It is good that in the West, the TV is now being called the idiot box; in fact only idiots sit before it. The box is not as much of an idiot as the people who sit before it. And they go on sitting… Now the average American sits before the idiot box five to […]
The love I am talking about has nothing to do with our so-called relationships. Our relationships are arbitrary. The love that is eternal relates, but it never creates relationships. It relates: it relates to trees, to the sun, to the moon, to the wind, to people, to animals, to the earth, to rocks. It is […]
We know love that is momentary. One day it is there, another day it is gone. Its very momentariness shows that it is not real love; it is something else masquerading as love – maybe lust, a biological urge; a psychological need, the fear of being alone, an effort to remain occupied with the other, […]
Science can never be a shelter for man. It can give you more comfort, convenience, a better standard of living, but it cannot give you a better quality of life — that is impossible. That can happen only through religion because religion helps you to feel at home, it gives you something certain to live […]
Joy is Forever Joy is not happiness, because happiness is always mixed with unhappiness. It is never found in purity, it is always polluted. It always has a long shadow of misery behind it. Just as day is followed by night, happiness is followed by unhappiness. Then what is joy? Joy is a state of […]
Mind lives in doubt. Doubt is the climate which is essential for the mind to exist. In the same way, trust is the climate in which the heart grows. They are polar opposites. If one wants to live in the mind, one has to go on increasing one’s doubt. Then the whole effort should be […]
My effort here is to bring a synthesis between the scientific approach and religious values. On the surface they look very contrary. But only on the surface. Deep down there is something which makes them complementary, not contradictory. Their fields are different. Science works in the objective world and religion in the subjective, but the […]
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 […]