Conflicts:
- Do you think that war happens only outside? If you think then you are wrong. War happens both inside and outside as well. Deep beneath the subconscious mind, we are in a constant ‘state of war’. This war is fought for ‘self-determination’, as all other outside wars are fought. But there is a difference. The war is to find out that whether we are a ‘finite self’ or ‘infinite self’.
- We, to regain our ‘real-self’, project the so-called ‘conflicts’ in our lives. From our childhood, all the conflicts of love, hatred and anger etc., that we have experienced, are nothing but our ‘projections’ to deduce our ‘real-self’.
- Whenever there is a conflict in life, know that we are creating it to find out our 'real-self'.
- Two spheres of life coexist in man. One is the 'spiritual-sphere' and another, the 'material-sphere'. These two spheres of life are inherently incompatible with each other, and yet they coexist in man. All conflicts of mankind, arises mainly due to the incomprehensibility in resolving the nature of existence between these two spheres of lives.
- The whole struggle of mankind, is the struggle to arrive at the 'spiritual-sphere' of life. All challenges that we undertake in our lives, is simply aimed at arriving at this phenomena.
Death and Sense Objects:
- There is death when you open your senses; and there is immortality when you close your senses.
- The sensory systems are akin to a fire or a concentrated acid ready to react on the sensory objects. When the sensory system react with the sense objects, death is the residue.
- Death is nothing but the summation of, or cumulative effect of individual acts of deaths, which we experience in everyday life, by succumbing to sense objects.
- We at several points and at several instances in our lives, give way or succumb to these sense objects, which according to me is death, and not the one which comes later in life.
- Day dreaming arises when we fail to face or confront the real world. It is just like hiding ourselves under a mask from the real world. Only when tragedy strucks, the mask falls for a while, only to be worn again, for we are utterly weak and helpless.
- First, the sense object deludes. Delusion is the first and foremost characteristic of a sense object. It deludes by beauty and aesthetics, pleasing color, taste, and form etc. An ordinary object does not creates delusion. Second, the sense objects create a feel of permanence. You feel the object is permanent and it stays intact and that it is going to accompany you forever. An ordinary object does not creates this feeling. Third, Sense objects are not satiated, it asks for more. An ordinary object is satiated. Fourth, the sense objects creates pain in the end.
Peace and Non-Violence:
- Peace is not goodness and not evil either. Peace is above good and evil. Therefore, transcend both good and evil alike.
- Enjoyment is a fleeting sensory experience, derived from objects outside; whereas peace is a long lasting art of abiding in the subject.
- There must not be an occasion or an excuse for not being peaceful, because peace is often related to the subject rather than the object or the environment in which we are exposed to.
- A man of non-violence is actually a man of no desires, and not the one who doesn’t harm, and lurking with desires.
- A man lives in the world by continuously displacing the lives of others.
- The whole universe is one. Whatever we do out of greed, desire and anger, the repercussions will be felt on the other side of the globe.
Meditation and Mind:
- Meditation is Samadhi. In Samadhi, there are no ‘Vrittis’ or sense impressions.
- Great saints meditate in every breath. They inhale all the sufferings of humanity and exhale peace.
- Man, after a prolonged series of meditative life, transforms himself into something larger than life, just as the ugly duckling transforms itself into a beautiful swan. This is the transformation, which nothing can alter, which nothing can disturb and which is permanent.
- A man meditates only to converge his forces on a higher plane, where the limitless dimension is revealed.
- All forms of restraint of the senses reveal the limitless dimension of man.
- Mind is a very delicate thing and is devised for a concentrated single stream of thought.
- Any ‘objective impression’, which draws the mind out, has to be rejected. Because, according to yoga, all objective impressions, end up in misery and weakness.
Religion:
- True religion consists in transcending both goodness and evil alike.
- Religion, still had to move from primitive – animal slaughter and ritualistic to a more broadening of love and meditation.
- Any spiritual solution must be universal, otherwise it is merely a farce.
- I would like to declare as a law that God is not associated with material things or material phenomena. I feel, one must use God and its associated places solely for the purpose of nature – spiritual, and not as a medium of propagating wealth, and not as medium for satisfying greed and selfish desires, not as a medium for business and trading, because immortality is not attained through these.
- By practicing dharma, a man becomes more graceful, outshining the manners of kings and queens, because real beauty consists in dharma.
- Dharma is not refraining from work; but doing the right work leading to meditation.
- Dharma is not always lingering on the suffering part, but a concrete, pragmatic transition to the practice part which brings peace and happiness.
Life:
- The key to building our lives lies in not the forces of attachment but in the forces of detachment.
- Strength is detachment.
- Dream is not just a personal goal but a universal vision, impelled by an idea to do good to humanity.
- Dreams are a thing which is not to be taught, which cannot be bought, and which is uniquely yours, and which cannot be copied.
- Dreams are always worth attempting, as it is always yours and you only can do it.
- If you dream you are going to lose your sleep; and if you sleep you are going to lose your dream.
- Often that which is ugly turns out to be beautiful.
- To live in present reality, one must reject all hypothetical realities that the world offer.
- When we clean our house, it is not a mere cleaning, but cleaning our ‘selves’.
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