What is the nature of compassion? Compassion has no nature because compassion exists within itself. If you try to define compassion, your mind will be involved. And once the mind is involved, how can compassion be felt? Compassion comes from the heart.
Walk the Path Yourself
People try to capture Divinity in a test tube but cannot. Because the very test tube is Divinity itself – so, what is capturing what?
Ego Versus Self Realisation
Many people talk of annihilating the ego. What is the necessity of annihilating the ego? What is the necessity of destroying the ego? No, keep the ego by all means—but let the ego be permeated with the higher Self in us so that two things happen: we uplift the ego towards Divinity, and we bring down Divinity to the ego. It’s a two-way process, and that makes it simpler.
It is the Guru who Accepts You
Many people believe that the chela, or the pupil, accepts the teacher. It is the other way around. The Guru accepts you or tells you there is another path for you. And he will tell you this with love, always.
Changing the Course of your Life
Only a realisation is required to assimilate this understanding, and with the help of your meditations, you could change the entire course of your life within six months.
Purity of the Heart
The mind, which we call a cunning animal, is always pleasure-seeking. It operates 90 – 95 percent of the time by associating ideas. One thought breeds dozens of thoughts, and when all those thoughts come about in the mind, it is in a fragmented state.
Units make the Whole
Any person is a universe unto himself. Billions and billions and billions of cells operate in this little body, and they do so according to a precise system.
What is Consciousness?
Consciousness is one’s spiritual Self. That is pure consciousness that requires no support whatsoever from anything exterior to itself. That pure consciousness is a faculty, if you would like to use that word, that experiences itself, by itself, for itself. In other words, pure consciousness is.
The Teacher and the Taught
When the pupil is ready, the master is there, and the master comes in many forms and shapes. The whole purpose of the external guru is to awaken the internal guru. As a guru, I am only a channel, a means. There will come a time when you do not need the external guru because the internal guru will have been awakened.
Perfection is a Matter of Perception
Remember, what you see as imperfection is your conception. What you see as imperfect is perfect, too. Through its heat, the sun draws up water vapour, which becomes a cloud and makes things dark down below.