Never be a misogynist. Witness Divine mother in all women for they are the sources of all affection.
To discard all that are worldly known is to gain true knowledge about the uncreated and indestructible soul.
All religions and sects are but different avenues to realize and attain the same Supreme Lord. Only the unqualified differentiate between them and wander along the birth-death cycle for infinite ages.
You cannot hide or diddle anything form the vigilant eyes of the omnipresent Lord whose relation with you is pre-embryonic.
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
Always make company with saints, sages and Selfrealized ones and never let your senses bank with evilminded ones. Then only your mind and the body will gradually be purified from within through their holy induction and Divine osmosis.
There is hardly anything to chant externally; for the Divine chant is performed on the life breath of a mortal from the day his soul descends down. Only the rare know this and become a conscious observer of this chant.
You are a mere dumb instrument and I am the player. I choose and play the tune according to my will and desire.
The elementary substratum of faith, devotion and knowledge are not different.
It is only the consciousness, which can intervene in the Divine play and unify the Jiva and Parama driving the mortal to a chantless state.
Rituals that religion exists in pure and sincere love of the heart and not in the ceremony. Unless a human being is pure in body and mind, visits to temple and worshipping Lord will completely be a futile exercise.
Everybody wants you just to give God-realization to them. Nobody wants to have to work for it. But it’s not so simple!
It is not a pumping-in from outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly.
The Jivatma, which is a fragment of the Paramatma should experience the uniqueness of the Supreme Lord through external meditation and should witness the duality in Divine play through internal meditation.
Knowledge of the scriptures is beneficial only when it stimulates a desire for practical realization; otherwise, theoretical knowledge gives one false conviction of wisdom.
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
Our body is a temple. Slay all the lower modes of nature like ego, anger, jealousy, fear and hatredness that corrode it.
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! Forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! Control the present! Live supremely well now! It will whitewash the dark past, and compel the future to be bright! This is the way of the wise.
Never feel inferior of yourself by considering yourself as the body. You are above the five elements, the senses, the mind and the intellect. You are the conscious and dynamic fragment of the Supreme Lord.
The macrocosm (brahmanda) resides implicitly inside the microcosm (pinda). You and the universe are not mutually exclusive; the external distinction is a mere symbolic drama.
Deeds performed through ajapa-sutra or in the chantless state are fruitless and thus the practitioner never suffers for these effect-less causes.
Dry intellects dictate that every thing in this creation is unreal and ignorance. If it is so, their mind and intellect, the derivatives of this creation are unreal. Then how can be their thoughts be real and ideas be conclusions? For the truly devoted, there is omnipresent Divine and no ignorance.
Devote yourself to the Lord as early as possible in this awarded life, for there is uncertainty in another human birth. Don’t waste births in gratifying the senses, and don’t let your soul suffer more through bondage.
There is no place where the Lord does not exist. The creator always remains with his creation. It is the ego that veils this fact through irrational logic and asymmetric pseudo intuitions.
Never hate or be jealous of anybody for the Divine that dwells in you dwells in them too without any slightest deviation. It is an act of foolishness to differentiate based on the deeds performed by the perishable body and the nature of thoughts by the imperfect mind.
As the lotus remains unaffected amidst the sinking mud and stinking mire, the immortal soul remains untouched from the mortal body and the material creation.
You waste precious time each day. Every little moment you spend with God will be spent to your best advantage; and whatever you achieve with the desire to please God in your heart will stand unto eternity.
Be not desireful for anything in the world but for Self realization.
Every undedicated and unconscious breath taken is liable for suffering in this or subsequent births.
The degree of awakening of inner consciousness is proportional to the isolation of the mind from worldly desires and the extent of dispassion for the earthly attachments including ones own body.
Human deeds are guided by the three modes (gunas) of nature derived from ego and lets the mortal to suffer in three-fold miseries (tritapa). Those who raise themselves above these modes experience the modeless Divine (nirguna Brahman).
Not attaining the desired objects and attainment of undesired ones are the modes of suffering for the ignorant. Whatever you have attained is what you really deserve for and heartfelt acceptance of this is a sign of spiritual refinement.
The incidence of Guru’s blessings shows miraculous and mesmerizing coincidences in a devotee’s life.
Tame your uncontrolled wavering mind affecting the Jiva by the goad of Supreme knowledge.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Death of the physical body is never the end, till the last unsufferred deed is suffered without desire.
Let the wandering feet of your mind march towards the heart, the abode of the Lord, for boundless pleasure and immeasurable peace.
The witnessing of duality (dwaityavada) is the means All men take birth in this world to die, but a few conscious and Self realized men die never to take birth again and the realization of uniqueness (adwaityavada) is the end for deliverance.
Performing evil deeds is homogeneous with letting others do the same.
Without the grace and blessings of the Guru, even the deepest study of spiritual scriptures and multidimensional analysis of Godhead goes in vain.
Be egoistic that you are the vassal of the Lord beyond time and let this ego be envied by the imperfect material egos.
The Supreme Lord tests His disciples in His own unique ways. And the test becomes harder as the disciple reaches higher levels of realization. Some superficial performers get out-tracked molding themselves into atheists. But the real and refined karma-sanyasi’s get embraced by the Lord.
Never wander insanely for the vision of the Lord. If your devotion is perfect and heart stainless, the Lord will appear before you in flesh and blood.
Maya or ignorance is the feminine derivative of the Supreme Lord. Once the Self is realized, Maya looses its existence.
Don’t be conscious of others but of the Self, residing within, which can nullify the sheaths of prarabdha karma.
As the sun remains hidden behind the dark clouds in a rainy day, the Supreme Lord moves the universe behind the veil of Maya. Only those blessed by the Lord realize this transparency and enjoy the Divinity in the creation.
We meditate on the transcendental glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life of the sky,
and inside the soul of the heaven. May He stimulate and illumine our minds.
Knowledge is light; it illuminates and reveals the nature of reality.
The disciple, who engages himself in the loving service of his Guru with reverential attitude, attains the highest of Supreme knowledge.
The more you attach yourself with your body and earthly relations, the more you sink down yourself into ignorance and unavoidable sufferings.
The ever-merciful Supreme Lord will perform all actions on your behalf and will guard from all evils, if you are completely surrendered and dependent on Him without a marginal trace of doubt.
Only the knowledged realize that they are ignorant and they exist in this material world because of their ignorance.
Never be weak, you must be strong, you have infinite strength within you.
Why you are worrying with the darkness of the night? Have steady faith on your Lord and rejoice as the darkness deepens; the dawn is nearing.
Those who deliberately expose their devotion for pageantry and cachet, devastate their own selves with their ego.
Forget not that your have been mortalized to renunciate materiality and liberate the soul.
Heterogeneity of the universe is but the ignorance of the reality.
The truth is embodied in the wisdom of the great ones that reveals to us the world as it really is. Had it not been for the training I received in this wisdom, I would not have liked to remain in this world.
Human birth is not to synthesize the mechanical repetition of his mortality but to apparently synchronize the Divine breath with the timelessly chanting infinite Divine consciousness.
The newborn cuckoo returns to his mother after taking birth inside the crow’s nest. But the nourishment with the crows never affects the sweetness of the cuckoo’s voice. Similarly you, the part of the Divine can never be permanent in this alien world and will return to your creator one day, in your purest native form.
Whether I be in the temple or in the balcony, in the camp or the flower garden, I tell you truly that every moment my Lord is taking His delight in me.
Everything can be mastered through spiritual practices and ethical austere lifestyle, but devotion or the Divine emotion, which can only be attained by the blessings of your Guru.
Your noble work should coincide with your words and thought. Mere recitation of the word sugar will never bring sweetness to the mouth.
When we want to use our faculties, time and energy for geting close to Baba we have to cut down on many other activities.
A dog bites a dry bone with the desire of meat. The gums bleed and the dog thinks that the blood is from the bone and bites even more firmly wounding the gums even deeper. Similarly, the ignorant never detaches himself from material desires and becomes a slave to his grimy senses.
Desireless actions can only lead to liberation of the soul. But in this Iron Age it becomes difficult to perform these amidst of the diverting forces acting on the mind and the body. Hence, go on dedicating your deeds to the Lord as much as possible and you will reach the desireless state thereof.
Never fall prey to the illusive design patterns of the world. These will give you more sufferings by the imperfect pleasure they radiate.
As the tortoise withdraws its limbs, withdraw your senses inward from outward falsity to serve the real inherent doer.
The disciplined minds, which remain suzzled by the nectar of the Divine hardly, get sullied with sorrows and lower desires.
What is destined to happen will happen. You suffer due to your own karma. No one can modify your past deeds and amend your suffering by forgiving your sins, but your Guru.
If all dogs will go to heaven, there will remain none to lick the ophal leaves here.
Man cannot be attached to the imperfect ever changing world and the absolute perfect at the same time. He has to renounce one for the other.
Maya is like a painted harlot appering on the stage. The moment she is detected to be an old woman, she gives up her tempting coquetries.
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.
A doll made of sugar gives the same sweetness when any of its fragments is tasted. The akin exultation and fragrance of Divinity can be experienced and felt from any part of the creation.
Delay not in performing auspicious and pious deeds, and hasten not in fulfilling the lower evil deeds. That those who are at a distance from auspicious and selfless deeds, never levitate to me.
The probability of nullifying your karmic depositions without the blessings of your Guru is void.
Ignore anything and anyone who come between you and your Lord. And those who ignore these virtual intermediate elements never get the pure perception of truth.
Rightly perform your duties before the dusk becomes darker otherwise you will be left out till the glory of the sun shines.
Escapists boast themselves for their good deeds and announce their unsuccessful attempts and failures as Lord’s wish. Their dependence on the Lord even in their low times are mere pretensions and they always remain at a greater distance from the grace of the Lord.
The water from the holy rivers can never wash your sins away and please the Lord; but your tears of love for the Lord. These tears from the precipitation of heartily devotion, satisfies the Lord.
If your Guru is pleased with your Karma, there remains nothing for you to do, in this and successive births.
Never let your vital energy get minimized by serving your unsatisfying senses. Deploy it to realize the infinite consciousness and attain immortality.
The Divine plays on the breath in alternating solar and lunar phases making unique vibrations; and those who witness these through deep yogic practices go beyond the binding orbit of Maya.
It is neither a compulsion nor a necessity to renounce your worldly deeds and duties for the path of Divinity. Often this becomes an excuse for the laze. If your mind is focused on the Lord, the bodily activities hardly make any impact.
Knowledge is light; it illuminates and reveals the nature of reality.
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.
If the dirge of the soul goes unheard, the prayers go unanswered too, and you always remain asymptotic to the objectless ecstasy.
Let not your heart be contaminated with hatredness, jealousy and ego, for it is the abode of the beloved Lord.
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle — pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
Unconditionally everyone loves his own possessions and never lets them get destroyed by their own means. So is with the ever-merciful and benevolent Lord. He loves all from the core of His heart. Often it is the mortal who becomes unfaithful and mendacious towards his master.
Let all your desires go unfulfilled and passions soiled, but the desire to be in loving service of the Lord as a servitor.
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world
It is a compulsion beyond doubt for the Lord to fulfill the wishes of the true devotees, who have renounced the world for Him.
Taking mere birth in a higher caste does not make anybody more finer and never helps in the upward movement of the soul, but the deeds performed in this and previous births.
All rivers will merge in the ocean however diverging and disastrous the route may be. Even those which dryout on the way, join the stream through clouds. Similarly all creatures will merge in me finally irrespective of the number of births they take.
The paddy fields turn yellowish and dry during scorching heat and seem lifeless. But a spell of rain recharges it with new vigor and vitality. Blessings of the Guru can show miracles and unbelievable coincidences in a true devotee’s life.
Expertise over Supreme knowledge by swatting large volumes without spiritual experience goes in vain.
In this Iron Age, confusion and suspicion prevails concerning the identify of a Guru. Guru is beyond any physical form and is an eternal principle.
It is the joy of nature when the mortal un-naturally forgets his source of which he is a conscious derivative.
Let your consciousness steer your intellect and the intellect meditate on the dotty mind through the breath. When the mind at this stage drives the nature through the senses, the deeds become Divine.
Performing exhaustive rituals and outward spiritual exhibitions are meaningless without unconditional love and Divine emotion in the heart for your Guru.
Direct all your diffused thoughts and discrete precepts into Divine consciousness and make the vacillation of the mind be fixed on your Guru.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Never get deluded by parallel authorities of knowledge and indulge in spiritual paradoxes. Abide with obedience to a single authority and you will reach the Supreme Being.
There is indifference between your Guru and the Supreme Lord. If you find any difference, it is due to your fate, to suffer more.
Hearts filled with pure love and devotion for the Lord are at infinitely higher levels than the brains stacked with dry intellectualism.
Hidden nature is secret God.
Convincing the atheist about the existence of Lord is a sheer waste of time. Never attempt to change others. You can’t, till they realize themselves. In turn they may change your age-old belief. Stay away from them.
Employ knowledge to wisely differentiate between the intransient and the fleeting constituents of the creation, as a royal swan segregates milk from water.
Those who awaken and raise their latent kundalini to the highest level along the six nerve plexuses through yogic trances witness play.
As the spoon remains unaffected inside the delicious dishes, a karma-sanyasi remains unattached and impassive to the deeds he performs even in the midst of his bodily satisfactions.
You waste precious time each day. Every little moment you spend with God will be spent to your best advantage; and whatever you achieve with the desire to please God in your heart will stand unto eternity.
Only When Man Feels Himself To Be Lower Than A Blade Of Grass Can He See The Glory Of God
Renovate Your hidden presence in me for I know not what my soul needs; Slurry of ignorance is dragging me deep I am snarled in unconscious deeds.
As the spider patterns the web by its own secretion and withdraws it by its own discretion, the Supreme Lord creates and dissolutes His cosmic creation through His own free will and desire.
Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
The initiation of a desire is due to the fulfillment of some other desire. Be desireless. Even if the desire to be desireless exists, you are not absolutely desireless.
Devotion germinates from emotion and unconditional devotion leads to salvation.
Successive birth is guided by the train of thoughts at the time of death and nature of deeds performed in the previous birth.
The heart of the Lord is ever merciful not only for those who are intensely devoted but also for them who flout and are cruel; for He is equally concerned for all His children, however they may be.
The Lord accepts whatever, in every sense of the word, if offered with fullest of devotion and without any desire.
He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God
It is with the blessings of the Supreme Lord in the form of Guru the devotee realizes that nothing in or above this creation can liberate his soul by ceasing further bodily manifestations, but the blessings of his Guru.
Those who have completely surrendered themselves unto the lotus feet of their Guru are hardly affected by the satanic forces of the universe and the planetary designs of their fate.