If you want to get rid of the pains and afflictions of this samsara (worldly life) you must practise meditation. Meditation is the pathway to divinity. It is the royal road to the kingdom of Brahman. It is a mysterious ladder which reaches from error t…
Daily Inspirations
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It is not possible for others to take advantage of one who serves selflessly. It could appear that way at times. But even if others seem to be taking advantage of you, that is to your advantage, because you are acting with a pure heart. You are doing w… |
You must have a pure mind if you want to realise the self. Unless the mind is set free, unless the mind casts away all desire, craving, worry, delusion, pride, lust, attachment, likes and dislikes, it cannot enter the domain of supreme peace. Mind is c… |
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Question: Would you please speak about what you foresee in the future for the next ten or twenty years? Answer: I don’t worry about the future. If you take care of the present, the future will be taken care of. What you sow now, you will reap. Don’t ju… |
Organs deteriorate if you do not use them properly – just as hands and legs are atrophied by disuse and are developed by muscular exercise, etc. There is intimate connection between sight and memory, and between hearing and memory. He who has acute sig… |
In the end, nobody—none of these so-called loved ones—is going to come with you. I don’t say that you should deny them or renounce them. It’s all right to be with them; but you have to save your soul. Nobody else is going to help you with that. How man… |
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Trataka is steady gazing. Write the word Om in black on the wall. Concentrate on it with open eyes till tears come in the eyes. Then close the eyes; visualise the picture of Om. Then open the eyes and again gaze till lachrymation manifests. Gradually i… |
If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but the scattered rays cannot do this. If you want to talk to a man at a distance, you make a funnel of your hand and speak; the sound waves are collected at one… |
Put your faith in God. Then do whatever you can within your capacity, because you can’t do anything beyond your capacity. If you could do something beyond your capacity, then you would have the capacity to do it. So try your utmost, but at the same tim… |
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Now hear about the fruits that one gains from this practice. Supreme joy is for the yogi whose mind is peaceful, whose passionate nature is calmed, who is sinless and of the nature of the eternal. When one advances in the practice of concentration, whe… |
One of my very first teachers was Sadhu Swamigal of Palani in South India. I spent several years with him in the very beginning of my spiritual life. He was a great siddha (spiritually accomplished one), and he was a great tantric yogi. Pure tantric Yo… |
Fix the mind on some object, within the body or without. Keep it there, steadily, for some time. This is concentration. Practice this daily. Ethical perfection is a matter of paramount importance. You can concentrate internally on any of the seven cent… |