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.

The technique for depression

There is a technique to get depressed -- you want to know? Just sit and think only about yourself:

Only speak knowledge, Find comfort in conflicts

When you blame someone, you take on their bad karma
When you praise someone, you take on their good karma
Surrender both good & bad karma to the Divine-- and be free..

Diwali is lighting:

The lamp of love in one's heart;
The lamp of abundance in one's home;
The lamp of compassion to serve others;
The lamp of Knowledge to dispel darkness

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.

Vivek

Vivek means discrimination-- the knowledge that everything is changing. Time and again you have to reawaken to this--that the world, people, your body, your emotions, are all constantly changing...

Drop the past

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

Words

If you manipulate words, its a lie;
If you play on words, its a joke;
If you rely on words, its ignorance;
If you transcend words, its wisdom....

Is there any end to desires?

All these different desires for experiences, for living, for knowing, they arise and they get fulfilled and they move. Is there anybody who has not fulfilled any desire? Or is there anybody who has fulfilled all the desires? Is there any end for it?

Seva is Savior

Seva brings merit;
Merit allows you to go deeper in meditation;
Meditation brings back your smile .. :-)

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.

silence

Prayer within breath is silence
Love within infinity is silence
Wisdom without word is silence
Compassion without aim is silence
Action without does is silence
Smiling with all the existence is silence---

Wholeness

Everyone is like one's own finger; everyone is an inseparable part of the
Being. There is no separateness; there is no *two*.... The entire creation
is *one* Whole.

Be a Gopal

You are knowledge. Every atom in you is shimmering with knowledge. In sanskrit, this is called GO..
GO has 4 meanings -- Knowledge, Movement, Achievement, Freedom r liberation

PAL - friend r protector -- one who takes care of u. Be a GOPAL (go-pal); be a friend in knowledge.

Lingering Desires

As long as some desires linger in your mind, your mind cannot be at total rest.

Close to the Master

You are with the Master to share the joy of the Master, to share the consciousness of the Master. For this, you have to empty your cup of what is already in it.

The Master is ready to share. You have only to share from your side.

No more suffering

For one who has awakened in knowledge, there is no more suffering

Ego is only an Atom

The "I" or ego in you is a tiny atom...

When this atom, this ego, is associated with the material world, it becomes mundane.
When its associated with the spirit, it becomes divine.
It becomes Shakti when associated with the Being, the Self.
It becomes miserable when identified with the body.
When this "I" explodes, that is when it becomes the light of the Self..

Arms Open

Stand there with your arms open and say, "What storms may come--let them. I am here." You grow out of them. You become bigger.

Loyalty

Loyalty means believing in the continuity of commitment. Honoring commitment is loyalty. It takes you beyond the duality of craving and aversion.

Responsibility, dedication and commitment are the limbs of loyalty.

Loyalty begins with a YES -mind and starts to perish with a NO -mind.

Your Death:

There is no death for you. Death is nothing but a long sleep. Death is
nothing but just changing your jackets.

habits and vows

The way to come out of habits is vows..

All those habits that bother you, bind them in vows, in sanyama. Take a time-bound vow today and make a note of it. If you break a vow, make a note of it and share the time and date at the next satsang. Continue it again. Tie those habits which bring you pain in sanyama.

Feverishness Blocks Love

Desire is that feverishness which blocks the mind. As long as there is feverishness, there is no Love.

Abiding in the Self

I am the valentine of the whole world and I reside in every heart.. If you are my valentine, you will see me everywhere - Sri Sri...

Resistance is Futile!

The more you resist thoughts, the more they bombard your mind.

Love

Love is not an act - it is a result

Love does not give rise to more questions - it is the answer for all questions

Love is not a path - it brings you back home - LOVE IS HOME

Samadhi

Nirvitarka-samadhi is even beyond the experience of bliss--undefinable, beyond words.

One pointedness

To achieve anything in the world your mind has to be one-pointed. The mind gets into some restlessness to achieve things. But to attain your Self Realization, your *heart* has to be one-pointed

Anger is About the Past

Anger is meaningless, because it is always about something that has already passed.

Silence

Prayer within breath is Silence
Love within infinity is silence
Wisdom without words is silence
Compassion without aim is silence
Action without a doer is silence
Action without a doer is silence
Smiling with all existence is silence.

You are

You are the consciousness.

Satyam Param Dhimahi

I uphold in my awareness truth and the Divinity of the transcendental..

Right mindfulness

Right mindfulness---this can root out the misery in our lives. This can break the patterns that we live with. And silence breaks the pattern like nothing else.

YAGNA

Yagna creates energy & energy creates consciousness, awareness.
And to bring heightened awareness, you have to increase the prana...

Prana can be increased through:
1. Fasting, fresh food.
2. Pranayamas, Kriya, Meditation.
3. Silence.
4. Cold water baths.
5. Total exhaustion, not letting sleep take over.
6. Emotional peaks.
7. Presence of the Master.
8. Singing and Chanting.
9. Giving without givership, serving without doership.

All of these together are YAGNA.

Stretching the Emptiness

Stretching the Sound is Music.
Stretching the Movement is Dance.
Stretching the Smile is Laughter.
Stretching the Mind is Meditation.
Stretching the Life is Celebration.
Stretching the Devotee is God.
Stretching the Feeling is Ecstasy.
Stretching the Emptiness is BLISS.

Purity Dispels Depression

The moment purity comes, depression cannot be there; it goes away.

The Different Kinds of Understanding

There are three kinds of understanding..

Intellectual understanding, Experimental understanding and Existential realization.

Intellectual understanding says "yes" it agrees...

Experimental understanding feels, is obvious..

Existential realization is irrefutable. It becomes your very nature. This contains within it both experimental and intellectual understanding. But it is beyond both of these..
It is one part of the mind challenging the other part of the mind.

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.

The Big Mind

JAI GURU DEV means victory to the Greatness in you, Victory to the Big Mind in you that is both dignified and playful

Duties

Don't think, I have lots of duties. How will I fulfill my duties!� See, the moment you think something is your duty, there is no beauty in it. Duty, responsibility, becomes a burden, it becomes a bondage on your head. Love the job that you are doing

sanyas & your associations

Sanyas means what?

I am nothing and I want nothing, or

I am everything and I have everything..

Sanyas is being colourless or multicolored..

Difference between Love and Meditation

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

Commuication

There are three modes of communication:

in head-to-head communication you talk,
in heart-to-heart communication you sing,
and soul-to-soul communication happens in silence.

Temporary Flow

When you see this whole flow of events as temporary, as nonexistent, then, even when someone scolds at you, you smile.

Focus & Expansion

The balance between the focused mind and expanded consciousness brings perfection...

Inexpressible

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

What you know

There is no end to learning, but there is an end to unlearning. That is when you become totally hollow and empty.

Feverishness

The feverishness in us destroys the joy.

You and your time

When you are ahead of time, it is dragging and boring.
When the time is ahead of you, then you are surprised and shocked. You cant digest the events.

When you are with the time, you are wise and at peace.

Everyday Miracles

With even an iota of faith, you will see many things happen in life. Every moment, every step, every day is a day of some miracle, a day of some wonder, something new, something beautiful.

Attaining Self-knowledge

when your actions and desires are sincerely directed to the Divine or to the welfare of society, then consciousness is automatically elevated, and Self-knowledge is sure to be attained.

Be with your Feelings

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

Do It Until You Become It !

Virtues have to be practiced until they become your nature. Friendliness, compassion and meditation should continue as practices until you realize that they are your very nature.

Sound and Silence

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

Diksha

Initiation is called Diksha. In Sanskrit 'DI' means intellect. 'Ksha' means the horizon or the end. Diksha means transcending the intellect...

Totality of discipline is shiksha..

Totality of intelligence is Diksha..

The Poles of the Mind

These are the poles we swing between: either we are apathetic and dull and inertia bound or we are engaged in a "vasuna" that grips our mind with feverishness, that clouds our whole consciousness.

Becoming Defenseless

don't defend your mistakes. Just accept them and move on. When you are totally defenseless, thats when you'll be strong.

Mysteries of the World

The mysteries of this world can never be fully unfolded. The more you unfold it, the more mysterious it becomes. And that is why it is beautiful.

Be with your Feelings

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

Stop Resisting the Storm

The storm is also part of Nature. Stop resisting the storm. Taking it, gulping it in its totality, going deep into it, you see, it is nothing: "It is just created out of myself, my mind, my consciousness."

At least do this

This could be a step for you: to reach the point where you even don't feel anything bad about anybody at all. But if you happen to feel [bad], if you want to say [something], just say it -- and just drop it.

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.

Innermost Self

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

Losing Innocence

Your judgement is an impression in your mind. You don't want to be judged, but you judge others. But whatever you do, if you judge, that same reflects back into yourself, and the innocence is lost. The main purpose, the main thing of why you should not judge [is] because your innocence will be lost.

Dig Deep

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

Arguing Mind

Look at this arguing mind. This is what you have been carrying all these years---and you want to continue carrying it?

When You are Disturbed

Do you do this? Any day that you are disturbed, instead of yelling and screaming and shouting at other people here and there, blaming other people, have you ever said, "Oh, I want to do more chanting, and let me sit. Today I feel disturbed so let me go and love more people around me." Have you ever done that?

Absence of Devotion

Life is not all a rosy picture. There are thorns. There are things that you don't like in life. And the worst is when you don't even feel any devotion.

Mature Love

Longing, or pain, or hurt is part of love. Experience it, be with it, go through it---then your love becomes so mature.

Mysteries

This world is a mystery. Love is a mystery. Life is a mystery. Your sleep is a mystery -- and mystery transcends reasoning.

Honoring is Divine Love

In whomsoever you see whatever good quality---appreciating it, honoring it, heightening it, enlightening it---this is Divine Love, this is bhakti, this is devotion.

Real Freedom

Real freedom is the freedom from the future and freedom from the past.

The Core of Your Being

Love can never be superficial, because it is the core of your Being, it's in the depth of your Self.

The Enemy of Love

Worry is enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.

What is Doubt?

It is one part of the mind challenging the other part of the mind.