Steps to Realization First among the qualifications required of the aspirant for Jnâna, or wisdom, come Shama and Dama, which may be taken together. They mean the keeping of the organs in their own centres without allowing them to stray out. …. Thus the mind acts through two agencies — one external, and the other […]
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Work for Work’s Sake – Vivekananda
Work for Work’s Sake Man works with various motives. There cannot be work without motive. Some people want to get fame, and they work for fame. Others want money, and they work for money. Others want to have power, and they work for power. Others want to get to heaven, and they work for the […]
The Search for Happiness – Chinmayananda
The Search for Happiness When a bow is bent and a string is tied, the tension of the string will depend upon the curvature of the bow. But the bow always tries to return to its straight shape, trying to go back to its original nature. In the same way, all living beings—plant, animal, […]
Where is your God? – Chinmayananda
Where is your God? – Chinmayananda Question: Where is your God? I do not see, hear or know Him, and in these days of misery and sorrow, if at all He exists, I find Him to be absolutely blind and deaf. I refuse to believe in God. Answer: You are perfectly right in your […]
Get Hold of Yourself – Vivekananada
Get Hold of Yourself Work and its secret We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, “Oh, the world is a devil’s world.” We curse others and […]
What are Reality and its Expressions – N
What are Reality and its Expressions – Nisargadatta Questioner: What is the relation between reality and its expressions? Maharaj: No relation. In reality all is real and identical. As we put it, saguna and nirguna are one in Parabrahman. There is only the Supreme. In movement, it is saguna. Motionless, it is nirguna. But […]
Link between Happiness and Consciousness...
Link between Happiness and Consciousness – Nisargadatta Questioner: If happiness is not conscious and consciousness — not happy, what is the link between the two? Maharaj: Consciousness being a product of conditions and circums-tances, depends on them and changes along with them. What is independent, uncreated, timeless and changeless, and yet ever new and fresh, […]
Experience of happiness and adventure –
Experience of happiness and adventure – Nisargadatta Maharaj: The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure. Questioner: What remains to discover? M: The universe without and the immensity […]
You are Not the Mind – Nisargadatta
You are Not the Mind – Nisargadatta Maharaj.: My world is free from opposites, of mutually destructive discrepancies; harmony pervades; its peace is rock-like; this peace and silence are my body. Questioner: What you say reminds me of the Dharmakaya of the Buddha. M: May be. We need not run off with terminology. Just […]
How can one be Happy among Suffering – N
How can one be Happy among Suffering – Nisargadatta Questioner: How can one remain happy among so much suffering? Maharaj: One cannot help it — the inner happiness is overwhelmingly real. Like the sun in the sky, its expressions may be clouded, but it is never absent. Q: When we are in trouble, we are […]
You are Beyond Space and Time – Nisargad
You are Beyond Space and Time – Nisargadatta Questioner: You keep on saying that I was never born and will never die. If so, how is it that I see the world as one which has been born and will surely die? Maharaj: You believe so because you have never questioned your belief that you are […]
Mind is restlessness itself – Nisargadat
Mind is Restlessness itself – Nisargadatta Questioner: The root of all desires and fears is the same — the longing for happiness. Maharaj: The happiness you can think of and long for, is mere physical or mental satisfaction. Such sensory or mental pleasure is not the real, the absolute happiness. Q: Even sensory and mental […]
