There is no sin; it is a misconception of the mind. Sin is something you have done for which you feel guilty. This guilt is the greatest disease in the world today.
Grace Unveiled: Integrating Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Meditation
All kinds of meditational practices taught by true gurus only play thirty percent of the part. Ten percent is your self-effort, and sixty percent is Grace. For without Grace, you cannot breathe or lift a finger – you can do nothing.
Meditation is a Must in Our World Today!
If you open your mind to certain kinds of thoughts, you will attract other thoughts of a similar kind — birds of a feather flock together. You will attract similar thoughts floating around all the time, for this universe is nothing but a thought.
How to handle the Ego?
It is an illusion to regard ourselves as separate from Divinity. Through meditation, through the things that happen within yourself, you start to know a power greater than the gross little ego. For the ego is only an idea. One has to go beyond that idea.
How to handle Expectations?
Life cannot be lived without expectation. Now, what do we mean by expectation? That is the question. Because within expectation, there is planning. If you want to go on a journey, you have got to plan your route. And by planning your route, it would imply that you expect to reach New York if you are going to New York.
What is Mercifulness?
There are three different aspects: attachment, detachment, and non-attachment.
Attachment means that you are attached to a person through a form of need or dependency, be it emotional, physical or otherwise. And when that is cut off from you, you feel that pain.
Attachment means that you are attached to a person through a form of need or dependency, be it emotional or physical or otherwise. And when that is cut off from you, you feel that pain.
Man, know Thyself
To truly love yourself is to be integrated within yourself, and by being integrated within yourself, you find that Divinity there. And when you become one with that Divinity, then you do not love that Divinity, but you become that Divinity, which is you.
What is the Heart?
The Heart is composed of the inner core of your personality, and the inner core of your personality will never disappear; it will always remain.
What is Christ Consciousness?
The important thing about the man called Jesus was his spirit, which we call Christ. And what we are interested in is not the man called Jesus but the consciousness within him, which is Christ Consciousness.
The Real Avatara – Showing Himself/Herself
Why does the Avatara not start his teachings once he has taken birth? The incarnation, coming from this vastness and embodying himself in this little body, he, too, has to open himself up. He, too, has to know who he is. He also has to take a bath after travelling through all these dust storms of the universe. And then, the moment comes when he knows who he is, and his mission begins.