Reaching the Unreached .....an invitation to Meditate

2012-02-10T02:38:00.000-08:00

All training in spiritual life begins with the attitude of manliness; not hanging on to an external God or deities for everything, like the baby hanging on to its mother all the time. Such a baby will ever remain only a baby. It won't grow. Similarly, the spiritual baby also can grow only when it understands this great message of self-reliance - Atma Sraddha .

2012-02-08T03:15:00.000-08:00

Just remain silent near the flower. Look at it, be in deep sympathy with it, in a deep communion with it. Forget yourself. Just be a passive awareness there, and the flower will flower into THAT. The THAT will be revealed.

So go on discovering THAT. That is what is meant by constant contemplation. And constant contemplation of THAT is meditation.

2012-02-06T01:49:00.001-08:00

A temple is not a place for bargaining, it is a place for rest and relaxation, where tired and exhausted from all your worldly activities, you can find relief and peace. There are no conditions for entering a temple: that you can only come if you have this much of money; that you can only come if you have this much knowledge ; or you can only come if you have this much prestige - a temple accepts you as you are. It is a place so simple that you are accepted as you are.

2012-02-05T01:46:00.000-08:00

How does personality come into being ?

By memory . By identifying the present with the past and projecting it into the future. Think of yourself as momentary, without past and future and you personality dissolves.

2012-02-02T02:51:00.000-08:00

The mind goes on dividing on every level of being. Whenever the mind looks, immediately it divides; division, to divide, is the nature of the mind..... So

we say above and below

we say up and down

we say this world and that world

we say life and death

we say in and out

we say extroversion and introversion ........

but all these divisions are of the MIND.

2012-02-01T03:24:00.000-08:00

2012-02-01T03:04:00.000-08:00

In religion, utility was the test to verify a Truth.

The mantra ' AUM ' has no meaning but it has a utility; a temple has no meaning but it has a utility. To make use of it is an art, and there is an inherent flow in all art which cannot be taught, but must be absorbed.

Science can be taught but Art has to be imbibed.

2012-01-30T22:50:00.000-08:00

Have you ever noticed that Rolls Royce and Bentley don't have commercials ?

Reason : They know the value of their product & that brings customers to them.

Moral : When you know your value, you don't have to beg people to be in your life, to stay friends with you, to spend time with you or to love and understand you. Be confident in who you are. Just remember ... Not everyone can handle luxury !

2012-01-30T02:49:00.000-08:00

Temple was based on very scientific foundations; through the medium of sound, feeling of happiness, peace, love and bliss were aroused. And in the presence of these feelings one's whole attitude towards life could be transformed.

2012-01-23T02:38:00.000-08:00

Who gets the disease ? Do you get it ? If you analyse what you are, you see that disease cannot affect you.

What are you ? Do you die ? Can you die ? Think of Atman; realize That !

2012-01-20T02:44:00.000-08:00

When you identify yourself with the body then only the forms and shapes are there. But when you transcend your body the others disappear along with your body-consciousness.

2012-01-13T03:03:00.000-08:00

Everything is conscious which rebels against nature; there, consciousness is manifested. Just try to kill a little ant, even it will once resist to save its life. Where there is struggle, where there is rebellion, there is the sign of life, there consciousness is manifested.

2012-01-03T03:32:00.000-08:00

Life is an adventure, an adventure of energy.
And people who lag behind in this adventure, for lack of energy
and courage, eventually have to die and disappear from the scene.

2011-12-26T01:45:00.000-08:00

If you teach people faster than they can learn,
you will be in trouble for yourself .

2011-12-23T02:00:00.000-08:00

2011-12-23T01:54:00.000-08:00

Meditation is not a means to an end: there is no end, no arrival;
it is a movement in time and out of time.
Meditation is the movement beyond time.

2011-12-15T01:36:00.000-08:00

If you seek GOD with your whole heart, then you may be
assured that the Grace of GOD is also seeking you.

2011-12-13T02:22:00.000-08:00

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life ..... perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it. It has no technique and therefore no authority.

2011-12-09T01:55:00.000-08:00

A mere intellectual study, or reflection, by itself can never lead the student on to the path of real meditation. Meditation is an all out application of a total integrated personality in the search of Truth. The external marks of religiosity are merely physical; deep devotion and reverence are emotional and a clear understanding of the Nature of the Goal and the Path pursued are intellectual aspects of the spiritual life. All the three are unavoidable for success in Meditaion, in as much as we have to bring therein our entire personality.

2011-12-05T01:54:00.000-08:00

Work is Meditation through the body.

Whatever work I do, that I offer to the Divine.

No Karma is good or bad; it is our Attitude that is very important.

Watch yourself to know your GUNAS.

2011-11-29T02:02:00.000-08:00

With the mind harmonised by Yoga, he sees the Self abiding in all beings and all beings abiding in the Self, he sees the same everywhere.

Bhg Gita

2011-11-28T01:38:00.000-08:00

WITNESSING takes place , there is nothing to be done. It is total freedom for one who does not identify with the body.

2011-11-26T01:46:00.000-08:00

A Man-of-Perfection has no demand or desire, and therefore, no attachment with the world around him. When he lives in perfect detachment, there is an extra inner freedom of the mind, and the world around him must then fail to convey to him either joy or sorrow. With his bosom emptied of the monstrous ego-sense, he lives fully in his inner happiness, under all conditions and circumstances. Even in hell he cannot be miserable; the Bliss in him is Infinite.

2011-11-20T02:53:00.000-08:00

Do we need faith to have faith ? How can we create something out
of nothing ? We can't and that is the crux. It is not ours to command. It spontaneously happen when we are ready.

2011-11-18T03:05:00.000-08:00

You may often speak upon various scriptures or hear them. But you cannot be established in the SELF unless you forget all.

2011-11-17T02:13:00.000-08:00

Let silence become your Meditation .
Whenever you have time, just collapse in silence .....
few thoughts will come, let them pass .....
moments will come when the noise will disappear,
and you will be left all alone.

2011-11-16T02:40:00.000-08:00

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realized, one is that which alone is and which alone has always been. One cannot describe that state. One can only be that.

2011-11-11T02:48:00.000-08:00

There is no such thing as spirituality; whatever is , is only this worldly life, in the five-elemental play. You are nothing better than vegetation. Just as grass is growing, human beings are growing. Will anybody accept this ? If you are yourself alone, that state will not be felt; but if there is a foreign element, only then the suffering starts. On you, the original, this foreign element is imposed, that is why it is suffering.

2011-11-09T02:41:00.000-08:00

Miracles happen everyday; change your perception of what a Miracle is and you will see them all around.

2011-11-02T03:17:00.000-07:00

We are not Human beings having
a Spiritual experience, but
Spiritual beings having
a Human experience.

2011-11-01T02:36:00.000-07:00

He who recognises all names and forms as his own Self and recognises his own Self in every name anf forms, to such an individual there is no revulsion in life.

2011-10-25T03:42:00.000-07:00

What is natural is death; it is life that is unnatural. The whole of the Universe is death manifest, says Buddha, the great seer of our own historical times. The universe is death, as it were, because it is a procession of transitions, a movement, a perpetual transformation of constituents. Do you call it Life ?

2011-10-23T22:55:00.000-07:00

Stick to your consciousness, remain in that. All the burden of your concepts you should fuse into your consciousness, but do not use your consciousness to build up the edifices of concepts.

2011-10-22T04:19:00.000-07:00

A man who believes in GOD can never find GOD. If you are open to reality, there can be no belief in reality. If you are open to the unknown, there can be no belief in it. After all, belief is a form of self-protection, and only a petty mind can believe in GOD.

2011-10-18T22:25:00.000-07:00

Life is considered as a process of transiency by masters like Buddha. They never considered the world as ultimately existent. Nothing in the world IS. Everything passes. Everything moves. Even our awareness of the existence of the world is a process, transitory condition of the activities of the mind, due to which we are said to be living in perpetual anityata.

2011-10-17T21:50:00.001-07:00

As long as you have concepts,
you never see what is True.

2011-10-17T03:11:00.000-07:00

It is difficult to talk about grace because each person has his own concept of it. Grace is something given by God or the Sadguru whose mind has become silent. In this context its aid in a situation where one is helpless, where one's efforts have come to a stand still, in invaluable. With the help of this grace one is back effectively on the inner journey overcoming the mind's holocaust.

2011-10-12T21:52:00.000-07:00

The meaning of having someone as your centre is that your life is now a surrendered life. Worshipping implies a surrendered life. Worshipping the divine means living as the divine wishes ; sitting and standing, eating and drinking, speaking and remaining silent also for the divine.

2011-10-11T04:06:00.000-07:00

There are several steps to worship, but the first and fundamental one is to be understood that every individual is self-centered. Our whole way of living is as though "I am " is the centre of the whole world. : The moon and the stars rise for me, the birds are flying for my joy and the sun too is giving light for me: the whole world is revolving around me, I am the centre of the whole world. Such a person cannot know worship, feeling that he is at the centre and the rest of the world is his circumference.

In worship you see the opposite : the fundamental law of worship is , " I am on the circumference, the centre is somewhere else."

2011-10-08T03:46:00.000-07:00

When there is no desire, actions begin to take an altogether different quality. When there is no desire, then action become just a play - with no madness in it, with no insanity behind it, with no obssesion. It become just a play, a playfulness.

2011-10-04T03:17:00.000-07:00

Arguments begin when names and lables are given, because a personal attachment is formed around names and lables: the name given by you is right and the name given by someone else is wrong. The ego creates this problem. But when only a number is used, the chances of dispute just disappears. If the world had used numbers instead of names and labels, there would never be any conflict.

2011-10-04T03:14:00.000-07:00

2011-10-01T03:56:00.000-07:00

There are two different things: one is the subjective renunciation, and the other is objective renunciation. If an object, an outside thing, cause pain, naturally you want to renounce it. But subjective renunciation is the natural outcome of a raised consciousness. The true renunciation arises only through Meditation. Meditation is the only way to expand your consciousness. Meditation is the fuel with which the light of inner consciousness can burn brighter and sharper.

2011-09-30T03:51:00.000-07:00

Constantly, wherever you are, remember yourself.
Whatsoever you are doing, go on doing one thing inside
continuously: be aware of yourself doing it.
This constant remembering of the Self creates a certain energy,
a very subtle energy in you. You begin to be a crystallized being.

2011-09-29T03:56:00.000-07:00

To be empty of all uncertainties is the essence of wisdom. But uncertainty will remain until there is an experience of the impreishable. Without that experience, doubt will persist. Please remember that doubt is not destroyed by faith or belief. Doubt cannot be destroyed in any other way except by experience.

2011-09-28T03:38:00.000-07:00

Everything has a time limit and so has the mortal body. The body has worn out because of age, mental worries and so many other factors which decay human body. Desires in this world have no end.
Everyone of us has to leave this perishable body one day or the other.

2011-09-22T04:29:00.000-07:00

True listening is far more than hearing with your ears.
Listening means losing a part of yourself.
When you lose yourself totally ,
you Realize.

2011-09-21T03:03:00.000-07:00

The moment you are convinced that greed, desire, ambition, etc, are harming your interests, rather come in your way of happiness as well as peace, you will without any effort keep away from them. They will drop away without any effort only as a result of your convictions; and for this you do not require a Guru. There is no time-space between conviction and experience. The moment you are convinced, you are free.

2011-09-20T02:16:00.000-07:00

The problem facing us may be great; but the glory of life consists in meeting the problem . Success or achievement is not the final goal; it is the spirit in which you act that puts the seal of beauty upon your life..

" THIS TRUTH IS INDIVISIBLE "

2011-09-19T02:59:00.000-07:00

Spiritual life is to be judged not by material results,
but by your growth in Consciousness.
Quite simply, if you are raising your Consciousness,
you are living the Spiritual Life.

2011-09-17T22:44:00.000-07:00

2011-09-17T22:34:00.000-07:00

The Ordainer controls the fate of souls in accordance with their Prarabdha Karma. Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen , do what you may to prevent it ...... All the activities that the body is to go through are determined when it first comes into existence. It does not rest with you to accept or reject them.

2011-09-15T03:30:00.000-07:00

Death is always standing behind us. But man's effort to forget it goes on all the time. He never considers how to live remembering death. Man does not like even the word " DEATH " . If at dinner the word is uttered, we cut it short saying , "How inauspicious ! " . But every step we take is a step that takes us toward death.

2011-09-14T03:49:00.000-07:00

Destiny is something that you have been creating unconsciously. You can also create it consciously. You can also rewrite your destiny. All that is being done in the form of spiritual process is just that. If you can touch the core in you, if you can for one moment experience that the source of creation is within you and shift your whole focus to yourself, you can rewrite your own destiny.

2011-09-12T04:47:00.000-07:00

Life is a beautiful journey if it is a process of constant learning, exploration. Then it is excitement every moment, because every moment you are opening a new door, every moment you are coming in contact with a new mystery.

2011-09-10T03:09:00.000-07:00

Love comes and goes but compassion is a love which, once it comes, never goes. In love, there is a subtle desire to get something from the other. In compassion, there is the awareness that no one has anything to give; and that is why there is compassion. In this state there is no desire even to give, but the effect of such compassion is that all the doors of the heart become wide open and something spontaneously begins to be distributed.

2011-09-08T04:47:00.000-07:00

When ignorance knows that it does not really know, it becomes humble. Then there is a possibility that this kind of ignorance can be broken at some time. But if ignorance is under the illusion that it knows, then the ignorance becomes egoistic; it is strengthened by its own arrogance and conceit. It becomes difficult to break. So it is possible that a truly ignorant person can teach the divine, but the arrogant and conceited scholar can never reach.

2011-09-07T03:33:00.000-07:00

It's true that whatever is valuable cannot be told in words ; it has to be conveyed in SILENCE.
Even when words are used they are used to lead you beyond words, so that you may become capable of understanding in SILENCE.

2011-08-30T04:57:00.000-07:00

Whatever we do at present seems to lead to chaos, seems to lead to sorrow and unhappiness. Look at your own life and you will see that our living is always on the border of sorrow. Our work, our social activity, our politics, all produce further war. Destruction follows in the wake of living; whatever we do leads to death. This is what is actually taking place.

2011-08-22T03:52:00.000-07:00

The mind is the product of the past, it is the result of yesterday ;

and can such a mind be open to the unknown ?

It can only project an image, but that projection is not real; so your god is not God, it is an image of your own making, an image of your own gratification.

2011-08-19T03:52:00.000-07:00

Laughter is one of the things most repressed by society all over the world.
Laughter is dangerous and rebellious.
Life is not serious.
Only graveyards are serious, death is serious.
Life is love, life is laughter, life is dance, song.

2011-08-18T03:51:00.000-07:00

If you know, you tell me, share with me. I will be happy and glad to receive it. If you don't know, then I know something. I can share it with you. Then receive it. If both know then there is no need to talk at all. If both don't know, what is the point of talking ? Discussion is meaningless. These are the only possibilities; either we both don't know ? Then we can go on arguing and argument will not bring any conclusion. That's how man has argued down the ages. Great argumentation , to no end. Or, we both know, then there is no point in saying anything.

2011-08-12T04:23:00.000-07:00

Man is man, always. He never changes. What man was when the world was created , he is today, also. He is made of the same stuff. He will never change. You rub any man, you find the same substance inside. He may be primitive or the modern cultured, so called educated man. They are all made of the substance, same stuff. They have the same weakness and their desires are of the same character.

2011-08-11T04:37:00.000-07:00

Silence must happen while you are absolutely alive, vital, bubbling with life and energy.

Then silence is meaningful.

But then silence will have a different ,

altogether different quality to it.

It will not be dull.

It will be alive.

It will be a subtle balance between two polarities.

2011-08-08T03:03:00.000-07:00

We get only that for which we are fitted. Let us give up our pride and understand this : that misery is never undeserved. Analyse yourselves and you will find that every blow you have received came to you because you prepared yourselves for it. You did half and the external world did the other half : that is how the blow came.

2011-08-02T04:24:00.000-07:00

2011-08-02T04:12:00.000-07:00

Nature gives each person a thumb which is uniquely his/her, which is individual and unrepeatable. Nature keeps such a subtle account that it gives each person a thumb which is uniquely his/her, neither now nor in the future. Several billion people may have lived on the Earth, several billion people may live on the Earth in the future, but my thumbprint will not be repeated.

If nature can bestow so much individuality on each person with regard to a worthless thing like a thumb , then can't it give each person a unique life and a unique soul ? THINK !!!

2011-07-28T23:45:00.000-07:00

Without that experience, doubt will presist. Please remember that doubt is not destroyed by faith or belief. Doubt cannot be destroyed in any other way except by experience.

2011-07-25T04:18:00.001-07:00

Do you know of someone whose main function in life seems to be to make themselves and others miserable, to spread unhappiness ?

Forgive them, for they too are part of the awakening of humanity. The role they play represents an intensification of the nightmare of egoic consciousness, the state of non-surrender.

2011-07-19T22:59:00.000-07:00

If your speaking is rooted in your mind, ninty percent of speach will vanish. Ninty percent of speech is unnecessary ! And how much trouble is born out of this unnecessary speaking, life goes on becoming more complicated - you cannot imagine how complicated. Only ten percent of your speaking will remain; it will become telegraphic.
When i am not speaking the mind should become silent and empty.

2011-07-18T02:16:00.000-07:00

Those who have set out on the search for truth have to become insecure, without support. They have to give up all shelter; only then can they receive the protection of existence. They have to become helpless; only then the help from existence is available.

That is why the sannyasin becomes independent. without support , without shelter. This is the way he lives and will remain with grace of existence.

2011-07-17T03:07:00.000-07:00

Mere reading of the scriptures is not enough.
A person cannot understand the true significance of the scriptures if he is attached to the world.
One should hear the scriptures during the early stages of spiritual discipline.

2011-07-15T04:00:00.000-07:00

God, Guru, and the Self are the same. His Silence is more vast and more emphatic than all the sastras put together. Grace is always there. We are never out of its operation. It is only the clouded mind which does not feel it . Yet through effort it can experience Grace.

2011-07-11T21:42:00.000-07:00

Every person is born with latent samskara from his past lives. One method will prove easy to one person and another to another. There can be no general rule. Advanced spiritual aspirants quickly realize the Self when given the right instructions by a qualified Guru. The less mature need time to reflect on the Self before realizing it and the third group require many years of intensive spiritual sadhana.

2011-07-11T03:24:00.000-07:00

Can anyone ever become unconscious by thinking of Consciousness ? GOD is of the nature of Eternity, Purity, and Consciousness. Through His Consciousness one becomes conscious of everything ; through His Intelligence the whole world appears intelligent.

2011-07-08T22:01:00.000-07:00

2011-07-08T21:18:00.000-07:00

This gross mind cannot comprehend God. God is far beyond both the mind and the intellect. The world that you see is within the domain of the mind. The mind is its author. But through sadhana, a subtle mind opens up. That is already in you in seed form. Through sadhana this seed develops and unfolds, and through that subtle mind you can have this vision of finer truths.

2011-07-06T03:29:00.001-07:00

The devotion to GOD as seen in every religion is divided into two parts : the devotion which works through forms and ceremonies and through words, and that which works through love ....

2011-06-23T17:38:00.000-07:00

Truth liberates. Certainly truth liberates, but it has to be your own. If it is somebody else's, then rather than liberating it imprisons.

2011-06-22T20:08:00.000-07:00

One of the most important things to be understood about man is that man is asleep. Even while he thinks he is awake, he is not. His wakefulness is very fragile; his wakefulness is so tiny it doesn't matter at all. His wakefulness is only a beautiful name but utterly empty.

2011-05-19T03:23:00.000-07:00

Every person is born with latent samskara from his/her past lives. One method will prove easy to one person and another to another. There can be no general rule. Advanced spiritual aspirants quickly realize the Self when given the right instructions by a qualified guru. The less mature need time to reflect on the Self before realizing it and the third group require many years of intensive spiritual pracitce.

2011-05-15T03:30:00.000-07:00

When you get angry, you think someone has made you angry. No, really, you were ready, you were overflowing inside. You don't know because you are not aware. You are overflowing with a certain amount of energy which needs to be released. Someone abuses you, insults you, and you get angry, you think, " This man is anger in me" . No this man is simply giving you a situation to release the overflowing energy in you.

2011-05-14T04:21:00.000-07:00

Don't ask ! Go inside and find out who is asking .
Close your eyes ! Don't ask " Who am I " ?
Go inside and find out who is asking , who is this questioner inside.
Find out the source of the question . Go deep inside .

2011-05-12T04:20:00.000-07:00

You are not alone. Through you the cosmos is progressing , evolving. You have a very deep mission, a great destiny. To realize this you will have to transform your total outlook.
And that transformation starts only when you begin to feel responsible. If you feel you are responsible you can change.

2011-05-11T04:20:00.000-07:00

Energy can be misused or it can be transformed.
Energy in itself is neutral it will not tell you what to do with it -
you have to decide. This is the secret science of inner alchemy.

2011-05-08T23:22:00.000-07:00

Truth make you utterly naked ......... naked of all lies, naked of all hypocrisies. That's why nobody wants truth ; everybody believes that he got it .

2011-05-08T03:49:00.000-07:00

There is no need to wait for tomorrow. You can see it today. And if you cannot see it today, you will not be able to see it tomorrow either, because tomorrow never comes. When tomorrow comes it always comes as today. So it is better to see it today it was also tomorrow, yesterday. So what is great in waiting for tomorrow ?

2011-05-06T23:40:00.000-07:00

Pure consciousness is indivisible, it is without parts. It has no form and shape, no ' within ' and ' without ' . There is no 'right' or 'left' for it. Pure consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.

2011-05-06T04:04:00.000-07:00

If you believe you will disbelieve too. Nobody can believe without disbelieving. Let it be settled once for all : nobody can believe without disbelieving. Every belief is a cover up for disbelief.
Belief is only the circumference of the centre called doubt; because the doubt is there you create belief.

2011-04-28T17:44:00.000-07:00

Silence is such a power, silence is such a transforming force, silence is also alchemical ..... it is the only magic in the world ...... the other is bound to be transformed.

2011-04-23T08:25:00.000-07:00

Your inner being is nothing but the inner sky.

Clouds come and go, planets are born and disappear, stars arise and die,

and the inner sky remains the same, untouched, untarnished, unscarred.

We call that inner sky , the witness, and that is the whole goal of Meditation.

2011-04-19T18:16:00.000-07:00

The mind cannot wait, it is always in a hurry. It knows nothing about patience; hence it keeps piling questions upon questions without getting the answer.

It is something very delicate to understand; that it is not the answer that is significant but the right timing, your readiness to receive it; otherwise it will just go above your head. The impatient mind is much too occupied in questioning.

2011-04-12T23:00:00.000-07:00

A true Guru is someone who has realised the Self and who is able to use his power to assist others towards the goal of Self realisation.

2011-04-11T22:22:00.000-07:00

There is solitude everywhere. The individual is solitary always. His business is to find it out within, not to seek it outside himself.

2011-04-10T23:12:00.000-07:00

Whatever people continue to do or think they are doing, they are purely a concept based on a certain image they have of themselves. And once they act according to that image, they will be susceptable to all kinds of unhappiness. Whatever happens is a mere movement in that consciousness. Once this is understood, nothing remains to be done : there is nothing you can or need to do.

2011-04-08T03:59:00.000-07:00

Meditation is not something that is done by the mind , it is the absence of the mind. When the mind stops , meditation happens. It is not something out of the mind, it is something beyond the mind.

2011-04-05T23:26:00.000-07:00

Hold the ego first and then ask how it is to be destroyed. Who asks the question ?

It is the ego. This question is a sure way to cherish the ego and not to kill it.

If you seek the ego you will find that it does not exist. That is the way to destroy it.

2011-04-04T22:12:00.000-07:00

You bear a name to which you answer. But your body was not born with that name written on it, nor did it say to anyone that it bore such and such a name. And yet a name is given to you and you answer to that name, because you have identified yourself with the name. Therefore the name signified something and it is not a mere fiction. Similiarly, God's name is effective. Repetition of the name is rememberance of what it signifies. Hence its merit.

2011-04-03T04:13:00.000-07:00

God and Guru are in TRUTH not different. Just as the prey that has fallen into the jaws of a tiger cannot escape, so those who have come under the glance of the Guru's will surely be saved and will never be forsaken; yet one should follow without fail the path shown by the GURU .

2011-03-30T23:17:00.000-07:00

The quality of food influences the mind. The mind feeds on the food consumed.

The food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more sattvic.