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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 spi...
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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 spi...
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.
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 - '...
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.
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.
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.'
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'.
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...
Swami Vivekananda said, 'Don't go and preach religion to a hungry man. Feed him first. His religion, for the time being, is food.'
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.
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.
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.