“‘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...”
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“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...”
“The relationship between the teacher and the taught — first of all, when a person begins to look for a spiritual teacher, there are certain things to be very careful about. One, I have already ment...”
“My Master (Babaji) once told me a story about three people who went to Himalayas to meditate. They went up the snow-clad Himalayas, sat down and meditated. After a year, one of them opened his eyes...”
“In the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is ‘karma...”
“If one understands that one is not the body but rather the inner-self that is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow. But, unless sorrow comes, one does not realize th...”
“The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn. One who is taught becomes the teac...”
“From the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay togethe...”
“The ‘sadhak’ has to be very careful. I’m not trying to frighten anybody away from the spiritual path. The Upanishads have described the spiritual path as ‘Shurasya dhaara’—meaning it’s like walking...”
“The spiritual path nearly always, except in cases of certain gifted individuals who have been born with spiritual faculties, requires a guide because we are largely walking on unexplored territory....”
“The few, who with their great devotion and good deeds become recipients of divine grace, free themselves from likes and dislikes, the opposites of attachment and aversion. They, with their purified...”
“The deity is the media through which you reach the Absolute. The Absolute is not Brahma the creator, but the Para Brahman. The root ‘braha’ means to expand continuously. Something, which is always ...”
“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 much more...”
“From the unreal feeling, the unreal understanding, the unreal imagination that I am the body, may I be lifted to a plane where I may begin to understand that I am the Reality. May the Reality dawn ...”