Category: Devotion

THE HOUSEHOLDERS PATH

  You cannot differentiate between the path of the householder and the path of the spiritual seeker because householding itself is a spiritual path. Being a spiritual seeker means one is on the path to achieving that total integration within himself. By total integration, we mean where the...

THE VALUE OF SYMBOLS

  REACHING THE ABSOLUTE THROUGH THE CONCRETE Everything can be valueless, and everything can be invaluable. There is a significant difference between the two words. Something can be invaluable, priceless, something on which a value cannot be put. At the same time, another thing could be valueless, of...

WHAT IS GOD?

  Everyone and everything are Divine; what man observes is just the manifestation of the Manifestor. Because man functions only with his five senses, and the five senses are very limited because we usually use only a tiny fraction of our minds. The fraction is so small that...

WE ARE THINKING BEINGS

  There is only one way to express our actions in daily activity, and the component of that way is to live a better life in our waking state consciously. We can do it. We are thinking beings. We can discriminate, and if we cannot determine, we can...

WHAT IS GURUSHAKTI

  Gurushakti is a universal force that is existent everywhere, and it is eternal. Through the practices that we do, we draw that Shakti unto ourselves. Shakti means energy, and you would know what guru means. So, the energy which the guru imparts is called Gurushakti. You will...

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OBSTACLES ON THE PATH

  People misunderstand Nirvana or Enlightenment. When you pass through a garden, you will see beautiful flowers, but you have not yet reached the end; you still got to reach the end of the path to be enlightened. All these various visions, sounds and things you hear, the...

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EXPERIENCE INFINITY

  The finite mind could never understand the infinite because the finite mind, being a manifestation of the infinitude or of eternity, being a manifestation or a reflection, could never maintain its eternal value. The finite mind has no permanency at all because it is forever changing. That...

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CHANGE OF ATTITUDE

  ALL IS WORTHY An injunction from the scriptures says, “Lord, I am not worthy to gather the crumbs from under Thy table.” No man, woman or child is unworthy, and Divinity regards no one to be unworthy. Divinity itself, the neutral force, knows of no unworthiness. He...

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AVATARAS – INCARNATIONS

  From time to time when imbalances occur, then a great force descends to Earth to bring about a balance. That is what the Bhagavad-Gita says. What are the mechanics of this? How does it happen? The Avatara is forever the eternal wanderer. He might live his life...

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CHRISTIANITY

  Christianity is primarily based on bhakti-yoga. Bhakti yoga means devotion. When any theology is based on devotion, then there always has to be the “I” and “Thou” aspect. This “I and Thou” aspect is very necessary for the wayfarer. For the person on the path has to...

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THE GLORY OF GOD

  The glory and majesty of God start with a mental concept. Because not having known God, you idealize Him to be something super, beyond man. You are then worshipping an ideal. This is good. At least you have something onto which to clutch. You are climbing the...

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DEVOTION

  Devotion starts with a kind of affection that two people develop with each other. From the affection, then there is a greater conjugation of mind, then that affection increases. From the mind, it goes to the body level, where certain compatibilities are found pleasing to two people....