A selection of short extracts from Gururaj's UK Satsangs

subject index based

Acceptance

 

There is no Scripture in the world that does not teach of acceptance.  There is no scripture that does not teach of hope.  There is no Scripture that would say, ‘You are hopeless, plod on, my son’. All scriptures say, ‘Be hopeful’. And it is all there for you. It is the determination we develop that helps us to accept. Every virtue or every vice has a group of associates.  When we have determination, we develop acceptance.  When we develop acceptance, we develop perseverance. UK 77-4

 

We need to accept the circumstances we are in because it is only by acceptance that we can progress further.  Otherwise we remain stagnant and even, perhaps, retrogress. UK 77-17

 

It is by the acceptance of oneself that one can look deeper within oneself. It is by acceptance of oneself that one can truly analyse oneself. It is by the acceptance of oneself that one can truly feel oneself.  Most of us feel other people instead of feeling ourselves. UK 77-17

 

Once we accept ourselves really and truly then whatever anyone says would not touch us, would not create an impression on the lower mind. UK 77-17

 

 

 

Affirmations

 

The purpose of affirmations is to use the conscious mind as a reverse process. To use the conscious mind and confirm to oneself positive affirmations has a lasting effect, creating a deep impression upon the subconscious.  And by creating a deep impression upon the subconscious, of something positive, you will automatically eradicate that which is negative. UK 78-11

 

If one affirms to oneself a positive thought, it could have great power in affecting the conscious mind and through the conscious mind subdue the turbulence of the sub-conscious. UK77-4

 

All your energies must be focussed in that affirmation, meaning it must be focussed.  The affirmation must have the force and the power of a concerted mind.  Physical energies can be brought through the channel of the concerted mind. UK78-48

 

 

Angels

 

The acceptance of the idea of angels and guardian angels is necessarily a supposition . UK76-6B

 

Are there nature-spirits and are there guardian angels?  If there are nature spirits, what are they?  And if there are guardian angels, what are they?  How are nature spirits made?  How are nature spirits created?  And guardian angels; where do they come from?  (Ask yourself), “Are they separate entities or are they just our souls projecting ourselves into an external form?” UK78-11

 

A guardian angel is not someone sitting up there and following you around.  The story of Princess Cinderella is a nice story but it is still a story, a fable.  The guardian angel that helps us is the higher self within us.  The subtle body with all its impressions throughout all these lifetimes has not only bad impressions, it also contains good impressions.  And the good impressions are forever in conflict with the bad impressions. UK78-11

 

The abode of that guardian angel is within the framework of your mind. UK78-66

 

 

Attachment

 

When one is dependent upon another, all dependencies stem from the ego.  And behind those dependencies is attachment.  And because there is that attachment, it produces a kind of karma which rebounds on you again.  So the process is to proceed from attachment to non-attachment, yet living within the realms of attachment. UK79-5

 

Non-attachment comes when you find unity in diversity.  And yet you are conscious of all the diversity around you.  And in spite of all the diversity which the conscious mind sees, there is that inner self within you that shines in all its glory and encompasses the entire universe in oneness.  And then you would say 'Tat tvam asi' - it's a Sanskrit term which means, 'Thou art That'.  And then you still progress from that to say 'Brahmas Me' - 'I am Brahma', I am the entire universe.  Nothing separates me from anything else and that is the state of Christhood.  That is the state the man Jesus reached when he could say, 'I and my Father are one'.  Because the Father is omnipresent and the man Jesus reached the stage where he could become one with omnipresence.  UK78-38

 

 

Awareness

 

There is a way the conscious mind can extend itself.  It will extend itself in developing greater faculties, of which it was not aware previously.  And yet all this will be done on the relative plane of existence.

The whole purpose of developing awareness or a vaster awareness, is appreciating and knowing – and we are all capable of this - the entirety of all creation, of all manifestation.

So when these subtler layers are awakened then they function in awareness and consciousness.  The deeper we go in the layers of the mind, the purer the consciousness becomes. Pure (here) does not mean good or bad thoughts.  It is something beyond that.  It is a sense that one develops of knowingness and that knowingness forms the greater part of awareness. 

UK80-22

 

 

Our practices are to find a greater awareness of the mind and a greater expansion of the heart.  UK76-2a

 

 

Creating this beautiful harmony within oneself through meditation:  When the mental awareness expands, simultaneously the heart to expands and with the combination of the mind and heart with a beautiful expansion, a beautiful wholeness (comes about). And gradually, as we achieve that wholeness, our attitude towards life changes where we can start loving. Then we will know the meaning of the commandment ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’. UK76-1

 

 

Life had to be lived in order to gain that insight, that vast expanded awareness. Thereby we even go beyond relative awareness and become absolute. UK76-6A

 

We expand our awareness and in the expansion of awareness, we have a greater perspective.  Our perspective, our vision, our conception, our perception widens and in the widening of the perception, we develop the ability to be able to decide and evaluate with our intellect so that freewill could lead us to that which is evolutionary and not which is retrogressive. 76-3

 

 

 

Be yourself / Know yourself

 

Knowing yourself does not mean, "I've got ten fingers on my hands and ten toes and two ears and two eyes."  That's not knowing oneself.  Knowing oneself means knowing the essence of oneself.  80-20

 

You can only know thyself, thy real self, when you let go of your small self. UK 78-30

 

One must also go beyond the limits of acquired knowledge and find the inner wisdom, find the inner energy, and with that inner wisdom thereby find a wholeness. 77-24

 

Knowingness is not necessarily a region of the mind. The mind is capable of analysis and the mind is capable of acquired knowledge and that is all the mind can do. It acquires knowledge by listening, hearing, reading; going through theories and sometimes filling the brain with useless knowledge. The mind analyses all the acquired knowledge. But in that analysis the mind will reach the point where it realises, "what I have acquired is meaningless and value-less because that acquisition of knowledge has not made me any wiser or any happier."      77-29

 

It is so simple to be happy but so difficult to be simple. 78-64

 

Self realisation is a complete integration of mind, body and spirit and that integration cannot be artificially induced by using drugs. 76-3

 

 

Conscious effort

 

20 minutes each day (meditation) and your whole lifestyle changes? It could never be changed if in our waking lives we don’t exert certain conscious effort.  That is why some people get deluded in to a false euphoria UK 76-1

 

With our meditational practices we preserve the tranquillity but it takes effort to let the sattvic, the good sides, of ourselves dominate. UK 76-6A

 

Regular meditation gives us the strength to face ourselves so that in daily waking life we do make some conscious effort to better our lives. UK 76-11

 

Nothing in this universe is ever, ever destroyed. It only changes form.  But by conscious effort, conscious living and consciously wanting to live a better life we change the form of what is already there UK 77-11

 

Consciously or unconsciously, we want to refine our grosser selves and become finer and finer and finer.  When we apply conscious effort to it, then the progress is faster.  And with proper understanding, the progress one makes becomes smoother. UK 78-49

 

 

Death

 

There is no great big cosmic light coming down there welcoming you ‘Come home, my son’.  No.  You can condition yourself to have that experience.  Any person can condition himself to have any experience in the physical as well as the subtle.  Keep on repeating to yourself now that I’ve got a headache, I’ve got a headache.  Do that for ten minutes and I’m sure you are going to have a headache.  You can easily condition yourself.  UK79-20

 

Death requires definition.  There is nothing that dies. There is nothing existent in this universe which is destructible.  There is no death but just a passing over.  We discard this gross body but it is not destructible.  It would disintegrate into its finest elements and therefore we say 'from dust to dust'. What goes beyond, when the gross body is left behind, is the subtle body. UK76-7

 

The subtle body, not yet being liberated, has not developed the purity within itself to reach the Source and will naturally have to follow a path and that path is described as evolution UK76-7

 

You fear “I will be destroyed”, “my environment will be destroyed” and “when I am destroyed I am not there any more.”  And this fear comes with the sense of total clinging.  What are you clinging to? All energy that exists is never destroyed but only transformed and it is the very transformation that we mistake to be destruction. Are you destroyed?  You are not, for there is no death.  Life is eternal. UK81-8

 

 

Dimensions

 

Our conception is entirely upon our dimension only.  But the dimension we work upon can affect other dimensions. UK77-13

 

I'm here now in July 1977, but in another dimension I might be here in the year AD 01.  If you will understand that, you will understand everything. UK77-13

 

What we call different dimensions is just a degree of refinement. UK77-23

 

The entire universe that we know, that we live in, starts from a subtle stage to become grosser, becomes so much grosser that matter eventually becomes tangible.  At first it was so subtle that it was practically intangible, and now it is tangible. UK 78-15

 

As it progresses through all these various known kingdoms, there are other kingdoms besides mineral, plant, animal, man.  There are in-between kingdoms of different dimensions.  As progresses takes place through all this, you finally reach the stage of man. UK78-15

 

 

Discrimination

 

True discrimination comes only when one can really be quiet and silent within oneself. UK79-2

 

There must be a conscious effort in the waking state. But how to make the conscious effort; how?  Could the conscious effort lead to inhibitions and represssions or could the conscious effort lead to realisations?  There lies the art of discrimination and the skill in living, and the skill in effort. UK 76-2A

 

The intellect is a necessary tool which helps us to discriminate between right and wrong. The discrimination between right and wrong in turn influences our emotional life and the emotional side of ourselves influences our every thought and deed.  UK76-7

 

Every person is a unique entity, a totality unto himself.  And the day when he accepts responsibility for himself and accepts that this is my weakness and I am responsible for it, from that day, his progress starts. UK79-37

 

When we try to not change that which is forever changing, we produce conflicts.  And those conflicts are binding you down, shackling you down more and more and more.  UK78-61

 

 

 

Ego

 

The nature of thought is but a fine current that came from primal creation of this universe and, because of its various permutations, it has become more and more grossified and the reason for its grossification is because of the experiences that man has put his mind through.  In the lower kingdoms, the plant kingdom or the animal kingdom or the mineral kingdom, they flow within the confines of nature.  They act instinctively and that is why they do not need pushing in evolution. They flow naturally.  But as soon as that very particle became man, there the trouble began, because man for self-preservation started thinking of me and mine.  And that is where thought started interfering with consciousness, pure consciousness. UK80-19

What we need is the expansion of the ego and expanded in a proper way so that the ego becomes entirely transparent and the full force of reality, the full force of the light shines through. 78-54

 

The ego is nothing else but a totality of thought, a totality of impressions that have come together, not only in this lifetime but through many, many lifetimes perhaps. UK78-54

 

To be able to recognise the ego, one has to go beyond the ego, to be able to observe the ego. UK 79-5

 

 

 

Existence

 

When a spark flies out from the fire, the spark thinks, ‘Oh, look at this long existence of mine.’ But in the flicker of an eyelid, it turns to ashes and falls back into the fire. UK78-8

 

Joy has nothing to do with your Karma which has nothing to do with the concept of heaven and hell.  For heaven and hell is here now.  Heaven and hell can be created in another realm according to your mind, according to your conception, according to your idea.  It is all to do with conditioning.  But in the subtle state, not having the encumbrance of the body with you, you are closer to the spirit.  And the nature of the spiritual life is nothing else but bliss and joy. Joy experienced while you are here will be felt more intensely (in your 'rest' between lives). UK79-20

 

The universe is forever proceeding in cycles.  One cycle begins and ends and the germ that's left of the unrealised souls would create another explosion and that is how the universe is eternal.  There are cycles and cycles and cycles, forever on and on and on, without beginning and without end. 

Only a cycle begins and a cycle ends, but in the fullest concept of things, there is no beginning and no end.  If you don't reach the absolute stillness or the 'transcendent being', if you cannot complete that in this cycle, you will still complete it in the next cycle because the propulsion is there, it is unavoidable.  You cannot stop evolutionary progress.  And even when the cycle ends you as that fine current still exist creating another cycle. UK 77-2

 

If we study the structure of the universe we will find that it is nothing but a set of vibrations. UK76-3

 

 

Facing yourself

 

Facing yourself means admitting to yourself that ‘this is my insecurity’; admitting that to yourself you will accept yourself as yourself, as the small ego self, and then you ask yourself another question, “What am I going to do about it?” UK 78-46

 

You are dwelling in miseries because you don’t want to face yourself. True teaching means only one thing. Face Yourself; Know yourself. UK 82-17

 

Discovering the major weakness of yourself by yourself has the inbuilt factor of wanting to be rid of that major weakness. UK77-13

 

Acceptance means not only the circumstances we are confronted with but facing the truths about our traits we are confronted with, accepting that (for instance) ‘I have the tendency of being a thief’.  These examples are true acceptance. UK 77-19

 

 

Fear

 

The basic fear behind all fears is the fear death; of loss of individuality.  But the thing that has to be realised and learnt is this: that by losing individuality and assuming universality you become the master of the universe and you and your 'maker' become one UK79-23

 

The process of ridding oneself of all fear would be the refinement of the ego.  The more the ego is refined, the greater the light of the real self penetrates or shines in the receptacle, or the mirror, of the ego. UK77-17

 

Death causes no pain whatsoever.  What causes pain is the fear of death.  Death is painless.  Fear is painful. UK79-20

 

 

Fearlessness

 

When we are fearless, we invariably exhibit and put into practice the quality of love, because fearlessness is love. UK 77-17

 

When we have realisation, then fear becomes fearlessness, anger becomes love and hatred becomes love.  The same energy is converted within us, in its positive aspect.  UK 77-20

 

There is a very thin dividing line between fear and fearlessness.  A very thin veil separates the two. The whole crux of the matter lies in the energy that brings the positivity or negativity about.  The basis of the question is based upon energy, and how that energy is used, how it is utilised, how it is expressed.  Thereby comes freewill. UK 77-20

 

Real happiness and fearlessness can only be found by subduing the ego, and not nurturing it. UK 77-20

 

 

God /divinity

 

God exists because you exist and you exist because God exists.  One is part and parcel of the other. The manifest and the manifested is but one, and we only find the differentiation when we view it from different angles. UK76-01

 

Do not think that your acceptance of the personal God is the end of it all because, from the personal God one proceeds to the abstract God, the impersonal God. 

UK 76-2A

 

God, the impersonal God, is non-tangible.  But the solidified vibration in the form of word is tangible. This tangibility, this sound, this primal vibration with the admixture of all the vibrations around it, through duplication and replication, assumed different forms.  And those forms were given names.  Firstly the gaseous, then liquids and then solids.  And that is how this entire universe came about.  UK80-41B

 

In meditation we try to reach the primal vibration, that which we call the Word, ‘The Word that was with God and is God’.  That is what we try to do in meditation.  By specialised, individualised techniques we reach to the deeper and deeper levels of human kind, where the primal vibration exists as it exists everywhere else. UK80-41B

 

Like the stage of progression from monism to dualism - from one stage to the other - being able to understand the abstract, the impersonal God, one too has to become impersonal. So the comprehension by the mind is not necessary.  To know the impersonal God, one has to go beyond the limitations of the mind. UK76-2A

 

 

Gururaj

 

So, I am nothing else but an ordinary person, more humble than the humblest.  I’ve said this many times, “If you are ill, I'll come and wash your backside for you.”  I regard myself none higher than the worm that crawls on the floor, for the Divinity in there is the same Divinity in me. 

But I do know one thing, that through many lifetimes, through severe practices for many, many years, I have become a channel for that grace to flow Through. Otherwise these benefits, these understandings, these realisations, could never come to another, could never be imparted to another. 

Then you have people wanting to start up things when they only have partial understanding.  If you haven't got it, how can you give it?   UK80-33

 

I have no attachment to anything whatsoever.  I live in this world with you, I like to be with you. The days of the gurus that sit on the pedestal are over now. You go to the guru according to the feeling you have in your heart. A guru is to be regarded as a brother, if you have those kinds of feelings. He is to be regarded as a father, if you feel like a child to him. But the most important quality is the quality of love, and that love must come from you, from your heart to a certain extent, inspired by the guru. UK76-2A

 

It is very wrong to worship the Guru.  A true guru is a person that must be with you, mix with you. If you fall ill,  I will nurse you. If your head is sore, I will rub your head for you. If you need any wisdom in your head, I will give you that. If you need love, the love is always there. A guru should be like a well. You come to the well with your bucket. If you bring a small bucket, you will draw less water and you bring a big bucket, you’ll draw more water.

As long as you people are benefiting - that is my joy. Why do I discard everything to serve humanity?  Because I have experienced the joy of becoming one with Divinity and what I am doing is sharing my joy so that you too can enjoy the joy.  It’s just so, so simple. UK76-2A

 

 

Here and Now

 

Every moment is an eternity in itself. 80-41A

 

There is no past and there is no future, but just the present.  And in that flash of a moment - the stillness of this very moment - the entire eternity is experienced, 77-1

 

Blake said to experience eternity in an hour, but he was slightly mistaken. Experience eternity in a moment, here and now.  That is the experience; the goal of life everyone has to strive for. And eventually everyone must reach there. 79-15

 

Integration

 

Drug taking leads to fragmentation – meditation leads to integration. UK78-58

 

Mankind, because of imbalances within - the imbalance or the disintegration or the fragmentation that exists between mind, body and spirit - tries to find some form of relief in escaping in escapism.  And that is why they resort to artificial, chemical means to take themselves into a form of oblivion where all responsibility ceases for them for that moment.UK78-58

 

One has to explore the entirety of the universe in order to know the completeness of the mind.79-1

 

There is no adversity in life -there is only opportunity.  That which we regard to be adverse might be the very lesson we need to learn.UK78-2

 

 

Illusion

 

When a person thinks life is a game and at the same time panders to his ego, then it ceases to be a game. 78-55

 

If we take a lump of clay, from clay we can mould a little mouse and from the same clay, we can mould an elephant.  Now we cannot say that the mouse is unreal or the elephant is unreal.  The elephant and the mouse is real but what is actual?  The actuality is the clay. 76-6A

 

When we reach the absolute then all becomes an illusion.  But when we are not there, *Maya is real. It has to be real, or Maya cannot exist - for Maya too is an existence.  An illusion exists as an illusion, for an illusion, too, is reality. But to know what illusion is, you've got to find its opposite. 79-5

(*Maya means attachment to our perceptions)

 

This present form of existence is but a dream-like existence, which is real within its own dimension. But beyond the dimension of this present so-called existence, beyond that dimension and into the truer consciousness of another dimension, this is all but a dream. 80-24

 

 

 

Individuality

 

Individuality is a conception made by our intellect. What tells me that I am an individual is my mind . 76-2B

 

Individuality and the eternal are inseparable.  We think that we are sitting here, ten feet apart.  But science will prove to you, that there is a substance called ether, a very fine matter, which connects everything to everything. 76-2B

 

The individuality of the vapour, the water and of the ice, are tied together by that one principle of H20.  In human beings we use this analogy to illustrate that the infinite power, that which you call eternal, is infinite and so permeates all individuals. The individuality is seen only on a surface level. 76-2B

 

Although man is so interconnected with every atom in this universe, he still tries to maintain his individuality.  And it is when you lose that individuality into that universality, then you shall see no destruction, you shall just see life everlasting.  For have the Scriptures not said that 'It is by dying that you are reborn'?  What part of you has to die?  That ego self, that self preservation (in your mind).  81-8

 

Nothing belongs to you, nothing belongs to me.  We are little waves on this eternal ocean.  The wave cannot claim individuality for itself, there is just but a rising in this vast ocean of the universe. 82-1

 

Individuality only begins with the subconscious mind which contains all your Karmas and Samskaras, which we allow to filter through the conscious mind, and then we feel all the hurts and all the pains. 82-3

 

Individuality is confined to the body and individuality is confined to the individual mind, which is in turn connected to the universal mind. But, because of the impeded flow of the energies in the chakric system, a person cannot appreciate the connection he has with the universal self.  78-31

 

 

Joy

 

There's a difference between pleasure and joy. Pleasure is momentary. Joy is lasting. 79-23

 

 

Joy has nothing to do with your Karma which has nothing to do with the concept of heaven and hell. For heaven and hell is here now. Heaven and hell can be created in another realm according to your mind, according to your conception, according to your idea. It is all to do with conditioning. But in the subtle state, not having the encumbrance of the body with you, you are closer to the spirit. And the nature of the spiritual life is nothing else but bliss and joy. Joy experienced while you are here will be felt more intensely (in your 'rest' between lives). 79-20

 

 

 

Law of Grace

 

“Nothing happens without grace. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Let us use the mind to invoke that grace and not reject grace by playing about in the mind’s whirlpool.”  79-7

 

The Law of Grace demands of us that we should be worthy of that grace.  How we can be worthy of that grace is by changing the tendency, changing the pattern of our life, by changing the pattern in that moment of decision. We are (then) invoking the Law of Grace.  Immediately the decision is made, sincerely, immediately, some law, some grace is felt and it is always an uplifting feeling.  It is always an uplifting feeling.  And as we change, as we change our tendencies more and more, more and more does grace descend upon us.  76-6B

 

 

Karma

 

The law of cause and effect is part and parcel of the Law of Karma.  The Law of Karma cannot exist without cause and effect.  Cause and effect are the characteristics of karma.  So, what we do, we get benefit from.  Good deed will have good benefit, good returns.  Bad deeds will have bad returns and we are responsible for all our actions.  Our actions in turn are motivated by our past. 

Now by past we do not only mean this life but it can go back in the past of many lives before.  So we are the sum totality of our past and that past is in us in the form of what we term samskaras. 76-6B

 

Good karma leads you to the greater and greater refinement of the intellect, greater and greater refinement of the mind 78-38

 

There is a karma called the latent karma, which has no bondage and that which has no bondage is free. It's like a seed that has all the qualities in it, all the essentials in it to grow into a tree, because if that seed did not have all the essentials in it, it would not grow into a tree.  In that way, when we reach the stage of entering the human kingdom for the first time, we have free karma, latent karma.  And, because of the needs that we create, more and more needs are created by the first need. One need creates the second need, the second need creates the third one, and like that it goes on and that is how one lands up in bondage.  And as each person progresses to the next life, they carry with them the impressions of the first life. 78-15

 

No one can take over anyone else's karma.  This principle is difficult to accept because we have been brought up in a tradition where we have expected something for nothing. 79-3

 

It is our own maturity, our own reaction, that governs our karma.  When we say that these great personages teach us these lessons we attune ourselves with the spirit of the lesson, not the lesson itself, not the teaching itself but the spirit of the teaching. We open ourselves to that grace which makes the reaction much more smooth, much more joyous.  As I always say we pay off not by cash on demand but by easy instalment plan. In that sense we can say that our karma has been taken away.  But in reality we are responsible for our own actions.79-2I

 

For the ordinary person, the opposites create karmas, actions with reactions, good or bad.  Yet the person who has reached supreme consciousness, who's in the world and yet not of the world, is unaffected.  He's a law unto himself. Ah, what a joy.  It is indescribable.  I wish I could tell you more about it. I just can't. But I can help you feel it for yourself.  79-3

 

 

When you reach the stage of man as your first incarnation, you are not karma free but at the same time that karma contained within you is non-binding.  It is non-binding because you have not yet developed the power of thinking.  It is only when the mind starts developing, that the activity of karmic (build-up) begins. 78-15

 

 

Knowledge versus Belief

 

Being formless, IT can be identified in its totalness - in totality with the entire existence. And then one dwells in the realms of absolute knowledge, absolute existence and absolute bliss. 76-2A

 

The purpose of acquisition of knowledge is to find oneself.  Everything else is secondary.  78-9

 

With meditational practices, we gain the mental equilibrium; we gain that inner knowledge, whereby perspective changes and suffering is lessened. 76-2B

 

Many people maintain that it is by going to a certain place that spiritual knowledge can be found.  But if we analyse this problem of going somewhere, we would find the answer that going anywhere is not necessary at all.  The place that we have to go is within, because all knowledge and all wisdom is within ourselves. 76-3

 

If acquired knowledge, knowledge of the mind was a prerequisite to leading a better quality of life then every University Professor of Philosophy would be an enlightened being.  But they’re not. Perhaps they are more confused than many of us.  77-3

 

Knowledge is not a prerequisite to experience that which is really us.  As a matter of fact, knowledge sometimes becomes a stumbling block because the mind is confused with various kinds of thoughts. 77-3

 

Acquired knowledge can be read in books.  Wisdom is a sense of knowingness.  Wisdom is a sense of cognition; direct cognition where immediately a communication takes place and you just know. You just know what is and all the amount of books, and all the amount of studies cannot take you there. 77-22

 

 

 

Letting Go

 

One force says that 'I have to let go of the ego to find self fulfilment, to find self realisation', and the other self wants to preserve the ego, which acts as a barrier towards that self-realisation.  And when we read in the Scriptures of the two forces of God and of the devil, those are very symbolically represented.  They are symbols of the very factor that constitutes this question.  So within man's self, the two forces are forever at war.  And it is this warring that is within us that causes all the suffering, all the miseries that accompany greed.   UK 78-59

 

Let go of yourself, let go of this pettiness, because you are far greater than the pettiness that you have assumed, you are far greater than this little world you live in UK 80-9

 

 

 

Liberation

 

Eternality is timeless and endless; the mind is also timeless and endless. But the mind is a superimposition.  And with the various combinations of the factors involved in man's evolution, the veils have become thicker, thicker, thicker, so that the superimposition thinks it is real, forgetting the underlying (limitless) it has come from. 77-30

 

Actually, you are already enlightened. You do not need to be led there because leading someone somewhere means from point A to point B.  But you are already there. The only thing (is that) the realisation must dawn.  The beans are in the can already; the can just has to be opened!    80-38

 

The extent of the mind is the extent of the universe. 76-4

 

 

Love

 

Love can be walled up.  Get rid of the walls, get rid of  the blocks. Meditation and spiritual practices are the surest means of breaking down the walls and opening the heart so that this heart can flow in its own Divine glory. Each one of us can do it. 78-1

 

In true love there is no lover, there is no beloved, but there is just love.  The subject ceases, the object ceases, the idea of the relationship between subject and object also disappears and just that love exists.  And that is why the Scriptures tell us 'God is love and love is God.' That is the true meaning of what that means. 76-6A

 

There's a difference between pleasure and joy. Pleasure is momentary. Joy is lasting. 79-23

 

The knotted heart knows not anything. Many people crave for the experience to soften the heart. They yearn for it. If they use the proper methods then hard-heartedness can become soft-heartedness. With hard-heartedness all the negative qualities are involved.  But with the softness of the heart there are so many virtues and blessings that go with it, like kindness, compassion and understanding.  And of course, with the soft-heartedness, we apply the golden rule of placing ourselves in the other man’s shoes. Then we start learning what love is all about. 77-5

 

 

Me

 

Here’s what you think of life: “I am here, I am whole but there seems to be this other part of me. Wrong. The truth is: “I am a trillion times more than what I see with my senses. This visual part of me is so miniscule that my realness doesn’t even recognize it.  80-10

 

When you say 'I have come from God and I'm going back to God', you are measuring it in terms of your own mind which can only think in terms of time and space. Beyond time and space, there is no coming or going.  You are just there.  78-9

 

The mind has to be illumined; the mind lives on borrowed power.  But that area beyond the mind lives on its own power, it is self-livingness.  So the light there enjoys itself in its own light and that is the area that everyone has to reach. 78-11.

 

 

 

Meditation

 

Meditation gives us the strength to change our perspectives.  76-9

 

By specialised, individualised techniques we reach to the deeper and deeper levels of the human being, where the primal vibration exists as it exists everywhere else. 80-41B

 

Through meditational practices we draw from the inner core, from the reservoir, and bring it through to the ninety per cent dormant mind and then further on through the ten per cent mind that we know of and then from there to the body. Everything benefits. 76-10

 

By cultivating the mind through meditational practices we learn to overcome the mind and go beyond it. That is where Truth is found ) " 78-1

 

 

 

Mind

 

God plus mind makes man.  Man minus mind makes God. 77-30

 

Being able to think deeply is a double-edged sword.  It can tie us up into more knots or it could cut the knots free. 78-15

 

A conscience is nothing else but a subtle energy which is always wanting to be directed for our own good, and the good of others. 79-40

 

Expectation is the father of disappointment, and disappointment is the mother of suffering.79-2

 

It is the mind that invents the Satans and the Gods. They are all inventions of the mind.  The entire universe is nothing but mind.  All problems in life are nothing but mind.  78-1

 

The limited mind is a limited instrument. By using a limited instrument, our conceptions and perceptions are limited. It can only feel or interpret, or conceive, or perceive, limitations.  76-5

 

 

 

Nature / divine will

 

Whatever the physical body feels the mind feels more intensely. There is no way out for the mind but to flow with the laws of nature. Everyone has a choiceless choice, being forced, compelled, coerced, by their own doings to come back to live out those experiences.  And, is life not a school?  We come here to learn.  We come here to evolve.  We come here to better ourselves.  And every experience is valid. Even a wrong experience, even a bad experience, in its finality, will bring one to certain realisations. 76-8

 

We have to allow the superconscious mind to shine through to the conscious mind.  What blocks it is the subconscious mind, which is the container of all the imp­ressions gathered through many, many lifetimes. 78-11

 

All suffering in the world is because the ego self of a person or the small "i" thinks that "I am the doer" - really speaking it is the power behind us, in us, without us that is actually the real force behind every action.   For instance, your stove at home is burning or your refrigerator is working the stove or the refrigerator cannot say that "I am working on my own".   It is the electrical current flowing through the stove or the refrigerator that makes it work. 76-11

 

 

Negativity

 

We do not need to analyse the mechanics of darkness.  We switch on the light.  And that we do through meditation, where we reach to the deepest layers, the source of light, and bring forth the light to banish all the darkness that is in our lives.79-31

 

The human mind can never, never, remain a vacuum.  It has to be filled with positivity or negativity. Suffering is negativity. Joy is positivity. So the less negativity there is, the more positivity would emerge.  And the more positivity there is, the less negativity would there.  So by gaining an understanding of meditational processes, not only gaining the understanding of it, but also by practising it, we do gain these benefits of the positive energies which are inherently ours.  76-10
 

 

 

Rebirth

 

When this body drops away the subtle body carries on to take rebirth if necessary.  The subtle body or the mental body is the repository of all the impressions gained.  It is the sum-totality of man's ego.  And yet this ego cannot exist alone without being fuelled or empowered by the spiritual energy.  And the spiritual energy, being forever pure, is filtered through the subtle body dependant upon how refined the subtle body is. Therefore, man's ego is not only of this lifetime. The identification with the ego is not only for one life, but it has come from millions of years back 79-41

 

When a person dies, if there are so many attachments - a person could be attached to a mother, father, daughter, son, whatever - what happens to that soul that has so much attachment is that it will delay its rebirth. 80-37

 

This memory box contains within itself every experience that we have gone through, all along through all these rebirths. 78-33

 

The overriding factor of a deep love that existed in a previous life could rule the entire formulation of its rebirth.  So the man and the woman, the boy and the girl can definitely meet again in this lifetime.  When it comes to people generally, as the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. This applies to human beings.  Two people might not meet eye to eye on secular matters, mundane things, but yet within there is a compatibility of spirit. 82-9A

 

 

Relationships

 

Once the need is removed, the underling factor of pure love shines through. 79-5

 

So, when the wife becomes demanding in getting the attention to feed her ego or the husband becomes demanding to feed his ego and self importance, then friction begins.  Now to avoid this friction, one has to learn surrender.  One has to learn surrender.  When one surrenders oneself completely to one's beloved, then a love is felt and that love is akin to Divinity.78-12

 

The little ego stands in the way.  It blocks the way for the natural flow of love or communication from heart to heart. 78-12

 

Devotion is an expression of love, selfless love.  Devotion is the desire to become one with another.  78-41

 

Meditation does change the personality.  It takes away the hardness that is there and brings that mellowness which love inspires and it teaches a person how to love.  It teaches a person the meaning of love and not only that, it teaches a person to become love.  That is the basic change required in mankind today. 79-31

 

 

Samskaras (Impressions related to each individual)

 

Thought, which is also composed of fine matter, cannot be destroyed. 78-49

 

The more you try to get rid of samskaras, the more samskaras you form.  So there again we are in this vicious circle.  Every thought man thinks, good or bad, forms an impression and the impression is a samskara. 78-30

 

Thoughts are very persistent things. They go on and on and on.  The more you fight them, the more you push them away, the more they come. This can take you deeper and deeper into the whirlpool of samskaras. 78-30

 

Samskaras are impressions of all our existences, all our thoughts, words and deeds which (also) form and formulate a pattern of our future behaviour, of our future thought, word and deed. 76-6B

 

Where do samskaras (impressions) reside?  They reside in the chakras.  The composition of the chakra is a combination of the impressions gained through many lifetimes; motivated, activated and empowered by energy. 78-31

 

 

Seeker and the path

 

People (generally) just exist, they don't live.  When a person just drifts along and just exists then there is no aim but once they start realising that there is something deeper, something more, then they start living. 76-6B

 

Life is never purposeless and any person that stifles his purpose of life or denies that there is any purpose to life, will only flounder like a rudderless boat. 78-10

 

There are signposts on the spiritual path that would tell you how far you have reached.  But is your conscious mind receptive enough to notice the spiritual signposts? 80-3

 

The signposts are there but it’s not necessary to see them or know them, you're still on the path, a pathless path.  It’s just unveiling - unveiling of all the dirt that has gathered around you.  It’s taking a bath. And once the dirt is washed off, you are clean, pure, naked as the innocent child.  No wiles, no fancies, no whims, just love. 80-3

 

Sometimes the uneducated are more sincere in their search.  They are more honest to themselves. They are more inclined to the heart because the mind does not stand in the way. 78-9

 

It is good to doubt because the doubt springs from your mind.  It has nothing to do with the teacher, remember that.  And if you overcome your doubt, you are overcoming the discrepancies of your mind.  So it's good, because a doubt is the springboard of further enquiry.  And as you go on enquiring and enquiring, you find you have to knock for the door to be opened.  Yes, you have to seek to find. 78-41

 

The rose is beautiful, but it comes with thorns. Everything is like that in life in that it always has its opposite. What this pulling power of the spirit is doing is combining the opposites into a oneness, 79-9

 

The path of Yoga is not as simple as it seems.  The path of Yoga, as it has been said by Vivekananda, is the path of the heroes, the path of warriors.  There has to be determination. 78-3

 

 

 

Self reliance and responsibility

 

Happiness and love can only come from within us and for these things we shouldn't be reliant on external circumstances or other people. 78-54

 

Nature supports; but what have you done to allow nature to support you?  The difference is between responsibility and irresponsibility. 77-21

 

We assume that we are responsible for our children. In reality we are responsible for ourselves.  We must understand that we should be grateful to our children for affording us the privilege to understand what responsibility is.  In other words, as well as maturing our children, our children are maturing us.  77-23

 

When a person learns to accept the fact that "I am what I am because I made myself what I am", then he / she becomes a responsible person and can thereby view all happenings of life objectively.  Such a person stops blaming everyone else.  And when this responsibility is accepted then, automatically, actions change. Attitude towards life changes. Life is viewed in a different perspective. There is then no (trying to) escape from samskaras.  And this very act of acceptance makes the effect of the samskaras bearable and not unbearable. 78-30

 

Self-acceptance requires discrimination and self-acceptance requires responsibility, that I am responsible for everything I am today.  No one has made me good and no one has made me bad.  Whatever I am, I have created for myself.  I have gone through so many lifetimes and I am today the sum total, the sum totality, the result of all my actions of the past.  And if that is the case why should I not accept myself because I am a creature not of circumstances but of my own creation. 79-2

 

 

Subtle Mind

 

Beyond the mind lies the reservoir of that infinite energy that can be brought through the medium of the subtle mind to the grosser level of the body. Then the three factors (mind, body and spirit) could operate - as I would repeat over and over again - as a totality. 76-9

 

The whole subtle mind has its physiological counterpart in the brain.  The brain is not only in the head, but it goes down your entire spinal column.  The mind, being of such a subtle matter, must have its grosser physical counterpart in order to express itself.  This goes back to the spiritual self of man, the real ‘I’.  Now the real ‘I’ could never make contact or work through the physical body directly.  It has to have an intermediary which is the subtle body and the subtle body is none else than the mind of man.  78-31

 

 

Suffering – removal of

 

All suffering of a person can be eradicated - brought to an equilibrium in this lifetime. 78-56

 

When a person is liberated, he /she could be a part of life and yet totally apart from it. Then you are regarded to be liberated from the sufferings of life.  Then nothing could hurt you, nothing could harm you, because you have that inborn stability. 79-3

 

 

Time

 

When it comes to one’s spiritual self and you enter the field of timelessness you enter the field of Satchitananda (existence; knowledge; bliss), which is timeless, eternal, infinite. When you enter that field of timelessness then you just live in the now, for every moment is now. 80-22

 

The mind can reach other universes, other galaxies, whatever you want to call them and draw that knowledge here onto this plane called earth. And the only way to do that is to go beyond the ten per cent of mind that we know. 76-12

 

On the absolute level, as the awareness expands, we reach the area of light and timelessness, where everything stands still and in that stillness you know everything 80-22

 

We need to listen to the beautiful music of this universe and not be asleep, dead.  To be awake and alive - that’s what we need.  How time goes.  Nevertheless, there is no such thing as time.  We actually live in timelessness.  80-34

 

There is time and there is timelessness but from which angle are we looking at it? 77-1

 

 

 

Unconditioning

 

Unconditioning the conditioned mind is a painless process.  It becomes painless because (when we uncondition) we are drawing a sustaining energy from deep within ourselves. 76-10

 

In the process of meditation, of unconditioning the conditioned mind, it could be any valid system that could be beneficial to us.  If we don't perform (unconditioning practices) then what happens is that the conditioned mind tries to uncondition itself by escaping the conditioning.  Another form could be becoming aggressive to the conditioning.  And these two factors cause more and more complications.  Now, when we escape the conditionings of our mind, and build a wall around us, we are not curing the disease.  We are just burying the disease, like not weeding the garden but burying them deeper when, sooner or later, in some form or the other, the weeds will emerge again.  Our method is to eradicate those weeds, to pull them out root and all. 76-10
 

 

 

Universal Mind

 

When we refer to an individual mind, what we mean by that is that we are compartmentalising the one universal mind into small little fractions. 77-3

 

When a person asks a question, reaching a certain subtlety of mind, the answer is drawn from the universal mind. 77-3

 

The mind of man is a universal mind.  The extent of the mind is as vast as the entire universe.  (As an analogy) if there are bubbles in a pond, each bubble is connected to the other bubble. The connection is by the same water.  The water that forms one bubble, at this end, is the same water that forms a bubble at the other end, and therefore there is a connection. 77-20

 

When you are conscious with the entirety of your mind, the range is as vast as the entire universe.  So, with this entire universal mind that is within you, you appreciate the Manifestor of which the universe is the manifestation. 78-38

 

At the moment of death, the little so called individual mind gets attuned to the universal mind and all answers are there. 77-3

 

Directing the attention to the guru, what happens is that the individual mind becomes aware of that which symbolises the universal mind.  And the individual mind, at that moment draws, by its own power, on the symbol which is the Guru. 77-3

 

 

Visualisation

 

Visualisation is an actual projection from within oneself to outside oneself. 78-16

 

When proper visualisation takes place then know for sure that all your mental energies are now focused. When it comes to proper visualisation, thoughts will still come, but you would be apart from the thought. 78-18

 

Visualisation - that's why Tratak is so important.  You can do anything you like with it.  Only use it rightly.  I give you the key, you can open the doors. 80-17

 

 

Wealth

 

If the desire for worldly wealth is more powerful than the desire for spiritual wealth, then worldly wealth will manifest itself.  Worldly wealth will manifest itself because firstly we said 'I am possible' and if I am possible everything around me, everything connected to me, is possible too….  Therefore, you would find some people that would ignore the spiritual side of life completely and would just involve themselves into totally mundane things.  Yet deep within us there is a desire for spiritual wealth.  However much we fight against it, that desire is there because even the workings of the subconscious mind and the conscious mind are affected by the superconscious mind. UK 77-23

 

Our inner nature is bliss. And the goal of all evolution, the purpose of this life, of this birth, is to reach back to that goal of bliss, to become ourselves again.  And when we reach that, we don’t need anything else to make us happy.  We don’t need any external environment or any material possessions to make us happy. UK77-5