God is the source of all light. God is the source of everything. He upholds the earth and the heavens. God is spirit. God is love. God is the source of all. God is the destroyer of ignorance. God is beyond all understanding. God is the remover of all calamities. God is the granter of…
Everything is happening according to God’s Will. Everything. God is behind everything. We are all puppets. God pulls a string, I raise my hand this way; another string, I raise my hand another way. God drops the string, my arm drops. So we are all puppets. If we realize that, why should we worry about…
This mysterious human body, the temple of God, the nine-gated city of Brahman, is a marvellous palace for the immortal indweller, or soul. The body is a product of the prarabdha karma (the karma that determines this present life for this individual soul). It belongs to the jiva (individual soul) and the virat (the physical…
It doesn’t matter what form you choose to worship. As long as your interest is in recognizing and realizing the presence of that Spirit, you can approach It in any form you like. If you don’t care for any of the traditional forms that have been handed to us over the ages, you can create…
God is “He” and “She” and “It” and even more than that. In the name of simplifying, we usually say “He” because that has been recognized as the so-called neutral pronoun. But God need not be a father. God can be a mother also. God can be a brother, a sister, a friend, a tree.…
My child, you have been extremely fortunate in getting this human birth. Have intense devotion to God and commune with Him. Kindle the light divine within your heart and maintain its flame of devotion through your constant remembrance of the Lord. It is true devotion that counts; it does not matter which deity you worship.…
Living and working together as one beautiful family with total love is God. People often ask me, “Why is it that I’ve been practicing all these years but I haven’t realized God? I haven’t had any experience.” I don’t know what it is that they are looking for. Do they mean they haven’t been lifted…
Examine your character. Pick up the defects you find in it, and find their opposites. Let us say that you suffer from irritability. The opposite of irritability is patience. Try to develop this virtue by meditating on the abstract virtue of patience. Regularly, every morning, at 4 a.m. sit down in the lotus posture. Sit…
God knows your breaking point. God’s purpose is not to break you. No, not at all. You simply don’t know your own strength. You may think, “I’ve reached my limit. I can’t do any more.” If you couldn’t do it, God would not be putting you into that situation. God knows you better than you…
On a pilgrimage you learn to depend on a higher source. You learn that you cannot depend on anything else for your safety or for your peaceful life. All other things, though they are around, can only help you to a certain extent. They are limited. The ultimate help comes from the God within.
‘Right’ and ‘wrong’ are relative terms. They vary according to time, special circumstances, varna (caste), and asrama (stage of life). Morality is a changing and relative term. The passionate man who molests his wife frequently, to gratify his own passion is more immoral than a man who visits the house of a woman of ill-fame…
If you have absolute faith, you will always be happy and joyful even in the midst of suffering. You may have severe handicaps, but you can still be joyful. When Tirunavukarasar, one of the well-known Saiva saints, was suffering from a stomachache, he said, “Lord, I know You gave me this stomachache. I don’t know…