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Vedanta also says that the real substance of the universe is the same everywhere—within you and outside you. And that substance cannot even be found by the mind. Then, if it cannot be found by the ...
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Vedanta also says that the real substance of the universe is the same everywhere—within you and outside you. And that substance cannot even be found by the mind. Then, if it cannot be found by the ...
Vedanta says: “Yes, the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe or a cone or a rectangle or what you think it is because whatever you think, it is always the result of your re...
We have not changed. You see, the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. This is what intellectual life has taken us to. We have found medicines for diseases; but we haven’t found med...
For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular sect. It is an individual and personal effort. There is no need to be affiliated to anything but to be free from it all. Nobody becomes...
We are like the ocean and all our thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it. This is our primordial state. This is the gap between thoughts.
Since ‘It’ is infinite, whatever you seek cannot be confined to anything finite; and therefore, you cannot worship it exclusively from one point alone since it is multidimensional and therefore, ca...
In sleep, you are not even aware of your own existence. If you are not aware of your own existence, then where is your problem? The world may turn upside down but you don’t care. That’s why everybo...
Don’t presume that the spiritual teacher should be like this or that— that ‘If he’s not like this, then he is not a spiritual teacher’. This is not true because there may be many reasons why a spir...
The movement of life, the ever-expanding quality of life is Brahman. The Supreme Reality, which, if you break your illusions and look at freely, is part of you just as much as you are part of it. I...
All of us are deities. There is not one who is not, whether we realize it or not. This is why when you have touched the inner realm, even a little bit, you can never despise or consider anybody lower.
The ultimate ‘ananda’ which is pursued by the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ‘ananda’ of enjoying the body, which is full of bliss, that is also a sort of sensory but little subtle. ...
Surrender to the understanding that here is something that cannot be sought and found by the limited mind, which is built up of limited inputs, coming through the limited senses. When this is fully...