Category: Spirituality
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Existence always showers
In our yearly trip to the Himalayas, some of the participants complain about the hardships and unhygienic conditions. I have told people time and again that just being in the Himalayas is a blessing that not many people get and that they just have to enjoy that and leave the rest as trivia. Somehow, people…
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Real silence is that which is flooded with only awareness and nothing else. It is not just keeping your mouth shut.
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The problem is not the barking but your resistance to it
When I was staying in Calcutta, taking classes on the Isha Vasya Upanishad, a man came to see me. He said, “Swamiji, I have a problem. I don’t sleep well at night because I live in an area where there are many street dogs. Every night they start barking, and keep barking till sunrise. I…
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How to be worry free?
Worry is nothing but the continuous, uncontrolled inner chatter happening in your mind. The mind is an excellent recording system. It stores your negative thought patterns, your complexes and your worries. Whatever you teach the mind, it learns and repeats faithfully. This is how you create a solid mental make-up of negativity. So be very…
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Real worship
Existence is pure love. Society is always against pure love. Deep inside, society is actually against Existence or God. All its worship is mere hypocrisy. It hides in the name of worship. The best way not to follow anything deeply is to start worshipping it! Society escapes in the name of worship. When you worship,…
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Swamiji, was it failure in love that caused you to become a sannyasi ?

It was success in love that caused me to become a sannyasi! Failure in love will create only a Devdas, not a sannyasi. Only when you can love the whole world you can become a sannyasi. A true sannyasi is one who is so loving and compassionate that it is said that where he walks, the…
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Respect is dead. Love is …
Respect is dead. Love is alive. Respect creates a distance, love knows no distance.
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Love
Nothing is misconstrued as love today. Today, love is more of a transaction. If someone says something nice to you, you love him; tomorrow if the same person falls short of it, you don’t love him that much or you probably hate him. Even your lifelong friend, with whom you chat everyday on the computer,…
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Bamati
Brahma sutra is a great book available to humanity. It is unabridged edition of world philosophy, from which all other philosophies originated, it is the book of books. It was written by Veda Vyasa, the greatest Indian scholar ever. An enlightened master gave this book to one of his disciples, Vachaspati Mishra, and asked him…
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A young girl was learning how to play the piano. She was struggling to cope with the master’s lessons. The man next to her was an expert pianist and was playing a song by himself. The little girl walked over and watched him play for sometime. She finally asked “Sir, do you by any chance have…
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Intuition
Suddenly you know for sure that something is the right thing and you feel that you have enough energy also to do it, but you don’t know the steps involved in doing it. You don’t know the steps that led you to the conclusion but you know for sure that your conclusion or decision is right. This…
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Every moment, by your very nature, you are renouncing your thoughts.
