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Those who choose to be happy, whatever be the circumstances, will try and be happy. This is not always possible because we are faced with so many challenges and sometimes we get caught up in the co...
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Those who choose to be happy, whatever be the circumstances, will try and be happy. This is not always possible because we are faced with so many challenges and sometimes we get caught up in the co...
A spiritual teacher sometimes provides opportunities and situations, either deliberately or as they happen. He does not encourage people to run away from situations but to pause and remain. It is ...
Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. Speak the truth; More than speaking the truth, think the truth. That does not mean that when you speak the truth you have to be blunt. Ther...
Sometimes what we think are woes, sorrow, pain or a loss may be a great gain from the spiritual point of view.
Intelligence has to realize when its function is over and allow something else to take over. That instrument of perception that takes over is known as intuition, Jnana Drishti. You will see Shiva ...
The spiritual journey starts when you have experienced life and decided that apart from day-to-day existence, there must be something more . It can’t be just this - in which we are born, get marrie...
Perhaps the only way to get the mind free from the trappings of the material world is to live in the midst of it, get guidance from the teacher, and come to terms with the world so that one may tra...
Dependence of the Guru alone could be an obstacle and one has to be very careful about. A genuine teacher never wants you to be dependent on him.
Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, bind us down to the earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching which says, that if you can act kn...
Be a bhakta more than anything else because through bhakti all jnana will dawn.
The root of sorrow is the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. And being body oriented, one gets all the sorrows. One experiences sorrows because anything that happens to the body and anythi...
Bhajans, kirtan , going to places where people worship and going on pilgrimages lead you to the stimulation of the emotional parts of your minds, for opening up centers that you can experience.