Life is like a nightmare: if you are suffering in a nightmare, all that you need is to put your total energy into waking up. Nothing else is needed. If you are being chased by a lion, you need not kill the lion because there is no lion at all. If you are being crushed […]
Reaching toward that inner flame is really an arduous path with many pitfalls. Moving in darkness, one stumbles; moving in darkness, one gets hit; moving in darkness, one falls and has to rise again. You need constant encouragement, constant support, somebody to prevent you from running away and escaping. That’s the function of the master, […]
You are divine and you are formless. God is not something quantitative, God is only a quality. God is not something material. It is only a presence. It is not like a flower, it is more like a fragrance. One can feel it, but one cannot catch hold of it. One can enjoy it, one […]
God is oceanic, infinite, unbounded. We have fallen apart from God because we have become identified with boundaries, with the boundaries of the body and the boundaries of the mind. Those boundaries are keeping us away. Just get rid of the boundaries. I’m not saying to get rid of your body; the body is perfectly […]
Prepare for the day; the sunrise has knocked on the door. Come out of your sleep. Don’t go on hiding yourself under a blanket anymore, howsoever cozy it feels and howsoever much your mind says, “Just turn over again, just a little more, a few minutes.” Don’t listen to the mind because those few minutes […]
Everything being is unique. God never creates carbon copies, he always creates originals. He believes only in the original. Is truly a creator, he never repeats. But goes on living in imitation. We are trying to be somebody else, which is impossible. Whatsoever you do, you are going to fail. You can only be yourself: […]
Those who are knowledgeable will have to put their knowledge aside if they really want to become wise. It is not ignorance that hinders wisdom, it is knowledge; hence knowledge is real ignorance. The first thing you have to learn as a sannyas in is that all you know is not real knowing; it is […]
Meditation is just a way, a method, a technique, to discover your way back home. It is inside you. It has always been there and it will always be there. You can go on wandering everywhere; you will remain in darkness unless you come back to your own being, unless you turn in and see […]
Life is a journey, a pilgrimage. It is not static, it is dynamic. It is always moving toward the unknown. But because of our fear, we cling to the known and do not allow life to move; we do not give it enough freedom to go rushing toward the unknown, to go dancing toward the […]
Life is a journey, a pilgrimage. It is not static, it is dynamic. It is always moving toward the unknown. But because of our fear, we cling to the known and do not allow life to move; we do not give it enough freedom to go rushing toward the unknown, to go dancing toward the […]