Life is made to give

A small task performed in sincerity is worth far more than a great task performed with motivation for oneself. Life is made to give and not to take, for it is in giving that we really receive. As we receive the true knowledge which is inherent within us, we use that knowledge wisely in service. […]

Love affair between Guru and Chela

You see how this beautiful love affair [between the Guru and the Chela] develops. Stage by stage there is a development. He makes you laugh, he makes you cry, all for a purpose. And the purpose is to bring the chela to the realization that he [the student] is Divine. Until then there is no […]

Experience

So what we want is experience. We want to experience here and now in this lifetime what search is all about and what the goal is all about. Because we are just searching and searching and going around in circles.

That is the beauty.

So when we reach the stage, and it’s not really easy, and joking apart, not easy, but we can develop this sense of non attachment. We don’t need to look far. It is right here and now, with everything.

Acceptance in relationships

When the wife or the husband becomes demanding in getting the attention to feed his or her ego and self-importance, friction begins. To avoid this friction one has to learn acceptance and surrender.

Unfolding love in a relationship

Love has to be worked at over a period of years so that two people slowly begin to understand each other. They begin to understand the faults and frailties of each other, and in understanding them, they accept them.

Incompatibility in relationships

By finding fault, it is not the fault of the other person, it is you. You are at fault: therefore you see a fault. We project ourselves upon others because we cannot handle ourselves by ourselves.

Sex and relationships

I do not advise celibacy for a householder. Celibacy practiced by a householder in the world as we know it, can become very dangerous. It can become repressive, and those inhibitions and repressions can translate themselves psychosomatically. When we marry there is at first a mutual attraction. One has to enhance this attraction if love […]