Daily Spiritual Insights from Swami Ji's Teachings
Really speaking, you have no ardent desire to attain God. If you attend holy assemblage (satsang), then you will definitely gain from it. You will undoubtedly gain from Satsang to the extent that you attend spiritual discourses and contemplate on what has been said. But if the sentiments are that God will not be attained […]
This human birth has been bestowed on us only for attaining God. Otherwise what would be the difference between being an animal and a human being? “Khaadate modate, nityam, shunakah sookarah kharah, teshaaneshaam ko vishesho vrttiryesaam tu taadrsi.” “A dog, a hog, and a donkey – each of these eats, and enjoys itself daily; if […]
Continued…. Whether one is a male or a female, an ascetic (saadhu) or a householder (grahasth), literate or illiterate, child or youth, whatever one may be, simply by ardent desire he can attain God. Besides God there is no desire either to live or to die, no desire for pleasures, nor for hoarding. Things not […]
God (Paramatma) realization is very easy. There is no other work that is as easy as God-realization. However, there must be want of only God and nothing else. Because there is no one else like God, not in the least bit. Just like God is One without another (ananya), similarly want of God must also […]
We neither had, nor have, nor will have, nor can have a relationship with the body. In other words, we can eat meals (bhojan) with this body, but we cannot worship and be devoted (do bhajan of) to God with this body. We cannot even serve others with this body. However being apart (detached) from […]
Let us say for example that after sweeping and removing the dust and dirt with a broom, the broom is also discarded and what remains is the clean house. It means that when we think with our mind and decide with our intellect that ‘I am the soul’, we stay connected with nature (our constitution). […]