Author Archives: shivani

Mind is always mediocre. Mind is never bright, never brilliant. By its very nature it cannot be. Mind is a dust collector. Mind means the past. It is always dead; it is nothing but an accumulation of memories. And how can dust be brilliant? How can the past be intelligent? It is dead. Only the […]

The noisy person cannot be blissful — one needs the music of silence. And our minds are too noisy. We are carrying almost a whole marketplace in our heads, all kinds of rubbish. We are not one, we are a crowd inside, many people, and they are constantly quarreling, fighting with each other, trying to […]

We are continuously thinking, twenty-four hours a day, day in, day out. It is a very insane state. The mind goes on fabricating all kinds of desires and dreams and we remain clouded by these desires and thoughts. There is no other barrier between us and truth except these continuous thoughts. This thinking has to […]

The mystic approach toward life is the search for ultimate bliss. It has no concern with God as such, directly. Of course God comes into the experience of the mystic, but his search is for bliss. When he finds bliss, he finds God too, as the other side of the coin. Hence mysticism has no […]