move as close as you can to the Divine by removing as much conditionings as possible to make the mind pure. When you are that close to it, then it’s like the Sun. It burns you off. Then, you are not there.

is gathered. Now this energy can be used for any constructive activity, service before self. 28 June 2022

doesn’t ask for anything because he follows the logic that God knows, there’s nothing to ask. 23 June 2022 The whole universe is supposed to be a sankalpa of the Supreme Being and we have been in some way given the capacity to make sankalpas. 24 June 2022 The mind indeed is a powerful tool because it has the capacity to visualize, to think by the essence, which is the Supreme Consciousness. It has the capacity to achieve what it wants. 25 June 2022 The capacity of the mind, to think, to be aware, to be conscious, comes from the source, which is the Supreme Reality itself. So, when the mind thinks continuously of something, generally it becomes a fact. 26 June 2022 The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali say, ‘Yogas chitta vritti nirodha.’ The process of Yoga is to stop the continuous distractions of the mind. Practically, it’s Yoga; theoretically, it’s Vedanta because Yoga is a way to experience what has been described in Vedanta.

Every soul is potentially divine. To make it manifest is the Science of Yoga. 21 June 2022 Is there some way by which the ordinary mind, caught up in this world with its pains and pleasures, can be free and touch the essence? The study of this is called the Brahmavidya, and the way to do this is called Yoga. Yoga is not merely standing on your head, it’s much more. True meaning of Yoga is the complete ending of mind’s distractions.

If you practice yogic ways of life and meditation, you can do most of the things that we do in the world with much more attention and perfection. Because the brain also becomes clear. 14 June 2022 In every human being, no matter who, no matter what age, is a walking, speaking, moving temple of God. And in the true essence of our being, is the true reality we call the atman, an amsha of the supreme being. 15 June 2022 You work so hard to make money, to buy a car, to buy a house. Can we put at least a small part of that energy into our spiritual life? That’s enough. It is the priorities that are to be fixed. If you have the right priority, it’s not difficult. 16 June 2022 Some people, on seeing life, begin to wonder, is this all life is or is there something more. When this thought process begins, then you are on your way. 17 June 2022 One of the simple things which will also calm your mind in the midst of circumstances and make you more efficient and cool in this world, is to fix at least 10 minutes of your day, for some kind of simple meditation. 18 June 2022 Our moods and our mind states are dependent on the rhythm of our breath, our breathing. If you’re agitated, the breathing is agitated. If you’re calm, the breath is calm. 19 June 2022 We are never aware of our breath, it’s such an important thing. When it stops, we are gone. When it enters, the child becomes alive in the womb. So, watch your breath, it’s so sacred.

If someone who we consider a spiritual teacher has touched It, then the presence of that teacher can make the seed of devotion grow inside us. Usually, iron has rust on it. The cleaner the iron, the more magnetic it becomes. 7 June 2022 The whole of sadhana, the whole of our devotion, bhakti or bhava is the clearing of the rust on the piece of iron. When the rust goes, the iron behaves like a magnet. 8 June 2022 If that Supreme Reality can be turned into devotion for the teacher who expresses that divinity, then the seed is sown, it sprouts, a beautiful tree comes up, it flowers. Then you realize that who you searched for outside has always been inside. 9 June 2022 Devotion is a deep ‘bhava’ feeling that wells up in the heart when one finds one’s limitations and is looking for divinity which is without definitions! 10 June 2022 If you are deeply inclined spiritually and you want only spiritual development, not any fancy trimmings. You want to find your true self and figure out why we are human beings, what is our true identity, you don’t have to run around anywhere. If you are a good student and are really sincere and that’s your top priority, a teacher will come to you. 11 June 2022 If you seriously look into spiritual exploration, what clothes you wear and what language you speak is not important. 12 June 2022 When you want to start studying spiritual things, begin when you have enough fuel in you. Not when everything is exhausted. You can get into understanding spiritual matters, even as early as your teens.

What Vedanta tries to do, in its essence, is attempt to use the intellect and find out the limitations of the intellect. 2 June 2022 In the Mundaka Upanishad, the rishis said such learned pandits who have only acquired knowledge from learning and not from within, when they begin to guide, it’s like andhenaiva n?yam?n? yath?ndh?? – the blind leading the blind. 3 June 2022 Music is an intrinsic part of bhava and bhakti, and that music goes beyond all words. You don’t need to know any words. 4 June 2022 An itinerant wanderer singing with an ektara is about bhakti in the heart. That ektara for yogis in the Nath Sampradaya, is the Sushumna. It’s the devotion and the ‘bhav’. 5 June 2022 You can study the Upanishads, practice yoga, sit and breathe up and down, but if the heart has not melted, nothing has happened.

The ultimate ananda which is the aim of the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ananda of enjoying the kosha of bliss is also sort of sensory but subtle. As we proceed, we come to a quietude which is much greater than any of these. 31 May 2022 If we start unveiling our true self, layer by layer, one becomes freer in the sense of detachment to the dualities of life – be it pain or pleasure, success or failure, joy or sorrow.