Is that shakti missing sometimes when you need it?
Yes. It happens.

How come?
It is difficult to explain it. That is where Indian fatalism comes to your rescue, the thinking that probably that shakti did not want you to act in such way, or that not acting in such way may be for your larger good.
Basically, that shakti is not something I can invoke. It comes, imperceptibly, silently, in its own way.
I pray to God though, every morning. It started ten years ago or so, before I did not pray regularly, apart from going to temples. Now in the morning, I spend some time praying to God.

Why has it become regular?
I don’t know, I simply felt the need for it. So I have a place here in my house and where I live in my constituency I even have a temple. Those prayers are my own devices, my own words.

Do you make sure you have time on your own?
Not regularly, I am not cogitating about those questions every day, but there are moments, when I am all by myself travelling in a plane or a train, or before sleeping at night. You also think about them when someone dear to you dies.
There are occasions when such thoughts come to you and you start seeking answers. For decades for instance I have been thinking about that limitless universe and I have not been able to find an answer. My mind feels so baffled, as if about to burst. Because if the universe is limited, then what beyond those limits, and if it is limitless then my brain is too small to grasp it.

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