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Does the Gita Justify Caste? Unravelling the Misinterpretation

Does the Gita Justify Caste? Unravelling the Misinterpretation

Was the Gita Meant to Uphold Caste? The answer is clear and direct: ‘Absolutely not.’ One of the Gita’s most profound declarations is found in Chapter 5, Verse 18: “The wise see with equal vision a Brahmin, a cow, a dog, and an outcaste.” In our Gita sessions, we often recite a verse: ‘Our caste is Atma. Our lineage is Brahm. Truth is our father, and Liberation is our religion.’ This is the identity the Gita calls for — not in ritual, but in how we live.

What Is Self-Enquiry?

What Is Self-Enquiry?

Self-enquiry does not mean enquiring into the Truth. The mind cannot enquire into the Truth. That’s the fundamental message of Vedanta. Truth should be the centre of your life. Spirituality is about enquiring into your daily life — and that alone is self-enquiry. With Truth at the centre of your life, look at your life — your job, your wife, your family, your body, your moods, everything.

Vibes, Energy, Aura: New-Age Nonsense

Vibes, Energy, Aura: New-Age Nonsense

You look at a person and you say, “This fellow gives me bad vibes.” Now, those bad vibes are your feelings about that person. But you are pretending as if your feelings are his quality. Vedanta says, “You are the source of all your experiences.” The cult of vibrations, auras, energies, positivity, and negativity — it is an enemy of self-observation. It will not allow you to look at yourself.

Do Ghosts Exist? Bhoot-Pishaach Nikat Nahin Aave

Do Ghosts Exist? Bhoot-Pishaach Nikat Nahin Aave

To the one who believes in ghosts (Bhūta-Piśāca) — for him, they exist. When you are asleep and are engaged in some nightmare, you feel it actually exists. Bhūta-Piśāca Nikata Nahiṁ Āve, Mahāvīra Jab Nāma Sunāve: Mahavira Hanuman, devoted to Shri Ram, is to be taken as the representative of Truth. If you can be close to the representative of the Truth, you will get rid of all nonsensical and horrifying imaginations.

Neither I Am This Body, Nor This Body Is Mine

Neither I Am This Body, Nor This Body Is Mine

When you look at the body, you see that the body was founded by something outside of itself: one cell from the father, one cell from the mother. And whatever the body feeds on — food, water, air, sunlight — all of that comes from outside the body. You, who are conscious, have hardly anything in common with the body. Also, the wise man says, “The body is not mine,” because he doesn't control the body. The body will die one day whether one wants it or not.

Climate Crisis: Existence Itself Is Wailing

Climate Crisis: Existence Itself Is Wailing

Climate is an entire industry, which receives hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for tech-based crisis solutions. And technological or scientific or policy measures are just eyewash. On the other pole, a lot of money is flowing towards climate denialism. We do not have enough time to wait for everyone to see on their own that we are on the edge of the final calamity. What you need now is not persuasiveness, but power. The Gita is a message to fight. It’s a war call.

Nirvana Shatkam in the Age of AI

Nirvana Shatkam in the Age of AI

Nobody can halt the march of science and technology. All that science can do, it will do. You will be cloned, replicated, duplicated, and substituted. Therefore, you must come to that within you which is alone, not transferable. Go to Nirvāṇa Ṣaṭkam to know what you are not. That which you are not — let it be copied, substituted, or whatever. And when you can discount everything that you are not, then: "Chidānanda-rūpaḥ Śivo’ham Śivo’ham."

God and Truth Are Different Things

God and Truth Are Different Things

What you call as God is a concept; Truth is not a concept. Therefore, you can have stories about God, various religions, and their miscellaneous beliefs. But you can have no story at all about Truth because it is that which is invariable. Time cannot change it, and it doesn't vary from person to person. Irrespective of your subjective state, it remains as it is. Truth just turns you silent.

Can Defeat be Sweet? On Khalil Gibran

Can Defeat be Sweet? On Khalil Gibran

There is no particular glory or joy in defeat. Victory is likable because man associates joy with victory and the loss of joy with defeat. Your victories will not bring you joy. If your victories are bringing you joy, then it is a very shallow joy. And when joy there is, joy remains equally in victory and in defeat. Victory appeared favorable, defeat appeared unfavorable, the poet is celebrating the fact that that which appeared unfavorable is no more unfavorable.

What Really Is Ego?

What Really Is Ego?

A common misconception that many of us have is that ‘ego is pride’, but it is far more pervasive than pride. It is the sum total of everything that we have taken from the outside and accepted as our beliefs and identities without applying intelligence. But we are not a sum total of external influences. Even if everything external is taken away, the pure existence still remains — we have an existence of our own. Ego is this forgetfulness of our pure existence.

Attachment

Our culture has turned attachment into value, very proximate to love. However, attachment is poison and has nothing to do with love. We don’t feel ashamed admitting that we are attached, as if something beautiful is happening. If you are with the wrong one, and not even prepared to see that you are with the wrong one — that’s attachment. And you can never be attached to the Right One; there is only dissolution.

Question Everything

Question Everything

The Truth cannot be objectified as a thing, place, person, or book. So, don't be too quick to accept your own assessments, judgments, likes, dislikes, and experiences. Whatever you're seeing is seen by "you" — the Ego — and you are no absolute. Everything must be available to enquiry, investigation, and questioning — and questioning cannot happen if you declare that you’ve already come to the Truth. Never believe that the journey has ended or that the ego itself is the Truth.

Can We Live for Others?

Can We Live for Others?

It has been a tradition in India that when you donate, you bow down to the one you are donating to, because he has done you a favour by accepting your donation. Being what we are, it is hardly possible for us to do anything for others. Kindly get over this notion that we live for others. That is the privilege granted only to a Buddha. Only in a state of inner fulfilment can one really do something for others.

Is the Gita for Everyone?

Is the Gita for Everyone?

Gita can be brought to anybody, and Arjunas are not always available. Sometimes, Duryodhanas have to be turned into Arjunas. It’s just that it’s relatively easier with an Arjuna. As long as somebody has even the faintest remnant of consciousness left, Gita can be brought to that person — but it will be tough. Nobody really deserves the Gita. You can only be grateful to the Gita if it comes to you.

The Israel–Iran Case: A Religious Struggle

The Israel–Iran Case: A Religious Struggle

What’s happening in the Israel–Iran case is mostly about religion. Israel–Iran relations were far more cordial until 1979, when Iran got a new Islamic constitution, and Iran declares Israel as the “Little Satan” because Israel is a Jewish country. Had both these countries been Muslim, would there be a strife? Had both these countries been Jewish, again, would there be a strife? But we want to close our eyes to the bare fact that religion gone wrong is the worst thing possible to human beings.

Heaven and Hell Are Here and Now

Heaven and Hell Are Here and Now

Don’t think of heaven and hell as the afterlife; both are here, right now. As the Niralamba Upanishad says: Right company is heaven; wrong company is hell. If you are someone who loves to be with people who will take you towards truth, joy, and simplicity, you are already in heaven. And if you surround yourself with people who pull down your consciousness, then verily, you are—right now—in hell.

What Is 'Yog' Really About?

What Is 'Yog' Really About?

If the word ‘Yog’ comes to be synonymous with physical exercise, then it’s a joke. When you look at the mass of people, what is it that you find more unhealthy — the body or the mind? It is the mind that is extremely unhealthy. And all of that is because the mind is in ‘Viyog’ — the mind is separated from something that it desperately wants. So, Yog has to be an inquiry into who we are, and what it is that we really want.

Ahmedabad Plane Crash: Why Are the Airport and Hospital Side by Side?

Ahmedabad Plane Crash: Why Are the Airport and Hospital Side by Side?

It is the most critical moment for the plane, when it is taking off. Even after that, if we are constructing something as sensitive as a hospital right next to the airport — then only God can help. This can only be found in India — where there's an airport, and right next to it are buildings, and we accept it. Until we understand that living with dignity is more important, we will keep finding it acceptable to sell off our safety and self-respect.

Is The Gita About Sattvikata?

Is The Gita About Sattvikata?

The Gita has nothing to do with sāttvikatā. Even sāttvikatā is to be rejected as destiny, while even rājasikatā is to be embraced if it serves as a means to freedom. Everything and anything is fine if it is usable in the context of liberation. Even sattva can become an object of consumption — don’t we see learned people whose knowledge becomes their identity? The Gita is about getting rid of all traps — be it sattva, rajas, tamas, or anything.

Is Grace Available to Everybody?

Is Grace Available to Everybody?

We say, “It was just sheer grace that the Buddha encountered sights of the old man, the sick man, the destitute, and was transformed.” But — was the Buddha the only one who encountered such sights? Grace is available to everybody; it was only the Buddha who decided that it’s time to take action. Grace is that which comes to you unconditionally, but people reject grace. Even grace respects your choice.

‘Why’: A Key to True Education

‘Why’: A Key to True Education

The teacher must know ‘why’ the kid must study science or history — only then will it reach the child, and only then will the child take authentically to the teaching. Human beings are not born human beings; they have to be educated to become human beings. Schools give birth to humanity in the real sense, and their role must be performed with a great degree of understanding and love.

Violent Relationships: A New Trend, or an Enduring Structure?

Violent Relationships: A New Trend, or an Enduring Structure?

Violent relationships reflect deep societal flaws — rushed marriages, lack of emotional education, and cultural silence turn love into suffering. We must rethink our understanding of love and marriage, and create support systems within families and communities where people can talk openly. Let India return to her deepest moorings — where love is rooted in self-knowledge, and relationships are anchored in freedom.

The Right Role of Parents

The Right Role of Parents

The role of the parents is to give birth — to not only give the body, but also then unburden the child of the body. When parents operate through their conditioned patterns, those kids turn violent, loveless, and insecure when they become adults. Your relationship with the kid cannot change till you continue to be what you are.

Climate Change and Feedback Loops: Have We Reached the Point of No Return?

Climate Change and Feedback Loops: Have We Reached the Point of No Return?

We are seeing catastrophic long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns, driven by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrialization. Longer droughts, more intense heatwaves, and unpredictable rainfall patterns have become the new normal. The climate change of our planet reflects the fragmentation within. The way forward demands more than policy or technology; it demands a profound shift in how we live, think, and are connected to the planet.

How to Deal with Anger?

How to Deal with Anger?

When your expectations are not fulfilled, that is the situation you call anger. Your expectation is nothing but a desire that the other person should behave according to your image of him. You create images because you are afraid. If you are not afraid, you cannot be angry. All these diseases come from a basic fountainhead — ignorance. They go away once ignorance goes away.

Is Premarital Sex Okay?

Is Premarital Sex Okay?

Sex, whether premarital or postmarital, depends on the people who are engaging in it. Even in postmarital sex, there can be a lot of violence. Equally, there can be a very bad kind of sexual encounter before marriage. The word marital does not matter. If two people are not meeting in actual love, then it doesn't matter whether the thing is postmarital or premarital — it is simply abominable. If you love someone, give them wings, light, and self-knowledge. Liberation is the foremost indicator of love.

Sant Kabir: Flame that Scorched Falsehood

Sant Kabir: Flame that Scorched Falsehood

To speak of Sant Kabir is not to speak of a distant figure from the annals of Indian mysticism. For those who can listen, he is not a poet from the past, but an eternal flame within — one that neither flickers nor flatters, but only illuminates. This Kabir Jayanti, let’s not just light lamps — let’s light what lies within. Reciting his verses is easy. Living their truth is not. But that is the only true tribute — to allow his voice to reveal all that is false and borrowed.

Waiting for the Right Person?

Waiting for the Right Person?

Do not perpetually keep waiting for human company. You can never be very sure that you will have very high-quality people in your life because the right kind of people are not too many. There are tremendous ways to add value to life. It's one of the big fortunes of life to be able to have work that one can immerse oneself in. Travel, read, challenge yourself — these are equally effective ways to have company and not feel lonely.

When the Fish Disappear, So Do We

When the Fish Disappear, So Do We

If the current trends of fishing continue, we’ll have virtually empty oceans, no aquatic life, and then we all will disappear too. The oceans are the way they are because you are the way you are. If fish are disappearing from the oceans, they are landing in our homes. And if you want to bring a change in the condition of the oceans, you will have to bring a change in your own condition.

Death Is a Teacher

Death Is a Teacher

Death comes to teach us. Let's learn the lesson. Death is a liberator — not so much to the one who has died, but to the one who is still alive. Your normal work, relationships, worldview — all these will appear hollow when you're struck by the fragility of everything. Death disturbs us precisely because it challenges the assumptions on which we base our day-to-day life. Once you have seen something, you cannot be the same ignorant mind.

Slaughtering Animals Is Slaughtering Yourself

Slaughtering Animals Is Slaughtering Yourself

When you look into the eyes of an animal, and if you are really awake, you will only see your own deep innocence, which might be hidden from you. It is impossible to see anything or anybody else when you really look. That thing that you look at, and that which looks back at you is most prominently visible in the eyes. Look at the animal, pause and meditate for a while — and then go ahead and slaughter it, if you can. You’ll only be slaughtering yourself.

Is Man Really Superior to Animals?

Is Man Really Superior to Animals?

If God stands for innocence, trust, surrender, then animals are closer to God. But man values himself by his ability to exploit. If you always feel hollow and hungry, then the entire universe is but a resource for you. One then wants to exploit the man, the woman, the child, the animals — everything. So, someone who does not want to look at the universe as a resource will not want to kill or consume anything in a violent way.

World Environment Day: The Climate Crisis and the Need for Inner Awakening

World Environment Day: The Climate Crisis and the Need for Inner Awakening

Climate change is the result of centuries of misplaced priorities and blind ambition. Those who live without self-awareness are bound to consume nature and everything else along the way. As long as there’s no change in the inner weather, the outer world will remain in peril. Let’s make World Environment Day more than a symbolic celebration; let it signal a real shift in consciousness — from consumption to contemplation. Let this day remind us: the crisis lies within us, and so does the cure.

How to Deal with Trauma from the Past?

How to Deal with Trauma from the Past?

Whenever the past bothers you, you should immediately know that some danger is lurking in the present. Had the right thing been happening to you right now, then you couldn’t have been bothered with the past. And that is what the past does. It serves as a very deceptive distraction from the present. Figure out what is happening today.

You Are in Prison

You Are in Prison

Never forget who you are — you are someone in prison. Talk of exits, and if doors do not exist, blast the damn walls. That's the reason why you need power. You should honestly and realistically seek freedom from your current bondages. Your responsibility is not to acquire something more. Your responsibility is to drop a lot of things. Drop what you know to be needless and harmful.

Why Am I Unable to Deal with Suffering?

Why Am I Unable to Deal with Suffering?

The reason is that we have internalized a utopian image of a suffering-free life. And our current state of suffering, compared with the utopian heaven, makes us very frustrated. So, keep this comparison aside by seeing that this utopia is purely imaginary. You are not born to be in bliss. In fact, suffering is an inevitable part of life. Take life as it is, and then do your best to raise it as much as possible — this is excellence.

FOMO

Behind all FOMO is the fear of missing out on what life has the potential to deliver to each of us. Since we don't know ourselves fully enough, there is a general kind of anxiety — "I'm missing out on something." Let's identify what we are really missing. And the process is of negation and rejection. Reject what is not needed. If the inner rubbish can be cleaned up, you realize — that's all.

The Bhagavad Gita Is a Mirror

The Bhagavad Gita Is a Mirror

You look in the mirror, and if there is a speck or blemish on your face, you want to change something. If you look at the Gita and that doesn't result in changes in your life, then you are misusing it. Anybody who holds the Gita must be ready to look within and discard all that which is unnecessary, borrowed, antithetical to life. If that is not happening, then that's disrespect to the Gita.

The Rebel's Handbook

The Rebel's Handbook

Those who want to travel long distances and fight important battles, they don’t carry baggage - they travel light. You must know which responsibilities rightfully belong to you and which ones you must disown. You are not obliged to fulfill all the so-called traditional responsibilities. Therefore, you’ll need a total revolution in your inner world before you can fearlessly do something in the outer world.

Why Do We Treat Women as Property?

Why Do We Treat Women as Property?

It is our animal tendency to be territorial and to really want to control the other gender — so that we can maximize our own pleasure. When you own something, then there is a sense of security and that's why men want to control women's sexuality. You can dispel that by understanding that you can have no lasting pleasure by owning anything — including a person of the other gender.

In the Right Battle, Even Defeat Is Victory

In the Right Battle, Even Defeat Is Victory

We all have our moments, our episodes of failures. We all let ourselves down at some time or the other. What to do then? Rule number one – do not go down tamely. If there is an inner conflict, and you know which side should win, fight hard to ensure that the right side prevails. Rule number two – keep fighting till your victory and keep fighting in your defeat. Even in defeat, remain a winner.

Can You Truly Have Privacy in a Digital World?

Can You Truly Have Privacy in a Digital World?

The systems that we have — they are very easily controllable, which means there will be greater power in the hands of those owning the tech companies. As technology progresses, everything that you do is going to be watched. So, there is no way you will have privacy — or at least an assurance of privacy — of the old kind. The only thing that can safeguard you is a clean inside. You need not have stuff that you have to very, very diligently guard and that makes you vulnerable. Only that can help you.

Operation 2030: Confronting The Climate Crisis Within

Operation 2030: Confronting The Climate Crisis Within

Operation 2030 aims to do four things: Redefine Success—From accumulation to awareness by popularizing wisdom literature; Expose the Real Culprits—Question those holding elite status; Price Carbon, Shift Demand—Influence the demand of goods based on their carbon impact; and Make Climate Political—Every vote, purchase, and click is a climate decision. It is a call to confront the full scale of the crisis we are already experiencing.

Welcoming Life, Without Conditions

Welcoming Life, Without Conditions

When it comes to healing the discontentment within, we believe that one object is better than the other. We are desirous of happiness and scared of sadness, but we can’t see that neither can give us what we really want. Feelings and experiences are not to be taken so seriously. Don’t resist tears, cry gently, without suppression. Similarly, laughter can be organic, beautiful in its purposeless flow.

Patriarchy: What Exactly Do You Need to Fight?

Patriarchy: What Exactly Do You Need to Fight?

Women are physically a bit weaker, and men could coerce them using sheer muscle power. But those days are behind us, because now we have institutions, the law, and the police — systems that do not listen to muscles. There is something in you that agrees to the demands being made by the patriarchal system — question that. What is it in you that surrenders — and that thing is called greed and fear. So that's what you need to fight against — your greed and fear.

Operation 2030

There is enough scientific evidence that says if the average global temperature exceeds 1.5 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, it could trigger massive feedback loops — self-sustaining and irreversible climatic phenomena. There is evidence that the average global temperature rise has already reached 1.7 degrees centigrade. This operation is a voice against an impending catastrophe — a catastrophe that the younger generations are going to face the brunt of.

Meditation: A Simple Honesty Beyond Methods and Routines

Meditation: A Simple Honesty Beyond Methods and Routines

What we call meditation is just escapism — using some ‘methods of meditation’ to superficially soothe our restlessness or gain temporary and deceptive relief from stress. It’s not about feeling good; it’s about coming face-to-face with uncomfortable facts. True meditation begins when you face your inner chaos head-on, not run away from it. Real meditation is the fire that destroys your false identities, your conditioning, and, therefore, your suffering.

External Challenges, Internal Solutions

External Challenges, Internal Solutions

The challenges we face today are unprecedented — climate change, religious conflict, inequality and injustice, overexposure to social media. The tsunami of cheap fulfillment of shallow desire will continue to rise. Without looking at our own internal traps and darknesses, we keep talking of external solutions to these problems. That is just wishful thinking. There is no way forward but the one inward.

War and Woman: A Mirror to Mankind’s Inner Jungle

War and Woman: A Mirror to Mankind’s Inner Jungle

The connection between war, women, and violence is neither new nor coincidental. History has seen hundreds of battles where women have been deliberate targets. This is because the modern man claims to be civilized, but internally still remains a creature of the jungle, with a primal and unconscious drive to dominate and own. Only by sublimating this beast within can a society become truly sacred.

Safe Careers, Loveless Lives

Safe Careers, Loveless Lives

In India, anything that you do, people will ask: "Is there money in it?" This is because there was no money for centuries. But today, that has been taken care of for most of you. So, you can proceed towards things of higher value. But if 80% of what you think about is money and survival, how will you do anything meaningful in life? Money is an enabler, not the purpose of life. It allows you to live more freely, but it cannot become life itself.

The Journey to Purpose: Navigating Career and Calling

The Journey to Purpose: Navigating Career and Calling

The traditional view of securing financial stability before pursuing one’s calling overlooks something very important: the evolving nature of the self. Therefore, it is risky to postpone our calling for too long. Many long-term plans go unfulfilled for this reason. The longer we delay our true calling, the more we risk losing our connection to it because the passion may have faded or circumstances may no longer support such pursuits.

Freedom Within: Reclaiming Expression Through Inner Clarity

Freedom Within: Reclaiming Expression Through Inner Clarity

True freedom of speech is not just the right to speak, but also the responsibility to understand the source and purpose of our words. Only by cultivating awareness and speaking from a place of clarity can our expression be of true value to the world and ourselves. Expression is not a right; it is a sacred act. Hence, it must begin by looking within. Freedom outside requires freedom inside.

Responding to Terror With Wisdom: The Bhagavad Gita’s Timeless Message

Responding to Terror With Wisdom: The Bhagavad Gita’s Timeless Message

The Bhagavad Gita tells us how to respond when challenged with wars. Arjun was not merely instructed by Shri Krishna to fight, but to fight with clarity — free from fear or resentment. The Gita’s core teaching is: the right action must be based in wisdom — to understand the situation with clarity, rather than respond impulsively.

Vidya and Avidya

Vidya and Avidya

There is one kind of education that just deals with sustaining the body, including earning money, shelter, etc. It is important to have both Avidya (knowledge of the world) and Vidya (knowledge about the self). The second kind of education, which is completely missing, is the awakening of the intelligence and the finding of oneself. If you do not give attention to this education, you will find yourself rejected by life itself — you will find that you are just living a degraded life.

Are You Ready For True Love?

Are You Ready For True Love?

The wise ones say, “Love arrives only when the right, clean, and honoured space has been prepared for it.” So, you can never find love — you can only rid yourself of all that blocks it; all that is needlessly and coincidentally present in your mental space. And you can’t predict how love will arrive, but you can do your homework to clear the inner clutter.

Defeating The Monster Without Becoming a Monster

Defeating The Monster Without Becoming a Monster

War is a necessary evil. It takes a country away from the path of national development. One day of traditional warfare can cost ₹30,000–₹50,000 crores, excluding the loss of life, infrastructure, or capability destruction. Therefore, like all right action, the right war must arise from wisdom and discretion — not impulse or populist sentiment. Strategic retaliation must serve a higher purpose.

What Would Today’s Buddha Look Like?

What Would Today’s Buddha Look Like?

Buddha had some core traits which remain the same today. A sharp mind and a certain curiosity in knowing the depths of life, not feeling that ‘I already know.’ Deep compassion, detachment, and an unending desire to reach the ultimate knowledge, not lazily concluding at one point. He shared his knowledge with the world. A practical man — raised an organization that became the dominant religion of the land. Today, in an age where religion has distorted, we need hundreds of Buddhas.

Have It All But Still Unfulfilled?

Have It All But Still Unfulfilled?

For those who already have a certain level of financial, social, intellectual, and familial attainment but are still not satisfied, the only thing that can fulfill them is forgetfulness towards their personal success. Serve a cause bigger than yourself, and there will be no time or opportunity to keep wondering whether your demands have been met. This is when you have really succeeded.

Why Are We in an Age of Extremism?

Why Are We in an Age of Extremism?

Man is taking extreme measures in the external world due to his extreme inner hollowness. This hollowness comes from a philosophy of endless consumption and from technology that is capable of producing endlessly. But the purpose of our life is the spiritual urge to be liberated. And when we don't find this purpose, we indulge in stupid things like religious extremism and extreme merrymaking.

The Real India

The real India is not just a plot on a piece of paper. It is the India in which the openness of mind was first learned, where the Upanishads were born, and the land of Mahavira and Buddha. India is beautiful because it gave the world its first light of wisdom. That India is a very privileged and rare place — that is my India.

The Real Way to Deal with Dependency

The Real Way to Deal with Dependency

You are born with a feeling of loneliness and dependency. Even if you live till 126, you will find that loneliness still haunts you. The real way to fight this is to go to the scriptures. Once you develop the taste of being with Shri Krishna or a Mahavira, you will forget loneliness and dependency. And to make space for them, you have to evict all the nonsense that is sitting in your mind.

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Opened the first indigenous school for girls at the age of 21. He worked all his life against evils like child marriage, suppression of women's education, casteism, prohibition of widow remarriage, and infanticide. Babasaheb Ambedkar called him his guru and intellectual father.

Why Does Caste Still Continue?

Why Does Caste Still Continue?

Caste is something that the Upanishads actively dismiss. So many of our saints came from the so-called lower castes and tried to purge Hinduism of its nonsense, but still, caste continues for two reasons. First, a human is born with an innate tendency to divide and separate. And second, a light has to be awakened in him, and that effort is called real education. We do not receive that education today.

Love Versus Desire

Love Versus Desire

Love is always dedicated to the purpose of liberation, whereas desire forgets the highest and remembers only the object. If, in the process of love, desire, or attraction, you find that you have never lost sight of the Truth — rest assured, you are loving. But if the object becomes so dominant that you have totally forgotten the Truth, know that this is not love.

Caste Exists Only in the Mind

Caste Exists Only in the Mind

Caste is not in the body, it is just in the mind. If you are interested in somebody’s caste, you are a casteist! You meet someone, the person is standing in front of you — assess him as good, bad, or whatever — but why do you want to know his caste? Caste should have been relegated to the museums and the history books by now. Drop it right now! But to drop it, you will need to have self-knowledge.

When Will Life Be Sorted for Good?

When Will Life Be Sorted for Good?

There has never, ever been anybody 100% sorted. There are always challenges, and those challenges arise from the body itself; your enemy is within you, and it will remain as long as you are alive. So, learn to revel in this situation — it's called life. And instead of asking for a final victory, start asking for a good battle — battles where, even in your pain, you can say, “This one was good!”

Is UPSC A National Loss For India?

Is UPSC A National Loss For India?

98% of the UPSC candidates should actually never have been candidates. Before one decides to invest one's life into something, shouldn’t one ask, “Am I even cut out for this?” “Do I have any worthwhile reason to pursue this?” The entire young section of the population — full of energy, is squandering its years preparing for an examination and by the time they're through with it, they're spent and old. This is a tremendous national loss.

Stay Away From 'Pop Spirituality'

Stay Away From 'Pop Spirituality'

‘Pop spirituality’ can include anything — some kriya, snakes, spirits, ghosts — things that can neither be verified nor negated. India had a better name: ‘Adhyatma’, which means ‘self-knowledge’, not ‘spirituality’. And once you realize it's about knowing yourself through self-inquiry, it becomes the ruthless negation of all imaginary products of the ego — with deep respect for facts.

What Does It Mean to be Superconscious?

What Does It Mean to be Superconscious?

Superconsciousness is not in another dimension; it belongs to this world that we are in. It is a word to emphasize that it is possible to rise above ordinary consciousness. Ordinary consciousness is a state of mental slavery. The more liberated one is internally, the higher is said to be the state of consciousness. And beyond a certain point, you may say that a fellow is superconscious.

True Relationships Arise from Aloneness

True Relationships Arise from Aloneness

You may say that you are in love; but do you love that man, or do you love what you get through that man? When you are needy and lonely, then your relationships are like band-aids: they are there to take care of your wounds. But if you live your life from a point of aloneness — which is totally different from loneliness — your relationships will take on a different colour. Then you will really be free and not a slave.

Does The Bhagavad Gita Support War?

Does The Bhagavad Gita Support War?

We often feel that the Mahabharata war was about avenging the atrocities that Duryodhana had been committing. But in fact, the war was to stop Duryodhana from wreaking havoc on the entire country in the future. If the state policies themselves promote Adharma, then the effect on the population would certainly be derogatory. Therefore, despite the likely great loss of lives, it was still important to fight the war.

Your Goals Are Trapping You

Your Goals Are Trapping You

Those who work towards 'an end' find that they are defeated both in the work and in achieving 'the end' because even if they somehow manage to reach that end, they find that it's not really what they wanted. So, they proceed to the next destination; this is a vicious cycle. On the other hand, those who work because the work itself is a celebration, they win doubly because the work itself is the end, and they celebrate all the way to success.

Do You Really Need Confidence?

Do You Really Need Confidence?

The question of confidence arises only when you are afraid. You do not need confidence when you are with the loved one, but in the interview room, everybody says, “I need confidence.” Look at all your images of confidence, and you will see a fine aggression there, because fear and violence go together. Don’t ask for confidence, ask for fearlessness.

Hiding Behind Makeup?

Hiding Behind Makeup?

It's one thing to take care of the body so that it doesn't interfere with your creative endeavours. And it is another thing entirely to put on makeup to enhance your value in other people's eyes. When you don't have value within, you put artificial value upon yourself as a compensation. But looking colourful on the outside does not help with the inward barrenness. And ultimately, it is the inner colour, vigour, truth, and love that we are all looking for.

Religion and Violence

Religion and Violence

Religious violence is not about a handful of terrorists; it's an entire ecosystem of passive toxicity supported by lakhs of people. When toxicity is beamed to you on TV and social media, you don't resist. And one day, it explodes into active violence. This is because we're still animals who live without understanding ourselves — this is called ignorance. Therefore, we need wisdom literature to help us transcend our animal disposition.

Is News Of Any Use?

Is News Of Any Use?

Both the TV channels and the newspapers use news as a vehicle to bring advertisements to you. You are being subtly manipulated to buy and consume, consume and buy. Knowledge can be both—bondage and liberation. Knowing the world is knowing oneself; knowing oneself is knowing the world. It pays to know the world. And that is different from being obsessed with the world.

The Trap of Positive and Negative Attitudes

The Trap of Positive and Negative Attitudes

There is nothing called ‘positive attitude’ or ‘negative attitude’. All attitudes are enemies of understanding and reality. An intelligent man lives a life free of attitude. Within attitude, you approach reality with a fixed, frozen mindset. When you come to a situation, come to it afresh—not with a ‘positive’ or a ‘negative’ attitude, but with real intelligence.

Should You Trust Your Feelings?

Should You Trust Your Feelings?

When feelings surge in your mind and body, be careful and pay attention! This is the moment when you lose the plot. The initial surge of energy that a feeling has is beyond your consciousness and control; it is determined mostly by your conditioning and partly by your genes. So, don't add conscious energy to the unconscious uprising. The most important mark of a wise man is that he does not live by feelings.

Is Capitalism the Root of Our Problems?

Is Capitalism the Root of Our Problems?

It’s not capitalism versus socialism; if the center I am operating from is itself animalistic, then I will want to earn profits for myself, whatever be the social cost. The change that we need is inward- ‘self-knowledge’. We need an education system in which the child is very openly helped to face his/her animalistic nature, then we will develop a certain humility to look for solutions beyond our tendencies.

Doubting Thomas: Did Christ Resurrect?

Doubting Thomas: Did Christ Resurrect?

Only the man who believes in the world that he sees with his eyes would want the proof of Godliness admissible through the eyes. Such doubting Thomases do not see that what the eyes see is not really true. Only a Christ can tell you what is True and what is false. And if you are suspecting Christ himself, there is nobody who can now tell you the difference.

Weekday Blues, Weekend Highs

Weekday Blues, Weekend Highs

Can a man who is bored during the weekdays suddenly become lively over the weekend? Why is there a separation? There is work, and then there is something else. It means you do not know what you are doing. When you have no real relationship with your work, you do not have any relationship with yourself, and as a result, all your life is spent just seeking holidays.

When Jesus Said: Hate Your Family and Your Life

When Jesus Said: Hate Your Family and Your Life

Jesus is not a hater of persons. He is saying hate the way you have become. The Bible is not a document of hate, the central message is of Love. But when we love, we chain each other. When God loves us, He sets us free. So Jesus is saying to hate the way we relate to each other — because our love is not Godly. Love each other just as God the Father has loved you.

Will AI Take Away My Job?

Will AI Take Away My Job?

AI has no consciousness; it can only do what it is programmed to do. These are just programmed reactions. If you are in a job that involves this kind of programmable role, your job would be threatened by AI. Human beings, by definition, must be in actions that involve creativity. Machines can never understand. Why were you not into jobs that involved understanding or creativity?

Spirituality Is Basic Honesty

Spirituality Is Basic Honesty

The distinction between spiritual life and worldly life is a false distinction. Spirituality is not morality or a set of commandments. It is never instructive. You do not need great formulations or special practices. Spirituality is basic honesty. Just see and acknowledge what is going on, and then the right action follows. Nothing else is needed.

Was Dr. Ambedkar Against Hinduism?

Was Dr. Ambedkar Against Hinduism?

Dr. Ambedkar, one of the greatest minds of modern India, had problems with Hindu culture, but not with Vedanta. Our culture is based on the very periphery of religion and does not resonate with Vedanta. That’s the reason it is in conflict with the Constitution. The Constitution and true religiosity—which you can call self-knowledge or Vedanta—go together.

Does Dr. Ambedkar's Legacy Support Vegan Principles?

Does Dr. Ambedkar's Legacy Support Vegan Principles?

Dr. Ambedkar stood for the oppressed, and there is nobody more oppressed in the world today than these little kids from various species. If you're an Ambedkarite, you should be the first one to turn vegan, because oppression should not see caste, gender, color, or species. It is very bad when a human being is oppressed. Is it also not equally terrible when a sheep, a goat, a chicken, a fish, or a pig is slaughtered?

Your Role Models Are Destroying The Planet

Your Role Models Are Destroying The Planet

Your role models are unworthy people. They're your role models only because you aspire to consume as much as them. Notice how they either display their ability to consume or they present themselves as stuff to be consumed. So, when consumption is the ideal that we have been taught, the result is catastrophic like climate change. So, don’t just be driven to anything that appears attractive; choose your role models very carefully.

Why Don't Indian Women Pay on Dates?

Why Don't Indian Women Pay on Dates?

Traditionally, women have been trained to be at home, while men have been conditioned to be breadwinners. The forces of conditioning cut both ways. Both are merely playing pre-scripted roles, shaped by their bodies and society. You are not you; you are manufactured by your body and trained by society. And so is she. So just as you resist from asking her to pay, she resists offering to pay — and it’s a bad game.

America Pollutes, India Suffers

America Pollutes, India Suffers

The United States has contributed approximately 25% of cumulative global greenhouse gas emissions since 1850, despite comprising only about 4% of the world's population. This exemplifies climate injustice, where wealthier nations emit the majority of carbon emissions, while poorer countries endure the most severe impacts.

Can Planting Trees Solve Climate Change?

Can Planting Trees Solve Climate Change?

It is very well known that one tree, over the course of forty years, would absorb just one ton of carbon dioxide. In one year, it absorbs 0.025 tons. Whereas, having one less child causes a difference of sixty tons per year. Now, do you want to happily plant trees and then go home and have a child? Misplaced climate activism is not solving the problem; it is a part of the problem.

If You Are A Woman, Avoid This!

If You Are A Woman, Avoid This!

The way Prakriti has made the two genders, and the way we are conditioned by society, girls have turned out to be more emotional and more reactive. And that’s a serious handicap they face in life. Many women take their emotionality as their strength, whereas it is not. It is something very untamed that arises from the body. One ought to understand it and stay at a safe distance from it.

Is Time Travel Possible?

Is Time Travel Possible?

The future comes from the choices that you make today, because you are a creature of choice. If you were not a creature of choice, then everything would have been predetermined. But you are a conscious person, and by definition, consciousness is choice. So, if you say that you are travelling into the future, which particular future are you travelling into? Time travel is just a fantasy—a nice thing to entertain the mind. There’s not much more in it.

Your Absence Might Just Save the Earth

Your Absence Might Just Save the Earth

The world’s problems are solved by those who don’t contribute to them. Leave the world to its fate—just five years, and everything will be alright. The jungles, the rivers, all have the intelligence to care for themselves. You start distorting things the moment you take the world as important, real, and significant. Just stop interfering.

Excellence Begins with Shri Ram

Excellence Begins with Shri Ram

Shri Ram is the source of all excellence—Kabir Sahab’s excellence, the excellence of an astronaut, the excellence of a deep-sea diver, the excellence of a professional, etc. If you don’t have excellence in what you do, it is because you have been disloyal to Ram. Without Ram, you can’t do anything nicely.

What Is the Effect of Spirituality on Marriage?

What Is the Effect of Spirituality on Marriage?

If the two persons who are in this social arrangement of marriage are also spiritual friends, then they rise above the social arrangement. The social arrangement by itself is a recipe for disaster. But when the social arrangement is purified, consecrated by the spiritual touch, then the poison in it is neutralized. In fact, there is only one antidote and that is spiritual association between the man and the woman.

Your Only Real Competition? Yesterday’s You

Your Only Real Competition? Yesterday’s You

Your responsibility is to be better than yourself, not to compare with others. Ask, “How much better am I than yesterday?” You are on your own journey. Competing with others is neither wise nor possible. Focus on where you started and where you are today. The real battle is not with others but with yourself. The question is always, “How far have I come?” That’s the essence of wisdom and bravery—being your own best self through constant self-improvement.

The Afterlife Myth

The Afterlife Myth

Afterlife is not even philosophy; it’s simply theology, present in every major religion. Science today confirms that there is nothing that survives the body. So, for whom are heaven and hell? It only takes one away from the direct realities of life because one is constantly dreaming of the afterlife. It is just an extremely venomous belief system.

How To Be Non-Violent In Today's World?

How To Be Non-Violent In Today's World?

Non-violence does not mean being good to others or turning the other cheek; this is a naïve interpretation of non-violence. In fact, non-violence does not have much to do with the "other" at all. It is actually about self-knowledge. If you know yourself, then you’re not afraid. And if you’re not afraid, you don’t treat the other as the "other" at all. With this realization, do what you must—this is non-violence.

Why Do We Prefer Morality Over Spirituality?

Why Do We Prefer Morality Over Spirituality?

There is a deep fear that keeps us terrified—the fear that things can go wrong at any time. And there is an inner laziness that makes us unwilling to figure out our own direction. So, we choose morality that comes with a ready-made action plan. 99% of what goes around in the name of religion or spirituality is just stale morality.

Gita’s Wisdom: A Solution to Riots

Gita’s Wisdom: A Solution to Riots

We talk about the 10, 20, or 100 indulging in active rioting but not the thousands and lakhs passively supporting them. If those thousands disappeared, would these few rioters survive? Had they known that displaying perverse attitudes in religion’s name would lead to social rejection, would they still dare? We fight because we are animals from jungles, sharing instincts with beasts. We require the Bhagavad Gita to transcend our animal disposition. Otherwise, we will remain violent.

New Year And New Beginnings Will Not Help You

New Year And New Beginnings Will Not Help You

One seeks change because one is not satisfied. One is attracted to new beginnings because one is not quite alright with his current state. No activity, no beginning, nothing new will help. The past that shapes us does not end but continues by renaming itself as the future. You do not need the beginning of a new pattern; you need termination from all patterns.

Are Women Impure During Menstruation?

Are Women Impure During Menstruation?

No woman ever chooses to menstruate. It happens. So how can she be held guilty, responsible, or unclean? It is quite unfortunate that it has become a taboo for so many women. The genesis of the whole thing lies in the concept of physical purity. And that refers not merely to menstrual discharge but to all kinds of discharges that the body emits. It’s not a matter of spirituality; it’s a matter of hygiene and aesthetics.

Reincarnation: Science or Myth?

Reincarnation: Science or Myth?

The scientific community takes reincarnation as something of a joke. Studies have been done but those studies have amounted to nothing. When you are living an unfulfilled life then the concept of reincarnation comes as a savior because you think you deserve the bondage and there is no need to fight. It prevents you from bringing meaning to this one life that you have. The Gita too, very forcefully destroys this concept.

Understand Your Dreams, Don't Just Follow

Understand Your Dreams, Don't Just Follow

Dreams arise from internal restlessness and a deep subconscious desire; there is nothing wrong with that. But if that desire is not understood properly, you'll end up chasing the wrong objects, assuming that the objects of your dreams are all that you want. So, don't take your dreams at face value. Go deep and see what your heart really longs for. A hint: dreams can guide you, but only if you read them properly.

Trick Your Habits Before They Trap You

Trick Your Habits Before They Trap You

As long as one is alive, habits will remain. Nature gave us habits for the sake of efficiency. In habits, there is no decision-making involved. You just do it. So habit is not a problem, the problem is that we are habituated in the wrong things. Be habituated towards the Truth. Towards Freedom. Be habituated towards keeping it simple and straight. Let these be your habits.

Heterosexual or homosexual—does it really matter?

Heterosexual or homosexual—does it really matter?

How does it matter whether you are homosexual or heterosexual? You're still body-identified. The lust for the body is still there. If one has homosexual desires, they are desires. If a man lusts after a woman, that too is a desire. And neither of these desires takes you anywhere. The superior being is the one who stops running after the body.

Technology Is Dangerous Without Science and Self-Knowledge

Technology Is Dangerous Without Science and Self-Knowledge

You need to understand the world, which comes from science, and yourself, which comes from self-observation. Backwardness in science leads to inner darkness. Without science and self-knowledge, technology can be very dangerous. Inwardly, we are still monkeys, yet technology grants us immense power—power we don’t deserve. If the growth of wisdom lags behind the growth of technology, we are hurtling toward disaster.

A Life Like Bhagat Singh's

A Life Like Bhagat Singh's

Bhagat Singh was just twenty-three when he laid down his life, yet he remains immortal, while those who lived up to ninety years are just the dust of time. Who cares for them? That's the difference. He had no time for trivial things. Even on the eve of his hanging, he was reading the Bhagavad Gita, and that copy is still preserved. A voracious reader, well-read at a young age, he never wasted time. Does such a life not excite you?

Can Technology Alone Solve Climate Change?

Can Technology Alone Solve Climate Change?

Climate change is not a problem of wrong technology but of wrong mentality—it is a spiritual problem. No technological improvement alone can curb carbon emissions. The solution must come from an awakening of mass consciousness. People must awaken and elect governments that listen to awakened voices. The challenge is great, but so are the rewards—you are saving not just yourself, your family, or your nation, but the entire planet.

Can A Common Language Unite a Nation?

Can A Common Language Unite a Nation?

As long as one tries to standardize or enforce something that varies from man to man, it will only create division, violence, and suffering. You have to focus on that which we all have in common—something that unifies us so strongly that all the differences become worthless. That unifying principle is our urge to rise, to know, and to be liberated from inner ignorance.

Why Is Rape Culture So Prevalent Today?

Why Is Rape Culture So Prevalent Today?

Rape is not just sex without consent. Even if consent is given out of fear or greed, the act should still be called rape. And this is happening everywhere. Human beings can behave far better—or far worse—than animals. Animals mate for reproduction, but rape, from the rapist’s perspective, is recreation or entertainment for pleasure.

Understanding Guilt for True Self-Improvement

Understanding Guilt for True Self-Improvement

Guilt says, “I am better than my mistakes.” But for most people, it is very important to accept that they are not accidentally making mistakes; what they call mistakes is their standard state of being. So, guilt can be a great alibi against improvement. Far better than guilt is the honest and silent realization of one’s actual state. And this realization is highly transformative.

Is Getting Angry Right or Wrong?

Is Getting Angry Right or Wrong?

Let’s drop the notion that anger is inherently evil. There is an anger that arises out of frustration—frustration that your desire could not be fulfilled. If there is one thing you may want to call bad, it is misplaced anger. There is no worse sight than a young man who cannot be angry. Be angry for the right reasons. Let your anger spring from the right center, not from your petty self.

How to Overcome Social Media Addiction?

How to Overcome Social Media Addiction?

You don't have to fight Instagram. If you fight Instagram, then you are embracing Instagram, and you'll have very little energy left to expend in the right places. Social media is not the real culprit. The real culprit is the lack of self-knowledge. I don't know who I am. I don't know why I exist. I don't know what I should do. That's the problem. There is this vacuum that social media just happily fills.

Vedanta: The Cure for Human Misery

Vedanta: The Cure for Human Misery

Vedanta is the medicine for the human condition, and the human condition is one of misery. We need to go to Vedanta if we want our welfare. The Upanishads are not ritual- or belief-based but are truly open and free for inquiry. The Vedanti is always saying, "I want to know, and I have faith that knowing is possible, so I keep inquiring."

Are You Foolish, Clever, Or Innocent?

Are You Foolish, Clever, Or Innocent?

Foolishness is about maintaining the rotten ego while still expecting a great life; but it does not make profits because it can't. In cleverness, you are still rotten, but you have managed to appear otherwise to others; so you start making profits, but they do not suffice for inner fulfillment. In innocence, you can make profits but don’t care to, because you have realized that the very problem that made you relate to the world in a profit-seeking way is gone.

Holi: Is It Just Colors Or Beyond?

Holi: Is It Just Colors Or Beyond?

Holi isn’t just about colors and fun; its symbolism runs deep. Hiranyakashyap represents the ego that seeks its own continuation and misuses power for some nefarious end. Prahlad embodies detachment, valuing Truth above all relations. If you’re cunning like Holika, your own powers will destroy you. And Narsingh reminds us that God is cleverer than the cleverest—He is the source. Do not try to act too smart or be ungrateful.

Life Without Fear, and Relationships Without Lies

Life Without Fear, and Relationships Without Lies

Cultures place too much value on conforming to relationship stereotypes. These dogmas and rigid opinions do not easily accept reality. And so, to please them, you become a habitual liar. But good relationships are founded on freedom; they are not based on obligations, and they are not afraid of reality. In good company, the other might frown, but less on what you did, and more on what you hid.

Doomsday Awaits: How the Gita Can Save Earth

Doomsday Awaits: How the Gita Can Save Earth

Our species has increased its population and consumed so much that it has destroyed everything. Humans will be the first and only species to wipe themselves out completely. Nothing is surviving on this Earth except us. Now we need new ways of living. We can't live in the old ways. Old desires won't work now. The doer has to be changed, and that's why we need the Gita—not to reach heaven, but to save Earth.

Kids and Anxiety: What’s Going Wrong?

Kids and Anxiety: What’s Going Wrong?

If a kid has been continuously told that the world is everything, how will an untouched point remain within? The world, as we know, is quite fickle, while our real nature is stability or permanence. It is this dichotomy that pushes us into stress and anxiety. A big portion of the mental health problem can be addressed if we provide the right value system to the kid—the right literature.

Astrology: A Myth People Believe

Astrology: A Myth People Believe

It has been extremely conclusively proven, demonstrated that astrology is not a science at all. It's a conjecture. It's a belief system. Belief system with no material basis at all.

Science and Spirituality Always Go Hand in Hand

Science and Spirituality Always Go Hand in Hand

The most common thing in spirituality and science is 'an honest urge to know the Truth.' Science observes the external universe, and spirituality observes the mind. These two have to be in tandem. The one thing that enables true knowledge in any field is honesty and integrity.

Are Women Really Empowered Today?

Are Women Really Empowered Today?

In the jungle, the woman existed only to breed — not to be an artist, scientist, explorer, or thinker. Internally, women still live in this bondage today, driven by these primal instincts, seeking security and protection, even if they appear externally empowered. And internal bondage is far worse than external. This is where wisdom literature becomes her true rescue—when she knows herself, she can use her body for liberation.

What Makes a Woman Beautiful?

What Makes a Woman Beautiful?

The woman is not beautiful; the man is not beautiful either. Truth and compassion are beautiful. The compassionate one stands head and shoulders above the gorgeous woman or the handsome man. And this is possible only when love and appreciation for the right, gender-independent values are fostered in both the man and the woman.

How Influencers Fool Us So Easily

How Influencers Fool Us So Easily

We have reserved critical thinking only for problems related to science and technology, but not for life itself. Why can’t the same spirit of inquiry be present in everything? Without the filter of thought and inquiry, you will be enslaved and exploited. So, pause at every sentence, analyze, and refuse to move on until you are satisfied.

How to Raise a Daughter?

How to Raise a Daughter?

Please be an observer and a compassionate witness. Keep watching, watch from a distance. Meddling is not needed. Being a parent of a girl child today is a humongous opportunity. You have the chance to give rise to a new world—if you can truly raise one girl as a free girl.

Why Bad Thoughts Never Really Go Away

Why Bad Thoughts Never Really Go Away

If you know that a thought is not beneficial to you, you won't support it, and it cannot survive. So, if a bad thought continues in your mind, it means you're only calling it a "bad thought," yet deep down, you support it. Deep down, you think it is a ‘good thought.’ Had you really known it was ‘bad', it would have gone. But our minds are full of so-called bad thoughts. What does that mean? We call them ‘bad', but we do not truly consider them bad. We enjoy them.

Why Does Society Favor Extroverts?

Why Does Society Favor Extroverts?

Society favors extroversion more than introversion because introversion is dangerous for capitalist consumerism. Why would someone spend a lot of money in the markets if they enjoy their own company? That’s why the entire media is full of characters that glorify extroversion and try to sell you a philosophy that promotes reckless consumption. Be very mindful; it will destroy you.

What Is Missing in Our Education?

What Is Missing in Our Education?

A good education system should have two components. The first is deep, clear, and factual knowledge about the world, without which we would become superstitious. And secondly, it must include a very important component that tells us who we are and why we need to be educated at all. This second component is almost completely missing today.

Rishikesh: The City of Shiva

Rishikesh: The City of Shiva

Rishikesh is the city of Shiva; it is the city of ending. While many cities mark beginnings, Rishikesh is where you come to stop. Haven’t we already had enough beginnings? Things must end somewhere. Having passed through Brahma and Vishnu, it is now time to meet Shiva. Shiva is annihilation—a full stop.

How To Control India’s Population?

How To Control India’s Population?

The population will have to be educated in a spiritual way so that we realize that procreation is not the purpose of life, especially not in a woman's life. If the woman is liberated, the population cannot explode. If the population explodes, that's a clear indication of women's misery. Knowledge, consciousness, and realization are much higher joys than the smiling face of your baby.

This is What Makes India a Nation

This is What Makes India a Nation

India is not really an idea. Ideas are things of ego, desire, and imagination. All nations have governing principles, but India is governed by freedom from all principles. It is a spirit found in Vedanta, the spirit that says, “I want to know.” India has known love—a love beyond territory, ethnicity, and materiality. The true Indian would be a fighter and a lover, fighting what is untrue because he loves the truth.

Are Shiv And Shankar Same?

Are Shiv And Shankar Same?

Shiv is unthinkable—beyond words, thought, and representation. He cannot be captured in pictures or idols. Yet, for most people, imagining truth without form feels impossible. This is where Shankar arrives. Shankar is the highest point a man’s imagination can reach. The maximum flight of the mind is Shankar, and Shiv is the disappearance of the mind into the sky.

Delimitation - Injustice to the South

Delimitation - Injustice to the South

The North has grown its population so much that if we opt for delimitation, 70 to 80% of new seats would go to them. This is absolute injustice. The South reduced its population, invested big in education, and its taxes largely funded the North’s development projects. The southern states worked hard and took tough decisions, while the North simply refused to change. Shouldn't the community that made better decisions be rewarded?

California Wildfires: Is Humanity Headed for Collapse?

California Wildfires: Is Humanity Headed for Collapse?

Don't be surprised by individual instances of wildfires—these are going to become daily occurrences because they are a result of mankind's flawed life philosophy. So, the solution to climate change cannot come through new technologies, nor by signing some agreements. It can only come by inculcating wisdom in human beings, as without the right philosophy of life, we will keep exploiting the planet.

How Is The Bhagavad Gita Relevant Today?

How Is The Bhagavad Gita Relevant Today?

The Gita is useful because its setting is extremely relatable. Just like us, Arjuna does not know himself—he's a victim of multiple identities and all kinds of conditioning. Therefore, the Gita is about letting Arjuna know who he is, and this illumination enables him to do what he must. So, first of all, see that you are Arjuna. Then, step by step, verse by verse, there will be some resolution.

How To Be Motivated?

How To Be Motivated?

You have to know what you are doing. Once you know what you are doing, then the knowledge itself is the motivator. Whereas, if things are happening in a very unconscious way, you will not know why you should exert yourself at all. If you are somebody who frequently needs to be motivated by an external source, then you should ask yourself, “Do I really know what I am doing?”

God, Allah, Ram: One Truth, Many Names

God, Allah, Ram: One Truth, Many Names

Some say 'God', others say 'Allah', and some say 'Ram'; all three refer to the same entity. If a name or sound reminds you of the nameless one, it's wonderful. The problem arises with self-appointed meanings. The purpose of religion is to convey the truth, not obstruct it. You have a variety of flutes, but there is one music. Religion is that music.

Is AI Going To Destroy Humanity?

Is AI Going To Destroy Humanity?

If you are full of inner ignorance, desires, temptations, jealousy, and greed, even the most spectacular technology cannot help you. In a wise man's hands, AI can be put to constructive use. Unfortunately, most of us are far from being wise, and so, AI will be put to violent, destructive use. This has to be fought by having something within us that is immune to the world. If the world cannot touch it, then the world cannot damage, co-opt, or enslave it.

Life’s a Joke, But We’re the Punchline!

Life’s a Joke, But We’re the Punchline!

There is just no meaning in existence, and yet we all move around with a self-appointed sense of seriousness and purpose. Existence itself, consciousness itself, is a joke. The human being taking himself seriously is the joke. Real humor is when you can destroy your own darkness. If you are someone who cannot tolerate jokes, you need to check your insecurities. Laugh at yourself. That's the best joke.

Break Free from the Need for Approval

Break Free from the Need for Approval

You’re conditioned to think you can only exist with social approval. What holds you back is the fear that something devastating will happen if you don’t conform. Challenge that belief. One must have a healthy contempt for the world, which is possible only when one has deep love for what’s real. Otherwise, you'll keep bowing your head.

How Will “Making America Great Again” Harm India?

How Will “Making America Great Again” Harm India?

Americans constitute only 4% of the global population but are responsible for 25% of the excess CO₂ in the atmosphere. As a result, a huge humanitarian disaster is unfolding, with the Indian subcontinent being the worst sufferer. However, the ego does not consider anyone or anything more significant than its own petty interests. We find this myopic and self-centered behavior in every household; it's just that this is being played out on a much grander scale.

The Right Way To Help Others

The Right Way To Help Others

The right kind of help is that which awakens others' potential, and the one you are helping should soon become free of the need to be helped. Also, the right kind of help works both ways—it benefits the person or cause and also helps you, the helper.

How To Stop Being Lazy?

How To Stop Being Lazy?

Those who are lazy, lack not in energy but in understanding. In physical nature, there is a tendency toward work minimization. If something gives you more output with less work, you will do it. You do not know that the right work brings benefits, dividends, and joy. Had you known it, you would have chosen the right action over laziness every moment.

Redefine Love This Valentine’s Day

Redefine Love This Valentine’s Day

The purest definition of love is when the mind is very, very joyful, and that joy shows up in all your relationships. Love is your internal joy spilling over. Love is not about trying to find love. Love is about letting yourself be absolutely free! That is it! Love is not object-based. Love is not about - 'I love this person,' or 'I love this work,' or 'I love this book.' Love is your inner state of mind.

Is Sartre’s Existentialism Contradicting Gita?

Is Sartre’s Existentialism Contradicting Gita?

They don't contradict each other. Existentialists like Sartre argue that humans cannot suppress consciousness and are 'condemned to be free.' We are born without a predetermined purpose—existence precedes essence. You exist first and must then discover your essence. In the spirit of 'Neti Neti' (neither this nor that), no external force can define your essence; it is your freedom to consciously determine what life is for.

Saint Ravidas on Humility

Saint Ravidas on Humility

The one who takes great pride in his self and knowledge won’t be able to walk towards the Truth. But the one with humility, truly surrendered, sees things clearly. He realizes there are forces within him—his own physical system—working against the Truth. Humility is the hallmark of Sainthood. It comes with the honesty to accept one’s flaws.

What is 'Nature Worship' in Vedas?

What is 'Nature Worship' in Vedas?

You cannot worship something with the intent of obtaining favors—that's exploitation. Worshiping a cow while asking for milk is not worship. Worship is when you do not use any dairy product and yet respect the cow. The common man sees everything as an object for consumption. True nature worship is desireless—not based on consumption, with no one left to desire.

Is Pop Religion Compatible With the Gita?

Is Pop Religion Compatible With the Gita?

The center of the Gita is 'Nishkamta'—desireless action stemming from self-knowledge. Whereas popular religion is all about the fulfillment of desire. We go to a supernatural power and beg him to grant our desires. That is popular religion. You can either have the Gita or the entirety of religion as practiced in common culture. They are totally incompatible.

Is Secularism Possible Without Religion?

Is Secularism Possible Without Religion?

A secular person is one who does the right thing irrespective of his religious association. And if you want this, then you should be deeply religious. Because in secularism, you want equanimity, a certain detachment, respect towards divergent opinions, and non-violence; but who teaches these things? Religion. Therefore, if secularism is in strife with religiosity, it means both are misplaced. The religiosity is fake, and the secularism is shallow.

What To Do When Life Seems Hopeless?

What To Do When Life Seems Hopeless?

Do the utmost that you must in any situation, and you will find only the joy of right action. Tears are for those who turn away from their responsibility. If you were truly dedicating your energy rightly, how would you have any left to weep? So fight so hard that you either win or perish. If you win, the glory is yours. If you perish, at least all suffering is gone.

What is the Essence of Kumbh?

What is the Essence of Kumbh?

The legend of Kumbh revolves around the struggle between the gods of heaven and the lords of hell. Heaven and hell exist in the mind. Heaven is where your deepest dream of freedom and contentment is realized, while hell convinces you to play safe and stay afraid. Spirituality is the journey from hell to heaven and beyond, into the absolute joy of Liberation. That is the true essence of Kumbh.

Are Influencers Helping Society?

Are Influencers Helping Society?

You become an influencer in the name of service. What do you do then? You start selling deodorants because the objective lies in having the maximum possible for oneself. If a person appears generous without being self-aware, then generosity is a façade, hiding loot and plunder. The ego cannot be altruistic; it only pretends to be.

How To Express Love?

How To Express Love?

Love and realization are things that roar aloud. They are extremely intimate, yet if they are there, there is no way you can hide them. These are not things that you can ever prevent from getting expressed. So, don’t even try. This expression means living it. Every thought is an expression, every action is an expression. You just express. By blocking it, you are blocking the thing itself. You don’t allow it to be expressed, and it’s gone.

Are Single Women Happier?

Are Single Women Happier?

When it comes to real happiness, there is no rule that a single woman would be happier than a married woman, or vice versa. Even sharing dinner or being friends with someone means you're not truly single. We must have the sense to relate properly. If you can connect with someone who brings beauty and understanding to your life, nothing like it. But that alone should be the objective of the relationship.

Why Are You Constantly Distracted?

Why Are You Constantly Distracted?

If you choose a goal that's not worthy, you'll try hard to concentrate on it, but you'll invariably get distracted. That's not because the distractions are powerful; it's because your goal is powerless. If your goal offers you unconditional joy or leads to your freedom and liberation, you will never be distracted.

How Long Should You Meditate?

How Long Should You Meditate?

It’s unfortunate that today, methods of meditation are being mistaken for meditation itself. Meditation is what makes us human—it must be continuous, 24x7. No method can be continuous or 24x7. Meditation is a way of life, a beautiful love affair. Just as the body cannot wait to breathe, consciousness cannot wait to meditate—it’s a madness of love, not dry, ritualistic, or time-bound.

How to Honor Dead Ancestors?

How to Honor Dead Ancestors?

The best way to honor your ancestors is by becoming what they were destined to be — which Shri Krishna calls your Niyati or Liberation. Liberate yourself from ignorance and help the entire planet. That should be the meaning of Shraddh. Instead, it has become an elaborate ceremony of superstition, with beliefs about souls floating in other universes, being hungry, and talk of crows, sparrows, and crude myths.

Why Do We Avoid Right Action?

Why Do We Avoid Right Action?

Right action brings us peace, relaxation, and reasonless contentment. But we avoid it because it’s incompatible with our entire life structure, built on a wrongly lived past and the great stakes raised in it. Now, even if we accidentally make the right decision, it causes a lot of suffering and shakes up our foundations, making us go back to our dated, pre-existing ways.

Why Is Gandhi Ji Being Abused by Indians?

Why Is Gandhi Ji Being Abused by Indians?

Those abusing Gandhi Ji are least interested in him—they try to achieve something, and Gandhi Ji stands in the way. If one wants to create a society that is highly illiberal and deeply fractured on communal lines, then the symbol of liberalism and communal harmony has to be abused. Gandhi Ji is not just a person but a thought. Gandhi Ji was killed once, and that didn't suffice. Now, he’s being killed in abusive ways, yet some things cannot be killed.

How To Deal With Lack Of Motivation?

How To Deal With Lack Of Motivation?

All motivation and ambition are rooted in a sense of unworthiness, inferiority, and incompleteness. Motivation is external, meaning an outside force is acting upon you, making you react. If motivation can come from outside, it can also disappear when the outside factor disappears. That’s no way of living a conscious life. However, when you start from a point of completeness, you perform all your actions out of love and joy, and the result becomes irrelevant.

Is Death Random or Predetermined?

Is Death Random or Predetermined?

When it comes to death, we think so much about divine intervention, as if there is some conscious entity at work with a deliberate plan. Just realize that life doesn’t follow our plan or any divine plan. We come and go, just as waves rise and fall in the ocean. There is no rhyme or reason to it. We die just as we come—randomly. Nobody is doing it. It’s hard to swallow, but if we can acknowledge this, it would set us free.

How to Overcome Fear?

How to Overcome Fear?

Fear is biological. You are not supposed to fight fear because, even to fight it, you would have to enter the domain of the body. Ignore fear and attend to the task that your consciousness is suggesting to you. Let fear be there; you do what you must. You don't need willpower or motivation—rather, you need wisdom to ignore these things.

Does Vedanta Inspire the Indian Constitution?

Does Vedanta Inspire the Indian Constitution?

We say the Constitution of India is inspired from the outside and lacks indigenous origins. That’s not right. Go close to its spirit and you’ll find nothing alien in it. To know who I am and reach the place of my purity, ‘Justice, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity’ are needed. The Constitution arises from the very spirit of freedom, which is the only goal of all spirituality, particularly Vedanta.

What Does It Mean To Be Practical?

What Does It Mean To Be Practical?

Practicality doesn’t mean being cunning, deceptive, or shrewd. Practicality is a doing that is born out of understanding; you understand something and then action happens. There is a deep, intelligent understanding which immediately translates into action. This is really what practicality is about.

How Is Vedanta Different From Self-Help?

How Is Vedanta Different From Self-Help?

Self-help books aim to help the self without investigating what it really is. The self has desires, and the book guides you to fulfill them, which gratifies the self. The way to help the ego is to reveal its falseness. It doesn’t need help; it needs dissolution. Vedanta explores the ‘I’ to dissolve it. That’s where you’ll find rigorous self-enquiry and freedom from the sufferings of the self.

How Did Bhagavad Gita Help Subhash Chandra Bose?

How Did Bhagavad Gita Help Subhash Chandra Bose?

There is no revolution possible without wisdom literature. The quest for independence of freedom fighters was actually a manifestation of their inner quest for liberation. What kind of revolution can one do if it's the body that's always at the top of your mind? You require a Gita to tell you that this body is perishable and would anyway go. Gita only teaches you, "Endure and fight."

Why Do We Insult Our Scriptures?

Why Do We Insult Our Scriptures?

In modern times, reading and respecting the Shastras is often seen in a derogatory light. An Asura disregards the scriptures, saying, “What I know is right. My own experience determines the Truth,” rejecting them because they will not allow him to do what he wants. We have come to a point where we are not merely ignoring but actually insulting the scriptures. If you're sincere about knowing life, why avoid a document with deep insights into it?

Who Is a Hindu?

Who Is a Hindu?

The one who is religion-less. A real Hindu does not have any religion. To go beyond all religions is to be a Hindu. There are religions that are on one plane, and then there is Sanatan Dharma, which is another dimension — the eternal religiousness. Liberation from religion is religiousness. Sanatan Dharma is awakened intelligence.

Big Fat Salary, Or Stable Job?

Big Fat Salary, Or Stable Job?

Work is the most important component of your life, it will take away all your time. You cannot approach work with these considerations: salary & stability. Discover your calling, not just a job, a calling. What is it that calls you as a lover? What kind of work that would be which you are ready to do even without being paid? If that work can be your life, then life is beautiful.

What Sanatan Dharma Is Not

What Sanatan Dharma Is Not

Sanatan Dharma is not about following traditions in the name of Dharma. It is about constantly moving towards that which will take you beyond your mind: the Sanatan. All our beliefs and rituals might be religious, but they are not Sanatan because they are just mind stuff. Since both Sanatan Dharma and Vedanta discard mind stuff as trivial, one cannot be a Sanatani if one is not a Vedanti.

What Is the Main Message of Bhagavad Gita?

What Is the Main Message of Bhagavad Gita?

You have to fight. The world is the battlefield. To be born is to be born as a warrior, to be born is to be born with weapons and armour. That is the message: you cannot run away. Shunning action is not possible.

Why Do You Get Hurt So Easily?

Why Do You Get Hurt So Easily?

When you feel inferior, even a harmless touch can hurt you. No one can hurt you without your consent. It has nothing to do with the intention of the other person; it has much more to do with your self-concept. The deeper you go into yourself, the more you are devoted and surrendered to the Truth, the less significant this tendency to get hurt will become.

Does Jealousy Arise from Ego?

Does Jealousy Arise from Ego?

Jealousy comes from dependency. The person who is not dependent cannot feel jealousy. The one who is his own master has no reason to be jealous. To be jealous implies that someone has been accepted as a master, and there is a desire for that master to stay with them. If the master goes elsewhere, a certain pain arises, and this pain is what is called jealousy.

How to Meet Others’ Expectations?

How to Meet Others’ Expectations?

People expect because they feel that something is missing from life. They expect from the world, from others, from situations, from luck, and also from themselves. The root of all these expectations is an inner feeling of lack of fulfillment. Meeting others’ expectations is a false treatment where you allow illusions to persist. If you love your dear ones, bring the Truth closer to them.

Feeling Caged in Your Chattering Mind?

Feeling Caged in Your Chattering Mind?

The mind chatters only about little and inconsequential things. First of all, the matter would be a petty one; secondly, irrespective of how long the chatter is, the matter can never be brought to an end; so it is inconsequential. The mind loves to engage itself with itself. The mind loves to roll in its own stuff. Give the mind a proper purpose. Let the entire body, your entire system, everything in your existence be focused, be channelized towards the right purpose in life.

Contemporising Kumbh: Ancient wisdom, Modern Relevance

Contemporising Kumbh: Ancient wisdom, Modern Relevance

The story, the myth, is elaborate, but one word that firmly dictates the narrative of the Kumbh saga is immortality. Immortality is to live deeply, not necessarily long. It is to go to one’s deepest desire, fulfill it, and extinguish it forever. Another Kumbh beckons us. Can we go beyond the ritualistic dip and honestly observe life as it is, within and around us?

How to Overcome Sadness?

How to Overcome Sadness?

Why do you have so much personal time? How are you available to grief? Your consciousness is too self-centered; it needs expansion. Even as you grieve over one death, billions of goats, rabbits, lambs, fish, cows, and chickens are slaughtered. Commit your time. Dedicate it to a higher purpose. We attach great sanctity to our personal lives. Give it up!

What is Friendship and Who is a Friend?

What is Friendship and Who is a Friend?

Friendship is nothing; friendship is a state of being in which you are concerned not with what you can get from the other person, but in the real advancement of the other person. And the real advancement is, discovering the Truth. So, a friend is a friend only if he brings you closer to the Truth; in whose presence you become less agitated, in whose presence a silence comes. Find out such friends, and then, there will be real magic.

How to Handle Insults?

How to Handle Insults?

Any kind of harm that comes to you can only come due to a lack of self-knowledge. If you do not know who you are, you will be forced to believe whatever others tell you about yourself. We don’t even realize how big a slavery that is! Every time you allow circumstances to rule you, you are actually acting like a dead object. You are alive only if you have something within that circumstances cannot touch.

How to Bring Real Change in Oneself?

How to Bring Real Change in Oneself?

There are a million spiritual seekers who keep on practising observation and find that their lives are not changing at all. Just observing your daily life will often be of very little help. Observation of your own condition must be accompanied by exposure to something beyond yourself. Those who keep saying, 'Just observe and things will happen.' No, nothing happens just by observing. Love is needed. Love gives you the patience to wait. You require the depth of love that is prepared to wait till eternity.

J. Krishnamurti's 'The Observer Is the Observed' Explained by Acharya Prashant

J. Krishnamurti's 'The Observer Is the Observed' Explained by Acharya Prashant

'The observer is the observed; an honest observation dissolves them both.' Or, 'The observer is the observed, and both are false.' We lay a lot of emphasis on the world, assuming it to be the Truth. If the world is an entity independent of everything, then it has to be the Truth, right? Truth is that which is independent of everything.

Can Multiple Sexual Partners Fulfill You?

Can Multiple Sexual Partners Fulfill You?

All your relationships are deeply your attempts to fill an inner void. Whether you relate sexually to one person or many — will sex give you what you truly want? The body is a shallow means to attain that which your consciousness craves. There are beautiful ways of relating to men and women; relate to them in higher ways.

Rapid Fire Round with Acharya Prashant

Rapid Fire Round with Acharya Prashant

Man and woman, classically, both are just Prakriti. So, both come under the umbrella name of woman which is the human state. In some sense, all of us are women. You are a woman in just the biological sense; I too am a woman in the mental sense. So, the word woman describes entire mankind; you could say, “Womankind.”

The Making of a Rare Vivekananda: The Role of Ramakrishna

The Making of a Rare Vivekananda: The Role of Ramakrishna

Swami Vivekananda was an ordinary man—Narendra, and he too had his ordinary pursuits. It was the magical touch of Paramhans, that turned him into Vivekananda. And he wasn't too eager either. Many times, he ran away from Ramakrishna. It is a gigantic task, it doesn't just happen on its own. If you leave the youth to how they are, it is not liberation that would happen.

Should You Quit Social Media?

Should You Quit Social Media?

We go to social media and use it according to our tendencies. If someone tends to seek self-worth in the eyes of others, that tendency will manifest in some form or another. The same social media can also be a vehicle for precious knowledge. So, observe the tendency and ask yourself: "Am I truly gaining self-worth? Or am I just becoming more fearful or more addicted?"

How Not to React?

How Not to React?

The things that happen within you — anger, lust, disappointment, greed — are conditioned chemical reactions. It is the mark of a wise person not to be driven by one’s own reactions. Chemicals are reactive; consciousness can wait. Let the elements do what they are doing — 'I am not wedded to the limitations of this chemical godown.' This is what the knowers have called ‘detachment'. They have also called it ‘witnessing'.

Are All the Interesting People Found in Hell?

Are All the Interesting People Found in Hell?

No! They are not interesting people; they are sick people. It’s just that the very definition of the word 'interesting' has become distorted to their advantage. People in hell are as interesting as a stinking pile of trash is.

Are You Against Marriage?

Are You Against Marriage?

We are all born married to our desires, despair, and desperation. A woman or a man is not responsible for making us feel bonded or suffocated. It is the feeling of attachment, loneliness, and dependency that troubles you. Get rid of these, and then, if someone comes into your life, it’s alright. If you feel like marrying them, do it; if not, don’t.

What Is Rest?

Rest is to realize that whatever you are doing is ultimately not going to benefit you in terms of result. Rest is to not to hope for a result, but to be already there and because you are already there, so the activity is happening. Now the activity is a game, a pass time, just for fun. You can indulge yourself or you can change the activity. The activity doesn’t really mean much.

Why Do Partners Cheat?

Why Do Partners Cheat?

Marriage founded on the body alone is bound to suffer from cheating, as one body can never satisfy anyone. Your association with the other person should be based on love, friendship, and inner fulfillment, not the body. If you are physical and bodily, no loyalty is possible. Loyalty is fundamentally spiritual.

Is Your Mind Your Best Friend or Your Worst Enemy?

Is Your Mind Your Best Friend or Your Worst Enemy?

The mind is both your best friend and your worst enemy. It’s your friend when it operates with intelligence and attention, but when there is no attention, when there is no care or love, then intelligence does not function. And then, the mind is your worst enemy. A prisoner knows no joy, no freedom, no love. Your own sleep keeps you imprisoned. The moment you wake up, you are free.

Is Self-Love About Being Happy?

Is Self-Love About Being Happy?

Making yourself happy isn't self-love. Self-love is gifting yourself the highest possible. If you do not know what to give yourself, at least abstain from giving yourself toxic and harmful things. Real love is always tough. Self-love is an exercise in reduction, not accumulation. When you work to make your life beautiful, you are truly loving yourself.

Do Love And Attachment Go Together?

Do Love And Attachment Go Together?

Attachment is just a promise. A lack of fulfilment. It is a substitute for love because the real thing is not available. If you find yourself attached, it means there is a desire for love; it means there is a call for love. Know that a fake is presenting itself as a substitute for the real thing.

How To Avoid Distraction?

How To Avoid Distraction?

You say you want something, but you are distracted easily. Ask yourself, "Why am I attracted to anything?" Unless you find that, you are just a plaything in the hands of situations. If you really know, then knowing itself decides for you. Then there is no question of indecision or distraction because there are no options left.

What Does Equanimity Mean in Life?

What Does Equanimity Mean in Life?

When you know that you can not be harmed, then you let the change come to you. Then, you do not lose your inner poise in front of changing conditions. This is equanimity. For equanimity, you require a very good driver, a totally dependable driver. Our driver is the Ego. It does not allow the Absolute to drive us. The Ego is so arrogant that it goes and sits on the throne, the sacred place, that is reserved only for the Beloved, only for God. It has no right to be there. Dethrone it!

How to Utilize Time?

How to Utilize Time?

The real issue is not about time at all. You are spending time exactly according to your values. Don’t ask how to utilize time. Ask yourself, "Do I know what is truly valuable?" When you are clear about what is truly valuable in life, all your time will be devoted to that. Become clear. Know what is truly valuable.

How to Get Rid of Pain and Suffering?

How to Get Rid of Pain and Suffering?

If you are suffering, all that you need to be told is that freedom from disease is possible. No positive, affirmative statement needs to be given. If you are really crying out of pain, do you need to be given dreams of the pink of health? No, You only need to be assured that this pain is not your nature, and that is all.

Live-in Relationship or Marriage?

Live-in Relationship or Marriage?

There is not much difference between a live-in relationship and marriage. When you are living with somebody, that person gains enormous power to affect your life in all kinds of ways, and you too gain that power. You cannot do justice to that responsibility if you are not a spiritually evolved person. Be very, very conscious of your personal space. It is sacred; not everybody must be allowed to enter it.

Mind Work Ends When True Realization Takes Hold

Mind Work Ends When True Realization Takes Hold

Realization is extremely powerful. You cannot realize and not act. It is impossible. You cannot realize and not act. Action follows realization. So if you come and say, “I realize, I understand but I cannot act,” then you are mistaken; you actually do not realize at all! The action after realization is not time-bound; it does not even have a time lag. It is instantaneous and spontaneous.

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