“‘We’ are saying that the next stage after aesthetics is spiritual evolution. There, you have put things in order; here you have to put your mind in order. You should know where this picture, in the...”
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“My Babaji – my Master – used to say, ‘as long as other people are thinking various things about you, its ok. If you start believing what they are thinking about you, you are lost! You are sunk.’”
“To understand, while we are OK – that we still have to go beyond; that we have to find lasting peace; that we have to find the Real which is the Immortal Self – and to understand that ‘that’ is muc...”
“In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge there, is mentioned as Vidya and has been divided into Para-vidya and Apara-vidya. In Apar vidya are included all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammer...”
“The Bhagwad Gita, translated literally would mean The Divine Song, Geetam. Indeed from the point of view of the sincere seeker of ‘Truth’, of spiritual fulfillment, it is a song of hope in the mids...”
“The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as it is said in the Viveka Chudamani and many other ancient texts – the Upanishads, Gita – the first thing to understand is that there is not...”
“Great literature, sublime poetry, exquisite works of art – they have been inspired by love and compassion. It is unselfish love for humanity which is the culmination and the highest point that love...”
“Vedanta also says that the real substance of the universe, is the same everywhere. In you and outside you. And that substance cannot even be found by the mind. Then, if it cannot be found by the mi...”
“Your opinions, your perceptions, your ideas, your images, they are all relative. They are not absolute. But certainly, some thing exists and that which actually exists cannot be found by the sensor...”
“Perception is always relative, it’s comparative. You can only compare. There is no absolute perception.”
“Blankness is very fearful for us. Because the mind thinks it will lose hold, that we will very soon be free of it. It is the tendency of the mind to bind and when we are shaking ourselves out of it...”
“It also the reason why Shiva is also called ‘Pashupathi’. Pashu means all the instincts which we have as animals. This is the noose that pulls that animal and makes it do exactly what he wants. Thi...”
“In the deeper sense of the term, the consciousness which is the ground from which all the thoughts arise, that is the real you. So to get back there you have to allow the thoughts to quieten down.”
“Now, the rishis and the yogis who have gone into this subject practically have said there is something called mind, but there is no language, there is thought which has no language and that is the ...”
“The moment we begin to glimpse or even understand that we are the ocean and all thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it. That is our primordial state. That is the gap between thoughts.”