The Gods are not playing with you, you are playing with the Gods (Energies) ROOPA: My mother asked that this question be asked. So, for her I’m asking the question‑‑for Nirmala. It’s a typical… never mind. If life was supposed to be the play of the Gods, why are so many people so miserable? When […]
"Let my love be measured by giving and not by gain"
A life dedicated to service
Biography
Gururaj was born and raised Parsotam Narshi Bhana in India. He lived most of his life beyond age 20 in Cape Town, South Africa. A brief synopsis of Gururaj's life up to age 44 is given below under chronology. Most pertinent, to this profile, is the
Teachings about Unconditional Love
Service is an art
Service is an art, and art is freedom. So when we serve in the spirit of an offering, it is a freedom that is expressed from deep within ourselves. Service does not bind, it frees a person.
Other teachings about Ananda
Teachings about Mind and Manifestation
Personal and Impersonal God
Questioner: Guruji, this question arises from the difficulty I have with the concept of the Personal God, God with form and I ask myself what is that form? And then I understand from the things that you have said in the past that the Personal God, Ishvara, continues to exist during the present cycle of […]
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Teachings about Ego
As you sow, so shall you reap
The law of cause and effect, or karmic law, is the principle that as you sow, so shall you reap. Karma forms an integral part of the subtle body and exists in the subtle body in an impression form. So karma, which is action, transforms itself into impressions which we call samskaras. Thus by thought, […]
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The Seeker and the Path
Divinity
The Impersonal God does not create. It just manifests, and its first manifestation is the subtlest level of the Universal Mind. This is another name for the personal God. Creation is something done by will. Manifestation is something automatic and spontaneous. Take for example, fire: its nature is to give heat. Fire in this sense […]
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Other posts from Gururaj and his disciples
Gururaj Ananda Yogi
Gururaj was born and raised Parsotam Narshi Bhana in India. He lived most of his life beyond age 20 in Cape Town, South Africa. From age 44 until his demise, which he predicted, at age 56, he devoted himself to teaching groups of people, amounting to tens of thousands of students, the art of personalised […]
Keeping yourself together
Love is the secret that overrides the mind You’d be surprised I’m keeping myself together. [Gururaj laughs] Keep yourself together through the power of love. And therefore the scriptures, all the scriptures say, «Love thy neighbor as yourself.» But I would add onto that, not only your neighbor. Here’s my neighbor, that’s my neighbor, this […]