When you sit for meditation, are your eyes steady? Is your breath steady? Is the prana haphazard? Is it going smooth and steady or going haphazard? When the senses are steady, the soul also becomes peaceful. Your Being, your spirit inside you, becomes steady.
One Pointedness
To achieve anything in the world your mind has to be one-pointed; the mind gets into some restlessness to achieve things. But to attain your Self Realization, your *heart* has to be one-pointed.
missing devotion
It is very painful---once you have had a taste of devotion, and then the devotion is not there, you feel, "Oh, something is missing!"
Jesus
Jesus is the only way? Jesus is Love-yes, Jesus is the only way. Jesus has many names: he is Buddha, he is Krishna, and he is you. Your name also belongs to Jesus.
Transform Yourself
Living the mystery of life so totally is joy.Becoming the mystery is divine.You are a mystery...
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Building Enthusiasm
Just be. Just enthusiasm. When you do an action without a "vasuna," without a latent impression of "I, mine," then you become the embodiment of bubbling enthusiasm. Like small children, three or four month old kids, have you seen them? Very enthusiastic. That enthusiasm is coming out of every cell of the body.
wash your mind
Your clean your windows, you clean your tables, you wash your clothes, but you forget to wash this mind.
Worry and Hanging on
Worry makes you hang on to the past, because worry carries the "doership" in it. And the path of devotion is dropping the "doership."
Craving, Aversion, Feverishness.
It is impossible to be without being with the five senses in the world---but the craving for it should drop. Because every craving or aversion creates a feverishness in the mind, and whenever the mind is in the grip of feverishness it is far away from love.
Duties
Don't think, "I have lots of duties. How will I fulfill my duties!" See, the moment you think something is your duty, there is no beauty in it. Duty, responsibility, becomes a burden, it becomes a bondage on your head. Love the job that you are doing.
Offering
Oh Lord, this whole universe is Yours. This body is Yours. This mind is Yours. The mind with all its conflict is also Yours. The mind with all its beauty is Yours---this offering itself is a technique that brings you back home.
A Wall of Pride
If you want to grow in Divine Love, you have got to drop the pride and all of the artificial wall we build between ourselves and others. In the "wall" we keep judging others, and we think others are judging us.
Set Concepts
We have a set idea about ourself, set concept about ourself, about our likes and dislikes, about our abilities and disabilities, about our own nature. This is what really restricts us. This is what makes us unhappy.
Love Vs Cravings
When you tell somebody you love them, make sure you are not saying it out of your "vasanas," your own cravings, your own impressions, your own craving for some joy.
Joy of Self
All the enlightened masters have declared: the joy of Self---uniting with the Self---is a hundred times more than any other joy.
Unseen hand
How can we not see this? That everything in the body is happening by itself. Everything in creation is happening by itself. The flowers are blossoming, the leaves are becoming green, the petals are becoming yellow, the sun is rising, setting---how could one be so blind not to see an "unseen hand" behind this whole creation?
Who cares?
Who is worried about your status? Nobody. If someone looks at your status, they feel jealousy. Why do you create more jealousy in other people
Take life as a Play
Take life not serious. If you take life very serious, then you are bound to be disturbed. The only way you can maintain your equanimity is to take it as a play, as a game, and not take anything too serious.
True Unity
Existing as though you are not, living as though you are not there at all: hollow and empty - pure, empty space - that is when one says, "Let Thy will be done. Let Thy will be done. Let Thy will be done." That is true unity between the little small mind and the infinite mind, the cosmic mind, the universal mind.
Memory
What has happened in our memory, in our mind? A memory or an event getting connected to emotion, getting connected to a sensation---this becomes a cycle.
sit and be with it
Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state
Restricting Awareness
One single thought in the mind can restrict your awareness, the totality of awareness. How big is your mind? How vast is your life? There are so many things in life. One small, insignificant thought, insignificant thing, can clog and cloud your whole awareness.
Yoga Vs Depression
Yoga is to realize that your mind is dynamic, your life is dynamic. Depression is a sign of static understanding about life. When you feel everything in life is dead, static, there is nothing more, nowhere to go---that is when one gets depressed.
what destroys knowledge
What destroys the knowledge in you is the feverishness. What clouds your awareness and consciousness, your joy, is feverishness.
Senses Lead within
Each of the senses lead you to a point deep inside you that is the fountain of joy. Whether touch, sex, or sight, or music, or smell, or taste---the joy that is coming to you is coming from a source deep within.
My mistake
When you recognize a mistake as mistake, but not as "my" mistake, your guilt will not be there. You see "Oh, this is a mistake---whether it is by me or someone else---this is a mistake that needs rectification." Your mind is lighter, it is not stiff. It is not loaded with tension.
multi dimensional growth
If you are just enthusiasm, it can be directed in anything, anywhere, all directions. That is how multi-dimensional growth happens within you. Fullness of consciousness blossoms in all aspects.
small world
Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this?
worries washed away
You can do this as an experiment: when you are very worried or tense, just sit by a flowing river or gushing water and just keep looking at the water. You know, within few moments you feel as though like a magnetic pull, that your mind is being pulled in the direction of the flow of water...and in a short while all that anguish, delusion, whatever you had, [with] the flowing water it all flows away. You become fresh.
Desire
Desire means the present is not sufficient enough, it is not okay the way it is now, this moment. Desire means projection to the next moment. Desire simply means being unaware of the Infinity. Desire simply means you don?t know yourself.
Do one thing
If you do one thing---gain perfection in the Being---then everything else gets perfected.
Like attracts like
In the realm of mind, like attracts like. If the soul is peaceful, then it attracts peaceful environment and people around it.
True Love
True love will not bring sadness, sorrow, misery, problems. But with vasanas (cravings) a tail is always attached---pain, problems, misery, discomfort.
Remember your nature
You have just been overshadowed by the events in your mind---that is all that has happened. A cloud has covered the sun. What can any cloud do to the sun? Can it destroy it? Remember your nature. You are the only Soul, only Being.
Precious secrets
All that is precious in life is a secret. Love is a secret. Life is a secret. The world is a secret. You feelings, emotions are a secret. You are the biggest secret.
Giving
When you give things to people, it brings back something to you---that is some good vibrations. And that makes you happy. If you are very unhappy, and that day you give something, give some gifts to somebody who is needy, you will see your consciousness will change, shift.
Male and Female
You are made up of both your father and mother; so, within you you have both the characteristics of mother and father, male and female. There are many men who have motherly qualities in them, feminine qualities in them. And then, there are many women who have more male qualities in them. Love is beyond the qualities; Love is beyond male or female. It is not just limited to body or emotions. It is something that transcends all these identifications.
Merging into one.
The seers, the seen, and the process of seeing all merge. The knowledge, the knower, and the known, they all merge, become one -- that is Divine Love.
Surrender
Sometmes on a dark night if there is lightning, that second you see the whole town. Everything becomes visible, even for a few moments. Like that, surrender happens in deep meditation.
Transcendental Prayer
When you meditate or when you pray, when you are in the space of vastness, calmness and love, you emit certain vibrations, and these vibrations are not limited to you or your environment. They also touch all those minds or the balloons of souls which are outside your physical reality. Your prayer transcends physical reality and reaches the subtle levels of existence.
Repose
Desire is hustle and bustle. Desire is agitation, activity. When all that is dropped: peaceful reposing in the inner-most core of your Being. Repose---as though you are finished, dead, gone.
See a mistake as a mistake
See a mistake as a mistake, not as "my" or "his" mistake. "My" means guilt; "his" means anger.
The cool inner core
When your mind cools down and you experience that cool inner core---that soft and delicate aspect of yourself---a big relief comes.
Harsh Words
Do not speak any harsh word. Let not any harsh word come out of your mouth to anyone, for the Divine dwells in every heart. Do not hurt with your words, for the Divine dwells in every heart.
Letting go
When you sit for meditation, let go of everything. Best way is to think, "Oh, the world is disappearing, dissolved, dead---I am dead." Unless you are "dead" you cannot meditate.
Desire and Distress
Desire and distress go together. Your desire, when it gets fulfilled, gives another desire and another desire. With each desire, distress is simply postponed.
only one
You think there are two people existing in this world. You think there are
two lives; in fact it is wrong. There is only one Life and one Self, one
Soul.
a mistake as a mistake
When you recognize a mistake as mistake, but not as "my" mistake, your guilt will not be there. You see "Oh, this is a mistake---whether it is by me or someone else---this is a mistake that needs rectification." Your mind is lighter, it is not stiff. It is not loaded with tension.
Remember your nature
You have just been overshadowed by the events in your mind---that is all that has happened. A cloud has covered the sun. What can any cloud do to the sun? Can it destroy it? Remember your nature. You are the only Soul, only Being.
Dissolving in Love
In Divine love you cease to exist, you dissolve, like a pinch of salt that dissolves in water, a grain of sugar that disappears and dissolves and allows just that Divinity to be there.
who cares?
Who is worried about your status? Nobody. If someone looks at your status, they feel jealousy. Why do you create more jealousy in other people
Cool inner core
When your mind cools down and you experience that cool inner core---that soft and delicate aspect of yourself---a big relief comes.
Shoulds
Your concept in the mind that things should be a certain way causes pain in the mind. The cause of distress is set concepts in the mind.
Abundance is a state of mind
Abundance is a state of mind within you. If you just look at "lack," the lack increases in life.
Pain in Love
There is pain in love because the pain is of the ego; the ego is disappearing, is being destroyed, crushed - and that crushing of ego is painful.
again and again
Again and again, withdraw your mind. If your mind is running all over the place, it is because of the objects of the senses. You want to look at something, or you want to hear about something.
Sense of Purity
After kriya, many people feel so pure and so clear, so complete, because the consciousness, which was stuck in the matter, material, which is foreign to itself, got released from that and came back to its home. That is the sense of purity, feeling of purity.
Faith and doubt
Faith means what? Purity of the intellect is called "faith." Doubt means what? Split in the mind is called "doubt." What is doubt? Mind is not complete, one whole, it is divided.
expressing love
When we express love too much, then also it disappears, dies out. It?s like when you keep the seed on the surface of the soil, not a little deep inside, it doesn?t grow.
whirlpool
This consciousness is like a lake. And the inner faculties of the mind are like a whirlpool in there.
Desire is a product of sleep
Every desire arises from the sleeping state. Desire is a product of sleep, unconsciousness. Just sleep itself cannot produce desire, but something along with sleep. A spark of beauty, just a spark of beauty in the unconsciousness, creates desire.
Cause of Fear
Lack of understanding of life causes fear. People are afraid of love,
people are afraid of meditation, people are afraid of death, people are
afraid of themselves. Ignorance, lack of awareness, is cause of fear. Just
a glimpse of the Being, of the Self that you are, that you are beyond
death, roots out the fear totally.
Know a Thought as a Thought
Knowing a thought as thought brings the freedom. When you know a thought as a reality, that is when you are stuck.
Action Vs Talk
When something bothers you too much in the mind, you want to talk. This is in between. I tell you, when something bothers you in the mind, get into action---work. You will see that gives a bigger relief.
Bubbles on the sufrace of the infinite
Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.
seeing God
The future is very comfortable. Glorifying the past is very comfortable. Seeing God now, here, is difficult. Seeing God in yourself is even more difficult
Missing Devotion
It is very painful---once you have had a taste of devotion, and then the devotion is not there, you feel, "Oh, something is missing!"
overshadowed ?
You have just been overshadowed by the events in your mind---that is all that has happened. A cloud has covered the sun. What can any cloud do to the sun? Can it destroy it? Remember your nature. You are the only Soul, only Being.
Still more doubt
In order to trust, you must first understand your doubt. You doubt yourself, and you doubt people around you. And then you doubt in the existence of God.
the flow of events
When you see this whole flow of events as temporary, as nonexistent, then, even when someone scolds at you, you smile.
Science and Spirituality
All possible advancements in any field you see today, either science or arts, originated as a thought, originated in that ocean of Intelligence.People talk about "science meeting spirituality" or "spirituality coming together with science" this is such an immature, childish statement. Spiritual knowledge *is* science. And science can never be away from spiritual knowledge. Because, spirit alone can bring the science up. They are two sides of the same coin.
delinking enthusiasm
When you link your enthusiasm to any thing, then when the object of enthusiasm changes or moves, your enthusiasm also dies. Do you see this?
Craving Aversion and Feverishness
It is impossible to be without being with the five senses in the world---but the craving for it should drop. Because every craving or aversion creates a
feverishness in the mind, and whenever the mind is in the grip of feverishness it is far away from love.
Really live
To your very dear and loved ones, you say this: "If you need me, I am here. I am here for you. I am here to make you comfortable." Those are the moments that you have really lived your life.
honoring Divine Love
In whomsoever you see whatever good quality---appreciating it, honoring it, heightening it, enlightening it---this is Divine Love, this is bhakti, this is devotion.
likes and dislikes
You think you are an individual "self" with likes and dislikes, and a storm comes into your life, whether you like it or not, and it lashes on you and pulls you out of your likes and dislikes.
Joy / Not Joy
This is what we see in the world today: everyone is moving towards joy, but people are not joyful. They are the opposite---miserable. Because they are clinging on to the sense objects rather than the source of joy.
Overshadowed?
You have just been overshadowed by the events in your mind---that is all that has happened. A cloud has covered the sun. What can any cloud do to the sun? Can it destroy it? Remember your nature. You are the only Soul, only Being.
Really live
To your very dear and loved ones, you say this: "If you need me, I am here. I am here for you. I am here to make you comfortable." Those are the moments that you have really lived your life.
joy and being joyful
This is what we see in the world today: everyone is moving towards joy, but people are not joyful. They are the opposite---miserable. Because they are clinging on to the sense objects rather than the source of joy.
Transorming Feverishness
Attend to every part of your body with honor?all feverishness will be transformed into love.
Offering
Oh Lord, this whole universe is Yours. This body is Yours. This mind is Yours. The mind with all its conflict is also Yours. The mind with all its beauty is Yours---this offering itself is a technique that brings you back home.
Name and Form
Love is there in the whole creation. Everything is Love. But you have never related in your life other than by name and form; you could not love something which has no name or form. The guru embodies---Buddha embodies, Jesus embodies---that infinite Love with name and form.
freedom and responsibility
Someone who does not have any responsibility can feel very detached: "Oh, I have nothing to do. I am free." But that freedom has no value.
Nectar and Posion
In every breath there is Divine nectar. There is nectar that flows out of it. Or poison can flow.
Every Storm
Every storm that has come into your life has widened your horizon, has made you deep and more powerful. Every storm has destroyed some smallness in you, something in you that has been very small.
Love and Logic
Love is the realm of the unknown, the unknowable, the infinity. Logic pertains to the realm of limitations, observations.
Just Observe
Just observe the nature---how big this world is, how big the universe is. Nothing is permanent here.
Finding Time for Meditation
The more pressed for time you are, the deeper the rest you must take, and the more essential is meditation.
Finding Divine
You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching.
Love Transformed
The love that you have for objects for people, for things, and places, and items is not different from Divine Love. It?s not opposite to Divine Love... I tell you the same love is transformed, becomes Divine Love.
silence at the peak
Something stunning takes you to silence. Something wonderful---words disappear, you become silent. At the helm of every emotion, at the peak of every happening, there is silence. And recognizing it, manifesting it in our life, you cross the ocean of "samsara," the ocean of misery.
Limited Senses
Our senses have a limited capacity to enjoy, but the desire in the mind to enjoy is infinite. This is where opposition begins: the mind wants to enjoy, but your body is too tired to enjoy.
self study
By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel---you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of the Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.
forget to forgive
Forgetfulness is one of the greatest blessings. If you remember all that people did in the past, never forget, you will never forgive also
space
When you give a space, the longing in you increases, whether it is for your spouse, or for God, or for Guru---whatever. And when there is longing, your love becomes really strong, powerful, unshakable.
Fleeting thoughts
Many times, about what you want you are not clear, because you have never looked into yourself. You are swayed away by fleeting thoughts and fleeting emotions, fleeting desires.
again and again
Coming back to the center, to the Seer, this moment---again and again and again---is abhyasa.
attractions and aversions
Do not get stuck up in any attractions around, and do not get stuck up in any aversions around. Then you cannot come to me, you cannot hear me, you cannot be with me at all.
levels of communication
Much is done in silence. If the communication is just on the level of words, many questions will come, and answers are given, and many more questions will come, and more answers will come, and many questions---it is an endless exercise.
compartments in your mind
You have got big compartments in your mind, innumerable compartments made in your mind. So, you immediately put everything, your experiences in life, into compartments. You make concepts and get stuck there.
craving creates sadness
Why are you sad? Why are you sorrowful? It?s because of your craving. You?re holding on to the past. The sadness is a memory of the past; a memory of craving from the past creates sadness now."
Relax. Be Peaceful
There is some power, someone who is really caring for you---not just someone: there is only One in the whole universe. That One in the Universe is caring and taking care. Relax; just be peaceful.
You are nobody
Drop this identity---that you are somebody. You are nobody. You are nothing. You are the Non-Dual.
When doubts arise
When doubts arise in you: fast, meditate, do pranayam, and do prayers, and see whether the doubt will remain.
like the ocean without waves...
That which is unmoved, like the ocean without waves, that which is free and pure, that which exists in the three periods of time---the past, present, and future---that supreme art Thou. Meditate on this and realize, right now.
Anything can change
Anything can change any time, in any manner. The whole world is the field of all probabilities, possibilities.
Nature knows best
See how many desires you have had, and how many desires were not fulfilled. And, how many desires you feel this way: when it was not fulfilled, it was good, ?It was best for me.? Don?t you see this? Some desires which were not fulfilled, it was good for you. So, Nature knows what is best for you.
detachment
Someone who does not have any responsibility can feel very detached: "Oh, I have nothing to do. I am free." But that freedom has no value.
Beyond birth and death
There is something in you that is beyond death. And that is before birth, also.
Everything is just a thought
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought, your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.
different kinds of tears
Devotion is very beautiful. A student comes to a master, a teacher, a guru, with tears in his eyes, there is so much problems. And when he leaves he carries the same tears, but the quality of the tear is different; it is of gratitude. Still tears flow, but they are of gratitude, of love.
secret of the universe
Sacredness is the secret of the universe. In the womb of sacredness, creation happens. Consciousness is sacred.
unpleasant feelings
Some feeling came into you, unpleasant feeling, and you said, "Should not come, it should not come!" Doing that, you are resisting it. When you resist, it persists. Just observe. See, "Oh!" Go deep into it. Dance, stand up on your feet and dance. Be intoxicated; move intoxicated.
Dreams of Pleasure
Every pleasure has been so momentary, has left your hand empty, depleted, drained. And every pleasure has brought you more depression, sorrow, pulled you down. But yet there is a hope of some pleasure, some unknown, unseen pleasure. Dreaming of a pleasure---that makes you weak, that holds you back.
when you let go
Regret piles up and piles up and it becomes so big---and you blow up. Do you see this happening to you? When you let go, your mind can be in the present moment, more and more and more and more. You are able to smile and laugh from the depth of your heart. Life becomes more light and easy.
partial knowledge
Shadows appear very big, much bigger than you, but they have no existence. Smaller the light, bigger the shadow appears. If it is total darkness, then also there is no shadow. So partial knowledge, a partial light, partial vision, brings the shadow. And it makes the shadow appear very huge, very big. But know it is just a shadow.
levels of beauty
Beauty has three levels: indication, expression, and exposure. Spirituality indicates, art expresses, and science exposes.
love and faith
Love transcends logic. Love depends on faith. You cannot say, "I have a lot of love, but I have no faith." It is impossible. Love carries along with it, faith. And Divine Love [carries] infinite faith.
jealousy
You can never feel jealous about yourself, can you? When something is not you, you feel jealous.
serenity
Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene, depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious.
Be passionate for the highest
If you are passionate, be passionate for the highest, the most wonderful, the most beautiful. Be passionate for this entire creation-everything is so beautiful
avoiding bondage
You reject something, but if you reject it without anger it is not bondage; if you reject something with anger, then that is bondage. You receive some, and when you receive: "Oh, oh, oh!" you are excited about it, then that is bondage. Whatever is done with anger or excitement makes a strong impression in the mind and that becomes a bondage.
only by Grace
In the presence of the enlightened, something can happen. It triggers, the very presence triggers, and your heart starts blossoming. One experiences a depth of love. And even this you get only by a little grace from the Divine.
Giving
When you give things to people, it brings back something to you---that is some good vibrations. And that makes you happy. If you are very unhappy, and that day you give something, give some gifts to somebody who is needy, you will see your consciousness will change, shift.
Seeing God
The future is very comfortable. Glorifying the past is very comfortable. Seeing God now, here, is difficult. Seeing God in yourself is even more difficult
You think you know
You think you know the world and "This is it." That is the biggest problem. This is not just one world; there are many layers in this world.
mysteries of the world
The mysteries of this world can never be fully unfolded. The more you unfold it, the more mysterious it becomes. And that is why it is beautiful.
have an inner connection with the Divine
Guru is inside you. Have an inner union with the guru. Inside, be with the guru. Krishna is inside you; God, the Divine is inside you---have an inner connection with the Divine.
One Pointedness
To achieve anything in the world your mind has to be one-pointed; the mind gets into some restlessness to achieve things. But to attain your Self Realization, your *heart* has to be one-pointed.
Offering
Oh Lord, this whole universe is Yours. This body is Yours. This mind is Yours. The mind with all its conflict is also Yours. The mind with all its beauty is Yours---this offering itself is a technique that brings you back home.
doing the practice
Just like you learn to speak a language. Just like you learn to punch on the computer. Just like you learn to drive a car or a plane, you have to learn to drive back to the Self. This is the saadhana, this is the practice---is something that comes to you not just by nature, but by your effort.
No difference
A servant is the Master. One who is a servant can only be a Master. And the Master is the servant. There is no difference.
sign of unity
Sign of uniting, or sign of yoga, is coming to your self, your mind settling into your being, your source, with your original nature.
Aversions
Your taste is nothing that cannot be changed. Your aversions are that which bind you, which robs the freedom from you. Stand back and look at them.
wash your mind
Your clean your windows, you clean your tables, you wash your clothes, but you forget to wash this mind.
surrender and freedom
There is no freedom at all without surrender, and when I surrender I get infinite freedom. The greater my surrender is, the greater my freedom, that much the load is taken off of me.
one pointedness
To achieve anything in the world your mind has to be one-pointed; the mind gets into some restlessness to achieve things. But to attain your Self Realization, your *heart* has to be one-pointed.
look into the vastness
Our head is stuck inside a drum, and we think that is the sky. It is so little, our universe. Take your head; lift up---look into that vastness of the creation.
attend to the source
When the Source is attended to, all your other abilities flower automatically, spontaneously.
Duties
Don?t think, ?I have lots of duties. How will I fulfill my duties!? See, the moment you think something is your duty, there is no beauty in it. Duty, responsibility, becomes a burden, it becomes a bondage on your head. Love the job that you are doing.
finite and infinite
The human nervous system is so designed that it can exhibit the totality of consciousness. Living in a finite body and expressing infinity is the possibility of human life.
Strength is wakefulness
The more you are loaded with desires, the poorer you are, the weaker you are. Strength is wakefulness, and in wakefulness there is no desire. Remember this.
who cares?
Who is worried about your status? Nobody. If someone looks at your status, they feel jealousy. Why do you create more jealousy in other people
being useful
If you are useful, then people will use you. But this fear is in us: "Oh, everybody is trying to use me. Everbody is trying to exploit me."
pleasure and pain
Whichever object is giving you pleasure, the same object will give you misery---the same thing will give you misery, pain. Like, apple pie is giving you joy, go on eating apple pie, and it will give you a stomach ache and what not.
whatever you desire
If you look to God, pray to God, with a full heart, dropping sorrow (What is sorrow! Huh? Hanging on to the past.) then whatever you desire will all be given to you.
Dreams of Pleasure
Every pleasure has been so momentary, has left your hand empty, depleted, drained. And every pleasure has brought you more depression, sorrow, pulled you down. But yet there is a hope of some pleasure, some unknown, unseen pleasure. Dreaming of a pleasure---that makes you weak, that holds you back.
avoiding bondage
You reject something, but if you reject it without anger it is not bondage; if you reject something with anger, then that is bondage. You receive some, and when you receive: "Oh, oh, oh!" you are excited about it, then that is bondage. Whatever is done with anger or excitement makes a strong impression in the mind and that becomes a bondage.
everyday miracles
With even an iota of faith, you will see many things happen in life. Every moment, every step, every day is a day of some miracle, a day of some wonder, something new, something beautiful.
mysteries of the world
The mysteries of this world can never be fully unfolded. The more you unfold it, the more mysterious it becomes. And that is why it is beautiful.
Temporary Flow
When you see this whole flow of events as temporary, as nonexistent, then, even when someone scolds at you, you smile.
like a child
When you are established in your Self, you are not holding on to concepts. You are loose, free, easy, and open---just like a child.
Not yourself
Life is found to be caught up in storms so very often, and you are not yourself when you are in a storm.
Anger is about the past
Anger is meaningless, because it is always about something that has already passed.
Ego and Divine Love
As long as there is ego, there is no divine love; and when there is Divine Love, the ego ? there is no sign of it.
Seva ( service )
Seva is just an expression for our inner love. The love in us blossoms and it has to flow out and express itself. Otherwise it is suffocating inside.
flash of surrender
Sometimes on a dark night if there is lightning, that second you see the whole town. Everything becomes visible, even for a few moments. Like that, surrender happens in deep meditation.
Priorities
The glory of the Divine is all-pervading. You only need an eye to see it. But our eyes are stuck on other things, other attractions. If you are stuck with something else, you cannot reach up to the Self.
Dear to God
God is all over. God is in the stone. God is in the flowers. God is in the garbage can. God is all over, but devotee is not all over. So God runs behind His devotees. To God, devotees are very dear, so dear.
Erased Karmas
Even in (Sudarshan) Kriya, when you do Kriya, at the end of the Kriya you get a glimpse of samadhi, for a few seconds, even. Sometimes you are aware, sometimes you are not aware of it. And at this moment all the "karmas," the latent impressions in the mind---they all get burned down and erased.
No going back
For every step, the previous phase has to be disolved. One phase disolves to give space for another, and it is always evolutionary. So there is no reverting back, no reversing---it is evolutionary. It can stop for a while, but then it continues.
Uncovering Divine Love
To uncover is enlightenment. Uncover what? Your true identify, your true nature. And what is your true nature? Divine Love.
fevershness
When feverishness clogs your head, your mind is not clear; a poetry cannot dawn. If there is feverishness, any creative thought will not come.
Concepts and bondage
Your bondage is when you have a certain viewpoint and you are stuck with that viewpoint. You have certain ideas, certain concepts how things should be and not always does it coincide with the creation, how things happen. Then you are stuck, you are cooking now, wrestling inside: "What should I do? This is not right! This is not right!"
Meditation and Death
Meditation is very similar to this experience of void. In meditation you realize you are not just the body, but you are more than the body. That annihilates the fear of death.
Sattvic Intellect
When you see the beauty somewhere, when you fall in love with something, the next impulse that comes in you is to possess it, have it; and, when you have it, it looses all its significance.
Possessing
When you see the beauty somewhere, when you fall in love with something, the next impulse that comes in you is to possess it, have it; and, when you have it, it looses all its significance.
You are nobody
Drop this identity---that you are somebody. You are nobody. You are nothing. You are the Non-Dual.
Expression of the self
The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self.
Mysterious Love
When you live in Love, you become so mysterious! That is Govinda. 'Govind' means one who has hidden knowledge, or one who cannot be explained in words, is beyond the words.
Relax, be peaceful
There is some power, someone who is really caring for you---not just someone: there is only One in the whole universe. That One in the Universe is caring and taking care. Relax; just be peaceful.
Freedom from Pleasure
Freedom from the pleasure is the real pleasure. Pain does not bind you; it is the pleasure that binds you. And the bondage is painful. If you are bound, you are not bound by misery, you are bound by your craving, your pleasure.
Creating Love
Can you create love inside you? It is not possible; love is a happening, a phenomenon.
Unseen Hand
How can we not see this? That everything in the body is happening by itself. Everything in creation is happening by itself. The flowers are blossoming, the leaves are becoming green, the petals are becoming yellow, the sun is rising, setting---how could one be so blind not to see an "unseen hand" behind this whole creation?
Creating Love
Can you create love inside you? It is not possible; love is a happening, a phenomenon.
Unseen hand
How can we not see this? That everything in the body is happening by itself. Everything in creation is happening by itself. The flowers are blossoming, the leaves are becoming green, the petals are becoming yellow, the sun is rising, setting---how could one be so blind not to see an "unseen hand" behind this whole creation?
honoring is divine love
In whomsoever you see whatever good quality---appreciating it, honoring it, heightening it, enlightening it---this is Divine Love, this is bhakti, this is devotion.
Incomplete and Infinite
Love is incomplete. And it will have to remain incomplete. If it completes, it finds an end. Whatever is completed, whatever is full, total, that means you have marked the boundaries, you have found its limitations. For love to be infinite, it has got to be incomplete. Whatever is incomplete is infinite
imposing your views
Most of the time you impose your own views and ideas and feelings on others, and you feel that is how they are. That is "viparyayah" (wrong knowledge).
beauty
When you see the beauty somewhere, when you fall in love with something, the next impulse that comes in you is to possess it, have it; and, when you have it, it looses all its significance.
status
Who is worried about your status? Nobody. If someone looks at your status, they feel jealousy. Why do you create more jealousy in other people?
When you walk
In the morning, when you walk, become aware of your infinite nature. You are like the sky. You are infinity. And walk with that infinity nature. Move through this world like a white cloud, unstained, untouched.
Desire destroys beauty
When beauty comes from the angle of desire, it creates feverishness; and the feverishness is responsible for action and tiredness, and it destroys the beauty completely.
Let me share
Attaining the highest, one never feels, "Oh, I have attained, let me sit back." No, the very nature of the highest joy is to share, is to bring it to everyone.
No ego in Seva ( Service )
Behind everything is your ego: "I, I, I, I." But in seva there is no "I," because it has to be done for someone else. It is for the need of the time, or surrounding people, that you do it.
successful failures
When the big Mind wins over the small, even the failure of the small mind is a joy. It has always happened that way. Turn back and see---some of your failures have been very good. They have made you progress somewhere, made you stronger.
Criticism from the throat
Without being critical, the intellect cannot progress. But that criticism should not come from the heart; it can come from the throat.
Destroying Sins
A few moments of the experience of Divine Love can destroy all the sins, all the guilt, all the negativity---not only in and around the person, but all over.
Do one thing
If you do one thing---gain perfection in the Being---then everything else gets perfected.
stop judging
Go inside -- go into the kingdom of heaven. And how can you go? You can go only when you become innocent. And how can you be innocent? Stop judging.
anger is about the past
Anger is meaningless, because it is always about something that has already passed.
Love and Meditation
Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
Ego and Divine Love
As long as there is ego, there is no Divine Love; and when there is Divine Love, the ego---there is no sign of it.
What about me ?
Love is not, ?What about me?? It?s dropping that. This ?What about me?? has been the root cause of our problem, root cause of our pain.
Pleasure Tax
If you just look into all the pleasures or joy that you get in life from the world, from anything---they all come with a tax. You have to pay a tax for them. And this tax is sorrow.
look into the vastness
Our head is stuck inside a drum, and we think that is the sky. It is so little, our universe. Take your head; lift up---look into that vastness of the creation.
Recognize the Divinity
When you move in the world, recognize the Divinity in things around you, in people around you. Listen with your heart..
Too much
The same thing which gave you pleasure is now making you suffer. If you are forced to eat twenty apple pies you will hold your head and say, "Oh my God! I want relief from this. I want to get away from this! Enough is enough!"
Take life as a play
Take life not serious. If you take life very serious, then you are bound to be disturbed. The only way you can maintain your equanimity is to take it as a play, as a game, and not take anything too serious.
You think you know
You think you know the world and "This is it." That is the biggest problem. This is not just one world; there are many layers in this world.
Discipline before pleasure
That pleasure which comes after a certain discipline, is really satvic pleasure, long lasting pleasure. That pleasure which is pleasurable to begin with but ends in misery, is no pleasure at all.
one with cosmic life
When thoughts are constrained and your mind has settled down peacefully in that meditative state, you have become one with the Divine. You are no more your small, little individual self, but you are one with the cosmic life, cosmic Being, one with God.
Highest Blossoming
What is the highest blossoming of consciousness? That consciousness which is neither in the past nor in the future nor in the present, but is a witness to all three. Or you can say, that consciousness which contains the infinite past, the infinite future, and is totally available in the present moment.
pleasure and pain
Whichever object is giving you pleasure, the same object will give you misery---the same thing will give you misery, pain. Like, apple pie is giving you joy, go on eating apple pie, and it will give you a stomach ache and what not.
feverishness
It is impossible to be without being with the five senses in the world---but the craving for it should drop. Because every craving or aversion creates a feverishness in the mind, and whenever the mind is in the grip of feverishness it is far away from love.
surrendering to the Divine
The moment there is surrender there is peace---that very second there is peace
fame
This feverishness of fame, of pride, of social recognition is immaturity. Just wake up and see there is nothing much in it. It?s an empty bowl.
Continue arguing ?
Look at this arguing mind. This is what you have been carrying all these years---and you want to continue carrying it?
Drop your hate
Drop all your hates now. You are stuck with your hates. This is a place to be in love and joy. Drop all your hatreds.
the presence of consiousness
The planets move around the sun. Just the mere presence of the sun makes the planets go around. In the same way, the presence of consciousness---though it is not involved directly---its mere presence makes the body grow.
Small World
Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this?
Desire comes from sleep
Every desire arises from the sleeping state. Desire is a product of sleep, unconsciousness. Just sleep itself cannot produce desire, but something along with sleep. A spark of beauty, just a spark of beauty in the unconsciousness, creates desire.
Control
Open your eyes and see. You think you are in control of a situation---what are you in control of? Where are you? Everything is happening, and you are in God. God is all that is.
words that matter
To your very dear and loved ones, you say this: "If you need me, I am here. I am here for you. I am here to make you comfortable." Those are the moments that you have really lived your life.
The Problem with choice
The moment there is choice it drops you off of joy, it drops you off of peace.
hooked
The question mark is like a hook. That means you hook the past. So you ask, "Why did it happen?" and you hook the past, hook with a question, and you go on grumbling and grinding and grinding in your mind.
What about me?
Love is not, ?What about me?? It?s dropping that. This ?What about me?? has been the root cause of our problem, root cause of our pain.
Meditation
Samadhi happens when the cravings and aversions subside, when contentment arises in you. If you are craving for a spiritual experience, that will be the block for experiencing samadhi.
Maturing intellect
When the intellect starts maturing, it starts questioning the source of creation.
habit of being happy
Develop the habit of being happy. You have to do it. Nothing else can give you that. Nobody else can do it.
A Revoluition inside you.
The day you feel hopeless, horrible, and worse, on that day get out of your room and ask people, "What can I do for you?" That service you have done that day will bring a revolution inside you. It will change your whole "gramophone record."
Eliminating Doubt
Doubt is that state of mind where it is not fully alive. Answers cannot satisfy doubt. Hearing, seeing cannot eliminate doubt. Only prana can eliminate doubt.
The Way out of Ignorance
The way to come out of ignorance is a definite understanding, a definite knowledge in the mind, that my body is undergoing change all the time, the world is undergoing change all the time, the entire universe is in a state of fluidity and it is all full of change and it is going on on its own, according to its nature.
Knowing it All
People think---without knowing---that they know. That is a great danger... A a few books they would have studied, and a few practices they might have made. They might have met a few people here and there, may have met a few saints, too. But then they start thinking they know it all, they have it all. And they start arguing, quoting the scriptures and arguing. Love cannot blossom in such a situation.
Creating Enemies
Often your enemies are created not by your action as much as by your tongue, by your words---how you speak, what you speak, what you do. You do this unaware, completely unaware.
False promises
This is the nature of sense objects: they promise pleasure to begin with and even give you also a little taste, but then leave you with pain and suffering.
Mysterious Love
When you live in Love, you become so mysterious! That is Govinda. 'Govind' means one who has hidden knowledge, or one who cannot be explained in words, is beyond the words.
Maintaining Equanimity
Take life not serious. If you take life very serious, then you are bound to be disturbed. The only way you can maintain your equanimity is to take it as a play, as a game, and not take anything too serious.
Compassion
When there is a wound deep inside a person, he will try to share that with other people. What else can he do? You just recognize: "Oh, he needs compassion." Compassion is the only medicine. Unconditional love is the onlytreatment.
Bubbles on the surface of the ocean
Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.
Discomfort and Discipline
To bear that (which) is uncomfortable is discipline. It need not be uncomfortable all the time, but if it is uncomfortable, to be able to bear and move through it, you need a discipline
Unending Desire
We are busy wanting something all the time. One want finishes, then another want comes up right away. They are in a queue, you know---like in L.A. airport, one plane behind another. One takes off and within two minutes theother takes off.
Whirlwind of the mind
Not one storm can be there for all time. It is impossible. They come and they subside. And another comes, it subsides. Another comes, its subsides. You mind is like a wirlwind. But, the whirlwind of mind subsiding, cooling down---that is your true nature, that is Love.
How big is your mind?
One single thought in the mind can restrict your awareness, the totality of awareness. How big is your mind? How vast is your life? There are so many things in life. One small, insignificant thought, insignificant thing, can clog and cloud your whole awareness.
Sureender brings peace
The moment there is surrender there is peace---that very second there ispeace.
Worry Vs Freedom
You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and yourworry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety,tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind frombeing free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential,will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.
What can you lose ?
I tell you, you have no power to lose. What can a drop lose by gettinginto the ocean? It's an illusion that it is big. A drop thinks "I amgreat! I am so big---will I vanish?" You will vanish if you don't unitewith the ocean.
Surrender and Freedom
There is no freedom at all without surrender, and when I surrender I getinfinite freedom. The greater my surrender is, the greater my freedom,that much the load is taken off of me.
Like Attracts Like
In the realm of mind, like attracts like. If the soul is peaceful, thenit attracts peaceful environment and people around it.
Tendency to merge
In this entire creation there is a tendency to become one, to get backto one, because the two is painful. From two, to go to one is thepurpose of creation. Everything wants to merge into something. What isthat? We call it Love.
Upanishad
Sitting close to the Master---that is "Upanishad"--- you catch on tomany things. You catch on to the inexpressible. You catch on somethingthat is indescribable.
what you are judging
Your own judgement brings the barrier, separates you, makes you behave so funny. When you are judging, you are judging your own self, but you are super-imposing it on this, or this, or this, or this, or this.
immortal
The Being is immortal, the Consciousness is immortal, the Guru isimmortal, the rishi, maharishi, is immortal. And so also, you areimmortal and eternal.
Just observe
Just observe the nature---how big this world is, how big the universe is.Nothing is permanent here.
Dropping Past impressions
When you drop the vasanas, when you drop all these past impressions fromthe mind, then you become free---right now!
Love Vs cravings.
True love will not bring sadness, sorrow, misery, problems. But withvasanas (cravings) a tail is always attached---pain, problems, misery,discomfort.
Love Vs cravings.
When you tell somebody you love them, make sure you are not saying itout of your "vasanas," your own cravings, your own impressions, your owncraving for some joy.
The cool innercore
When your mind cools down and you experience that cool inner core---that soft and delicate aspect of yourself---a big relief comes.
Beyond Proof
Truth cannot be understood through proof. Anything that can be proven can be disproven also. Truth is beyond proof or disproof.
you are total
You are total. You are full. You have all that you need. Do not underestimate yourself.
expand your world
Expand your world and your vasanas (cravings) will drop away. The world is so big! Be open to new experiences.
senses
Each of the senses lead you to a point deep inside you that is the fountain of joy. Whether touch, sex, or sight, or music, or smell, or taste---the joy that is coming to you is coming from a source deep within.
energy levels
Just the sound of a bell, that is enough to appreciate. But if your energy is low, you need really loud rock and roll to just make you feel good, high.
pain in love
There is pain in love because the pain is of the ego; the ego is disappearing, is being destroyed, crushed - and that crushing of ego is painful.
a mistake is a mistake
When you recognize a mistake as mistake, but not as "my" mistake, your guilt will not be there. You see "Oh, this is a mistake---whether it is by me or someone else---this is a mistake that needs rectification." Your mind is lighter, it is not stiff. It is not loaded with tension.
Blossom or Suffocate
Seva is just an expression for our inner love. The love in us blossoms and it has to flow out and express itself. Otherwise it is suffocating inside.
Love also creates pain
Love also creates pain---tremendous amount of pain. Separation creates pain---tremendous amount of pain. A want, a wish creates a tremendous amount of pressure on the mind.
false promises
This is the nature of sense objects: they promise pleasure to begin with and even give you also a little taste, but then leave you with pain and suffering.
feverishness blocks love
Desire is that feverishness which blocks the mind. As long as there is feverishness, there is no Love.
feverishness
What destroys the knowledge in you is the feverishness. What clouds your awareness and consciousness, your joy, is feverishness.
Is there any end to desires ?
All these different desires for experiences, for living, for knowing -- they arise and they get fulfilled and they move. Is there anybody who has not fulfilled any desire? Or is there anybody who has fulfilled all the desires? Is there any end for it?
Thou art supreme
That which is unmoved, like the ocean without waves, that which is free and pure, that which exists in the three periods of time---the past, present, and future---that supreme art Thou. Meditate on this and realize, right now.
desires make you weak
Our energy is getting dissipated in the form of fears and desires, fears and desires. And it is the desire that makes you weak.
violence in thought and deed
You see violence in action, in somebody, and inside your mind you feel violent about that person. Then you are not much different from that person who is acting violent.
the foundation of knowledge
Knowledge is possible only when you come close. From a distance, and in a formal atmosphere, knowledge cannot blossom...Being together is the foundation of knowledge.
No going back
For every step, the previous phase has to be disolved. One phase disolves to give space for another, and it is always evolutionary. So there is no reverting back, no reversing---it is evolutionary. It can stop for a while, but then it continues.
Faith and Doubt
Faith means what? Purity of the intellect is called "faith." Doubt means what? Split in the mind is called "doubt." What is doubt? Mind is not complete, one whole, it is divided.
Aversions
Your taste is nothing that cannot be changed. Your aversions are that which bind you, which robs the freedom from you. Stand back and look at them.
Desire is unawareness
Desire means the present is not sufficient enough; it is not okay the way it is now, this moment. Desire means projection to the next moment. Desire simply means being unaware of the Infinity. Desire simply means you don?t know yourself.
Misunderstandings
Misunderstandings happen on this planet because of distance, because there is no closeness, no one ever "sits next to" the other. In one house people live on different planets. In a town, people live in different galaxies.
Depression
Yoga is to realize that your mind is dynamic, your life is dynamic. Depression is a sign of static understanding about life. When you feel everything in life is dead, static, there is nothing more, nowhere to go---that is when one gets depressed.
Silence
Much is done in silence. If the communication is just on the level of words, many questions will come, and answers are given, and many more questions will come, and more answers will come, and many questions---it is an endless exercise.
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