Otherwise How Can You Prove Yourself?
Put yourself in the hands of the higher force. You cannot do everything by yourself. If you believe in God, if you trust God wholeheartedly, even your sickness will go away because you are putting yourself into the hands of a more powerful doctor. Diff…
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Realize Your True Nature
First, learn to know yourself, the true value of your own character. Then alone you will be able to serve humanity and benefit people. You are taintless, tranquil, pure consciousness; you are beyond nature. All this time you have been duped by illusion…
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You Are the Pure Spirit
You are the pure spirit. The body was created; it is part of the nature. But do not identify yourself as the body. That becomes a good excuse for us sometimes. A good excuse to be a lazy person. Heaven and hell are within; they are your own creation. Y…
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Strive to Realize God
Strive. Strive to realise God. This is the purpose of human birth. The perfection of the realisation of absolute knowledge, supreme bliss and immortality is the one and only goal in human life. Release from the round of births and life in eternity is t…
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We Have to Take Care of Both
The mind’s physical expression is what you call the body. It’s the mind that makes the body. Change the mind, and you can change the body. That’s why your face changes when your mind is happy. It glows. People don’t see your mind, but they see your fac…
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I am Siva
I am Siva, the life and soul of all. I am the substratum for all the forms of the world. I am the substratum for the mind, prar:a (life) and senses. I am the energy in the atoms and the elements. I am the effulgence of the sun, moon and starts. I am th…
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What Came for Your Head Took Away Your Hat
Selfish thoughts disturb the mind. When the mind is disturbed, the body gets disturbed. This is how some accidents occur. That is why the condition of the mind is very important. If the mind is serene and peaceful, many accidents could be avoided. By k…
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The Presence of God
Practice experiencing the presence of God always is the easiest, nearest and surest way of reaching God-consciousness. Feel His presence always and everywhere. Feel His indwelling presence in everything, in flowers, trees, dogs, horses, human beings, s…
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Walk on the Earth Like Liberated Gods
Human birth is a great opportunity for us. According to the Hindu and Buddhist philosophies, which believe in reincarnation, you have been passing through hundreds and thousands of births. Now you have been given this human birth, where you have a litt…
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Annihilate the Ego
Study the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi. He never made any difference between menial service and dignified work. Scavenging or cleaning the latrines were the highest yoga for him, the highest puja. He annihilated his illusory little ‘I’ through this…
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Let That Be Your Nature: Loving and Giving
Once a man went to a river for a bath and found that the river was in flood. As he approached the rushing water, he saw a scorpion being carried away by the current. He took pity on it and thought, “Oh, he is going to die.” So he reached forward and to…
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Believe and Become
What a person strongly believes in, that he experiences and that he becomes. The whole world is a product of faithful imagination. If you have no faith in the world, the world does not exist. If you have no faith in sensual objects, they will not give…
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