There shall never be a Second Coming, for Divine Consciousness is forever present. But what happens is this: from time to time, when a more significant imbalance occurs in this world when a more substantial amount of tamas dominates, then that totality of consciousness takes a human form.
Think of the Solution: Achieving Harmony to Serve Humanity
Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of your minds are occupied with the nonsense of daily living, tiny little things, which, looking back, did not matter much.
Born from Friction: Transformation Through Life’s Challenges
In finding peace within yourself, the whole idea would be by non-attachment. Yet, we are so attached to everything around us and all the happenings we encounter or observe in the world.
Inherent Tranquillity: Meditation and the Unfoldment of Divinity
Our system of meditation is based on the principle that there are no two people, no two individuals alike; even identical twins have different characteristics, and each one emits a distinct sound.
Face Ourselves: Spiritual Practices as a Path to Self-Discovery
The universe is nothing but vibration, and vibration in a congealed form is perceptible by the gross senses. The gross senses have a great link to the ten percent of the conscious mind, but if we go beyond the gross senses to the finer senses within oneself – which some call the sixth sense – then we will have contact with far more profound layers of the mind.
The Silent Transmission: Integrating Body, Mind, and Spirit through Darshan
In Sanskrit, we have one word: Darshan. Most of you must have heard that word where people visit a holy person, and that person might not even say a word. Buddha’s most excellent teachings were done in silence. If you are near or within the radius of the power emanated by the blissful person, it will somehow be felt.
The Power Within: Channeling Divine Energy Through Focused Prayer
Very few people know how to pray—they do not pray; they do business. They would start off by saying, “Oh, Lord, if my son passes his examination, I will donate a hundred dollars to the FISU.”
The Divine Resonance: How Mantra Practice Awakens the Inner Guru
THE NATURE OF MANTRA? When practices are given by a person who has reached a state of self-realization, not only the verbal mantra is given; when the guru perceives the mantra in a state of meditation and utters that mantra, his whole being is contained in that sound. When you practice the mantra, the entirety of the Guru, the entirety of the spiritual Force, is outlined in Bliss form in that mantra, and it is received by the chela, by the meditator. When that meditator sincerely practices that mantra as instructed, then the person with gradual practice becomes the mantra and experiences not only the grosser form of the mantra but the subtler form of the mantra, and at its subtlest level, it is not only you but also the Guru’s Bliss mixed in that mantra. And that is why the benefits are felt. The benefits are felt whereby, through a tangible vehicle of the audible mantra, one reaches the subtleness of the mantra where your Spirit and the Guru’s Spirit become one. There starts the awakening of the internal guru, which is forever internal and eternal. That is the stage we have to reach through our spiritual practices. Some people tell you that you are immediately taken to Bliss when you are given a technique. Do not believe that. It is a process, but a worthy process. ATTAINING BLISS What is worth attaining is worth striving for. We know that. The real Guru, having experienced this Bliss, which he cannot describe in words, can allow you to experience it. His purpose, the purpose of the Light, is to rid darkness. And the Light is so powerful that all the dark corners of our Hearts are lit up, and darkness disappears. The purpose of attaining that blissful state is so that the blissful state can be shared with those who are earnestly seeking Bliss, and finding Bliss is finding God. That is the goal, that is the aim, that is the purpose of our lives. The purpose of our lives is not material accumulation. There is nothing wrong with material accumulation. But remember one thing: let the man have sufficient for his needs. That is the basic principle. You will find that if you want a million dollars, once you have the million dollars, you will surely want two million dollars. You will surely want five million dollars when you have two million dollars. It is a never-ending process of being enmeshed in total materiality. But if we remember that these are my needs, Why not? We are entitled to it. Good food is sufficient to look after our families. Perhaps a bit for the rainy day? There is nothing wrong with that in this modern society. That is a natural want. It is a practical need and not the accumulation of something needless because I would still like to meet the man who has made ten million dollars and take it with him when he passes off. We live our lives according to our needs, and if our lives are well regulated in the path of spirituality, you will find that our needs become more and more simpler. And the simpler the needs become, the simpler our lives become. The path to joy and happiness and Bliss is to find the simplicity of life, for within simplicity lies Divinity, and Divinity is another name for Bliss. To have a blissful existence is the birthright of every one of us. Essentially, man is not born to be unhappy. Within man are all the elements that constitute Bliss. The veils of samskaras just cover up this Bliss, yet this highly polished diamond is there but covered with dust. Through spiritual practices, we blow the dust away so that the sparkle, the bliss, of this diamond is experienced. We are orientated a lot towards mental analysis. There is nothing wrong with that. Let us have our analysis, but let us also try to experience what we analyse. The experience grows so much that it not only reaches the level of analysis but goes far beyond it. The analysis is the stepping stone. WE WANT TO EXPERIENCE BLISS Did Buddha or Christ ever go into deep analytical philosophies? No. They spoke of personal experience. They did not talk about knowledge but gave forth wisdom, which does not require analysis. Wisdom is at a level where analysis falls short. At that level of wisdom, another aspect of Bliss is Love. So all these are different, not different qualities, but different aspects of Bliss, and Bliss is Divinity itself. We want to experience. We do not take the sugar to the laboratory before we put it in our tea. We know sugar is sweet, and by putting it in our tea, we experience the sweetness of sugar. We know intuitively, without analysis, that there is Bliss, and we do our practices to experience the Bliss. Experiencing something means becoming one with something. To become one with that which is forever existent and eternal. … Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1977 – 10
Embracing the Infinite: The Unspoken Essence of Bliss
WHAT IS BLISS? Bliss is an experience which is indefinable, like love. There are certain inferences which could tell us about Bliss but not what Bliss really is. The same things happen in universities, where they would tell you all about something but not really what something is. That is the difficulty one has in trying to define a quality that stems from so deep within oneself. We have all experienced joys, we have all experienced pleasures, and yet it is so difficult to define what joy is or what pleasure is. We can say, “Oh, pleasure is such a pleasant feeling,” and there it ends. Or you could say, “I feel joyful,” and the person would understand what you mean because that person to has experienced joy. When you describe to a person that you feel joyful, that person will know what you are talking about because that person has, to some measure, experienced joy. When you tell a person that you have a toothache, that person will immediately know what your toothache is if he has experienced a toothache himself. Bliss is a quality that very few people have experienced in the existence of this world. The description of Bliss could not be verbalised, and even if it could be verbalised, it could never be understood. To describe Bliss would be synonymous with describing God. Yet to infer to Bliss one could say that a feeling wells up within oneself, a feeling that becomes so universal that you could embrace the entire universe within yourself, that you become identified with everything and everybody. Bliss contains so much joy that you feel the pain of others, and you feel the pleasures of others. Bliss contains all the elements whereby the pain of others could be uplifted because you radiate the quality of Bliss. When you radiate this quality of Bliss which you experience, then the entire atmosphere is enlightened. A self-realised man could never explain to you what self-realisation is. He can tell you that self-realisation, which also is synonymous with Bliss, and self-realisation, as we know, is God-realization. Being synonymous, it defies all description, yet it is experienceable. When a person experiences Bliss, and he cannot describe it, then what purpose does that Bliss serve? It would be very selfish for a person to experience Bliss and not being able to share it. So, the blissful person, even without trying to share it, automatically shares it, because one of the expressions of Bliss is a love that is generated. All of you on this course have experienced some of it. It can so clearly be seen on every face here. The Bliss which I experience I cannot explain to you in words. It would be like explaining God. Once you can explain any object, you are limiting the object, while Bliss is an experience which is limitless. And if it is limitless, then the experiencer of Bliss emanates it to the furthest extent of the universe. Those that are close to the experience of Bliss naturally feel it. They may not understand it because it defies all mental analysis, but something happens in the physical, mental and spiritual chemistry. Something just lights up. So, Bliss, though inexplicable, is definitely sharable. … Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1977 – 10
The Divine Love Affair: The Guru-Chela Journey to Divine Unity
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In the guru-chela relationship, the greatest fallacy for a chela is to project a particular ideal. You do not approach a guru with a preconceived idea. If you have a preconceived notion, then you are not a seeker. You do not go to a guru. You go with an open, unbiased, blank mind.