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.