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.