Celebration

Spirituality is a celebration, a continuous celebration.

Strength is Wakefulness

The more you are loaded with desires, the poorer you are, the weaker you are. Strength is wakefulness, and in wakefulness there is no desire. Remember this

Getting Baked

Everything is changing. And this is all there only to heat you up, to bake you. You are baked in joy, and you are baked in sorrow. You are baked in this event, and you are baked in that event. So everything in the world bakes you, heats you up. And if you put your finger deeper into it, you will get burned. So move lightly.

Mental Pain

Your concept in the mind that things should be a certain way causes pain in the mind. The cause of distress is set concepts in the mind.

Influencing All Levels

When you meditate, you are not just bringing a harmony within yourself, but you are influencing the subtle layers of creation, the subtle bodies of all the different levels of existence in the creation.

Desire Destroys Beauty

When beauty comes from the angle of desire, it creates feverishness; and the feverishness is responsible for action and tiredness, and it destroys the beauty completely.

Seeing God

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

Only You

On one level there are individuals, everybody is different---they're young, old, intelligent, wise, and dull, and all types. On one level we have different types, but on a deeper level there is only you. Only you, nothing else.

Deeper Levels of Mind

To probe into the deeper levels of the subconscious, unconscious mind, your mantra needs to be kept secret.

Life is too short.. Life is Eternal

The realization that life is very short brings dynamism in your life. Unwanted things will fall off as well as distractions, procrastination falls away.
When you are expecting a result, or when it comes to enjoying the fruit of your actions, good deeds or even blessings, know that life is Eternal.

Dreams of Pleasure

Every pleasure has been so momentary, has left your hand empty, depleted, drained. And every pleasure has brought you more depression, sorrow, pulled you down. But yet there is a hope of some pleasure, some unknown, unseen pleasure. Dreaming of a pleasure---that makes you weak, that holds you back.

Beyond Ego

"Ego" means "I am. I am somebody." But beyond ego is Being.

100% Comfortable

A state in which you feel absolutely comfortable, 100% comfort, that is meditation.

Beauty as Wakefulness

Just one spark of beauty in wakefulness, in the awakened, manifests as knowledge, as wisdom. That is satwa (purity of consciousness).

Mistakes Out of Tension

See how a mistake has happened out of tension. Knowing that a mistake has happened, if you think, "It is *my* mistake," then you are not releasing the tension, you are doubling the tension.

Missing Devotion

It is very painful---once you have had a taste of devotion, and then the devotion is not there, you feel, "Oh, something is missing!"

Maintaining Equanimity

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.

Hankering

Don't hanker for an ideal situation in the mind all the time. That very hankering creates an impression in the mind.

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.

Repose

Desire is hustle and bustle. Desire is agitation, activity. When all that is dropped: peaceful reposing in the inner-most core of your Being. Repose---as though you are finished, dead, gone.

Soothing Peace

In joy, in peace, in that soothing---very soothing---inner state you will find the happiness.

Uncertainty

You can be at ease with the uncertainty of the world when you realize the certainty of consciousness. Often people do just the opposite.
Certainty about the relative world creates dullness. Uncertainty about the Self creates fear.
Uncertainty about matter brings certainty about consciousness.

What is Holding You Back

Drop all those divisions (of the mind), altogether. This is what is holding you back from enlightenment. This is what is holding you back from your very nature. Drop those right now.

The Washing Machine

Our body is like a washing machine, Our mind is like cloth. Love is like pure water. Knowledge is detergent. Each lifetime is one wash cycle.

Similarly, you will have many more births until you stop repeating the mistakes that you have made.

Drop the Past

Now. Now. Now. Cultivate this habit of dropping the past. Then you can smile.

The only thing you must remember

THE ONLY THING YOU MUST REMEBER IS HOW FORTUNATE YOU ARE...
When u forget this, you become sad..

Sorrow indicates:
1. your attachment to negative qualities and
2. your attachment to positive qualities..

"See, ninety percent of this body is only space,and space, and space. And
what is in this space? That is mind, that is consciousness, that is
intelligence. Like a honeycomb. Honeycomb is all filled with honey. Like
this in the body---all the holes in the body are filled with mind, or
consciousness. And the nature of that is joy, is Love."

Soothing Peace

In joy, in peace, in that soothing---very soothing---inner state you will find the happiness.

Hollow and Empty

Creation is all anxious to fulfill your desire when you become hollow and empty.

Unseen Hand

How can we not see this? That everything in the body is happening by itself. Everything in creation is happening by itself. The flowers are blossoming, the leaves are becoming green, the petals are becoming yellow, the sun is rising, setting---how could one be so blind not to see an "unseen hand" behind this whole creation?

Feverishness

The feverishness in us destroys the joy.

Desire Destroys Beauty

When beauty comes from the angle of desire, it creates feverishness; and the feverishness is responsible for action and tiredness, and it destroys the beauty completely.

Restricting Awareness

One single thought in the mind can restrict your awareness, the totality of awareness. How big is your mind? How vast is your life? There are so many things in life. One small, insignificant thought, insignificant thing, can clog and cloud your whole awareness.

Source of All Problems

You see, all the problems in the world are created by those who want "perfection."

The Divine Loves You

The Divine loves you very dearly, and in all manners, in all respects.

Drop it!

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

Religion & Politics

The role of religion is to make one righteous and loving, and politics means caring for people and their welfare. When religion and politics dont coexist, then you have corrupt politicians and pseudo-religious leaders.

Hollow and Empty

Creation is all anxious to fulfill your desire when you become hollow and empty.

SHORTCUT

If you think you are stupid
then - you know who you are.
And if u know who u are ..
You are Enlightened!
And if u r enlightened,
Then.. you certainly are not stupid.
If you think u are intelligent,
Then you dont know who you are.
And if u dont know who u are..
Then you really ARE stupid!!!

Better realize your stupidity.. and be enlightened!

Burning with Desire

We burn with desires. And this burning in desires does not allow you to relax into the peace of your Being. Unless you let go of them, you can never find peace, you can never rest in Divine Love.

Guru is the Goal

Guru is nothing but wisdom and love.

Being with the Guru means spontaneous integration of life and wisdom.

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.

Thank Superficially

Thanking means there are two. If you are deeply thankful, it means you deeply feel the seperation. Deep within there is no need to thank, because there is oneness. But superficially you can thank. Thanks are like ripples on the surface of the water.

Positive Thinking?

The cause of depression in the world is ""positive thinking."" You think positive, but deep inside you believe that there is a negative. The more you try to force that positive thought, the more the negative thought goes deep somewhere within.

Arresting the Mind

A true guru is not interested in making followers, but he is concerned for the growth of the person. All his concern is for how well this mind, this flirting mind, could be arrested and established in its source, this mind which is so blind, seeking here and there, here and there, could be put into itself and be made to open its eye to itself.

That Space in Us:

That space in us is life.

One Whole

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

Doubt and Trust

The possibility of doubting shows you the strength of your trust. When you do not have a chance to doubt, then how do you know how deep is your trust? You do not know.

Small World

Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this?

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.

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.

Shadows..
Shadows appear very big, much bigger than you, but they have no existence.
Smaller the light, bigger the shadow appears. If it is total darkness, then also there is no shadow. So partial knowledge, a partial light, partial vision, brings the shadow. And it makes the shadow appear very huge, very big. But know it is just a shadow.

What is Freedom...?
Lack of Craving.Detachment from the objects of the senses.

Plentitude

Feel the plentitude---feel that there is plenty. The Divine has provided you a lot, and He will provide you much more. Why be tense about that?

Mysterious Love

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

Don't Worry!

You don’t have to worry; your life is not a big burden, a big responsibility for the Divine. It can take care of you very well. Don’t be concerned and worried about money so much. Be filled with love, be filled with gratitude, get rid of the fear in you by being in love.

Drop Divisions

You are part of the Divine. Drop these divisions from your mind!