Eventually it will be seen that all thoughts are resistance. They are all images that the mind has made to prevent us from experiencing what actually is. When we have been letting go for a while and have begun experiencing what is really going on, we will laugh at our thoughts. Thoughts are fakes, absurdContinue reading

Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don’t die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond. Mystics have long understood the joyousness of this moment.Continue reading

Every day when you wake up in the morning, or go to bed at night, look at yourself and say, ‘where am I, what am I doing? How many falsities are still in my life? Am I really doing my sadhana sincerely?’ People say – I don’t have time. We have time for everything else. The factContinue reading

Student: I am unable to have peace of mind. I am planning to go to the Himalayas in search of it. Ramana Maharshi: You have travelled 250 miles from Madurai and come here. How much mental quietness have you got? Multiply it by the distance from here to Himalayas to measure the happiness you would get byContinue reading

Enlightenment is not something that occurs in the future, after 50 years of sitting cross-legged and saying “OM.” It is right here, in this instant. The reason you’re not experiencing this state of total peace and timelessness is because it is being resisted. It is being resisted because you are trying to control the moment.Continue reading

What can you do about the future? You can be devoted to beauty. You can be devoted to all that is sacred. David Hawkins, MD, PhD When fear strikes, we sometimes automatically try to ‘figure out’ how to fix things. Fix our problems. Fix our life. But in spiritual terms, our life is not aContinue reading

We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize or make real that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this. WhenContinue reading

Each one of us is a lovely stream flowing into the great ocean of love and compassion, of goodness and energy, the Supreme Reality, which is God. Different we may be, but we emanate from the same source and to the same source we return. Sri M At any given moment there are two distinctContinue reading

Let go and rejoice – let none of your hurts and negativities stick to you. Throw them away – let go of them. Then, be free and rejoice in the bliss of the tranquil mind which is at the core of your being. That’s the secret of happiness! Sri M All my ‘hurts and negativities’ areContinue reading