Today’s post is delayed and i am really sorry for that… Here is a lovely photo from the Adv course that just got over to make up for the delay Scroll all the way down for 2 more really cool photos! Q: Bawa help me!!! These are my problems: My parents (especially my mom) are [...]

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 [...]

If you put any light near a crystal, it takes on the colour of the light, but as soon as you remove the light, the crystal becomes absolutely clear immediately! Your mind should be like a crystal… When doing anything, do it a 100%, get totally involved in it, but as soon as you are [...]

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 [...]

Q: Guruji, i can’t smile, coz i have not achieved anything worthwhile in life. Please help… A: You have come here, that is enough Don’t wait to achieve something to smile… Smile first, then maybe you will achieve something… Be like a small baby. What has a baby achieved? It is so completely dependent, yet [...]

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 [...]

Q: I heard a beautiful knowledge sheet of Gurudev on Activity & Rest being read during the long kriya at Ananda Mai Bhavan yesterday. I can’t recollect verbatim… But one sentence said, “… Wise are the ones who finds Rest in Activity & Activity in Rest. While it appeals to my silly small mind/intellect about [...]

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 [...]