“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 ...”
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“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”...”
“At the end of the 18th chapter in Bhagwad Gita, Krishna declares, “Now that you have understood everything, relax. Let go and rejoice! Do your things. Carry on. Nothing is going to happen. The roof...”
“Imagination or visualization is a divine capacity given to the human mind by which it can visualize and create reality out of its visualizations. This is because it derives its capacity to create f...”
“The first chapter of Bhagwad Gita is ‘Arjuna Vishada Yoga’—it begins with the sorrow of Arjuna. This is an important thing to understand. One will not turn around and try to find the truth behind t...”
“The Buddhists use the term ‘paraa gati’ to mean ‘one who has walked across’ or ‘one who has gone beyond’. Such a person is called ‘Bodhi’—meaning one who has the ‘bodh’. ‘Paraa gati paraa sangati b...”
“The ‘Tandav Nritya’ of Shiva is meant to free you from all the conditioning, all the images, all the attractions and repulsions that keep you rooted to the understanding that you are a different in...”
“The root sorrow is about the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. Being body-oriented, one becomes vulnerable to sorrows. One experiences the sorrows because anything that happens to the bod...”
“When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them away, go deep within and try to find out. Nothing should be allowed to intrude. A great mas...”
“Practitioners of spiritual exercises should keep in mind that when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all the tendencies that are hidden in your subconscious mind would surface. This is the poi...”
“Sit down and meditate in your heart center and whenever such thoughts that are not related to the inner come, try to keep them away. There are other thoughts that can take you to the spiritual. For...”
“‘Prasna Upanishad’ is an Upanishad that questions anything before accepting it. This should be the hallmark of all enquiries. Do not believe because somebody said so, but rather question it to conv...”
“Nobody can say, “I have Absolute Power.” One can say, “I have touched deep one of the conduits, through which I link myself to the Absolute Power.” As long as one has the physical body, and as long...”
“If the desire or intense desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind, that mind need not be an extraordinary intellectual or any such thing. It could just be an ordinary person but the in...”