"My dream is to see the whole world unite as one family. Shall we all commit to create a wave of happiness and a smile on every face?." 
Observation is the key
Craving never dies by experience---craving or aversion goes only through observation.
Head and Heart
When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. It is always so. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
Dropping the Craving
Dropping the craving in the mind, or aversion in the mind, for any particular sense objects, strengthens the mind---and only a strong mind can ever experience Divine Love
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.
Untouched
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green, blissful area of our Self.
Shradhaa
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.
saadhana for you, becomes a practice.
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.
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 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?
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.
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.
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.
What is Love
Love is that phenomenon of dissolving, disappearing, merging, becoming one with. Love is that phenomenon of total letting go.
De-Linking
Wisdom is: de-link the event with the emotion, and de-ink the emotion with the sensation. Ignorance is: if you have a some sensation, some sadness, feeling, link it back again to the event. That makes you more miserable, and sets the chain to go on and on, and on.
Attend to the Source
When the Source is attended to, all your other abilities flower automatically, spontaneously.
Release or Increase
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.
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.
Who cares?
Who is worried about your status? Nobody. If someone looks at your status, they feel jealousy. Why do you create more jealousy in other people
Really Living
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.
Anything can Change
Anything can change any time, in any manner. The whole world is the field of all probabilities, possibilities.
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.
Mysterious Love
When you live in Love, you become so mysterious! That is Govinda. 'Govind' means one who has hidden knowledge, or one who cannot be explained in words, is beyond the words.
Resisting Feelings
Some feeling came into you, unpleasant feeling, and you said, "Should not come, it should not come!" Doing that, you are resisting it. When you resist, it persists. Just observe. See, "Oh!" Go deep into it. Dance, stand up on your feet and dance. Be intoxicated; move intoxicated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faith and Doing
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything is just a thought
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought, your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.
100% comfortable
A state in which you feel absolutely comfortable, 100% comfort, that is meditation.
Awakened in Knowledge
Your mind is a flow. Your mind is a continuum that is ever changing, ever changing.
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.
The Ultimate Prerequisite
When there is no peace, forget about God, forget about Truth, forget about Divinity, forget about everything else. The first requirement is peace.
Relationship
Relationship is what? Feeling no separation---I am you, you are me.
You are part of me, I am part of you.
You are part of me, I am part of you.
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?
Pleasure and Pain
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
When you move in the world, recognize the Divinity in things around you, in people around you. Listen with your heart.
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.
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.
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.
Seer, Seen and 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.
knowledge, the knower, and the known, they all merge, become
one---that is Divine Love.
De-Linking
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.
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
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
There is a difference between remembering and re-living. Re-living is something else. You become alive again
Unlimited Joy
Your mind is not ready for limitations. It wants unlimited joy, unlimited pleasure---which the five senses cannot give you.
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.
Pain in the mind
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.
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.
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.
Problems have enriched your life
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
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
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
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.
Inside You
Krishna is inside you; God, the Divine is inside you---have an inner connection with the Divine.
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.
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.
Perfect Balance
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
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
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
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
...You are not a computer. But we have been given the understanding
that being emotional is not good, that it is not normal.
that being emotional is not good, that it is not normal.
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.
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.
False Promises
This is the nature of sense objects: they promise pleasure to begin with and even give you also a little taste, but then leave you with pain and suffering.
Feverishness 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.
100% comfortable
A state in which you feel absolutely comfortable, 100% comfort, that is meditation.
Drowning in doubt
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
To uncover is enlightenment. Uncover what? Your true identify, your true nature. And what is your true nature? Divine Love
Laugh at others mistakes
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
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
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
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.
being against others
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
Whether you agree with me or disagree with me, what does it matter to what is? What is, is
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.
Worries Washed Away
You can do this as an experiment: when you are very worried or tense, just sit by a flowing river or gushing water and just keep looking at the water. You know, within few moments you feel as though like a magnetic pull, that your mind is being pulled in the direction of the flow of water...and in a short while all that anguish, delusion, whatever you had, [with] the flowing water it all flows away. You become fresh.
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.
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.
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.
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