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Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?
In the ecstasy of devotion one may sing and one may dance, but it is mouna (silence) that bestows liberation.
Open your eyes! Know the light that shines through your eyes; shine in the Heart as the greatest of all lights, which transcends all thought.
-Padamalai, pp. 195; 63
Open your eyes! Know the light that shines through your eyes; shine in the Heart as the greatest of all lights, which transcends all thought.
-Padamalai, pp. 195; 63
A thousand times I have ascertained and found it to be true.
The affairs of this world are really nothing into nothing.
Still though, we should dance.
The affairs of this world are really nothing into nothing.
Still though, we should dance.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
You are an Artist of the Spirit. Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
When we stop distracting ourselves, and courageously dive into the heart of any feeling, positive or negative, right or wrong, we rediscover the vast ocean of who we are. Every feeling is made of unspeakable intelligence.
You don’t have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you’re driving your car, while you’re at work, while you’re playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are, and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.
The kingdom is within you and outside you. When you know yourselves, you will be known, and you will know you are children of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, you live in poverty and you yourselves are the poverty.
At every moment whatever comes to you unasked, comes from God and will surely help you, if you make the fullest use of it. It is only what you strive for, out of your own imagination and desire, that gives you trouble.
Assiduously watch your ever-changing life, probe deeply into the motives beyond your actions and you will soon prick the bubble in which you are enclosed. A chick needs the shell to grow, but a day comes when the shell must be broken. If it is not, there will be suffering and death.
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
No tension, no intention, simply attention.
No struggle between the in and the out, just stay relaxed and at ease.
No struggle between the in and the out, just stay relaxed and at ease.
Falling in love, you remain a child, rising in love you become mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love- now you are love.
The greatest of all delusions is the conviction that knowledge is not a delusion.
Stay without ambition, without the least desire, exposed, vulnerable, unprotected, uncertain and alone, completely open to and welcoming life as it happens, without the selfish conviction that all must yield you pleasure or profit, material or so-called spiritual.
You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Real devotion is a love affair with truth. It’s being more interested in truth than anything else. It’s when truth is our highest priority… in that moment we are in devotion to truth, to the One.
What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? Imagine that you were able to completely and absolutely give up control on every level. If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
When women carrying jars of water on their heads, stop to talk, they are very careful, keeping their mind on the water jars. Similarly, when a sage engages in activity, his mind remains fixed in the Self and his activity does not distract him.
Thous carriest within thee a Sublime Friend whom thou knowest not. For God dwells in the inner part of every man, but few know how to find Him. The man who sacrifices his desires and his works to the Beings from whom the principles of everything stem, and by whom the Universe was formed through sacrifice, attains perfection. For one who find his happiness and joy within himself, and also his wisdom within himself, is one with God. And, mark well, the Soul which has found God is freed from rebirth and death, from old age and pain, and drinks the water of Immortality.
Said the monk: “All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?” Said the master: “Where does your question come from?”
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Visitor: Is sorrow a thought?
Bhagavan: All thoughts are sorrowful.
Bhagavan: All thoughts are sorrowful.
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