Science is about learning ‘what something is’ and spirituality is about knowing ‘who I am’. The.
Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form. Bangalore Ashram, India September 24, 1997.
There is some virtue to be learnt from every part of the world – teamwork from Japan, precision from Germany, marketing and negotiation skills from the United States, courtesy, decency and refinement from the British, and human values from the villages of India. You.
Young children, who have not yet accumulated a lot of stress, exhibit an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, profound joy, and unconditional love. These qualities that manifest spontaneously in an innocent child demonstrate the truest, unadulterated, essence of humanness. We are all born with a wellspring of love and joy. These qualities are not just emotions, they are the essence of our existence. The truth of our essence cannot change, it can only be covered over and hidden from us.
There are four sources of energy – food, sleep, breath and a calm mind.
You need to see your life in context of time and space – how vast creation is, how big the universe is and how small your life is, relative.
This Truth has to be realized here and now, in this lifetime. Do not postpone it until the next lifetime. If you do not know it this lifetime, it is the greatest loss. There cannot be any greater loss than this. This is the greatest loss imaginable.
More tiring than the work itself is the memory of hard work, just thinking you have worked hard interferes with the quality of rest. Some people take pride in working hard without any results. And there are others who crave for a long rest without knowing that true rest is in non-doership. Thinking you need rest makes you restless. Thinking you have to work hard makes you tired. Thinking you have worked hard brings self-pity.
All that you can do is to raise the level of sattva. And then when sattva’s level is high, we have to wait one moment, any moment knowledge can dawn there. All that you can do to have sunlight in this room, is to open the curtains and keep the windows open. And when dawn comes, it just dawns. You have the sunlight inside. If you close your curtains, even if it’s midsummer afternoon, you will still find your room dark, because the gunas are cloudy.
If someone blames you directly, do not believe it. Just know that they are taking away your bad karma and let it.
The fire of love or fire of knowledge creates unpleasantness or a sense of longing in the beginning, but it moves on to the blossoming of bliss, the blossoming of fullness.
Your desire for pleasure or happiness makes you unhappy.
If people are not inspired from within, it will not be possible to build a good work ethic. Work.
Healthy breathing is the key to eliminating these toxins and harmonising emotions. Neither.
Rejection itself means the finite.
Your comparison with your own performance is better, is healthy, but if you start comparing with others, in all probability, you will feel jealous.
Forgetfulness of the infinite is misery. Forgetfulness of the trivial is ecstasy.
Think about a world which never irritated you. You’d be stuck with it forever.
Even in moments of utter danger, a person like Mahatma Gandhi remained totally involved in his work.
Someone who does not have any responsibility can feel very detached, ‘Oh, I am doing nothing. I am free.’ But that freedom has no value. If someone who is responsible for the whole of society, the whole kingdom can say, ‘I am not doing anything’ in spite of this responsible job; then that ‘not doing’ something is great. That is enlightenment.