Your true personality is happiness; it is peace and love. The minute you forget that, you start to look for these things to come from outside. Unfortunately, that has happened even from the very beginning. God made Adam and told him, “Adam, I have created you in My own image. That means you are Me;…
Pray to God, “God, God, please teach me patience. Please teach me patience. But don’t delay.” Even praying for patience becomes impatient then, So the only way to get rid of impatience is to recognize that everything happens in its time, in its own sweet time if you want to say. Everything takes its own…
What is that, Elohim? I’m not quite a great Jew. Elohim, what is that? Elohim is God? So the archangels and then Elohim, what is that? That’s confusing. “What is the function of the archangels and the Elohim?” Or, can I say simply “and God?” Right? “What is the function of the archangels and God?”…
When you repeat the Lord’s name you must evince unflinching devotion from the bottom of your heart – devotion to God, without love for any other object. You must drive off all worldly thoughts from your mind. Fill the mind with thoughts of God and God alone. You must struggle. You must exert hard. Remain…
When allopathy, homeopathy, chromopathy, naturopathy, ayurvedapathy and all other ‘pathies’ fail to cure a disease, the divine namapathy alone can save you. The name of the Lord is a sovereign specific, a sheet-anchor, an infallible panacea and a cure-all for all diseases. It is an ideal or supreme ‘pick-me-up’ in gloom and despair, in depression…
He who does sankirtan (same as kirtan: chanting) forgets the body and the world. Sariklrtan brings super-intuitional knowledge. Sariklrtan brings darsan (vision) of God or attainment of divine consciousness in this Kali Yuga (dark age). It develops love. It is the easiest, surest, safest, quickest way for attaining God-realisation. Those who do sankirtan in the…
Akhana kirtan is to sing the Lord’s name without a break. This is a very effective spiritual sadhana (practice). There is eradication of all evil vrttis (thoughts) during this period; the mind has neither time nor opportunity to think of sensual objects during this period. This is an easy way to capture the mind. During…
People do sankirtan with surprising enthusiasm and vigour for a year or two but after that they become slothful and torpid. The same zeal should be kept up throughout life. Just as food and drink are not dispensed with, even for a day. Sankirtann is indeed a spiritual food. Nay, it is a physical and…
The name of the Lord is your sole refuge. It is your prop, shelter and abode. Name is divine nectar. Name and form are inseparable. Keep a picture of the Lord and concentrate on it. Concentrate on the face or feet or the whole picture. Then visualise this in your heart or in the space…
Japa (repetition of the mantra) checks the force of the thought current moving towards objects. It forces the mind to move towards God, towards the attainment of eternal bliss. Eventually it helps us to have the darsana (vision) of God. The mantra-power is hidden in every mantra. Whenever the spiritual aspirant shows lack of vigour…
Mantra yoga is a great science. “Manana trayate iti mantrah” – “By manana (constant thinking or recollection) one is protected or released from the round of birth and death – that is mantra.” That is called mantra, by meditating on which the jlva or soul attains freedom from sin, enjoyment in heaven and final liberation.…
Don’t ever, ever put yourself down. You are here for a purpose, and you are great in your place. You may not know what that purpose is; but no matter what you look like, what handicaps you might have, what size or what color you are, the fact that you are here is enough. God…