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.

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.

God

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

When something bothers you

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.

meditation

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.

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.

Honoring Secrets

When you honor a secret, you mind does not jump forward, it is stabilized, it flowers, it blossoms.

Expression of Self

The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self.

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.

What is holding you back

Drop all those divisions (of the mind), altogether. This is what is holding you back from enlightenment. This is what is holding you back from your very nature. Drop those right now.

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

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.

Disagreement

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

No anticipation

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

Awakened in Knowledge

For one who has awakened in knowledge, there is no more suffering.

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.

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.

Linking enthusiasm to things

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?

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.

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.

"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."

Whatever you want

Whatever you want for others will happen to you

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

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.

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.

Resistence is futile

The more you resist thoughts, the more they bombard your mind.

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.

Beyond Logic

The solution exists before the problem...The Light works beyond logic. Answers come from unexpected places. But the solution exists. .. from Kabbalah

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.

Feverishness blocks love

Desire is that feverishness which blocks the mind. As long as there is feverishness, there is no Love

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

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.

God Loves Fun

Nature loves to give you surprises. God loves fun. He always gives you surprises---sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant. And you grow by unpleasant as well as by pleasant. In fact you grow much more by unpleasant surprises than the pleasant ones.

Be Aware

Be joyful and at the same time be totally aware.

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.

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.

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.

You are It

You are all that you are longing for

Linking enthusiasm to things

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?

One sided mistake

There is no one-sided mistake.

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.

missing the boat

Behind every misery, there is a hope. The fuel for miserable people is hope... Foreseeing happiness sometime in the future, makes one miserable right now. Having desire for some pleasure in the future, either in the world or in heaven, one misses the boat.

Arms Open

Stand there with your arms open and say, "What storms may come--let them. I am here." You grow out of them. You become bigger.

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.

when something bothers you

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.

What restricts us

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.

See the beaty

See the beauty in people.

Awareness

Be joyful and at the same time be totally aware

sign of celebration

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.

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.

Trust

The entire world lives on trust. Every aspect in life moves with trust.

one sided mistake

There is no one sided mistake.

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.

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.

Mutlidimensional 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.

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.

Lingering Desires

As long as some desires linger in your mind, your mind cannot be at total rest

maturing intellect

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

thought waves

You sit and think; you sit and feel. Do you think that feeling just remains with you? It reaches far beyond this universe. Your intentions, your feelings get spread much faster than the radiation. It is spread all over this globe and far, far beyond.

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?

The enemy of love

Worry is enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.

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

What is Love?

Love is that phenomenon of dissolving, disappearing, merging, becoming one with. Love is that phenomenon of total letting go.w

Your mind

Your mind is a flow. Your mind is a continuum that is ever changing, ever changing.

Not the body

The life of a fish is in the water, not in the body.

superficial

Basing your life on words is very superficial

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.

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.

hollow and empty

You become a perfect instrument of the Divine when you become hollow and empty.

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.

arms open

Stand there with your arms open and say, "What storms may come--let them. I am here." You grow out of them. You become bigger.

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.

Surprises

Nature loves to give you surprises. God loves fun. He always gives you surprises---sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant. And you grow by unpleasant as well as by pleasant. In fact you grow much more by unpleasant surprises than the pleasant ones.

totally responsible

Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings---how you feel, what you think, what you do---all that. You are responsible.

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.

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.

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.

Already connected

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.

Uncovering Divine Love

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

Resistence is futile

The more you resist thoughts, the more they bombard your mind.

ego

"Ego" means "I am. I am somebody." But beyond ego is Being.

Technique for depression

There is a technique to get depressed -- you want to know? Just sit and think only about yourself: "What about me? What about me?" I tell you, you will get thoroughly depressed.

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.

the power of memories

Once you have had a very peaceful, beautiful state of mind, the very memory of it again will again make you relive that

forgiveness

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

Every moment

God is calling you every moment.

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.

Seva

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.

Disagreement

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

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.

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.

Closing Down

Our love---capacity to love---everybody has, but they have not utilized it. We have not thrown ourselves open. We have closed into our small, "my, my, me, me, mine."

Disagreement

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

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.

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.

An old habit

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.

Small World

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

Drop it!

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

Small mind

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

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.

gossip

Most of the sorrow in the world is because of this: speech -- what
people say. If they kept their lips tight, ninety percent of the
problems in the world would be over.

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.

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.

Do one thing

If you do one thing---gain perfection in the Being---then everything else gets perfected.

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.

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.

Everything is God

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

Bhajan

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

ever changing

Your mind is a flow. Your mind is a continuum that is ever changing, ever changing.

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.

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.

Recognize the Divinity

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

Awakened in Knowledge

For one who has awakened in knowledge, there is no more suffering.

dropping past impressions

When you drop the vasanas, when you drop all these past impressions from the mind, then you become free---right now!

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.

whatever you want

Whatever you want for others will happen to you.

Seeing God

You can live God. You can be God. But you cannot "see" God, perceive God as an object.

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.

Inner Union 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.

Three levels of Beauty

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

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.

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.

more than coming close

Soul is not satisfied just by the physical body coming closer. It wants something more. It wants to merge; it wants to vanish and disappear. This is what we call "love."

Drop the past

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

Effect of Asanas (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.

Total Lack of Wisdom

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.

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?

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.

Gossip

Most of the sorrow in the world is because of this: speech -- what
people say. If they kept their lips tight, ninety percent of the
problems in the world would be over.

Holding On

If you are holding on to stones in your hands, your hands will not be
free to take the diamonds and gold.

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.

Disagreement

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

One-sided mistake

There is no one-sided mistake.

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.

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.

The Divine Loves You

The Divine loves you very dearly, and in all manners, in all respects.

Mutli-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.

Flash of 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.

Blaming the Divine

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

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.

Surrender brings peace

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

Power of silence

Words cannot capture existence, but silence can.

Spreading around

You sit and think; you sit and feel. Do you think that feeling just remains with you? It reaches far beyond this universe. Your intentions, your feelings get spread much faster than the radiation. It is spread all over this globe and far, far beyond.

Bubbling 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.

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.

silly little desire

What makes you weak? Your desire---silly little desire.

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.

Hard to get

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.

Look at What you have

Just look at what you have. Focus on it---because where you put your energy that increases in life.

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.

Seeing God

You can live God. You can be God. But you cannot "see" God, perceive God as an object.

The Gift of 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.

Resitence is futile

The more you resist thoughts, the more they bombard your mind.

This Universe

This universe is very dynamic. Nothing is static here. What appears to be static is an illusion. Everything is dynamic. Everything is moving, growing, changing, changing, constantly changing.

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.

Divine Love

It has become a need for you to experience that the Divine, God, loves you so dearly. Though He has told you in so many ways with the flowers and with the birds, with the clouds, with the rain, and with all the friends and folks and relatives, still one is unable to experience the Divininty. So the Divine itself takes the form of a saint, a maharishi, guru, or master.

In the present

Mind in the present moment is meditation.

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.

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.

Holding On

If you are holding on to stones in your hands, your hands will not be free to take the diamonds and gold.

What is Love

Love is that phenomenon of dissolving, disappearing, merging, becoming one with. Love is that phenomenon of total letting go.

You Mind

Your mind is a flow. Your mind is a continuum that is ever changing, ever changing.

However it is

Your life, itself, is a celebration of the Infinity, the Divine---however it is.

Linking enthusiasm to things

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?

Be Aware

Be joyful, and at the same time, be totally aware.

Technique for Depression

There is a technique to get depressed -- you want to know? Just sit and think only about yourself: "What about me? What about me?" I tell you, you will get thoroughly depressed.

You are

You are the consciousness

Giving form to unbounded love

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.

Gossip

Most of the sorrow in the world is because of this: speech -- what people say. If they kept their lips tight, ninety percent of the problems in the world would be over.

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.

Relationships

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

sorrow

Sorrow needs to be lived through and gotten rid of. It should not be suppressed.

Spreading around

You sit and think; you sit and feel. Do you think that feeling just remains with you? It reaches far beyond this universe. Your intentions, your feelings get spread much faster than the radiation. It is spread all over this globe and far, far beyond.

The Secret of Joy

You are the source of joy.

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.

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

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.

The Best form of worship

The best "puja," the best form of worship, is to be happy, to be grateful.

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.

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.

Everything

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

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.

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."

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.

Faith and Doubt

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.

"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."

Who cares?

Who is worried about your status? Nobody. If someone looks at your status, they feel jealous. Why do you create more jealousy in other people?

Compliments and Insults

See the nature of mind: if there are ten good qualities and one negative, the mind clings on to that one negative. Ten compliments and one insult, the mind will forget all the ten compliments. It hangs on to the one insult and goes on and on and on about it.

Glorifying the past

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

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?

small world

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

soothing peace

In joy, in peace, in that soothing---very soothing---inner state you will find the happiness.

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

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.

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."

Go deep into the 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.

jealousy

You can never feel jealous about yourself, can you? When something is not you, you feel jealous.

Nearness and Distance

Love cannot tolerate distance, and hatred cannot tolerate nearness.

Missing the Boat

Behind every misery, there is a hope. The fuel for miserable people is hope... Foreseeing happiness sometime in the future, makes one miserable right now. Having desire for some pleasure in the future, either in the world or in heaven, one misses the boat.

Disagreement

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

Upanishads

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.

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."

The 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.

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."

The Experiencer

Self is not object of senses. Self is the experiencer of the object of senses

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.

Bubbles on the surface 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.

Hope for every soul

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sacred Secret

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

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.

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.

What is holding you back

Drop all those divisions (of the mind), altogether. This is what is holding you back from enlightenment. This is what is holding you back from your very nature. Drop those right now.

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.

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.

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.

Anything but 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.

Conditional Love

We try to hold on to people. Even when we love, we love with a condition: "See, I love you, so in return you must love me."

After Sudarshan Kriya Yoga

After kriya (yoga), 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.

Space for Attraction

Give some space for attraction. When attraction dies out, you will feel love has also died. A space is needed for attraction. And that attraction matures and becomes love; and the love matures and becomes devotion.

What is Love

Love is that phenomenon of dissolving, disappearing, merging, becoming one with. Love is that phenomenon of total letting go.

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.

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.

Seer, Seen and the Process of seeing.

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.

How to enjoy

We want to enjoy, but we do not even know how to enjoy. This is the whole problem. There is a way to enjoy, also. The rishis are not against anyone living in the world.

Too much austerity

What comes out of too much austerity is a big ego.

Mysteries

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

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?

The 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?

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