Since I could not find an answer by myself—rather, each time I asked and answered my own questions, I found that I was not satisfied—I thought to approach someone who could answer my questions. I met a realized person, who is supposed to have all the answers, and I asked him, “Please tell me, who has made this body?”
आत्मा का गुण या स्वभाव सम रहना है। उसमें उतार-चढ़ाव, सुख-दुःख और आधि-व्याधि नहीं होते, पर मनुष्य को आत्मा में ऊँचा-नीचा, सुख-दुःख, राग-द्वेष तथा प्रेम-घृणा दिखता है। जिसको यह सब जान पड़ता है, उसका नाम “मैं” या “अहंकार” है। उसी का नाम कलना, मन, संकल्प, स्फुरण, चेतना, अहंकार और बुद्धि है। आत्मा इस अहंकार का या मनुष्य का स्वरूप है…
As water is water, with its fluidity, so the Pure Being (Shuddh Chaytan, Self) has fluidity or pure movement, which is called mind. In the ocean water, it is the fluidity that causes the creation of waves, bubbles, whirlpools, and all that is created in the ocean with its creative power.
The basic material of all the forms and objects in the external as well as the internal world is avyakt mool prakriti, the invisible power known as saamya awasthaa of sat, raj, and tam gunas. These three gunas are the forces of light, activity, and stability respectively, which are involved in manifesting the universal existence…
A Very, Very Important Finding: It should be known by a person that before he wakes up, he is. This means that in sleep his own form, the body, exists. This existence, however, is not known by him during sleep, because at that time there is no vehicle of knowing…
It should be known to every person that he or she is the mind. One may call himself a body and recognise his face in his passport or photograph, but the photograph, taken while he was either sitting or standing, now hangs on the wall or is put away in the cupboard—such is the value of that form of the…
But all human beings are one with the sense that exhibits a desire to live long, for as long as one can think of longevity. Whether for thirty-five years, fifty years, sixty years, eighty years, ninety years, ninety-nine years, one hundred five years or more, everyone desires to live long. Everybody has a different idea of adopting a different mode…
When one says, “It’s happening to me,” he is not doing this happening nor did he plan to do it. Yet he says, “This is happening to me, so I am helpless.” In the heart of hearts, he thinks that, “I am led to watch the forms, the people and their activities; but at the same time the initiative to…
My knowledge begins when the waking state, which is a state of consciousness, arises: I see forms, I hear sounds. But I do not know what this wakefulness is.
In Chapter 8 of the scripture Bhagavad Gita, Arjun is a man representing the consciousness of the body, or the ego-intellect—the knowledge of the senses and body, as well as the knowledge of all kinds of forms perceived through the medium of the eyes and varieties of sounds heard by the ears. Arjun is a fully developed person who has…
Ordinarily a man, even if he desires to, cannot with his present mental awareness have such a knowledge of the Source that he is able to hold the Source all the time and not become the victim of the mind awareness, or the mental sense, which says, “The vast tree of the world exists. And this world, with its objects,…
A human being is always a body. Even when he says “my mind,” you should know that he is saying “my body.” So man is always forgetful about the Self. In other words, he does not know at all that the Self is. Why is it that he does not grasp, understand, or realize? Because his consciousness is inflamed with…
