My message is love, my religion is love. In a way it is very simple, it has no complexity about it no rituals, no dogmas, no hypothetical philosophy. It is a very simple and direct approach toward life. The small word love can contain it. My sannyasins have to be in a constant love affair […]
Everybody, except a few totally deaf people, thinks he is capable of hearing. Everybody, except those few who are blind, thinks he is capable of seeing. But this is not true. Jesus said again and again to his disciples, If you can hear, hear. If you can see, see.” Certainly he is not always talking […]
A man without meditation becomes mediocre. His consciousness gathers rust. His consciousness becomes covered with dust. He loses all brightness, all intelligence. Slowly, slowly, he completely forgets who he is. He becomes so stupid — it is the utmost stupidity to forget who you are. And that has happened to the whole humanity. Through meditation, […]
Meditation can flower only in deep relaxation: relaxation is the right soil for meditation to happen. Remember, meditation is not concentration. Concentration is a strain: it can’t be relaxed, it is tension. It cannot be restful. Concentration means that you are focusing your mind’s energies onto one point, excluding everything else. It is a great […]
There is nothing more valuable than meditation. The people who have not tasted meditation are the poorest in the world. They may have all the riches, but they are still beggars because they have not yet known the real treasure – the treasure that cannot be destroyed by death, the treasure that cannot be taken […]
Ordinarily, man is empty, hollow. That is his misery. He wants to be full; hence he goes on stuffing himself with food, with sex, with alcohol, with money, with things, with all kinds of gadgets that technology makes available. But still the inner emptiness remains as empty as ever. In fact, one starts feeling it […]
Meditation is a state of no-mind; it is neither at the center of the mind, nor at the circumference. It is simply not of the mind, it is watching the mind from the outside. That is exactly the meaning of the English word, ecstasy – to stand outside. To stand outside of the mind is […]
Meditation is a way to attain peace; it is not a cultivation of peace, but an awareness of your thoughts, awareness of what you are doing, thinking, feeling — a three-dimensional awareness. One dimension is action, the second dimension is thought, the third dimension is feeling. All these dimensions have to be watched silently, with […]
The moment you know your supreme self, you become an emperor. Before that, you remain a beggar. Self-knowledge makes you aware of your kingdom for the first time. The kingdom is not of the outside. All outside kingdoms are false, they are sandcastles, or houses made of playing cards: at any moment they can disappear. […]
We have the potential to be fully awakened but we may not actualize it. That is our responsibility. We have the seed and the soil and the climate and everything that is needed, but still you may not drop the seed into the soil. You may keep the seed, you may treasure it behind locked […]