Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.
Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.
The signs of good health are an intellect which is free from inhibition and arrogance, a heart which is full of compassion is healthy, a confusion-free mind, a trauma-free memory and a sorrow-free soul.
When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.
In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.
Love is the essence of the universe,. Love in action is service.
Retain your shyness and drop your shame.
Don’t Fall in love, Rise in Love!
In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.
Human rights means protecting another’s freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.
Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery.
Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.
One whose mind is turned inwards is ever in bliss.
For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one’s progress on the spiritual path and renew one’s determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year.
A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being.
What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.
Whatever is needed for you and your body will be taken care of, when you know this the lack will disappear from your life. When you realise ISHA permeates your everything you relax and are at ease – that is when things happen.
Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state.
Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness.
Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.
See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don’t hold on to judgements.