Drop the past

Now. Now. Now. Cultivate this habit of dropping the past. Then you can smile.

Abiding in the seer

Whenever you experience joy, ecstasy, bliss, happiness in life, knowingly or unknowingly you are abiding in the form of the Seer, in the nature of the Seer. Otherwise, at other times you are with different activities of the mind. You become one with different activities of the mind.

Fun Loving

Nature Loves Fun

The self is the center

The Self is the center of the whole creation.

Fun Loving

Nature loves fun

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.

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.

Uncovering Divine Love

To uncover is enlightenment. Uncover what? Your true identify, your true nature. And what is your true nature? Divine Love.

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

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.

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.

Suffering

Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.

maturing intellect

When the intellect starts maturing, it starts questioning the source of creation.

sound of silence

When you listen, listen to something more. Not just to the sound, but to the silence, too.

Angels

They are very jealous of human beings, the angels, because as human being you can experience Divine Love. So they have to be born as human beings in order to become a devotee, in order to experience Divine Love.

Inner connection with the Guru

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.

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.

mistakes

There is no one-sided mistake.

Niranjana

Events cannot stick on to you. You are like the pure crystal. Niranjanah---untouched, unstained by anything.

Liberation

When the "I, I, my, mine" is not there---is dissolved---that is liberation.

Applause

If ten thousand people applaud you---so what? You think you will be in
their mind, in their attention, forever? No. You will get big
applause, and they clap, and they go away. And, the same people, some
other time may talk ill of you, too.

Disagreement


Whether you agree with me or disagree with me, what does it matter to what is? What is, is

Doubt and Trust

The possibility of doubting shows you the strength of your trust. When you do not have a chance to doubt, then how do you know how deep is your trust? You do not know.

Future

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

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.

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.

Go deep into sadness

If some sadness arises---"oh, I feel a little sad"---go deep into the
sadness, and you will see that very sadness is nothing but longing,
and that very longing---the tears of longing---is nothing but love,
and love is nothing but gratefulness, and gratefulness is nothing but
your very Being.

Committed to Truth

A person who is committed to truth---who is committed to what is, this presence of Being---for him success comes easily, follows. Not that he will not encounter failures. He may encounter failures, but he will again act.

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.

Arguing Mind

Look at this arguing mind. This is what you have been carrying all these years---and you want to continue carrying it?

Faith

Do anything---if there is no shradhaa (faith), nothing is going to benefit you. And if you do nothing and there is shradhaa, that itself becomes
saadhana for you, becomes a practice.

Beyond Birth and Death

There is something in you that is beyond death. And that is before birth, also.

Dissolving Desire

"Want" is always hanging on to the "I." When the "I" itself is dissolving, "want" also dissolves, disappears.

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.

Become free

Offering all the negativity, you become free. Offering all the positive virtues you think you possess, you become free.

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

A place for everyone

There is a place for everyone in the heart of the Divine.

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.

Observation is the key

Craving never dies by experience---craving or aversion goes only through observation.

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.

Feverishness and Creativity

When feverishness clogs your head, your mind is not clear; a poetry cannot dawn on that. If there is feverishness, any creative thought will not come.

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.

Disagreement

Whether you agree with me or disagree with me, what does it matter to what is? What is, is

Guilt and Forgiveness

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt itself is a punishment.

Feverishness

When feverishness clogs your head, your mind is not clear; a poetry
cannot dawn on that. If there is feverishness, any creative thought
will not come.

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?

Love and Logic

Love is the realm of the unknown, the unknowable, the infinity. Logic pertains to the realm of limitations, observations.

Getting Baked

Everything is changing. And this is all there only to heat you up, to bake you. You are baked in joy, and you are baked in sorrow. You are baked in this event, and you are baked in that event. So everything in the world bakes you, heats you up. And if you put your finger deeper into it, you will get burned. So move lightly.

Unconditional Love

The breath moves into a saint as well as into a wicked person. The breath makes no distinction, it moves. Unconditionally it loves you, supports you, holds you in its arms, because it is all Shiva. The entire creation is "Shiva tatwa" -- innocence.

Spiritual Knowledge and Science

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.

Breath is the link

Breath is the link between your body and your spirit and your mind.

Problems

Many problems have come, many problems have been solved, and each
problem has enriched life in some way, has brought up some strength in
you.

Inner Connection

Krishna is inside you; God, the Divine is inside you---have an inner connection with the Divine.

Amusement Park

This entire creation is amazement. You are in a big amusement park.

Addictions or Vasanas

Limited attraction, small attractions here and there---smell, touch, taste, sight---these are called the "vasunas." The five senses draw you into small, limited awareness, and not only just enjoying that, but you get entangled in the mind, thinking about it all the time.

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.

Possessing

We want to possess love; in the act of possessing, we destroy love.

The formless

The formless is ruling your life. The formless is ruling the world. And there is a greater formlessness that is ruling the entire creation. And you are the center of that greater formlessness, whatever you call it---God, Consciousness, No-Mind, Nirvana, Spirit, anything you call it by name.

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.

Blaming the Divine

Anything you blame in this creation, you are blaming the Divine.

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

Body is space

See, ninety percent of this body is only space, and space, and space. And what is in this space? That is mind; that is consciousness; that is intelligence.

How to live

Live as though you are nobody. Live as though you are a glow of light. And you will see, that bliss that comes out of it, you cannot even compare to any other joy through any senses.

Dig Deep

The Divine is only waiting for you to dig a little deeper into yourself, that is all.

connected to the present moment

Dispassion does not divide you; in fact, it connects you. It connects you to the present moment so totally, so you can be 100% in anything you do.

Purpose of Life

Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose, there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. That is worship, that is celebration.

Sacred Secret

Sacredness is the secret of the universe. In the womb of sacredness, creation happens. Consciousness is sacred.

Quick - Meditate

When doubts arise in you: fast, meditate, do pranayam, and do prayers, and see whether the doubt will remain.

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!"

Life is a vast Ocean


Observe that there is something much more than your "doership." It is like a vast ocean. Life is not just in your body. It is between you and me and everybody else.

The dilemma of ownership

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.

When we sing

In every little mind, different, different thoughts come; and different, different moods are there. But, when we sing, what happens? All the minds have the same rythym, the same song, same waves, same frequency, and there is so much more joy.

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

Floating in the ocean

We are all floating bodies, like shells in the ocean of life.

The impersonal made personal

Infinity is available, but not tangible; the Guru is both infinite and tangible. The Divine is impersonal; the Guru is both personal and Divine---the impersonal personified for your benefit.

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.

inseparable

You cannot separate the wave from the ocean.

Joy that nothing else can give

Dispassion does not take away joy from you. Dispassion gives the joy
that nothing else can give.

One Whole

The entire universe is one whole; and, when someone drops their
holding onto limited boundaries, then what they gain is the entire
universe.

Just Observe

Just observe the nature---how big this world is, how big the universe
is. Nothing is permanent here.

Become free

Offering all the negativity, you become free. Offering all the
positive virtues you think you possess, you become free.

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.

You are not the body

You are not the body/mind complex. You are the eternity.

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.

Life Begins

Life begins when we step out of the mind. How do we step out of the small mind? Through samadhi.

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.

Ego

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.

Heart and Head

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. It is always so. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Freedom

Freedom is what? Lack of craving. Detachment from the objects of the senses.

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.

Enthusiasm

The sign of life is enthusiasm. The sign of success is smile and joy.

Small Mind

The moment you drop the small mind, you are free.

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.

Linking 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?

Perceiving the Existence

When you become very peaceful and quiet, you perceive the Existence. You say, "Oh, this is my nature, this is my true Self. What was I doing---being agitated, yelling, shouting, doing all that stuff?"

Renunciation

God himself has not renounced this world. How can you renounce it? It's an insult to God if you want to renounce this world.

The company that one keeps

that you are not a computer. But we have been given the understanding that being emotional is not good, that it is not normal.

Feel Oneness

When you feel so much oneness with the Master that you don't feel, "The Master is separate, I am separate; the Divine is separate, I am separate," that is Divine Love.

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.

Attraction

When an attraction becomes a little difficult to attain, then love begins to happen more. And when it becomes a little difficult to capture love, possess love, then devotion starts happening. Just reflect on this.

Divity and Beauty

There is no Divinity without beauty; there simply cannot [be]. Divinity is nothing but energy, divine energy, and [the] expression of beauty.

God is not

God is not the object of sight; you can never see God. God is not an object of hearing. God is not an object of smelling or tasting. God cannot be perceived through your senses, nor through the mind.

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.

No gain, no loss

The mere presence of the sun brings all the activity in the world. In the same way, your mere presence is a service, is the goal. There is no gain, no loss, no purpose, no defeat.

Beyond Proof

The existence of God is impossible to prove---it is beyond proof.

mindless violence

Mindless violence is prevalent in the world. In the name of country, in the name of religion, in the name of race. This is absolute nonsense! This is total lack of viveka, total lack of wisdom.

Nearness and Distance

Love cannot tolerate distance, and hatred cannot tolerate nearness.

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's of gratitude. Still tears flow, but they are of gratitude, of love.

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.

Walls of Concepts

Your own concepts have created "walls" and so you need a "door." But when there are no concepts, there are no walls.

Transforming Pain

When you are unhappy, some tightness happens in your body, observe the intensity of that sensation. That very thing which was so unhappy, sad thing, flips over and you see, "Oh. It is just tantalizing, stimulating, some sensation." One can even laugh at that painful event.

Connected to the Present Moment

Dispassion does not divide you; in fact, it connects you. It connects you to the present moment so totally, so you can be 100% in anything you do.

The impersonal made personal

Infinity is available, but not tangible; the Guru is both infinite and tangible. The Divine is impersonal; the Guru is both personal and Divine---the impersonal personified for your benefit.

The Secret of Joy

You are the source of joy.

Bhajan

This word "bhajan" is very precious. "Bhaj" means "to share." Sharing what? Sharing all that the Divine is.

Angels

They are very jealous of human beings, the angels, because as human being you can experience Divine Love. So they have to be born as human beings in order to become a devotee, in order to experience Divine Love.

Meditation

A mind without agitation is meditation.

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.

Celebration

Spirituality is a celebration, a continuous celebration.

Slaps in life

In life, any time you become stiff---and there you get a slap! Become soft; smile there. Any stiffness, life just smoothens it out, evens it out, in you.

True Knowledge

You can stay with me, but you can pass out of this life without even knowing me---without knowing the "I," the big "I."

Fun Loving

Nature loves fun.

Power of Surrender

The greatest power is in surrender---surrender to the Divine.

A Glow of Light

When you go to bed, go to bed feeling you are just a glow of light, nothing else.

Abiding in the Seer

Whenever you experience joy, ecstasy, bliss, happiness in life, knowingly or unknowingly you are abiding in the form of the Seer, in the nature of the Seer. Otherwise, at other times you are with different activities of the mind. You become one with different activities of the mind.

Mental Pain

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.

Repose

Desire is hustle and bustle. Desire is agitation, activity. When all that is dropped: peaceful reposing in the innermost core of your Being. Repose---as though you are finished, dead, gone.

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.

Small World

Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this?

Every inch filled with Bliss

For one who has awakened in knowledge, there is no more suffering. The world appears completely different. For him every inch of this creation is filled with bliss, is a part of the Self.

Space

"See, ninety percent of this body is only space,and space, and space. And what is in this space? That is mind, that is consciousness, that is intelligence. Like a honeycomb. Honeycomb is all filled with honey. Like this in the body---all the holes in the body are filled with mind, or consciousness. And the nature of that is joy, is Love."

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.

Meditation

Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation, is meditation.

Even in the Highest

Even in the highest enlightened person, you can find some flaws.

Feverishness and Creativity

When feverishness clogs your head, your mind is not clear; a poetry cannot dawn on that. If there is feverishness, any creative thought will not come.

chance of losing

A game is where you win and you lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.

Meditation

Mind in the present moment is meditation.

The Way Out

This definite knowledge that, "I am not the body. I am the Self. I am the space. I am the Imperishable---untouched, untainted by the prakriti, by this world around me. This body is all hollow and empty. And every particle in this body is changing and changing and changing. The mind is changing and changing and changing." This definite knowledge is the way out of the cycle. Hm?

100% comfortable

A state in which you feel absolutely comfortable, 100% comfort, that is meditation.

Hollow and Empty #2

Creation is all anxious to fulfill your desire when you become hollow and empty.

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.

Expand Your World

Expand your world and your vasanas (cravings) will drop away. The world is so big! Be open to new experiences.

Mental Pain

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.

Divine Nectar

In every breath there is Divine nectar. There is nectar that flows out of it. Or poison can flow.

Unless you are dead

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.

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."

Forgiveness

Forgiveness shields and protects your mind, your spirit, from being violent.

Consciousness is the Guru

Consciousness is the Master, is the Divinity, is the Guru, is your Self.

Beauty in wakefulness

Just one spark of beauty in wakefulness, in the awakened, manifests as knowledge, as wisdom. That is satwa (purity of consciousness).

Life and Death

Knowledge of death will improve the quality of your life.

The Secret of Joy

You are the source of joy.

Dissolving Desire

"Want" is always hanging on to the "I." When the "I" itself is dissolving, "want" also dissolves, disappears.

No rejects

A master is like an ocean. Ocean is there, readily available. It does
not reject anybody.

Different degrees of expression

Beauty has three levels: indication, expression, and exposure.
Spirituality indicates, art expresses, and science exposes.

Purity dispels depression

The moment purity comes, depression cannot be there; it goes away.

coming back to source

A mind that has come back to the home, to the source, is meditation.

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.

Life Begins

Life begins when we step out of the mind. How do we step out of the
small mind? Through samadhi.

The cosmos

The transcendental principal, the fourth state of our consciousness,
rules over all the other influences of all the planets or cosmic rays.
So, if you could meditate, you nullify all the undesirable effects of
the cosmic rays, the cosmos. Singing, chanting, meditating can
eliminate all those undesirable effects.

Free coupon

If we really look through the eyes of wisdom, there is not a bit in this creation that is devoid of pain. Pain is the tail of everything in the
world. It comes along with anything---you take it, you get a free coupon: you get pain.

The Whole Universe

The whole universe is one body.

Relationship

Relationship is what? Feeling no separation---I am you, you are me. You are part of me, I am part of you.

Desire

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.

Unless you are dead

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.
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.

Deep Inside

Meditation leads you into samadhi. In every meditation, you sit and you are definitely having a glimpse of samadhi, somewhere deep inside

You are

You are the consciousness

Intense Joy

When we get in touch with the source of life, then all of other tensions, worries which have been clouding this manifestation, fall off and we can sing, dance, and be happy. Life can become very intense, intense in the
sense of being joyful.

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.

Know Thought as Thought

Knowing a thought as thought brings the freedom. When you know a thought as a reality, that is when you are stuck.

Observtion is the key

Craving never dies by experience---craving or aversion goes only through observation.

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.

Effect of Asanas (yoga postures)

Anytime you are confused, your mind is in conflict, do asanas, sit in
asana. You will see, right away clarity comes. Effect of asana is
clearing out of all conflicts, duality.

Fun Loving

Nature loves fun.

Influencing All levels

When you meditate, you are not just bringing a harmony within yourself, but you are influencing the subtle layers of creation, the subtle bodies of all the different levels of existence in the creation.

Arrogance

The only thing that God doesn�t tolerate is arrogance.

A point in us

There is a point in us that will remain ever pure, total joy, and
bliss---bliss that can never be taken away from us.

The Impersonal Made Personal

Infinity is available, but not tangible; the Guru is both infinite and tangible. The Divine is impersonal; the Guru is both personal and Divine---the impersonal personified for your benefit.

Innocence

When innocence is lost, beauty is lost, too.

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.

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.

Innermost self

In your innermost Self---in its purity and clarity---you are not different from God.

There is no death for you

There is no death for you. Death is nothing but a long sleep. Death is nothing but just changing your jackets.

Little and Big

Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.

Go deep into sadness

If some sadness arises---"oh, I feel a little sad"---go deep into the sadness, and you will see that very sadness is nothing but longing, and that very longing---the tears of longing---is nothing but love, and love is nothing but gratefulness, and gratefulness is nothing but your very Being.

Getting Baked

Everything is changing. And this is all there only to heat you up, to
bake you. You are baked in joy, and you are baked in sorrow. You are
baked in this event, and you are baked in that event. So everything in
the world bakes you, heats you up. And if you put your finger deeper
into it, you will get burned. So move lightly.

Meditation

Meditation is THE comfort in Life

Stop and Be

Burn the seed of craving, and then the Non-Doer---Brahman---is already available.

Everything is God

This entire universe is made up of God. There is nothing outside God.

Mysteries

This world is a mystery. Love is a mystery. Life is a mystery. Your sleep is a mystery. And mystery transcends reasoning.

Fountain of Joy

You are a fountain of joy at the center of your being.

Stop and Be

Burn the seed of craving, and then the Non-Doer---Brahman---is already
available.

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.

charming others

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm---I tell you, the opposite happens.

You are It

You are all that you are longing for.

Attend to the source

When the Source is attended to, all your other abilities flower automatically, spontaneously.

impermanence

Just observe the nature---how big this world is, how big the universe is. Nothing is permanent here.

The Cosmos

The transcendental principal, the fourth state of our consciousness, rules over all the other influences of all the planets or cosmic rays. So, if you could meditate, you nullify all the undesirable effects of the cosmic rays, the cosmos. Singing, chanting, meditating can eliminate all those undesirable effects.

Memories

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.

What do you believe in?

Do you believe this whole universe is made up of that consciousness? And your very body, this mind, these thoughts, feelings, everything is made up of this energy, this one consciousness, this one Self? Huh? Is this belief strong in your head?

Consciousness and the Body

You think the body makes the consciousness? No. Consciousness has made the body.

Pause

Just singing is not sufficient. One can just go on singing. But in
between the songs, a few moments of silence, of depth, of experiencing
the bliss of the infinite---that is very essential.

Life Begins

Life begins when we step out of the mind. How do we step out of the
small mind? Through samadhi.

different kind 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�s of gratitude. Still tears flow, but they are of
gratitude, of love.

Getting Stuck

For a few moments in our life, we become intense, we become 100%. Our
mind, consciousness, becomes like one integrated glow. And these
moments are very precious things.

feversishness

The feverishness in us destroys the joy.

Change

Feelings change, thoughts change, ideas change, body is undergoing
changes all the time. But the thirst deep within us is for something
that is not changing, that is eternal, that is always, that is the
same.

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.

Observe the nature

Just observe the nature---how big this world is, how big the universe
is. Nothing is permanent here.

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.

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.

Getting Baked

Everything is changing. And this is all there only to heat you up, to
bake you. You are baked in joy, and you are baked in sorrow. You are
baked in this event, and you are baked in that event. So everything in
the world bakes you, heats you up. And if you put your finger deeper
into it, you will get burned. So move lightly.

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?

questions, questions, questions

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.

Believe in your experiences

Though your experiences of silence, of transcendence, of the Self, of
the Divine are only for a few seconds, a few minutes, a few hours,
maybe---but believe in them. Believe in them. That is your true
nature.

come to source

Bring the mind, which is all over the place, back to its source.

Upanishad

Sitting close to the Master---that is "Upanishad"--- you catch on to
many things. You catch on to the inexpressible. You catch on something
that is indescribable.

Maintain your awareness

Maintaining your consciousness, your awareness, while being in joy,
while being extremely happy, is very difficult, and that is ecstasy,
that is samadhi.

Fall in Love with a Flower

If you just fall in love with a flower, you go on appreciating it and
go deep into that, and you will see that flower dissolves into the
formless. You will see the space which is hiding deep inside that
flower.

Living the Mystery

This creation, this very life, is a mystery, and the mystery cannot be understood. But it could be lived in its totality.

God is not�

God is not the object of sight; you can never see God. God is not an
object of hearing. God is not an object of smelling or tasting. God
cannot be perceived through your senses, nor through the mind.

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.

The Real Master

Servant is the real master. Who becomes a master, is one who serves. God has been serving you day and night. He takes care of every thing for you.

Love and respect

Once respect is lost, even love is not tasty.

Caught up in our own

We see so many people dying; we see so much of misery. We remain insensitive. Why? Because there is no silence. We are caught up in our own little hankering, cravings, and aversions. The mind is filled with its own noise.

Uninterrupted

Uninterrupted sharing---that grows into feeling the presence of the Divine all the time, uninterruptedly.

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

many layers

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.

Stop Resisting the storm

The storm is also part of Nature. Stop resisting the storm. Taking it, gulping it in its totality, going deep into it, you see, it is nothing: "It is just created out of myself, my mind, my consciousness."

Living the mystery

This creation, this very life, is a mystery, and the mystery cannot be understood. But it could be lived in its totality.

The Whole Universe

The whole universe is one body.

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.

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.

Impatience

Patience comes when we are void of feverishness. "Impatience" means feverishness.

Truth and Proof

Truth cannot be understood through proof. Truth is beyond proof or disproof.

When you are disturbed

Do you do this? Any day that you are disturbed, instead of yelling and screaming and shouting at other people here and there, blaming other people, have you ever said, "Oh, I want to do more chanting, and let me sit. Today I feel disturbed so let me go and love more people around me." Have you ever done that?

Hollow and Empty # 2

Creation is all anxious to fulfill your desire when you become hollow and empty.

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.

Purpose of Words#2

The purpose of words is to create silence. If words create more noise, then they have not reached their goal.

Faith and Dobut

Faith brings totality in you. It pulls together all the loose ends of your consciousness. It integrates your whole personality. Doubt scatters you. Doubt destroys you.

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.

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.

Anything can change

When an attraction becomes a little difficult to attain, then love begins to happen more. And when it becomes a little difficult to capture love, possess love, then devotion starts happening. Just reflect on this.

Anything can change

When an attraction becomes a little difficult to attain, then love begins to happen more. And when it becomes a little difficult to capture love, possess love, then devotion starts happening. Just reflect on this.

Filled with honey

Like a honeycomb is all filled with honey, the body -- -all the holes in the body are filled with mind, or consciousness. And the nature of that is joy is Love.

Divine Nectar

In every breath there is Divine nectar. There is nectar that flows out of it. Or poison can flow.

Recognize the Divinity

When you move in the world, recognize the Divinity in things around you, in people around you. Listen with your heart.

Questions

In questions, you are looking for an answer. In wonder, there is no answer.

You are nobody

Drop this identity---that you are somebody. You are nobody. You are nothing. You are the Non-Dual.

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.

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.

God

Each and every one of you is Divine. And God is ever present in every one of us.


Demands on God

God is not there just to fulfill your petty demands.

Everything is being

Everything is Being. You are everything, and you are nothing.

Tragic Cycle

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.

Small World

Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this?

Breath as the link

Breath is the link between your body and your spirit and your mind.

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.

The impersonal made personal

Infinity is available, but not tangible; the Guru is both infinite and
tangible. The Divine is impersonal; the Guru is both personal and
Divine---the impersonal personified for your benefit.

Whatever You want

Whatever you want for others will happen to you.

How to Live

Live as though you are nobody. Live as though you are a glow of light. And you will see, that bliss that comes out of it, you cannot even compare to any other joy through any senses.

No Anticipation

Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation, is meditation.

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.

changing

Everything in this universe is dynamic. There is nothing that is static. Even the mountains appear to be static, but they are not static, they are all dynamic. Every atom is dynamic in this universe.

Mistakes out of tension

See how a mistake has happened out of tension. Knowing that a mistake has happened, if you think, "It is *my* mistake," then you are not releasing the tension, you are doubling the tension.

The Human Body

There is hope for every soul, for every human being, to live unconditional love. That is why human body is so precious---because in this body you have the ability to erase all the unwanted negative impressions.

Too much

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.

Suffering

Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.

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.

No Proof

The existence of God is impossible to prove---it is beyond proof.

False Promises

The mind has promised you heaven, but it is taking you to hell. You have been chasing the mind; you�re trodding behind it. It increases the hunger and thirst in you by giving a little glimpse of joy here and there.

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.

Cause of Fear

The transcendental principal, the fourth state of our consciousness, rules over all the other influences of all the planets or cosmic rays. So, if you could meditate, you nullify all the undesirable effects of the cosmic rays, the cosmos. Singing, chanting, meditating can eliminate all those undesirable effects.

Linking 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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

All Knowledge

In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

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.

become soft

In life, any time you become stiff---and there you get a slap! Become soft; smile there. Any stiffness, life just smoothens it out, evens it out, in you.

What do you believe in ?

Do you believe this whole universe is made up of that consciousness? And your very body, this mind, these thoughts, feelings, everything is made up of this energy, this one consciousness, this one Self? Huh? Is this belief strong in your head?

Unending Desires

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 the
other takes off.

Super Glue

If you are against someone, you have no freedom from them. If you find fault in someone, and your mind is set against them, know that you are stuck with them, glued with them! Super glue!

Expand Your world

Meditation is THE comfort in Life

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.

Celebration happens...

Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit. The mind
keeps crying and crying until it finds the spirit! When the mind
unites with the spirit then real celebration happens.

Disagreement

Whether you agree with me or disagree with me, what does it matter to
what is? What is, is

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.

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.

When You are Distubed

Do you do this? Any day that you are disturbed, instead of yelling and screaming and shouting at other people here and there, blaming other people, have you ever said, "Oh, I want to do more chanting, and let me sit. Today I feel disturbed so let me go and love more people around me." Have you ever done that?

Share it with the divine

Whatever feeling is there in you at the moment, whatever feeling, be
with it one hundred percent. Share it with the Divine.

Stupid Thoughts

t is impossible to know thoughts before they come. You know them as
they come. And, if they are stupid, simply smile at them, laugh at
them, and they will move away.

come back to the source

Bring the mind, which is all over the place, back to its source.

Proof

Constantly you are looking for proof of something. This is one mode of
activity. Yoga is when you drop this. Then alone you can abide in the
Self.

God is

God is joy.

momentary and infinite

Life is infinite. Though life is in every moment, it is also infinite.
Your life has been here from thousands of years-from centuries-and
your life will continue to be here for centuries.

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.

Drop the Past

Now. Now. Now. Cultivate this habit of dropping the past. Then you can smile.

feverishness

The feverishness in us destroys the joy.

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

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.

Hankering for the Future

When your mind is hankering for the future, continuously planning for
the future all the time, then it is not joyful.

Linking 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?

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.

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.

Getting Stuck

For a few moments in our life, we become intense, we become 100%. Our
mind, consciousness, becomes like one integrated glow. And these
moments are very precious things.

Relationships

When you blossom from within you, then your relationship will also blossom.

Stop Resisting the Storm

The storm is also part of Nature. Stop resisting the storm. Taking it,
gulping it in its totality, going deep into it, you see, it is
nothing: "It is just created out of myself, my mind, my
consciousness."

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.

Breath is the Link

Breath is the link between your body and your spirit and your mind.

Breath is the link

Breath is the link between your body and your spirit and your mind

Upanishad

Sitting close to the Master---that is "Upanishad"--- you catch on to
many things. You catch on to the inexpressible. You catch on something
that is indescribable.

Meditation

Mind in the present moment is meditation.

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.

craving and bondage

The craving for sense objects is bondage. Their existence seems to
have given you a little pleasure, so it binds you. Now you crave for
it, and it gives you more and more pain.

Recognize the Divinity

When you move in the world, recognize the Divinity in things around
you, in people around you. Listen with your heart.

Worry Vs Freedom

You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and
your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and
anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the
mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its
infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on
this planet.

Surrender brings peace

The moment there is surrender there is peace---that very second there is peace.

Drop the Past

Now. Now. Now. Cultivate this habit of dropping the past. Then you can smile.

Unlimited Joy

Your mind is not ready for limitations. It wants unlimited joy,
unlimited pleasure---which the five senses cannot give you.

One Life

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.

Blame

Anything you blame in this creation, you are blaming the Divine.

Change

Feelings change, thoughts change, ideas change, body is undergoing changes all the time, but the thirst deep within us is for something that is not changing, that is eternal, that is always, that is the same.

problems

Many problems have come, many problems have been solved, and each problem has enriched life in some way, has brought up some strength in you.

Blaming the Divine

Anything you blame in this creation, you are blaming the Divine.

deeper into yourself

The Divine is only waiting for you to dig a little deeper into yourself, that is all.

Mistakes out of tension

See how a mistake has happened out of tension. Knowing that a mistake has happened, if you think, "It is *my* mistake," then you are not releasing the tension, you are doubling the 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.

Manifestations

Your brain is nothing but manifestation of consciousness. Your body is nothing but manifestation of consciousness. Intelligence, wherever you see it in the world, is manifestation of consciousness

No Mind

Mind that becomes No-Mind is meditation.

The difference between the enlightened and unenlightened

Everyone is happiness, but not everyone is happy. The only difference between enlightened and unenlightended: enlightenment means one is happiness and one is happy; unlightenment means one is happiness and one is unhappy.

Cause of Fear

The transcendental principal, the fourth state of our consciousness,
rules over all the other influences of all the planets or cosmic rays.
So, if you could meditate, you nullify all the undesirable effects of
the cosmic rays, the cosmos. Singing, chanting, meditating can
eliminate all those undesirable effects.

The illusion of self

The self as a different entity, an object, is what people are trying
to see. That is an illusion

Connected to the present moment

Dispassion does not divide you; in fact, it connects you. It connects
you to the present moment so totally, so you can be 100% in anything
you do.

Looking for Proof

Constantly you are looking for proof of something. This is one mode of
activity. Yoga is when you drop this. Then alone you can abide in the
Self.

No more hankering

When your hankering for pleasure ceases, then you get liberation, you experience Enlightenment. When your hankering for Enlightenment also ceases, then you experience Divine Love.

Drop the rock

You have to drop the rock in order to pluck the flowers.

 

When you are busy...

Do you do this? Any day that you are disturbed, instead of yelling and screaming and shouting at other people here and there, blaming other people, have you ever said, "Oh, I want to do more chanting, and let me sit. Today I feel disturbed so let me go and love more people around me." Have you ever done that?

God Is

God is the Seer himself. Who sees---that is God.

Mystery and Miracles

Do not depend on arguments. Mystery is beyond argument, and miracle is
beyond argument. And love is a miracle in life. Enlightenment is a
miracle in life. Joy is a miracle in life.

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.

Bigger relief

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.

Hollow and Empty

Creation is all anxious to fulfill your desire when you become hollow and empty.

Any thing but the present

Man finds comfort in the past or in the future, never looks into the
present. It has been an old habit, very old habit, of the human mind.
Either it glorifies the past and relishes itself in the memory of
past, or it builds castles in dreams, in clouds, for the future.

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.

Blog Archive

Subscribe in a reader

View Sivasubramanian Muthusamy's profile on LinkedIn