The creation of unnecessary wants brings you suffering and misery No one asks you to become desireless. No one asks you be totally non‑attached, because your very nature in such that even the enlightened man must have that two percent attachment. Otherwise he would not be able to exist in a body. But there is […]
Language and truth
Is language truth? TAMAJI: Could you speak briefly about the relationship between language and truth? GURURAJ: Language and truth, uh huh. And why must I speak about it briefly? TAMAJI: One word. GURURAJ: [LAUGHTER] Language is not truth. Language is just an expression of the feeling that is within you. And how true are your […]
The state of no-mind
There’s no such thing as no mind Chetan: Beloved Guruji, what is that state where there is no awareness of self, no I, no thoughts, no words, just awareness; yet one remember the state after it has ended. GURURAJ: Ah, ah, beautiful, beautiful. According to Zen philosophy, they call it the state of no mind. […]
I am not this, not that. I
The Divinity that is within you is non‑cognizable Ramu: Beloved Guruji, this question is in the form of a riddle. I am that which causes awareness to flow from the grossness of the lower mind to the un‑differentiated bliss of the superconscious. I am not mind, but upon me the mind rests. I do not […]
I am not this, not that. II
I always said gurus are dumb‑asses So I, with something that has no substance but which has just created an impression there, presume that this mind and this body is real. So now, what have we done so far? We are accepting the reality of the mind and the body, and, at the same time, […]
No doctor can cure your ailment
In any good deed or bad deed the same energy is used—it is a matter of direction. If a person embarks on a destructive course, we say that Satan has possessed him, and if he goes on a constructive course we say that he is goodly and godly. There’s no goodly-and-godliness here: he did a […]
The mirror of life II
Do I exist or do I live? The question would start, «Do I exist or do I live?» Ninety‑ nine point nine nine nine percent of the world’s population, which is about 4000 million today, they do not live, they just exist. So live life with the realization that life is the aim and the […]
The mirror of life I
And what is this reality all about? You think you are real. You think you are John, Jean, Jack, Joe. But are you really Jean, Jack, Joe?