yogic wisdom

Everything is just a thought

2011-12-30T08:54:00.001-08:00

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought, your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

100% comfortable

2011-11-24T13:13:00.000-08:00

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

Awakened in Knowledge

2011-11-17T07:15:00.001-08:00

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

Faith and Doubt

2011-11-17T03:14:00.001-08:00

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.

The Ultimate Prerequisite

2011-11-07T21:50:00.001-08:00

When there is no peace, forget about God, forget about Truth, forget about Divinity, forget about everything else. The first requirement is peace.

Relationship

2011-11-07T21:28:00.001-08:00

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

The Way Out

2011-11-01T09:07:00.001-07:00

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?

Pleasure and Pain

2011-10-17T21:51:00.001-07:00

Freedom from the pleasure is the real pleasure. Pain does not bind you; it is the pleasure that binds you. And the bondage is painful. If you are bound, you are not bound by misery, you are bound by your craving, your pleasure.

Recognize the Divinity

2011-08-02T00:42:00.001-07:00

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

Upanishad

2011-07-27T08:23:00.001-07:00

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.

The Gift of Giving

2011-07-23T06:55:00.001-07:00

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.

Angels

2011-07-12T19:49:00.001-07:00

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.

Seer, Seen and process of seeing

2011-03-06T23:15:00.001-08:00

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.

De-Linking

2011-02-26T08:22:00.001-08:00

Wisdom is: de-link the event with the emotion, and de-link the emotion
with the sensation. Ignorance is: if you have some sensation, some
sadness, feeling, link it back again to the event. That makes you more
miserable, and it sets the chain to go on and on and on.

Gossip

2010-11-25T17:42:00.001-08:00

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.

Remembering and Re-living

2010-11-25T04:55:00.001-08:00

There is a difference between remembering and re-living. Re-living is something else. You become alive again

Unlimited Joy

2010-11-25T04:54:00.001-08:00

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

Every Storm

2010-11-24T19:22:00.001-08:00

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.

Pain in the mind

2010-11-22T22:11:00.001-08:00

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.

Everything is God

2010-11-22T07:58:00.001-08:00

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

Arms Open

2010-11-20T07:28:00.001-08:00

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.

Maintaining Equanimity

2010-11-18T23:33:00.001-08:00

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.

Problems have enriched your life

2010-11-18T16:51:00.001-08:00

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.

Destiny and Free Will

2010-11-17T10:21:00.000-08:00

Take the past as destiny and the future as free will. What was meant to happen, happened. We tend to do the reverse. People who are foolish think the past is free will and the future is destiny. This only makes you miserable in the present.

infinite nature

2010-10-10T06:51:00.001-07:00

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.

Intense Joy

2010-10-09T07:17:00.001-07:00

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.

Drop the Past

2010-10-09T00:01:00.001-07:00

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

Inside You

2010-09-28T01:38:00.001-07:00

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

Heart and Head

2010-09-16T00:06:00.001-07:00

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

No Answers

2010-08-08T06:18:00.001-07:00

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

Arms Open

2010-08-08T06:17:00.001-07:00

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.

Perfect Balance

2010-08-06T06:18:00.001-07:00

Life needs to be a perfect balance between sound and silence, between dynamic activity and stillness, between being funny and jovial, and then being serious. If one aspect is missing, life is incomplete. If you are only serious, and not funny, then it's not complete. If you are only funny, you become superficial. You are not deep. Silence is our ability to switch between them, this is most important.

compassion

2010-07-19T07:18:00.001-07:00

When there is a wound deep inside a person, he will try to share that with other people. What else can he do? You just recognize: "Oh, he needs compassion." Compassion is the only medicine. Unconditional love is the only treatment.

Destroying Sins

2010-07-14T03:57:00.001-07:00

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.

Flash of Surrender

2010-07-01T02:09:00.001-07:00

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 company one keeps

2010-06-19T13:35:00.001-07:00

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

How to Live

2010-04-01T11:01:00.001-07:00

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.

feverishness and creativity

2010-03-04T06:22:00.001-08:00

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.

False Promises

2010-03-03T14:24:00.001-08:00

This is the nature of sense objects: they promise pleasure to begin with and even give you also a little taste, but then leave you with pain and suffering.

Feverishness and Creativity

2010-02-26T21:49:00.001-08:00

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.

100% comfortable

2010-02-23T21:04:00.001-08:00

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

No doubt!

2010-02-22T00:54:00.001-08:00

Doubts will not stay. They have no basis.

Drowning in doubt

2010-02-22T00:52:00.001-08:00

When self doubt comes, behind that come the doubts about the techniques, about your path. And when these two doubts come, the third doubt comes: "Am I in the right place? Is this the right teacher?" Doubt about the teacher follows the first two. And these three doubts drown you down.

Enlightenment

2010-02-18T19:53:00.000-08:00

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

Laugh at others mistakes

2010-02-16T16:10:00.001-08:00

When you look at someone else's mistake, you should laugh at it and feel compassionate towards it; then you are able to save your mind.

Getting Baked

2010-02-10T10:22:00.000-08:00

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.

Blossom or Suffocate

2010-02-02T18:41:00.000-08:00

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.

My mistake

2010-02-02T18:40:00.001-08:00

hen 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.

Seeing God

2010-01-21T10:24:00.001-08:00

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

being against others

2010-01-18T21:51:00.001-08:00

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!

Disagreement

2010-01-11T04:03:00.001-08:00

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

Different Kinds of tears

2010-01-07T04:37:00.001-08:00

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.

Worries Washed Away

2010-01-02T14:46:00.001-08:00

You can do this as an experiment: when you are very worried or tense, just sit by a flowing river or gushing water and just keep looking at the water. You know, within few moments you feel as though like a magnetic pull, that your mind is being pulled in the direction of the flow of water...and in a short while all that anguish, delusion, whatever you had, [with] the flowing water it all flows away. You become fresh.

Incomplete and Infinite

2009-12-31T18:13:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-31T18:11:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-20T05:26:00.000-08:00

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

When something bothers you

2009-12-18T19:25:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-16T15:30:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-01T21:14:00.001-08:00

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

2009-10-21T06:31:00.001-07:00

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

Expression of Self

2009-10-21T06:30:00.001-07:00

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

Love and Faith

2009-10-04T11:08:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-23T17:22:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-22T23:57:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-21T23:05:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-16T22:46:00.001-07:00

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

No anticipation

2009-08-16T09:41:00.001-07:00

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

Awakened in Knowledge

2009-08-15T23:04:00.001-07:00

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

Restricting Awareness

2009-08-13T22:45:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-13T01:24:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-13T01:23:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-10T22:02:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-09T03:44:00.001-07:00

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.

2009-08-07T01:43:00.001-07:00

"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

2009-07-31T00:15:00.001-07:00

Whatever you want for others will happen to you

True Unity

2009-07-31T00:14:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-29T22:51:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-29T22:50:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-27T02:39:00.001-07:00

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

Aversions

2009-07-25T11:12:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-22T22:58:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-22T22:50:00.001-07:00

Feverishness blocks love

2009-07-21T21:00:00.003-07:00

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

Feverishness and Creativity

2009-07-21T21:00:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-20T10:25:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-19T19:45:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-19T19:43:00.001-07:00

Be joyful and at the same time be totally aware.

memory

2009-07-18T20:48:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-18T06:29:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-18T00:19:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-13T19:36:00.003-07:00

You are all that you are longing for

Linking enthusiasm to things

2009-07-13T19:36:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-11T22:30:00.001-07:00

There is no one-sided mistake.

Repose

2009-07-10T22:13:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-10T22:12:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-07T16:47:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-06T14:33:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-06T01:15:00.001-07:00

What restricts us

2009-07-05T20:50:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-05T20:49:00.003-07:00

See the beauty in people.