“When I enjoy something sweet, for eg: fresh jalebis, the enjoyment swells up when my tongue, the sense organ, touches the jalebi. The enjoyment isn’t contained in the jalebi or the tongue; it’s wit...”
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“There is nothing to fear and to live with this understanding is called holistic living. Holistic living is to live with the understanding the blissful Supreme Being pervades the entire universe and...”
“If the world were a complete obstruction to the attainment of spiritual fulfilment, the Supreme Being would not have created the world at all. The very fact that the world exists around us and also...”
“If you can put your mind into an idea that you want to achieve, visualizing it completely as if it is actually there, doing that constantly using the technique by which it can be done, then believe...”
“The world is such a funny place. You try to go behind something and it always runs away from you; you leave it and it tries to follow you! Vishwamitra goes off to the forest for ‘Tapasya’ and Menak...”
“The message Shirdi Sai Baba wanted to convey was the total unity of all religions. So, he did a very strange thing. While living in a broken mosque, he had this everyday ritual of lighting a lamp o...”
“Examine yourself in the morning when you wake up and in the evening before you go to sleep. Ask yourself – have I changed or am I the same or worse? Am I still angry when somebody else is happy?”
“Whatever be the situations, look at them carefully and try to work out how best you can handle them. To handle them, ‘Sadhana’ is a very important part of your daily life. Without it, you cannot ha...”
“Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. Speak the truth; more than speaking the truth, think the truth. It does not mean that when you speak the truth, you have to be blunt; there...”
“Let Go! Upanishads have a beautiful saying ‘Tena tyaktena bhunjitha.’ Let go and rejoice! Normally when you say rejoice, our idea is that we have to gather things together. Here it is a completely ...”
“‘That which does not move’ is like the eye of the cyclone —total motion amidst which there is nothing but absolute calmness. It is from this calmness that everything is sucked in because it’s a vac...”
“Mula’ which means ‘root’; ‘Adhara’ means ‘foundation’, support’. So, if you translate the word, it would mean ‘root support’ or ‘root foundation’. This means that the Energy, after doing all its wo...”
“Remove all the conditions that are there and remain in one essential state and this is the aim of the vedantic teaching. One discovers that One is not this body or the mind but the inner self, the ...”
“The Bhagvad Gita says wherever there is a manifestation of goodness, energy, power, position, status and knowledge – especially knowledge – it is a manifestation of the Supreme Being. But, it may b...”
“Look inside our minds and we will see we have hundreds of images and it’s because of these images we get hurt, our ego expands and we have so many problems! “I believe that I am an intelligent man”...”