FREEWILL AND DESTINY ARE EVER EXISTENT. Destiny is the result of past action; it concerns the body. Let the body act as may suit it. Why are you concerned about it? Why do you pay attention to it? Freewill and destiny last as long as the body lasts. But jnana transcends both. The Self is [...]
THE STATE WE CALL REALIZATION IS SIMPLY being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realized, he is That which alone is, and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state. He can only be That. Of course we loosely talk of Self-realization for want of a better term. That [...]
I HAVE NOT SAID THAT A GURU IS NOT NECESSARY. But a Guru need not always be in human form. First a person thinks that he is inferior and that there is a superior, all- knowing, all powerful God who controls his own and the world’s destiny and worships him or does bhakti. When he [...]
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DREAM and the waking state except that the dream is short and the waking long. Both are the result of the mind. Our real state is called turiya , which is beyond the waking, dream and sleep states. The Self alone exists and remains as It is. The three [...]
FOR ALL THOUGHTS THE SOURCE IS THE `I-thought’. The mind will merge only by Self-enquiry `Who am I?’ The thought `Who am I?’ will destroy all other thoughts and finally kill itself also. If other thoughts arise, without trying to complete them, one must enquire to whom did this thought arise. What does it matter [...]
MIND IS A WONDERFUL FORCE INHERENT IN the Self.
That which rises in this body as `I’ is the mind. When the subtle mind emerges through the brain and the senses, the gross names and forms are cognized. When it remains in the Heart, names and forms disappear…. If the mind remains in the Heart, the [...]
ALL BEINGS DESIRE HAPPINESS ALWAYS, happiness without a tinge of sorrow. At the same time everybody loves himself best. The cause for love is only happiness. So, that happiness must lie within oneself. Further,that happiness is daily experienced by everyone in sleep when there is no mind. To attain that natural happiness one must know [...]