Success

Success is when the whole gets enlightened.  When you become one with the whole, that’s the real success.  To be one with the whole is the real success.  And when that success is achieved, then you really enjoy that growth – that growth of your awareness which makes you one …

Divine Joy

Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us.  It’s a very subtle happening.  And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy. 1988 – Jan. 3, Ganapatipule, India

The Spirit

Now you are changed people.  Your personality is different. It’s shining through your spirit.  In that spirit, you have to see everything.  All your conditionings will drop out as soon as you start identifying your Self fully, fully with the spirit.  Fully – again I say because we do not.  …

Peace

The human mind is always bombarded with thoughts.  It builds the ego and it reacts with it.  Those who are conditioned are frightened people.  These thoughts come from the past or from the future, but reality is in the present where we achieve peace.  The mind creates all the problems …

Pure Desire

You should have only one intense desire within yourself: “Have I become the spirit ?  Have I achieved my ultimate ?  Have I risen above the worldy desires ?” 1982 – December 19, Lonavala, India

Religion

There cannot be a new religion.  Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance.  It’s like a ladder on which we climb, leaving one by one, step by step – but not leaving the ladder.  All others are required. 1980 – May 5, London, UK

Introspection

So, the first thing we should introspect – are we concerned about ourselves ?  All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done.  If the attention is on that, that all the time you …

Detached

To be detached in no way means you do not feel the other person.  You do feel him.  You feel the agony of that person, the trouble of that person, of the whole society sometimes and of the whole country, but your feeling is so detached that the All-pervading Power …

Self Satisfied

So spirituality itself should be self satisfying.  If you are spiritually endowed, then you are self satisfied.  And this self satisfaction within you will lead you to that ocean of joy about which I’ve been telling you and all the scriptures have described. July 28, 1996, Cabella Italy