We say ‘God created man in his own image’. Our idea is that, ‘Man creates God in his own image.’
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Swami Vivekananda said, ‘All the Gods that you see are only pictures created by people who don’t know, who have not seen them. But there are living Gods, human beings we can see face-to-face.’
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Outwardly we can bring about a response. We can help the poor to become better. All that is social work.
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Greed transfers itself even into the so-called spiritual system. I call this ‘spiritual materialism’. I don’t think real teachers are for sale
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Through the practice of mysticism, whether it is Sufi, Yogic or Buddhist one, can awaken the centers that become active when you are in deep meditation.
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The human brain somehow seems to be wired for spiritual experience. Certain centers in the brain become active when you are in deep meditation. These are the centers thatyoga and Vedanta have talked about.
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Experiencing life through the sorrows and the pleasures, the pains and the happiness that the body and the mind go through.
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When the mind becomes quiet and silent, the aim of all forms of meditation – one comes face-to-face with one’s consciousness.
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The Upanishad says that Supreme Truth or Reality is not a thing in the past – it is right Here and Now! Because it is right here, all our acquired knowledge cannot be applied to that Supreme Being.
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What I am saying is that there is nothing to fear. To live with this understanding is what is called holistic living. It is to live with the understanding that the entire universe is pervaded by that blissful Supreme Being and we are a part of that!
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The world is such a funny place – you try to chase something and it always seems to run away from you…you leave it and it tries to follow you!
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‘That which does not move’ – is that which is absolutely still like the eye of the cyclone, total motion but in the middle there is no movement – absolute calmness.
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Plato has said it brilliantly. He says ‘there are two eternal things in this universe– one ‘Is’ and is never becoming and the other ‘is not’ but is ever becoming’. That ‘becoming’ is what is known as ‘jagat‘. That movement – it is physical as well as psychological
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You must have heard the famous statement that many people think is a modern English saying – ‘blind leading the blind’.
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As long as you have a physical body, nobody can know everything. We need to learn. At any time, one should be prepared to learn.
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