Question: Swamiji I want to know about “The Power of Subconscious Mind”. I have read a book in English but I can’t understand. Swamiji please can you tell me answers & suggest to my questions.
1. What is Subconscious Mind?
2. How it works.
3. How can we heel the power from our Subconscious Mind?
4. How can we reach the goal through our Subconscious Mind?
5. How can we use the power of our Subconscious Mind?
Swamiji, can you tell me is there any Kannada books through I can easily understand & putting in to practice. So many people do not know, what is the power of Subconscious Mind? How to use that including me also?
Swamiji, I am looking for your valuable suggestion & answers.

Question: Currently I am doing my Night shift so I work and at the same time I mail you in solace. In fact that is what I do, I work, I keep my self engaged with work, that keeps me happy when I make good designs.
But sir, sadly this lack of work environment is a truth here. The day i mailed you, these things were very dominant in my mind, but tonight as it’s about a week I am much cooler.
If fact I have to a certain extent adjusted and accepted this scenario, but I try to keep my self awake with work.
But sir you know this mind is restless, as I mentioned you I keep on having hypothetical thoughts what if… they do this… what if they misbehave….what if they obstruct… I know it’s wrong but it happens then I control it also, this is how it is.
Although it is not that bad that I need to take a transfer, because my department has the most advanced software on which I do the designing, taking a transfer will make me loose this opportunity.
But yes sir, these guys do try to make their presence felt just by talking, and talking nonsense.
I do tell all these things to my parents, baba (he is a lecturer in English) says what swami Vivekananda said” chalakir dara kono mauhot kaaj kora jae na”.
But sir, when you face things then only one realizes what it is like to face trouble or nonsense.
Sir, I love to read these fiery books of Ramakrishna Mission, but I have never done yoga, yes I do lye down quietly and try to see what the trouble is and give answers to it me.
Swamiji is it possible that if remain calm irrespective of the kind of people, rage, jealousy that one faces.
I want to remain unmoved under any circumstance, with due focus on my work. How?
I can grab a better job for myself in the next 3-4 years, but I want to leave this place with a smile and with a great deal of knowledge in my stream of Designing.
Swamiji, I want to be stronger in this respect that let people say anything I will move on…
In this regard I will need your constant touch through mail.
I regularly Visit the Ramakrishna Mission stall in book fair I attained the name of a Swamiji and the timings on when can I meet him… but sir the problem is not that severe and acute, had it been I surely would have made a move.
But I wanted to talk to some one on how to face and live life in the right note, I just get one holiday in a week and I just sleep through out the day or stay at home or go for a walk, sorry sir for this laziness…
But I would with your kind permission like to put questions to you on life or how to face things or situations or people.
Swamiji, kindly give me a reply as you get my mail, I feel mail is a much better was to discuss and when things look severe I will walk my way to you or who ever you suggest. But sir I want to keep in touch with you through mail.
It was a great pleasure to get back a reply from your end I hope you will take the pain of answering my Questions when ever I am in trouble or in Darkness.

Question: I am working as a graphic designer in a well known T.V. channel. But sir things here things are good as well as bad. I have freedom to do my kind of work, but there is no such specific authority to take control of things here.
Some guys in my dep’t have their brothers working with the higher bosses so they think they can talk or do anything they like. That is the reason why most of the people here have the most daring attitude for not working.
Once I had a problem with one of the guys as he was trying to act smart.
Sir, I am 27 yrs old, it was not very easy to get this job, and I know with due focus on my job I can do much better, but sir there are times when I feel very irritated to the approach that these boys have in my department.
I at times have Hypothetical thoughts like what if they don’t let me take holidays, or obstruct me in my work.
Since I keep myself busy with my work, and my work is fine they don’t say much about it. But some times they interfere. The biggest thing sir, I have studied designing, they haven’t they are not designers. They are here because they are brothers or friends of some seniors.
Other people in my department are aware of these characters, but no one wants to invite trouble by complaining. If fact I myself don’t know what use would it be to complain, although nothing as such has happened, but sir their attitude is like as if they run’g the department. One of the characters has a sound technical knowledge but he does not do much of designing work, the problem is they work least and talk crap to the maximum extent.
I am an ardent fan of Vivekananda. I have read several books published by Ramakrishna mission; I feel great solace in reading his opinion on life.
But sir, I do loose balance, and feel irritated at the okward behavior of these people. Although sir i am not a communal person, I love people but sir all these guys that i am talking about come from the state of Bihar. I agree that they did not get the best of Environment that I got, but they can at least respect the job they r doing. In fact one of the guys with whom I had a confrontation is elder to me by 5yrs, how can I make them understand what is right and wrong it hurts their ego. The other guy is of my age, but he has studied till 12th, but has a good technical knowledge but then keeps on talking ill for other people, as his elder brother works with one of our big bosses as his personal secretary.
I some times out of irritation think that I will go and complain, but then I cool down.
Sir, how can I reach a state where I am not troubled or affected with their immature deeds, and I just go on bettering in my job.
I truly do not feel like hurting any one or speaking rough to any one but sir these thoughts come to me, kindly throw some light and show me the way….things here are not in a very bad shape but working environment is very bad.

Question: I have a few of questions to ask you concerning Vedanta:
1. Many times in his life did Ramakrishna have visions of the Divine Mother? But what were these visions really? Was it a glimpse of Brahman meaning that the vision was Reality, or on the contrary, was the vision only Maya and imagination (a vision is only illusion)?
2. What separates Brahman and Maya? Is Maya part of Brahman (since Brahman is everything) or is Brahman the opposite of Maya (as Truth and Reality opposes itself to illusion)?
3. What is the place of Vedanta in Sanatana Dharma? Is Vedanta taking the best things of Hinduism and leaving out the negative points (such as the status of low caste people)?
4. Could Hinduism be classified as an animist religion (the belief that every natural thing contains a spirit and is therefore living)?
5. I plan to travel to India next year and study in the Belur Math for a couple of months (to start with) as it’s the best place for mastering Vedanta. I wanted to know two things:
6. Is it possible to become a monk only temporary (for a few years) or must one take a monastic vow for life?
7. Does the Ramakrishna order organize volunteering services during summer? I would be interested to volunteer in any way to help society and community.