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Your upbringing certainly has a say over your temperament; but as you grow, your true temperament will come to the surface more. You will be urged to do something—possibly something very different. When your true temperament comes out, then you will k… |
My purpose is achieved. The entire circle of birth and death is over. I have realised the perfect bliss of the atman. I have known myself to be Brahman. I am free. I am perfect. I am independent. I enjoy bliss. I enjoy the bliss of the immortal soul. I… |
No action is undesirable as long as it produces a beneficial result to all concerned, including you. You may call that a perfect act. The definition of a perfect act is one that neither hurts you, nor hurts anyone else. At the same time, it should bri… |
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One thing which is sweet and pleasant to you at one moment, produces the very reverse sensation in another moment. Who has not experienced this, in this world of opposites? Objects when longed for are pleasant but are bitter if not longed for. Hence va… |
The bhakta is blissful at all times. His mind cannot think of anything for everything is God. “Yatra yatra mano yati tatra tatra samadhayah- Wherever the mind goes there it experiences samadhi” – for it does not find any object of enjoyment. God fills… |
“As you think, so you become.” Think well, you will be well. Think ill, you will be ill. It’s all your thought. Sometimes you might not be thinking ill of yourself, but you are thinking ill of others. That is still thinking ill. Whether it is about you… |
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The summum bonum of existence is the attainment of knowledge of the self, the realisation of the one homogeneous self. The knowledge of the self can only dawn when there is extinction of all the vasanas. Vasanas are subtle desires; they are gross in na… |
Relationships need not be difficult. If you don’t have any selfish purpose, then you don’t expect anything and you don’t lose anything. You are just there together. When you are apart, you are apart. You aren’t attached to that relationship. Realize th… |
If you can clairvoyantly visualise the inner working of this mental factory you will see that, it is like a big telephone exchange, the messages come from diverse houses and firms into the central exchange. The operator plugs, connects and disconnects… |
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Question: There are times when illnesses aren’t relieved by treatment. Do we have illness for a period of time because it’s our karma? If so, how do we know when that period is over? Answer: When your illness is over, you know that the karma period is… |
Antahkarana (the inner instrument) is a broad term which includes mind, intellect, memory and egoism (aharikara). The one Antahkarana assumes different names, just as the same man assumes the name of judge when he works as a judge in the law courts, or… |
Only a candle that is lit and shining can give a little light to the other candles. If you simply sit there as an unlit candle and listen to hours and hours and hours of talk about light, you won’t get lit. You have to come, touch the lamp and get a sp… |