The Formless
The formless is ruling your life. The formless is ruling the world. And there is a greater formlessness that is ruling the entire creation. And you are the center of that greater formlessness, whatever you call it---God, Consciousness, No-Mind, Nirvana, Spirit, anything you call it by name.

Sorrow
Sorrow needs to be lived through and gotten rid of. It should not be suppressed.

Love and Hate
Love cannot tolerate distance, and hatred cannot tolerate nearness.

Meditation and Death
Meditation is very similar to this experience of void. In meditation you realize you are not just the body, but you are more than the body. That annihilates the fear of death.

God Loves Fun
Nature loves to give you surprises. God loves fun. He always gives you surprises---sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant. And you grow by unpleasant as well as by pleasant. In fact you grow much more by unpleasant surprises than the pleasant ones.

Observe, Don't Identify
Observe the tendencies that come up in you, and do not think you *are* those tendencies.

The Way Out of Ignorance
The way to come out of ignorance is a definite understanding, a definite knowledge in the mind, that my body is undergoing change all the time, the world is undergoing change all the time, the entire universe is in a state of fluidity and it is all full of change and it is going on on its own, according to its nature.

Knowledge about Self
This body is all hollow and empty, and every particle in this body is changing, and changing, and see this definite knowledge, that I am not the body, I am the Self, I am the space, I am the Imperishable, untouched, untainted by the "prakriti," by this world around me.

A Point In Us
There is a point in us that will remain ever pure, total joy, and bliss---bliss that can never be taken away from us.

Untouched
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green, blissful area of our Self.

Intense Joy
When we get in touch with the source of life, then all of other tensions, worries which have been clouding this manifestation, fall off and we can sing, dance, and be happy. Life can become very intense, intense in the sense of being joyful.

What do you Want in Life?
What is it that one wants in life? It is joy, is love. And that is one's very nature.

No Way
There is no way---not by any action or by words---that you can ever convince anybody that you really love them. The more we try to do it, the more we are doing the contrary.

All Pain
That feverishness to achieve what you want is all painful. When you have it, the fear of losing it is painful. When it is gone, the memory of its joy is painful. So the whole thing is all pain!

Spiritual Practices..
If you do spiritual practices, to do that needs an effort---that is painful.

Don't Get Lost
The whole world is here for you to enjoy, but when enjoying, don't forget your SELF.

Dynamic
Everything in this universe is dynamic. There is nothing that is static.

Pleasure & Pain
This entire universe is there to give you pleasure and release. Whatever gives you pleasure should also give relief. Otherwise, the very pleasure becomes pain.

Too Much
The same thing which gave you pleasure is now making you suffer. If you are forced to eat twenty apple pies you will hold your head and say, "Oh my God! I want relief from this. I want to get away from this! Enough is enough!"

Self Is the Center
The Self is the center of the whole creation.

Every Inch Filled with Bliss
For one who has awakened in knowledge, there is no more suffering. The world appears completely different. For him every inch of this creation is filled with bliss, is a part of the Self.

Deep into yourself
The Divine is only waiting for you to dig a little deeper into yourself, that is all.

The Sattvic Intellect
The sattvic intellect is one that just does the job joyfully and is unmindful of the results. Let things happen or not happen---either way they don't lose their enthusiasm.

Lack of Understanding
Lack of understanding of life causes fear. People are afraid of love, people are afraid of meditation, people are afraid of death, people are afraid of themselves.
Ignorance, lack of awareness, is cause of fear. Just a glimpse of the Being, of the
Self that you are, that you are beyond death, roots out the fear totally.

Knowledge of Death
Knowledge of death makes you immortal. It's wrong to even say, "makes you immortal." It makes you aware that you are immortal, anyway.

Time, Mind and Samadhi
When the mind is happy, it expands; then time feels too short. When the mind is unhappy, it contracts; then time feels too long. When the mind is in equanimity, it transcends time.

Pain
Every pain that you undergo in this process is for the higher growth. A seed has pain to sprout, and a sprout has pain to become bigger.

Play
This entire creation is rejoicing in you. Because, it is a play, it is a game. It's not a serious something that is judged and punished.

Nectar and Poison
In every breath there is Divine nectar. There is nectar that flows out of it. Or poison can flow.

You sit and think
you sit and feel. Do you think that feeling just remains with you? It reaches far beyond this universe.

Root cause of Depression
Be active, but not obsessed with or feverish about fulfilling desires because that is the root cause of depression. If you are depressed, underneath the depression, is a lingering desire.

Looking Ahead
Where will we be in 5,000 years? What is going to happen in 5,000 years? Have a bigger plan! In 10,000 years, what is going to happen? Where will you be?

Problems
Many problems have come, many problems have been solved, and each problem has enriched life in some way, has brought up some strength in you.

The Perpetual Dance
In nature, both destruction and creation are complementary. They are two steps---like day and night. All opposite values in nature, they all dance together. It has been that way since the beginning. It'll continue 'til the end.

However it is...
Your life, itself, is a celebration of the Infinity, the Divine---however it is.

Listen from Your Heart
We have this ability, but we have forgotten to listen from our heart. That is why we are tense and worried and dull and dry---we feel dry in life. The joy comes when we can listen from our heart.

Head and Heart
Use your brain, it's necessary. Use your brain. I'm not saying shut off your brain and only live in the heart all the time, no. It has its function. But it is possible that we have shut off functioning from the heart and we are stuck in the head---that is another extreme.

Depression
Yoga is to realize that your mind is dynamic, your life is dynamic. Depression is a sign of static understanding about life. When you feel everything in life is dead, static, there is nothing more, nowhere to go - that is when one gets depressed.

This Creation
The world is not a dead place, the creation is not a dead place. It is solidified consciousness, and it is dynamic. And it is new.

A Devotee
A devotee is not there even for wisdom. He simply is in love. He has fallen in deep love with the master, with the infinity, with God. He doesn't care whether he gets enlightened or not.

Devotee
A devotee will never fall. He cannot fall. There is no chance for it.

Every Stop
For every stop, the previous phase has to be dissolved. One phase is dissolved to give space for another, and it is always evolutionary. So there is no reverting back, no reversing - it is evolutionary. It can stop for a while, but then it continues.

Heart and Head
When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. It is always so. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Disagreement
Whether you agree with me or disagree with me, what does it matter to what is? What is, is

Sound and Silence
When you listen, listen to something more. Not just to the sound, but to the silence, too.

It's not the action
It's not the action.. it is the state of your Being, the intention deep inside from which you act, that makes a difference

Look Inside Another
You may not like somebody's action, what they do, but look into that Divine love that is deep inside them.

No Going Back
For every step, the previous phase has to be disolved. One phase disolves to give space for another, and it is always evolutionary. So there is no reverting back, no reversing---it is evolutionary. It can stop for a while, but then it continues.

Hindi Sutras
Tumhara jeevan, swayam, Anant, Ishvar, ka utsav hai ---jaise bhi ho.

Prakriti main, douno vinash aur srijan ek dousre ke purak hain. Yeh dou tareeke hain---jaise din aur raat. Srishti main saare vipareet goun, ek saath nachte hain. Arambh se yeh isi tarah se hai. Annt tak aisa hi chalta rahega.

Go Ahead!
There is a song deep inside you. You are born to sing a song and you are preparing. You are moving around in the stage with your dresses, but you are forgetting to sing---holding the mike, too, but you are keeping silent. 'Til that time, you'll be restless---until you can sing that song which you have come on the stage to sing. Doesn't matter if you feel a little out of tune for one minute or two. Go ahead. Sing.

Recognize the Divinity
When you move in the world, recognize the Divinity in things around you, in people around you. Listen with your heart.

Unlimited Joy
This is quite natural: your mind is not satisfied with limited joy. It wants unlimited joy. The desire of every mind is to go to the source where it is unlimited joy.

Floating in the Ocean
We are all floating bodies, like shells in the ocean of life.

Inseparable
You cannot separate the wave from the ocean.

Not the Body
The life of a fish is in the water, not in the body.

Life is a Vast Ocean
Observe that there is something much more than your "doership." It is like a vast ocean. Life is not just in your body. It is between you and me and everybody else.

Observe
I'm not saying, "Don't be active." I'm saying, observe the spontaneity of action.

Birds' Song
Have you ever observed birds singing and felt this is something so eternal---it's the Divine who is singing through these birds?

Heart is your home
Listen from your heart. Soak into it. Observe. That is your home. And your brain, your intellect is like a car, it's the motor that drives you there. But even after getting into your garage if you refuse to step out, you wont reach home.

Hindi Sutras
1. 5000 saal main hum kahan honge? 5000 saal main kya hone vala hai? Kuch bada soucha hai! 10,000 saal main kya hone vala hai? Tum kahan hoge?

2. Pratyek saans main Ishvarya amrit hai. Amrit hi ous se bahar ki

3. Yeh sampoorn srishti tum main khushiyan mana rahi hai. Kyonki, yeh ek natak hai, yeh ek khel hai. Yeh koi gambhir samasya nahin hai jise jancha jaye ya dundit kiya jaye.

4. Pratyek dard jo tum is kriya main anubhav karte ho tumhari unnati ke liye hai. Ek beej ankurit hone ke liye dard uthata hai our ankur bara hone ke liye dard uthata hai.

Let Me Share
Attaining the highest, one never feels, "Oh, I have attained, let me sit back." No, the very nature of the highest joy is to share, is to bring it to everyone.

Bhajan
In every little mind, different thoughts come and different moods are there. But, when we sing, what happens?
When we all sing same song, it resonates in the mind. Singing is called bhajan because you can share it very easily with everybody. Same sound is in every consciousness. Similarly laughing is also a bhajan if everyone is laughing. Have a sense of one-ness with everything-trees, animals, sky, mountains, people. Sharing your life is bhajan. Bhajan means sharing. Sharing that which the Divine is.

Mere presence
The mere presence of the sun brings all the activity in the world. In the same way, your mere presence is a service, is the goal. There is no gain, no loss, no purpose, no defeat.

Awareness
Thoughts simply arise - but you choose to act or not act. This is what awareness brings in you. If you are not aware, you simply act on the strongest impulse or strongest thought.

Expand
The nature of joy is to share, to expand, to stretch.

Fountain of Joy
Each of the senses lead you to a point deep inside you that is the fountain of joy. Whether touch, sex, or sight, or music, or smell, or taste - the joy that is coming to you is coming from a source deep within.

This One Thing
If trust, this one thing, happens in us, our life will completely be transformed. It'll be very, very different. You won't sit and worry---what will happen to you, what about tomorrow---this will not happen. You'll smile through life.

Superficial Trust
Our trust is very superficial. It's just a covering for our fears. We are afraid and we don't want to feel that way, so we force the trust on us. We think we have trusted, and when the time comes it falls apart

Mind and Body
Our senses have a limited capacity to enjoy, but the desire in the mind to enjoy is infinite. This is where opposition begins: the mind wants to enjoy, but your body is too tired to enjoy.

Lift up---look into that vastness of the creation
Our head is stuck inside a drum, and we think that is the sky. It is so vast, our universe. lift your head up and look into that vastness of the creation.

Ultimate Flowering
Love is the ultimate flowering, and you cannot force it to happen. It is a gift to you, again, it's a gift to you. It's a happening, a spontaneous phenomenon. Ahh - we can drop all the obstacles that we might put for it to happen.

Breath is the Link
Breath is the link between your body and your spirit and your mind.

Celebration
Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.

Love
Love is a happening, a phenomenon. Can you create love inside you? It is not possible

Wake up and Realize
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought, your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

Compassion or Forgiveness
Compassion is better than forgiveness. The very word "forgiveness" implies that there is an intention in somebody's mistake. Somebody is bad so you are going to "forgive" them. Peep into their heart. Go beyond their words, beyond their behavior---you will see, they need compassion, they need help.

Mistakes
When something wrong happens, we either blame ourselves or blame somebody else. We don't just take things as they are, we want to find out a reason, and label it, and put the blame on somebody else. Or, on ourselves.

Wake up & Realize
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought, your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

When You Let Go
Regret piles up and piles up and it becomes so big---and you blow up. Do you see this happening to you? When you let go, your mind can be in the present moment, more and more and more and more. You are able to smile and laugh from the depth of your heart. Life becomes more light and easy.

concepts
Your own concepts have created "walls" and so you need a "door." But when there are no concepts, there are no walls.

Past or Future
Observe your mind---it's either in the past or in the future. Do you see that? We regret the past and are anxious about the future.

Emotions and Sensations
Every mood of mind, every wave of emotion in us, has a corresponding rhythym in the breath. And this rhythym in the breath has a corresponding sensation in different parts of the body. They're all linked. And when we look at them, observe them, then life becomes more integrated.

Getting old
Though you may feel, "I am going to die, I am old getting old," - this is superficial. Deep down inside you, you know for sure you are not.

Feel the Presence
In the presence of one who is so quiet, you can feel a Presence. It's not an intellectual something, but in an experiential way you feel a Presence. It's very subtle.

Illusion
The self as a different entity, an object, is what people are trying to see. That is an illusion.

Real Game
When "winning" and "losing" don't have any meaning, that is when the real game happens, play happens. Otherwise it is war. War has a significance for winning or losing.

Gain
The entire universe is one whole; and, when someone drops their holding onto limited boundaries, then what they gain is the entire universe.

Govind
When you live in Love, you become so mysterious! That is Govinda. 'Govind' means one who has hidden knowledge, or one who cannot be explained in words, is beyond the words.

See love even where it isn't
Even if people don't like or love you, from your side you consider that they do love you, so that your love, at least, gets protected. Otherwise, when you think somebody doesn't love you, then you will also stop loving them.

Feelings
If you feel you are free, you are free. If you feel you are bound, you are bound.

Meditation
Meditation is THE comfort in Life.

Being Natural
When you are natural, when you don't pretend, then you are very close to the Divine.

Effort won't work
The moment you make an effort to love somebody or to be happy, you cannot.

Love is beyond..
You are made up of both your father and mother; so, within you you have both the characteristics of mother and father, male and female. There are many men who have motherly qualities in them, feminine qualities in them. And then, there are many women who have more male qualities in them. Love is beyond the qualities; Love is beyond male or female. It is not just limited to body or emotions. It is something that transcends all these identifications.

Bondage
The craving for sense objects is bondage. Their existence seems to have given you a little pleasure, so it binds you. Now you crave for it, and it gives you more and more pain.

Trust
The entire world lives on trust. Every aspect in life moves with trust.

Perfection
There is perfection in Nature. You only have to look through a different eye.

Self
The self as a different entity, an object, is what people are trying to see. That is an illusion.

Doubt
You doubt in the positivity of people, in the goodness of people. You don't doubt in the negativity, or badness, in the people. Do you? Have you ever doubted in somebody's anger toward you? Have you ever said, "Is she really angry"

More Doubt
Just examine, what do you doubt? You doubt always in something good---whether it is in you or in someone else. When you are depressed, you never doubt your depression, but when you are happy you doubt: "Am I really happy? Is this really what I want?" And then you say, "I'm not sure..."

Still More Doubt
In order to trust, you must first understand your doubt. You doubt yourself, and you doubt people around you. And then you doubt in the existence of God.

Conditional Love
We try to hold on to people. Even when we love, we love with a condition: "See, I love you, so in return you must love me."

Compassion
When there is a wound deep inside a person, he will try to share that with other people. What else can he do? You just recognize: "Oh, he needs compassion." Compassion is the only medicine. Unconditional love is the only treatment

Possession
We want to possess love, and in the act of possessing, we destroy love.

Feverishness
The feverishness in us destroys the joy.

Expansion
Love is expansion. You can't but love, because you want to expand! And nature of life is to expand.

Give some space ..

Give some space for attraction. When attraction dies out, you will feel love has also died. A space is needed for attraction. And that attraction matures and becomes love; and the love matures and becomes devotion.

When you resist, it persists...
Some feeling came into you, unpleasant feeling, and you said, "Should not come, it should not come!" Doing that, you are resisting it. When you resist, it persists. Just observe. See, "Oh!" Go deep into it. Dance, stand up on your feet and dance. Be intoxicated; move intoxicated.

Look at what you have.
Just look at what you have. Focus on it---because where you put your energy that increases in life.

Thirst for Eternal
Feelings change, thoughts change, ideas change, body is undergoing changes all the time. But the thirst deep within us is for something that is not changing, that is eternal, that is always, that is the same.

Guru is
Infinity is available, but not tangible; the Guru is both infinite and tangible. The Divine is impersonal; the Guru is both personal and Divine - the impersonal personified for your benefit.

Don't look at lack
Don't look at the lack in your life. See what you have. Then abundance increases.

Abundance is a state of mind
Abundance is a state of mind within you. If you just look at "lack," the lack increases in life.

Heart of Divine
There is a place for everybody in the heart of the Divine.

Arrogance
The only thing that God doesn't tolerate is arrogance.

How to drain love
We keep on challenging: "Do you really love me? If you really love me then you won't do like this. You should be doing this way." When we keep some such measuring rods, then we are draining love.

Worship
The best "puja," the best form of worship, is to be happy, to be grateful.

If somebody doesn't love you..
Even if somebody doesn't love you, just go and tell them, "Oh, I know you love me so much." Tell them five or six times see the change in them. Even if they don't love you, they'll start.

However it is...
Your life, itself, is a celebration of the Infinity, the Divine---however it is.

The Perpetual Dance
In nature, both destruction and creation are complementary. They are two steps---like day and night. All opposite values in nature, they all dance together. It has been that way since the beginning. It'll continue 'til the end.

Problems
Many problems have come, many problems have been solved, and each problem has enriched life in some way, has brought up some strength in you.

Looking Ahead
Where will we be in 5,000 years? What is going to happen in 5,000 years? Have a bigger plan! In 10,000 years, what is going to happen? Where will you be?

Root cause of Depression
Be active, but not obsessed with or feverish about fulfilling desires because that is the root cause of depression. If you are depressed, underneath the depression, is a lingering desire.

You sit and think
you sit and feel. Do you think that feeling just remains with you? It reaches far beyond this universe.

Nectar and Poison
In every breath there is Divine nectar. There is nectar that flows out of it. Or poison can flow.

Who's Who

You are as important in this creation as God, not less important.

Oh, Dear, this creation is a celebration of Thy Presence.

Whether the bark or the thorn,

In tears of joy, in tears of sorrow,

Everything in this creation glorifies everything else.

Steadiness
When you sit for meditation, are your eyes steady? Is your breath steady? Is the prana haphazard? Is it going smooth and steady or going haphazard? When the senses are steady, the soul also becomes peaceful. Your Being, your spirit inside you, becomes steady.

Signs of Celebration
Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.

Looking for the Unseen
A hand unseen is behind this creation, and every pair of eyes is looking for that hand, which is not seen. Wherever one looks, one is looking for that hand which is behind and unseen.

Purpose of a Flower
If a flower does not remind you of the eternal Truth, then it has not fulfilled its purpose.

If you don't see Him
If you don't see Him in the laughter of a child, then you have never heard the laughter of a child. If you have never seen Him in the twinkle of an eye, in the wink of an eye of a youth, you have never observed the real beauty.

Guilt and Forgiveness
If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt itself is a punishment

Real Forgiveness
Your forgiveness should be such that the person who is being forgiven does not even know that you are forgiving them. They don't even feel guilty of a mistake. That is the right type of forgiveness.

A Wall of Pride
If you want to grow in Divine Love, you have got to drop the pride and all of the artificial wall we build between ourselves and others. In the "wall" we keep judging others, and we think others are judging us.

Samadhi
Though you exist with a body, in the state of samadhi you are not there at all. In other words you can say, live as though you don't exist--this is samadhi.

Be Proud of Love
Be proud of the Love. Have you ever been proud of Love? That is beautiful. Be proud of the Love that the Nature is giving to you, the Divine is giving to you, the people are giving to you.

Take Life as a Play
Take life not serious. If you take life very serious, then you are bound to be disturbed. The only way you can maintain your equanimity is to take it as a play, as a game, and not take anything too serious.

Seer, Seen and Process of Seeing
The seers, the seen, and the process of seeing all merge. The knowledge, the knower, and the known, they all merge, become one---that is Divine Love.

Drop it!
To live totally in the present moment, offer all that you have done, all your activities. Drop them, surrender them. It's done. Finished. Drop it.

Desire for the Highest
Make your desire bigger. Desire for the highest. Don't go for anything smaller than that. Hm? Then also Divine Love dawns in you.

Applause
If ten thousand people applaud you---so what? You think you will be in their mind, in their attention, forever? No. You will get big applause, and they clap, and they go away. And, the same people, some other time may talk ill of you, too.

Fame
This feverishness of fame, of pride, of social recognition is immaturity. Just wake up and see there is nothing much in it. Its an empty bowl.

Demanding

When you demand love, you are destroying love.

Separateness
The ego is simply an illusion. "Ego" means separateness, that's all.

As long as there is ego, there is no Divine Love
As long as there is ego, there is no Divine Love and when there is Divine Love, the ego---there is no sign of it.

The Pain of Separation
Longing, the pain of separation, increases the love in you. That increases the prayerfulness in you.

Loving Objects
A person who cannot love people, starts loving objects.

Closing Down
Our love---capacity to love---everybody has, but they have not utilized it. We have not thrown ourselves open. We have closed into our small, "my, my, me, me, mine."

Love is sharing
love is expansion. You can't but love, because you want to expand! And nature of life is to expand.

Feverishness
The feverishness in us destroys the joy.

Void of Feverishness
This intoxicating Love does not excite you, but brings a cooling influence in you. It's such a peaceful, restful Love. It's something void of the feverishness.

The Ultimate Flowering
Love is the ultimate flowering, and you cannot force it to happen. It is a gift to you, again, it's a gift to you. It's a happening, a spontaneous phenomenon. Ahh---we can drop all the obstacles that we might put for it to happen.

Life Everywhere
Everywhere in creation, it's all filled with life, life, life---everywhere.

He searches for you, wherever you are
God comes and searches for you. He'll search, and he will take you wherever you are.

Longing and Love
There can't be love without longing and there can't be longing without love.

love is a happening, a phenomenon.
Can you create love inside you? It is not possible

Ego dissolves like the dew drops with the sun.
When there is Love, there is no ego

Longing
Longing is part of love, is the other face of love.

We want to possess love
In the act of possessing, we destroy love.

Nearness and Distance
Love cannot tolerate distance, and hatred cannot tolerate nearness.


The Ultimate Prerequisite
When there is no peace, forget about God, forget about Truth, forget about Divinity, forget about everything else. The first requirement is peace.

Celebration
Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.

Little and Big
Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.

Ego Trip
Someone experiences bliss, and that bliss, itself, becomes a trip for the ego. So the ego, in turn, destroys the infinity, the joy, the bliss.

Love Sustains Bliss
Love can sustain the bliss.

Pause
Just singing is not sufficient. One can just go on singing. But in between the songs, a few moments of silence, of depth, of experiencing the bliss of the infinite---that is very essential.

Churning the Mind
Life is the process of "churning." Your mind is being churned by so many things, events happening. Your mind is churned and churned and churned, and finally, the "butter" comes---it's the sainthood, the saintliness in you.

Fear
Fear is lack of love. Only one thing can eliminate fear---that is love.

Demands on God
God is not there just to fulfill your petty demands.

In the Company of Love
In the company of one who is living Love, you also cant but spring into that Love.

Simplicity
Something that is simple, the mind cannot accept. The ego wants very complicated and difficult things.

Innermost Self
In your innermost Self---in its purity and clarity---you are not different from God.

Maturing Intellect
When the intellect starts maturing, it starts questioning the source of creation.

Misunderstanding
Misunderstandings happen on this planet because of distance, because there is no closeness, no one ever "sits next to" the other. In one house people live on different planets. In a town, people live in different galaxies.

The Foundation of Knowledge
Knowledge is possible only when you come close. From a distance, and in a formal atmosphere, knowledge cannot blossom...Being together is the foundation of knowledge.

Dedication
Love dies if there is no dedication.

Demands on God
God is not there just to fulfill your petty demands.

In the Company of Love
In the company of one who is living Love, you also cant but spring into that Love.

Simplicity
Something that is simple, the mind cannot accept. The ego wants very complicated and difficult things.

Innermost Self
In your innermost Self---in its purity and clarity---you are not different from God.

Simply in Love
A devotee is not there even for wisdom. He simply is in love. He has fallen in deep love with the master, with the infinity, with God. He doesnt care whether he gets enlightened or not.

Tears of Gratitude
Devotion is very beautiful. A student comes to a master, a teacher, a guru, with tears in his eyes, there is so much problems. And when he leaves he carries the same tears, but the quality of the tear is different its of gratitude. Still tears flow, but they are of gratitude, of love.

In-Fallable!
A devotee will never fall. He cannot fall. There is no chance for it.

Worry
Worry is a product of loving something that is not permanent, that is not eternal.

Fear
Fear is lack of love. Only one thing can eliminate fear---that is love.

Yoga vs. Depression
Yoga is to realize that your mind is dynamic, your life is dynamic. Depression is a sign of static understanding about life. When you feel everything in life is dead, static, there is nothing more, nowhere to go---that is when one gets depressed.

The world is not a dead place
the creation is not a dead place. It is solidified consciousness, and it is dynamic. And it is new.

The mind has promised you heaven, but it is taking you to hell. You have been chasing the mindyoure trodding behind it. It increases the hunger and thirst in you by giving a little glimpse of it.

As a servant, one can burn, vanish, dissolve. Another, as beloved
here are only two relationships in which the mind can mind can burn, vanish, and dissolve---that is, surrender. And these two types of relationships: one is of servant, being a servant

Servant and Master
Being a servant is not being a slave, but being a servant is living the dignity of the Master, dissolving into the Master.

Spiritual Knowledge and Science
All possible advancements in any field you see today, either science or arts, originated as a thought, originated in that ocean of Intelligence.People talk about "science meeting spirituality" or "spirituality coming together with science" this is such an immature, childish statement. Spiritual knowledge *is* science. And science can never be away from spiritual knowledge. Because, spirit alone can bring the science up. They are two sides of the same coin.

Consciousness and the body
You think the body makes the consciousness? No. Consciousness has made the body.

The Presence of Consciousness
The planets move around the sun. Just the mere presence of the sun makes the planets go around. In the same way, the presence of consciousness---though it is not involved directly---its mere presence makes the body grow.

Manifestations
Your brain is nothing but manifestation of consciousness. Your body is nothing but manifestation of consciousness. Intelligence, wherever you see it in the world, is manifestation of consciousness.

Move on to the Center
If you are touching something very nice, what is happening? A sensation is arising in your body. Now, put your attention on the sensation and move on to the center.

Move to the Center
From the object move on to the Center, move on to the Experiencer of pleasure. This is the way to have a continued experience, continued joy in life.

No Rejects!
A master is like an ocean. Ocean is there, readily available. It does not reject anybody.

Already Connected
The moment you feel a connection from your side, just know you have already been connected. Otherwise you won't even come anywhere near this knowledge, this path.

Everything is Consciousness
It's one consciousness that has become the body, has become the mind, has become the intellect and emotions, ego, self. Everything that you have in you is made up of one consciousness---like, every wave of the water is made up of the water itself and nothing other than water.

Pleasure and Pain
Whichever object is giving you pleasure, the same object will give you misery---the same thing will give you misery, pain. Like, apple pie is giving you joy, go on eating apple pie, and it will give you a stomach ache and what not.

How to Enjoy
We want to enjoy, but we do not even know how to enjoy. This is the whole problem. There is a way to enjoy, also. The rishis are not against anyone living in the world.

The Secret of Joy
You are the source of joy.

Withdraw your senses
Withdraw your senses from the object to its source, then the union happens, then the yoga happens. You look at something beautiful---now, take your attention from that something to the feeling of beauty that is arising in you.

Move on to the Center
If you are touching something very nice, what is happening? A sensation is arising in your body. Now, put your attention on the sensation and move on to the center.

Joy / Not Joy
This is what we see in the world today: everyone is moving towards joy, but people are not joyful. They are the opposite---miserable. Because they are clinging on to the sense objects rather than the source of joy.

Stuck in the Wrappings
The world is a beautiful package, the world is not bad. It's a wrapping paper to you. A beautiful gift is given to you with a very wonderful wrapping paper around it. But if you are stuck with the wrapping paper, the package of the gift, you will not even open it, you will not see the gift that has been given inside the package to you. This is what most people do.

Holding On
If you are holding on to stones in your hands, your hands will not be free to take the diamonds and gold.

Drop the rock!
You have to drop the rock in order to pluck the flowers.

No End to it
There is no end to moving from scene to scene, from person to person, from thing to thing---whole life could be spent doing that. You can spend a whole life. But if you think joy is there, then uniting cannot happen, then you cannot bring all the strings of your Self together.

Limited Senses
Our senses have a limited capacity to enjoy, but the desire in the mind to enjoy is infinite. This is where opposition begins: the mind wants to enjoy, but your body is too tired to enjoy.

Unlimited Joy
This is quite natural: your mind is not satisfied with limited joy. It wants unlimited joy. The desire of every mind is to go to the source where it is unlimited joy.

No Gain, No Loss
The mere presence of the sun brings all the activity in the world. In the same way, your mere presence is a service, is the goal. There is no gain, no loss, no purpose, no defeat.

Stupid Thoughts
It is impossible to know thoughts before they come. You know them as they come. And, if they are stupid, simply smile at them, laugh at them, and they will move away.

You Can Choose
Thoughts simply arise---but you choose to act or not act. This is what awareness brings in you. If you are not aware, you simply act on the strongest impulse or strongest thought.

Sensory Peaks
The peak of any sensory or sensual experience takes you inward.

Senses Lead Within
Each of the senses lead you to a point deep inside you that is the fountain of joy. Whether touch, sex, or sight, or music, or smell, or taste---the joy that is coming to you is coming from a source deep within.

You are not the body
You are not the body/mind complex. You are the eternity.

You Are Nobody
Drop this identity---that you are somebody. You are nobody. You are nothing. You are the Non-Dual.

The Illusion of self
The self as a different entity, an object, is what people are trying to see. That is an illusion.

Self Only
Only the Self exists. Nothing else exists.

Play vs. War
When "winning" and "losing" don't have any meaning, that is when the real game happens, play happens. Otherwise it is war. War has a significance for winning or losing.

Beyond Birth And Death
There is something in you that is beyond death. And that is before birth, also.

Reality
No one ever feels that one is going to die. You know why? Because that is the reality!

You are not going to die
You pity someone who has died, because you have the feeling that you are not going to die. And this is true. Something deep in you never dies. That's why you never feel that you have aged or you are going to die.

"I am old getting old, I am going to die" ---
Though you may feel, " I am going to die....I am old getting old," --- this is superficial. Deep down inside you, you know for sure you are not

Thou Art Supreme
That which is unmoved, like the ocean without waves, that which is free and pure, that which exists in the three periods of time---the past, present, and future---that supreme art Thou. Meditate on this and realize, right now.

Illusions

You build a world in your mind only through your intentions, your own thought processes. You go on building a castle: what the other person is thinking about you---they may not even think about you anything. You may simply not exist in other person's consciousness, for they are worried about themselves. But you build a big castle about what they are thinking about you in your mind.

Everything is Just a Thought

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought, your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

Know Thought as Thought

Knowing a thought as thought brings the freedom. When you know a thought as a reality, that is when you are stuck.

Walls of Concepts


Your own concepts have created "walls" and so you need a "door." But when there are no concepts, there are no walls.

Now or Later

If you are upset, you don't say, "Ok, tomorrow, I'll get upset. Today let me not get upset." But anything good, anything that is uplifting the Self, we have a tendency to postpone: "I'll do it tomorrow, later on, another time."

Letting Go
The more you beg, the more you crave for something, the further away it goes. And the moment you drop it and just repose in the Self, you'll find all those things come, manifold.

The Problem with Choices
The moment there is choice it drops you off of joy, it drops you off of peace.

Bad and Worse
Where is the choice? The choice is only between the bad and the worse. When you realize this you'll drop both those conflicting thoughts and relax---the awareness becomes choiceless. Choiceless-ness leads to confusionless state of mind. Choiceless awareness is the only joyful state, a peaceful state, a state without confusion.

"Your taste is nothing that cannot be changed. Your aversions are that which bind you, which robs the freedom from you. Stand back and look at them." Sri Sri

"Spiritualise the politics,Socialise the business and Secularise the religion..." Sri Sri

Sacred Secret
Sacredness is the secret of the universe. In the womb of sacredness, creation happens. Consciousness is sacred.


Craving and Bondage
The craving for sense objects is bondage. Their existence seems to have given you a little pleasure, so it binds you. Now you crave for it, and it gives you more and more pain.

False Promises
This is the nature of sense objects: they promise pleasure to begin with and even give you also a little taste, but then leave you with pain and suffering.


Freedom
Freedom is what? Lack of craving. Detachment from the objects of the senses.


It is the pleasure that binds you. And the bondage is painful. If you are bound, you are not bound
Freedom from the pleasure is the real pleasure. Pain does not bind you

Stop and Be
Burn the seed of craving, and then the Non-Doer---Brahman---is already available.

Begging
There is a throne, why don't you sit in that throne? It is for you. You are walking around with a torn cloth, in a shabby state, begging for things that anyway belong to you. Stop being a beggar. And craving is nothing but being like a beggar.

Doing the Practice
Just like you learn to speak a language. Just like you learn to punch on the computer. Just like you learn to drive a car or a plane, you have to learn to drive back to the Self. This is the saadhana, this is the practice---is something that comes to you not just by nature, but by your effort.

"If the mind is not sweet, then the best of speeches can make one restless. If the mind is sweet, then the world is sweet. " Sri Sri

"Most of the sorrow in the world is because of this: speech -- what people say. If they kept their lips tight, ninety percent of the problems in the world would be over."
Sri Sri


Come Back to the Source
Bring the mind, which is all over the place, back to its source.

The Experiencer
Self is not object of senses. Self is the experiencer of the object of senses.

Again and Again
Again and again, withdraw your mind. If your mind is running all over the place, it is because of the objects of the senses. You want to look at something, or you want to hear about something.

Sattvic Intellect
The sattvic intellect is one that just does the job joyfully and is unmindful of the results. Let things happen or not happen---either way they don't lose their enthusiasm.

“Thinking about other's mistake, you get into another form of feverishness. It destroys the peace in you, it clouds the love in you.” SRI SRI...

Get Immersed
It's very important and very essential for everyone to at least take a week or two off in a whole year's time. And just be in this Presence, in this knowledge, get immersed in doing these exercises: pranayam and all that.

“Weigh your words before you speak them out. They are pearls of your life. Dont throw them; dont lose them for nothing.” SRI SRI...

Cause of Fear
The transcendental principal, the fourth state of our consciousness, rules over all the other influences of all the planets or cosmic rays. So, if you could meditate, you nullify all the undesirable effects of the cosmic rays, the cosmos. Singing, chanting, meditating can eliminate all those undesirable effects.

Loving Guidance
You need loving guidance, step by step.

“Our first & foremost commitment is to do seva (service) in the world. Seva is not something you do out of convenience or for pleasure. The ultimate purpose of life is to be of service.” SRI SRI...



Infinity is available, but not tangible
The Guru is both infinite and tangible. The Divine is impersonal

you could not love something which has no name or form. The guru embodies---Buddha embodies, Jesus


Love is there in the whole creation. Everything is Love. But you have never related in your life other than by name and form

The way Divine works is impossible to understand. Its so deep, so mysterious, & yet its very natural, its very new.” SRI SRI...

Take Your Pick
You can spend the whole life worrying, grumbling, brooding over things and being miserable, or the same energy could be used to uplift you to unimaginable heights.

The Blessing of Forgetfulness
"When you remember, then you are not in the moment; when you have forgotten,
then you are in the moment. So be forgetful. Thats's a blessing"

“You have lot of Love. If you don't add a presevative- which is dedication, then the love will go stale and become fear.” SRI SRI..

Observe the tendencies taht come up in you... and do not think you 'are' those tendencies.

“Behind anger is a desire. It's a desire that is the cause of anger. Unless you root out the desire, you can never be devoid of anger.” SRI SRI...

“A true leader is alert, and when challenges come, he is not distrubed.” SRI SRI..

Problems
Many problems have come, many problems have been solved, and each problem has enriched life by bringing forth some strength in you.

Love becomes devotion through dedication. Love dies if there is no dedication.” SRI SRI...

The best 'pooja' - the best form of worship - is to be happy, is to be grateful.

“Be happy! this is an order as well as a blessing. You can be happy right now, wherever you are & you can still do all that you want to do.” SRI SRI...

Life is Infinite
Life is infinite. Though life is in every moment, it is also infinite. Your life has been here since thousands of years - for centuries - and your life will continue to be here for centuries.

No activity can happen in this world without the element of faith. The entire world works on faith.” SRI SRI...

Sometimes on a dark night, if there is lightening, then for a second, you see the whole town. Everything becomes visible, even though its's just for a few moments. Like that, surrender happens in deep meditation.

SHIVA
"Your true nature is Shiva. And Shiva is peace, infinity, beauty and the non-dual One. Ratri means "to take refuge." Shivaratri is taking refuge in Shiva"

A state in which you feel absolutely comfortable, a state in which there is 100% comfort - that is meditation

“SHIVA prevades the entire universe.He is in every atom of the universe.He has no form but is in every form, our bodies are in SHIVA tatwa” SRI SRI...

That feverishness to achieve, what you want, is ALL painful. When you have it, the fear of losing it is painful. When its gone, the memory of its joy is painful. So the whole thing is all pain!!

“You are total, you are full. You are like the pure cystal- Niranjanah, untouched, unstained by anything. Dont underestimate yourself.” SRI SRI...

“Faith in yourself brings freedom. Faith in the world brings you peace of mind. Faith in God evokes love in you.” SRI SRI...

Dropping the craving or the aversion in the mind, towards any particular sense object, strengthens the mind - and only a strong mind can ever experience Divine Love

" When the bud breaks, it becomes a flower. When the heart breaks, the love becomes divine. "

“When you can relate to yourself one hundred percent, then any face you look at, there is love, there is charm, there is beauty.” SRI SRI...

If you are loving
"If you are loving, then you are welcomed everywhere in the world. If you can feel and be one with people anywhere you go, then people are ready to do anything for you."

“When you can relate to yourself one hundred percent, then any face you look at, there is love, there is charm, there is beauty.” SRI SRI...

"Limited attraction, small attractions here and there---smell, touch, taste, sight---these are called the "vasunas." The five senses draw you into small, limited awareness, and not only just enjoying that, but you get entangled in the mind, thinking about it all the time."

Feel Oneness
When you feel so much oneness with the Master that you don’t feel, “The Master is separate, I am separate; the Divine is separate, I am separate,” that is Divine Love.

“Loyalty means believing in the continuity of commitment. Responsibility, dedication & commitment are the limbs of loyalty.” SRI SRI...

See the Divine
By your ignorance you see the world, you see the divisions. By your knowledge, you see the Divine. It's in the seeing. Tilt this way -- you see Divine; tilt that way -- you see everything frustrating, everything rubbish, everybody cruel, everything hopeless, and all that

Have you ever been proud of Love? be proud of Love that Nature is giving to you, the Divine is giving to you, people are giving to you.” SRI SRI...

Love vs. Cravings
When you tell somebody you love them, make sure you are not saying it out of your "vasanas," your own cravings, your own impressions, your own craving for some joy.

“Why are you sad? Why are you sorrowful? Its because of your carving, you are holding on to the past- a memory of carving from the past creates sadness now .” SRI SRI

Love vs. Cravings
True love will not bring sadness, sorrow, misery, problems. But with vasanas (cravings) a tail is always attached---pain, problems, misery, discomfort.

“Joy is love for what is, Sorrow is love for what is not. The very nature of hightest joy is to share, its to bring it to everybody .” SRI SRI...

Expand Your World
Expand your world and your vasanas (cravings) will drop away. The world is so big! Be open to new experiences.

“Respect all religion. When you say this religion is not good, you don't see the greatness in that religion.” SRI SRI...

Dropping past impressions.
When you drop the vasanas, when you drop all these past impressions from the mind, then you become free---right now!

“Eat food not in hurry, not with violence, but with a sense of offering.” SRI SRI...

Just Observe
Just observe the nature---how big this world is, how big the universe is. Nothing is permanent here.

“When you say "AUM" the prana is total, it is complete. AUM is the nearest sound which can be used to address the totality of consciousness.” SRI SRI...

Immortal
The Being is immortal, the Consciousness is immortal, the Guru is immortal, the rishi, maharishi, is immortal. And so also, you are immortal and eternal.

“ When you praise some one, you take on their good karma. When you blame some one, you take on their bad karma. Know this surrender both good & bad karma to the Divine and be free” SRI SRI...

Inexpressible
You can experience love, but you cannot describe it or express it totally.

“Do not follow me. In fact, you can't follow me, because I am behind you. I am behind you to Push you forward” SRI SRI...

Like Attracts Like
"In the realm of mind, like attracts like. If the soul is peaceful, then it attracts peaceful environment and people around it."

“When we are Joyful, we do not look for perfection. when you are looking for perfection then you are not at the source of joy” SRI SRI...

Tendency to Merge
In this entire creation there is a tendency to become one, to get back to one, because the two is painful. From two, to go to one is the purpose of creation. Everything wants to merge into something. What is that? We call it Love.

"Nature loves to give you surprises. God loves fun. He always gives you surprises---sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant. And you grow by unpleasant as well as by pleasant. In fact you grow much more by unpleasant surprises than the pleasant ones..."

Like Attracts Like
In the realm of mind, like attracts like. If the soul is peaceful, then it attracts peaceful environment and people around it.

“Spiritual life marked by effective & dynamic acivity. It is not an escape from hard work or taking from sincere action.” SRI SRI...

The Big Irony
This is ironic, it's a big irony: that freedom and surrender---they go hand in hand.

Surrender and Freedom
There is no freedom at all without surrender, and when I surrender I get infinite freedom. The greater my surrender is, the greater my freedom, that much the load is taken off of me.

“Whatever role you play in life, give yourself fully to it. Harmony in diversity makes life vibrant, joyful and more colourful.” SRI SRI...

Power of Surrender
The greatest power is in surrender---surrender to the Divine.

Celelbration is the nature of spirit & must be spiritual. Celebration without spirituallity has no depth. Silence gives depth to celebration.” SRI SRI...

What Can You Lose?
I tell you, you have no power to lose. What can a drop lose by getting into the ocean? It's an illusion that it is big. A drop thinks "I am great! I am so big---will I vanish?" You will vanish if you don't unite with the ocean.

"That pleasure which comes after a certain discipline, is really satvic pleasure, long lasting pleasure. That pleasure which is pleasurable to begin with but ends in misery, is no pleasure at all" Sri Sri

Worry vs. Freedom
You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.

Surrender Brings Peace
The moment there is surrender there is peace---that very second there is peace.

"Proof" is one of the main things in the world that you are stuck on to---you want proof of everything.Whether someone loves you or not, you want a proof about it.
Sri Sri

Resitance is Futile!
The more you resist thoughts, the more they bombard your mind.

“Take life as it comes. Sometimes you are upset or anger; its ok to be upset or anger. Life does not stop for anything; just moves on. So, just move with the flow .” SRI SRI...

"Many desire fame, but little do they know that they are looking for a cage." Sri Sri

The Sign of Unity
Sign of uniting, or sign of yoga, is coming to your self, your mind settling into your being, your source, with your original nature.

“Love, joy, bliss, compassion, beauty and enthusiasm - all make up the spirit. Enlivening these is spirituality.” SRI SRI...

"When you are tired, small little things can irritate you, push your button, can throw you off balance. Our peace is so fragile that anything, even a phone call, can blow it off. Our peace will be in hundred pieces - just a few words from someone. Fragile peace is of no use. The peace and love in our life should be so solid, like a diamond. Nothing should shake or move it. " Sri Sri

One With Cosmic Life
When thoughts are constrained and your mind has settled down peacefully in that meditative state, you have become one with the Divine. You are no more your small, little individual self, but you are one with the cosmic life, cosmic Being, one with God.

“The Master is one who makes you aware of your self, who gives you the knowledge of who you really are .” SRI SRI...

Love is Letting Go
Love is that phenomenon of dissolving, disappearing, merging, becoming one with. Love is that phenomenon of total letting go.

Be aware of ur mistakes, but don't judge urself thinking that mistake is mine...

“You are Divine. You are part of me, I am Part of you. Its not a question of am I bigger than you, or equal to you, or less than you - I am You.” SRI SRI...

Tragic Cycle
When you see the beauty somewhere, when you fall in love with something, the next impulse that comes in you is to possess it, have it; and, when you have it, it looses all its significance.

Like a Child

When you are established in your Self, you are not holding on to the concepts. You are loose, free, easy and open---just like a child.

“Our first and foremost commitment in the world is to do seva -'service'.” SRI SRI...

Unending Desires
We are busy wanting something all the time. One want finishes, then another want comes up right away. They are in a queue, you know---like in L.A. airport, one plane behind another. One takes off and within two minutes the other takes off.

“Living in the favourable conditions and unfavourable conditions is a part of living, but smiling in all those is "THE ART OF LIVING" .” SRI SRI...

Stay with the Question
"What is the purpose of my life?" This very question enlivens the human values in our system, in our self. But don't be in a hurry to find out an answer to this question. Be with the question. The question itself is like a tool by which you can become more deep within yourself.

“We need to educate people in human values like friendliness,compassion,cooperation,a sense of belonging and spirituality .” SRI SRI...

Our Very Nature
Enlightenment is not an achievement. Rather, getting rid of ignorance is an achievement, getting rid of all the stresses and tension. Because our very nature is enlightenment. That's why "human" and "Divine" are not two things. "Human" is the outer skin and "Divine" is the inside.

“There are only selfish or bad moments; there are no bad people in this world. They are ignorant. Inside every culprit is a victim crying for help. Feel compassionate for such people.” SRI SRI...

Self Only
Only the self exists. Nothing else exists.

“Our human body is made to bring heaven on this world, to bring sweetness into this world, not venom.” SRI SRI...

Pulled in Two Directions
Being human is like being on a bridge, in between. On one side there is the pull of the Divine qualities, on the other side there is the pull of animalistic qualities.That's why there is more conflict in humans than anywhere else.


“Do not depend on arguments. Mystery is beyond argument, miracle is beyond arguments and Love is a miracle in life.” SRI SRI...

Compliments and Insults
See the nature of mind: if there are ten good qualities and one negative, the mind clings on to that one negative. Ten compliments and one insult, the mind will forget all the ten compliments. It hangs on to the one insult and goes on and on and on about it.

“Behind anger is a desire. It's a desire that is the cause of anger. Unless you root out the desire, you can never be devoid of anger.” SRI SRI...

The highest blossoming

What is the highest blossoming of consciousness? That consciousness which is neither in the past nor in the future nor in the present, but is a witness to all three. Or, you can say, that consciousness which contains infinite past, the infinite future, and is totally available in the present moment.

Self Deception
Our main difficulty is that we don't even share things with ourself---self deception. That is what you call self deception, when you are not truthful to yourself.


“If you are loving, then you are welcome everywhere you go and people are ready to do anything for you.” SRI SRI...

Bhajan
This word "bhajan" is very precious. "Bhaj" means "to share." Sharing what? Sharing all that the Divine is.


Uninterrupted
Uninterrupted sharing---that grows into feeling the presence of the Divine all the time, uninterruptedly.

You Are It
You are all that you are longing for.

“Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.” SRI SRI...

Crystalline
You are like crystal, so clear and pure.

Not Much Different
You see violence in action, in somebody, and inside your mind you feel violent about that person. Then you are not much different from that person who is acting violent.

“Forgiveness shields and protects your mind, your spirit, from being violent.” SRI SRI...

Nothing Else
There is nothing else that is more valuable than love in life.

The Whole UNIverse
The whole universe is one body.

“Love is the ultimate flowering & you can't force it to happen. Its a gift to you, its happening, a spontaneous phenomemnon.” SRI SRI...

Seen and Unseen
All this universe you see, but you don't see God---which is the life of the whole universe.

"If you want to grow in Divine Love, you have got to drop the pride and all of the artificial wall we build between ourselves and others. In the "wall" we keep judging others, and we think others are judging us."

The Big Mind
A big Mind---that is God. And your mind is part of that big Mind.

Recognize the Divinity

When you move in the world, recognize the Divinity in things, in people around you. Listen with your heart.

Laugh at Others Mistakes
When you look at someone else’s mistake, you should laugh at it and feel compassionate towards it; then you are able to save your mind.

“A devotee is one who does not think, "What about me?" He has so much trust in the Maste.” SRI SRI...

Flow with present
Flow with present moment without getting caught in any expectation of how joyful or comfortable the next minute to be.

Incomplete and Infinite
Love is incomplete. And it will have to remain incomplete. If it completes, it finds an end. Whatever is completed, whatever is full, total, that means you have marked the boundaries, you have found its limitations. For love to be infinite, it has got to be incomplete. Whatever is incomplete is infinite.

Aversions
Your taste is nothing that cannot be changed. Your aversions are that which bind you, which robs the freedom from you. Stand back and look at them.

“Truth is that which does not change. To know what truth is, you need to go through all that is not truth. All that changes is not truth.” SRI SRI...

Yad Bhaavam Tad Bhavathi : Future Manifests The Way We Think And Feel

Fall in Love with a Flower
If you just fall in love with a flower, you go on appreciating it and go deep into that, and you will see that flower dissolves into the formless. You will see the space which is hiding deep inside that flower.

“Truth is that which does not change. To know what truth is, you need to go through all that is not truth. All that changes is not truth.” SRI SRI...

Seeing God
The future is very comfortable. Glorifying the past is very comfortable. Seeing God now, here, is difficult. Seeing God in yourself is even more difficult

Ego is Complicated
Ego wants something which is very difficult. It doesn't recognize the simplicity in life. Life is simple. Ego is very complicated.

“This entire creation is rejoicing in you. Because, it is a play, it is a game. It's not a serious something that is judged and punished.” SRI SRI...

Sri Sri: Source of action is thought, Source of thought is yourself. Whatever thought you encourage about yourself, thatis the direction taken...

Every Moment
God is calling you every moment.

Abundance is a state of mind within you. If you just look at "lack", the lack increases in life...Sri Sri ...

God and Devotees
God is all over. God is in the stone. God is in the flowers. God is in the garbage can. God is all over, but devotee is not all over. So God runs behind His devotees. To God, devotees are very dear, so dear.

“Just look at what you have. Focus on it- because where you put your energy that increases in life” SRI SRI...

Angels
They are very jealous of human beings, the angels, because as human being you can experience Divine Love. So they have to be born as human beings in order to become a devotee, in order to experience Divine Love.

Knowledge is very simple and so it is not too easy. The seed of knowledge is present in the consciousness. It does not bring fulfillment.. It increases the thirst, hunger for the truth.

“Just look at what you have. Focus on it- because where you put your energy that increases in life” SRI SRI...

The Human Body
There is hope for every soul, for every human being, to live unconditional love. That is why human body is so precious---because in this body you have the ability to erase all the unwanted negative impressions.

Impatience means hurry in mind, lethargy means slowness in action. Patience in mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

Grow in Divine Love
If you want to grow in Divine Love, you have got to drop the pride and all the artificial walls, we build between ourselves and others. Through these walls, we keep judging others, and we think, others are judging us.

This Drama
What is it you are hanging on to? How long will you continue this play, this drama? What is happening? Hmm?

“Impatience means hurry in mind, lethargy means slowness in action. Patience in mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.” SRI SRI...

"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions"

"Adopt spirituality, be faithful to your religion, and honour all religions" Sri Sri

Basic Questions
Very basic questions, we don't ask---silly questions we keep asking in our mind. A problem comes: "Why this problem for me?" You ask this question one thousand times. "Why me?"

Whatever feeling is there in you at the moment, whatever feeling, be with it one hundred percent. Share it with the Divine

"When this truth becomes solidified in the mind, in our experience: the world is misery---then alone you are able to see what is beyond this world: that something, the spirit, which is all joy."
Sri Sri

Eliminating Doubt
Doubt is that state of mind where it is not fully alive. Answers cannot satisfy doubt. Hearing, seeing cannot eliminate doubt. Only prana can eliminate doubt.

Quick -- Meditate!
When doubts arise in you: fast, meditate, do pranayam, and do prayers, and see whether the doubt will remain.

Knowledge
Knowledge is being aware of the phenomenon of the mind; of what is happening right now in the mind ..

Totally Responsible
Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings---how you feel, what you think, what you do---all that. You are responsible.

“Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.” SRI SRI...

If you don't see HIM in the laughter of a child, then you have never heard the laughter of a child. If you have never seen HIM in the twinkle of an eye, in the wink of an eye of a youth, then you have never observed real beauty.

“Seva is your inner attitude - not the action. Inside your body, in your heart, have this attitude - I am here, available.” SRI SRI...

Ignorant people make a dream into reality, and enlightened people see reality as a dream. Utter ignorance is trying to interpret dreams, and enlightenment is to realize that this reality itself is a dream.

“The sign of enlightenment is no complaints and no explanations!.” SRI SRI...

Life evaporates in desire, but if life could be condensed, it becomes solidified love. This condensed life is awareness.

Life is Enthusiasm. Life is Joy. Life is Love. Let's move together and celebrate...

The mind plays so many tricks! The mind is always charmed by distance. We are not charmed by God because He is very close to us, He is the nearest to us. So the mind tries to keep God at a very big distance.

“If your heart is fully opened, you cannot find fault with anyone because you will see everyone as part of yourself.” SRI SRI...

Offer Everything
Go to a Guru and offer everything. Offer all that you cannot handle yourself - your anger, your frustration, all the bad feelings, the good feelings... offer the good, the bad, the negative, the positive karma - offer everything.

Intoxicating Love
Intoxicating love does not excite you - it brings a cooling influence in you. It's such a peaceful, restful love. It's something devoid of feverishness.

"When people are worried and tense, they go to bars and drink. If they can only get into satsang and dance, that intoxication can take off all their worries. " Sri Sri

“When you make service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and givee you meaning.” SRI SRI...

Make the Divine your Valentine
See the Divine in your Valentine and make the Divinity your Valentine(your sweet Beloved).
Just BE....and know that you are LOVED...That is BELOVED.

“See a mistake as a mistake, not as "my" or "his" mistake. "My" means guilt; "his" means anger.” SRI SRI...

“See the Divine in your Valentine and make the Divinity your Valentine. Just BE. and know that you are LOVED...That is BELOVED.” SRI SRI...

"Do anything---if there is no shradhaa (faith), nothing is going to benefit you. And if you do nothing and there is shradhaa, that itself becomes saadhana for you, becomes a practice." Sri Sri

“If you are saddened by other's sorrow then sorrow will never come to you. and if you are happy at other's joy then joy will never leave you.” SRI SRI...

Life evaporates in desire, but if life could be condensed, it becomes solidified love. This condensed Life is awareness.

"You can live God. You can be God. But you cannot "see" God, perceive God as an object." Sri Sri

Be a very normal, natural person in the universe. Follow all the norms, rules and regulations in the society, at the same time, don't allow them to restrict, or eat away, the life inside you. don't be swallowed by these identifications.