“Most of the time we spend all our energies on worrying about failure. If we could only just brush it out and retain our energies – we could move forward and look at fresher avenues. A mind which i...”
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“Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise where you deep down want to come out of the circumstances which are limiting your progress. And not finding that in the present conditioned mind, try...”
“Freedom is our birth right. Our true self, the atman is free; it does not need to be freed from anything. It is free because it is complete, ‘poorna’. ‘Poornamadah’ that completeness is actually yo...”
“Those who have transcended the external rites of religion, they should begin to look within to find the true essence. This is very essential because without the true essence, sometime or the other,...”
“The highest function of the intelligence, according to the Upanishads is to realise its limitations and when it realises its limitations it just keeps quiet. It knows, ‘I’m very useful in this and ...”
“Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, bind us down to the earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching which says, that if you can act kn...”
“If one understands that one is not the body but the inner self which is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow. But unless and until some kind of sorrow comes, one doe...”
“Suppose I decide that the sorrow and the problems of the world are too much for me, and I run away to the Himalayas or somewhere else, I still can’t run away from my mind. I can physically run away...”
“Every practitioner of spiritual exercise should keep in mind -that when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all the tendencies that have been hidden in your subconscious mind till now-bottled up...”
“Shivarathri, traditionally, is supposed to be the day when Samudra Manthan was done and the poison came out. You know that story of the churning of the ocean-the Manthan- and when the churning took...”
“When the mind churns in meditation which means, when you delve deeper and deeper into the layers of your mind, the first thing that comes out is not Amrit. The first thing that comes out is poison ...”
“They say Adinath dances his Tandav Nritya. When he dances his Tandav Nritya, he destroys images. He explodes all the images that we have created and nothing new can come up. Like death destroys the...”
“True consciousness means to go beyond all images – not images that you see around you – but the images that we build up in our minds and the Tandav nritya is a beautiful expression of the breaking ...”
“Look inside our minds and we will see that we have hundreds of images and it is because of these images that we get hurt, our ego goes up, we have all the problems, everything! I believe that I am ...”
“The Tandav Nritya of Shiva is meant to free you from all conditioning, all images, all attractions and repulsions that keep you rooted to the understanding that you are an individual different, and...”