A yogi who perceives his real Self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.
Quotations
A Spiritual Leader
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
Human beings protect the purity of manmade temples. Similarly, looking after the sanctity of this human body, a temple created by God, should become a spiritual endeavour that is of utmost importance.
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
Thoughts are the medium through which the ego, the limited self, appears and paves the way for all our likes and dislikes, pleasure and pain.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible
There’s nothing more advanced than relating with others. There’s nothing more advanced than communication – compassionate communication.
If we only practice compassion at the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by its dualities.
Contemplating upon divine qualities, performing good deeds and chanting are all ways of destroying delusion through satsang.
