“‘Govinda’ is the Supreme Being; Krishna is also called ‘Govinda’ because he had complete control over the cows with him. Now ‘Go’ also means the senses and one who has complete control over the sen...”
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“The Dhyana sloka in the Bhagvad Gita says: “Sarvo Upanishado Gaavo—all the Upanishads are cows; Dugdha Gopala Nandana—the one milks them is Krishna, the cowherd boy; Partho Vatsaha—Partha or Arjuna...”
“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.”
“When I am clear, when I have no single thought touching my mind, when I can control what thought I want, that is not fantasizing. Fantasizing means replacing reality with something unreal. Here, in...”
“To get the mind free of the material world’s trappings, I would say the only way is to live in the midst of it. Get guidance from one’s teacher and work towards handling it. Come to terms with the ...”
“The sustainer and creator of the universe is the intelligent energy that pervades this universe. The ‘atman’—the consciousness that we understand—is a spark of that supreme consciousness. We cannot...”
“The sun is a symbol of the Supreme primordial life energy, the ‘Vaisvanaara’, which pervades all objects, protects all objects, and gives life to everything on Earth. The Rishi, also known as the K...”
“I look at this world and I see, through ordinary common sense, that it is not permanent. It is not permanent, it is temporary and what is temporary cannot be real. Everything is getting destroyed. ...”
“The central message is that, there is only One Supreme Being and that Supreme Being resides in the hearts of all. He is the ‘Antaryami’ - residing in the heart of all beings. By living a righteous ...”
“Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise. Here, you want to come out of the circumstances that limit your progress. But upon finding that the mind with its present conditioned capacity cannot ...”
“When people went to Shirdi Sai baba and said, “These are our problems, please help us”, he would say, ‘Allah Malik Hai” or “Ram, Ram”. So no one had an idea whether he was a Muslim or a Hindu or a ...”
“By experiencing life through the sorrows, the pleasures, the pains and the happiness, one evolves into a better and cleaner entity before touching a level that cannot be called human, but divine.”
“According to the Vedantic teaching or according to what Ramana Maharishi said (who, I think, was one of the latest teachers of ‘Vedanta’ with a genuine experience of it), “When you pursue this 'try...”
“So, it is in itself a contradiction for the limited to seek the unlimited. For the limited to understand its limitations, intelligence is required. That’s all. Need not be intellect. When the limit...”
“If what we think and how we act can go together, then meditation begins. To not bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. It means, as you go about your life, a pa...”