Here is the transcript of Guruji’s talk in the Satsang on Guru Poornima, 18th July 2008 (slightly edited for better readability): How many of you are thinking “Guruji say something?”…Huh? What is there to talk? What is there to talk? Hmm..? We all are happy & celebrating Meditation, singing, celebrating on Guru Poornima day is [...]

Guruji, a legend says that Sant Tukaram went to heaven in his physical body… I too want to do that, is it possible? Why do you want to goto heaven in your physical body? When you fly from Bangalore to Bombay, do you insist that you take the seat you sat on along with you [...]

How important is meditation, spirituality? There is an ancient story from the Shiva Puranas: Shiva marries Shakti the daughter of Daksha Prajapati. For some reasons Daksha starts to dislike Shiva, and when he arranges a big difficult, elaborate Yagya and celebration, doesn’t invite Shiva and Shakti to particiapte. Shakti sees many devas and devis decked [...]

Guruji traditionally talks in Kannada (the local language of Bangalore, Karnataka) on Sunday evenings. He really wants to preserve the culture and traditions of Karnataka, so He says at least on Sunday evenings when there are a lot of people from Bangalore city in the Satsang, He would speak Kannada… So, it’s Kannada on Sunday [...]

There was a request to Guruji to talk on Idol Worship… As usual i don’t remember verbatim what He said, it was all in Hindi, here it is freely translated: This is not an explanation for a gyani (One who dabbles in Knowledge), it’s for a premi (a lover) We require some name and form [...]

Satsangs have been out in the open, in the Amphitheatre with the glorious backdrop of the Vishalaskhi Mantap, and that too in the month of June, while the monsoon is just starting to set in! Amazingly and so very coincidentally(?!), it some how never rains between 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm One of the students [...]

…We railwayed back to the ashram and what an eventful last few days we had here! The whole of India is talking about the agitation of the Gujjar community against the Rajasthan Government. Since being proactive happens to be Guruji’s mantra, he visited Bayana where the first round of talks were going to happen between [...]

Q: Gurudev, can it happen that the door bell rings and when I open the door, I see You standing in front of me? A: Yes of course it can. You see me in everyone and it will happen!!

Accuracy warning: Freely translated from hindi to english, from whatever i can remember The West Bengal Adv course people have come to the Ashram, and the Orissa Adv course people have not yet left … A few frayed tempers, lots of walking up and down, no bed, no place to keep luggage, etc later everyone [...]

Here is an almost direct transcript of what Guruji said in a recent visit to coimbatore… Guruji : How many of you have body pains early in the morning, raiseyour hand ? (There was about 25% of the crowd raising their hands) Guruji : You know why? We eat the crops that are cultivated by [...]