One has to constantly be aware of the unreal. As we start realising what is unreal, it begins to dawn on us – could there be something which is real, what we see and what we experience? That is spiritual sense!

For spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular section. It is an individual, personal affair. There is no need to be affiliated to anything – but be free from it. 5 May 2022 Sometimes it is difficult for us to distinguish what is real and what is unreal. For that, we need maximum alertness, which develops as part of our sadhana.

As you have to put energy in your own life in different ways, in the same way, you have to put in your own effort in the spiritual field too, to walk on the path. 2 May 2022 We have to watch ourselves carefully. Although we may think that we have advanced, we have to look within and find out where we are going and for that, we require a spiritual guide. 3 May 2022 In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, ‘Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God’. He did not say that they will not see God because they belong to this or that community. He said – ‘Blessed are the pure in heart.’ – doesn’t matter who – ‘for they shall see God.’

When Kabir Das wove, everyone thought he was weaving cloth. Actually, he was weaving from the warp of love and weft of devotion. 24 April 2022 What we see is not real and therefore we need to touch something which is Real, and move from the unreal to the Real – Asatoma sadgamaya. 25 April 2022 When we are caught up with various things which we consider or think or imagine to be spiritual, then we usually miss the main path to the Real 26 April 2022 Don’t run away from the battle. You cannot run away anywhere. Stay and fight it out but do it with love, affection and understanding. 27 April 2022 Swami Vivekananda said, ‘Don’t go and preach religion to a hungry man. Feed him first. His religion, for the time being, is food.’ 28 April 2022 The spiritual path nearly always, except in cases of certain gifted individuals born with spiritual faculties, requires a guide. Because we are largely walking on unexplored territory, it’s not a commonly walked path. 29 April 2022 The Buddhists say, ‘one who has walked across or gone beyond’ is called a ‘Bodhi’, one who has the ‘Bodh’. ‘Gate gate para gate para sam gate bodhi svaha ‘ – May I also be like that ‘Bodhi’. 30 April 2022 Babaji, my Master used to say, ‘it’s ok if other people are thinking various things about you, If you start believing what they are thinking about you, you are lost! You are sunk.’

Nirantara deergha kaala abhyaasa – means continuous practice for a long long time. This is the only way to clear up your mind; make it positive and free it from negativity. 29 March 2022 A small good deed, a kind deed done to another human being or another living creature, can wipe out the dirt of negativity gathered in your soul and make it free and clear as a mirror to reflect Divinity. 30 March 2022 When a teacher gives you instructions, follow those instructions completely, to the point. Don’t say that ‘this I’ll follow, this I won’t’ Therefore to take a Guru – spiritual teacher, as a guide, is a choice that we have to make very carefully. You cannot suddenly jump into it. 31 March 2022 One of the great obstacles to attaining Truth is sloth. Swami Vivekananda has said that one cannot meditate for 24 hours a day, therefore Work. It prevents you from sleep and sloth. Working for others purifies your heart. 1 April 2022 Imitating a practitioner of kindness is always better than imitating a fellow who is cruel. Practice kindness to all living beings, as much as possible. 2 April 2022 Real happiness and fulfillment is to be found inside and not outside. It is independent of anything which you acquire or not acquire in the outside world. 3 April 2022 Words can only convey things up to a certain point; words are prose, not poetry. Poetry is that which is in between the words. 4 April 2022 Devotion, bhakti, is in the heart. 5 April 2022 A heart with no love, affection, devotion, and bhav is equal to a smashan: cremation ground. There is nothing there; it’s all burnt, finished. There is no life out there. 6 April 2022 If you want to be free of ignorance, you need knowledge. But once you are free, you have to throw both away. Don’t stick the thorn of knowledge into your foot and think ‘I know everything’. 7 April 2022 Our true self, true identity – or what the Upanishads call the ‘Atman’ is ‘That Consciousness’ because of which we are conscious- and to reach that identity of ours by quieting the mind, is the main function of meditation. 8 April 2022 We keep working all our lives just trying to grasp ‘happiness’ which always eludes us. Permanent happiness is only an idea because we know only this ‘little happiness’ that comes to us in intervals. 9 April 2022 When all the ‘mala’ or ‘delusions’ of the mind are cleared, then what remains is the true essence which is complete happiness, the Truth, known as the Brahman. 10 April 2022 The theory of Vedanta is that all bliss and happiness lies within every living being, and when the senses come in contact with a particular object, a little bit of it is released. 11 April 2022 If I begin the enquiry by saying ‘I know’ then there is no enquiry. So one should sit with that humility which comes out of the understanding that learning has no end. One can learn any time then. 12 April 2022 In the ultimate sense, when happiness is found inside, one realizes that there is no difference between the inside and the outside! But first one has to start from the inside. 13 April 2022 Holistic living is to live with the understanding that the entire universe is pervaded by that blissful Supreme Being and we are a part of that! 14 April 2022 As long as you have a physical body, there is nobody who knows everything. So we need to learn. At any time, one should be prepared to learn. 15 April 2022 Ultimately, what we are seeking from understanding the Upanishads is not something that can be known through the conceptual mind at all! When all the defenses are completely gone, then what remains is That! 16 April 2022 When one is full of worldly knowledge and begins to feel that one knows everything, when one worships knowledge just for the sake of it and not for finding the Truth, then one enters into greater darkness; because the ego becomes quite swelled up and there is no possibility of a breakthrough. 17 April 2022 Devotion is spontaneous. We can teach all the ways leading to it but what it is, can’t be taught. Suddenly, the seed sprouts; we don’t know how. It sprouts in different ways for different people. 18 April 2022 This happiness which you seek is not something outside. It is right inside – you just have to turn, reverse your search and look within. 19 April 2022 The mind cannot be in a vacuum. So if you don’t want the mind to be occupied by the outside world with its distractions and disturbances, engage it in something within. The easiest and the best way to engage it is with your breath, sit down quietly and watch it. 20 April 2022 The Upanishad is the understanding of the Truth and meditation or sadhana is the practice by which you experience what you have understood. These are linked together. 21 April 2022 Love is an all inclusive panacea for all ills. It means utter selflessness, not love for your own sake but love for the sake of love. This is very rare. 22 April 2022 There is nothing wrong in maintaining a comfortable existence on this earth. But while you are here, try to understand that this is temporal, it is here today and gone tomorrow.

When you go on a pilgrimage, reflect on the matter that our everyday life too is a pilgrimage. 9 March 2022 In the pilgrimage of life, stick to the truth as far as possible. 10 March 2022 In your relationship with the teacher, please be frank, truthful and clear. Don’t try to bluff, because it does not work. 11 March 2022 Spiritual development is not a mass affair. It is an individual one. You cannot develop spiritually in groups. If there are groups, we are differentiating ourselves from the whole. 12 March 2022 In the ancient texts, anything that is described universally in the macrocosm is also linked to something in the microcosm, which is the human system. 13 March 2022 Self realisation means, first to understand the connection between the body and the brain, not just saying ‘I am the Supreme Brahman’. You are not! 14 March 2022 According to our Parampara (tradition) of Kriya, this whole system of the world is linked within the body. All pilgrimages are performed within, Kailash being on the top. 15 March 2022 When you say ’empty yourself,’ it also means, ’empty yourself of your prejudices.’ 16 March 2022 Normally, what we call ‘bliss’ is based on our sensory experiences. If we multiply the happiness we derive from sensory experiences two hundredfold, then that bliss is what we are looking for. 17 March 2022 True surrender, from my understanding, is realizing that no amount of mental acrobatics is going to bring about that stillness and peace that I am looking for. When I drop all of it and sit quietly, is surrender. 18 March 2022 The most important thing to remember is kindness and compassion towards others. 19 March 2022 When we go down to our essence, to the purest form of our being, there is a spark of the Divine and it is around that divinity that the whole world revolves. 20 March 2022 Sadhana is a way of removing impurities that have gathered around the Self so that the Self shines in its pristine purity and it realises it’s connection to the Supreme being. 21 March 2022 The more purified, the kinder your heart is, the more you are moving towards the Supreme Reality. 22 March 2022 When we finally realize the futility of trying to find It through the brain, then, our heart opens up. 23 March 2022 Whatever be the activity you are involved in, don’t forget to remember at least for a few minutes in the evening that there is a Supreme Reality behind the whole universe. 24 March 2022 You cannot maintain this silence. It comes and goes on its own. The moment you try to maintain it, there is conflict. When it comes, enjoy it! Live with it. When it goes, leave it. Don’t try to hold it. 25 March 2022 The ultimate aim of spiritual fulfilment is to find the Truth, Satya. 26 March 2022 The most important thing for a human being is not to cause pain to other human beings. 27 March 2022 If you resolve to be happy, then have happiness as your aim. If that is your aim, get ready to sacrifice everything else for happiness.

‘Sarva bhuta hite rataha’ : One who has the welfare of all beings in his heart. That is the beginning of sadhana because if you have the welfare of all beings in your heart and the understanding that everyone is a spark of the Divine then, automatically there are no enemies and meditation is direct and straight.

Imagination, like Einstein said, is sometimes more important than knowledge.

We can go anywhere but we carry our mind with us. We can’t escape from the mind. So, face it, examine it, look at it and handle it. It’s only then you get over it.

Shraddha has several meanings but one of the meanings is complete attention, total one- pointed attention.

“Chidananda roopam, shivoham shivoham”, it means that Supreme reality, whose spark is inside me, is Supreme auspiciousness. I am of the real form of Shiva, an auspicious all-pervading reality. Shiva is the symbol of all that we can think of on our spiritual journey to perfection. 2 March 2022 After midnight, a new day begins. Shiva finishes his dance of destruction, the Tandava Nritya. This dance of destruction is actually a very auspicious thing. It is not as terrible as it appears. It is actually a renewal, where the old is destroyed and the new takes place. 3 March 2022 The center and core of our consciousness is not exclusive to anybody. Everyone possesses it; it is only that they do not know it yet. The process of finding it is called S?dhan?.

Happiness is found within, and not without, meaning that the search for it has to turn inwards. So S?dhan? is all about the search within; it is a journey from extroversion to introversion. 26 Feb 2022 Shiva is beyond desire, beyond even the impulse of desire. When Shiva opens his third eye, his eyes are closed to the outside world and open to the inner world of love, compassion, goodness and self-sacrifice, breaking up the ego. 27 Feb 2022 When we move towards what is, and not what is to be or what was before, that is called Shivam. Auspiciousness. The centre of everything, from where the whole dance of creation begins and ends. 28 Feb 2022 The auspiciousness that we seek, the Shivam that we seek, is to be sought inward. And the destruction that takes place is our connection to the outward. This is the dance of Shiva.