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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