Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of heaven - but….
The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you..
If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists wit….
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is going to remain that way. ….
Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laug….
To accept yourself wherever. you are.... And don't think in terms of competition! You need not be anywhere else. Wherever you are, if you can be happ….
Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all desires. ….
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life..
Love is the opposite of [lust]: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is n….
You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light hap….
A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has no ….
My meditation techniques ARE dangerous. In fact there cannot be any meditation techniques which are not dangerous. If they are not dangerous, they ar….
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feed….
Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And because of this persistent inquiry about how and ….
To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man..
So the first thing to be reminded of: love is never a relationship. Then something else is masquerading as love. Maybe you are searching for a husban….
Relationship and love are totally different things. Love is never a relationship, and relationship is never love. Love relates, but it is not a relat….
Relationship may be just out of fear, may not have anything to do with love. Relationship may be just a kind of security - financial or something els….
Your question makes it clear that you have not understood what I mean when I say, 'Don't surrender to a person, surrender to love.' And love is never….
The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse..
All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who ….