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“That Man is a true man whose mind dwells on God. He alone is a man whose spiritual consciousness has been awakened and who is really convinced that God alone is real and all else illusory. Futile is the human birth without the awakening of spiritual consciousness.” – Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa.

It is all right to enjoy life; the secret of happiness is not to become attached to anything. Enjoy the smell of the flower, but see God in it. I have kept the consciousness of the senses only that in using them I may always perceive and think of God. “Mine eyes were made toContinue reading “See God in everything”

Girish: “Well sir, which way is more difficult: to renounce the world painfully, or to call upon Him while living in the household?” Sri Ramakrishna (to M.): “Don’t you know what the Gita says? One truly attains the Lord, if one attends to worldly work in a detached spirit, if one lives the worldly lifeContinue reading “Attend Worldly work .”

They could never substitute for the bliss of God. Even if you do no more than pray sincerely to Him, His great joy will eventually come upon you. “”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””You should wish for a thousand million deaths rather than enmesh yourself in bad habits from which you cannot free yourself. Money, sex, and wine were createdContinue reading “Once taste God’s sweetness.”

“You waste precious time each day. Every little time you spend with God will be spent to your best advantage; and whatever you achieve with the desire to please God in your heart will stand unto eternity. God is freedom from all misery. God is the wealth and the health you seek. The desire ofContinue reading “Don’t waste time.”

A JNANI HAS NO BODY Before leaving the ashram, I wrote down several questions for Guy Hague to ask Bhagavan that I had not had a chance to ask myself. I had been bothered by the fact that so many saints and enlightened people had been ill and suffering physically. I asked, “Should they notContinue reading “Only Karma should be worked out.”

In deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no world. In the states of waking and dream, there are thoughts, and there is a world also. Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out ofContinue reading “Self as residue.”

“When a man surrenders himself as a slave to the divine Lord, he realises at the end that all his actions are the actions of God. He loses his mine-ness. This is what is meant by ‘doing the will of God’. This is Siddhanta [the final view; the settled conclusion]. When a man realises thatContinue reading “Lose his mine-ness”

It is in the boundless ocean of my Self that the mind-creation called the world takes place. I am supremely peaceful and formless, and I remain as such. My true nature is not contained in objects, nor does any object exist in it, for it is infinite and spotless. So it is unattached, desireless andContinue reading “Highest qualification.”

Meditation is not done with effort; it happens on its own, it reveals itself on its own. But for meditation to manifest on its own, one has to undergo the discipline of meditation. But doing it and it happening are quite different. ~ Anandamayee Ma