA 2025 Jnana Yajna. A group of youth had the opportunity to listen to Poojya Swamiji, Ma and Nutan Swamiji and also had informal session with each of them. The topic of the retreat was *Cultivating a holistic personality to navigate your day-today life*. The participants expressed that, the whole program was an eye-opener and inspired them to take further challenges in life with confidence and peace of mind.

This is the Question & Answer Session along with concluding remarks by Ma Gurupriya ji and Poojya Swamiji.

Date: 08 June 2025
Venue: Fairfield Inn 15011, Newport Ave, Tustin CA 92780

In this session, Swamiji gives deep, succinct replies to the simple questions raised by the young participants. He exhorts the listeners to live life without harming other beings and to remember God and seek his help, and support.

When the sense organs come in contact with world objects, the only two mental resultants are sukha (happiness) or duhkha (misery). Knowing that they are inevitable, one must have equal acceptance to both. This attitude of evenness, or harmony towards sukha-duhkhas is the secret to a peaceful, stable, and joyful life.

Human life is always plagued by stress, anxiety, fear, anger, and similar afflictions. When one witnesses such suffering amongst near and dear ones, the only thing to do is to pray wholeheartedly and sincerely for the mitigation of their suffering. Mind must pray for the well-being, peace, and auspiciousness for the entire mankind. Swamiji urges participants to cultivate noble qualities, by repeated introspection on them and by learning to love those qualities.

Questions and Shlokas in the Session:
0:14 – What is the dharma of a human being?
0:35 - श्रूयतां धर्मसर्वस्वं श्रुत्वा चैवावधार्यताम्
1:51 – Can we strive to change the duration of sukha, so that we have less duhkha?
5:40 – How to witness the thoughts?
8:56 – Is everything pre-destined? Do we have a free will to change our destiny?
11:56 – How to cultivate non-affectation?
15:08 – Did Ramayana and Mahabharata really occur?
26:29 – Many are suffering from anxiety? How to deal with anxiety?
27:25 - सर्वे जनाः सुखिनो भवन्तु…

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