This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.
Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.
Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.
Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.
Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds...
The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.
To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.
Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.
I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way.
Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.
Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.
The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.
Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.
Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.
I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.
To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!
Let sannyas be the turning point. That’s what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.
Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.