Prabhuji's Blog

Welcome to the official blog of Prabhuji, H.H. Avadhuta Sri Ramakrishnananda Babaji Maharaja.
“These words are not intended to place in your hands what you hope to find; but rather, to inspire you in your search.
Through these pages, I do not attempt to instruct or teach, but to awaken your wonder. Only those who are [...]

Seeking complete solitude, a sage mounted a buffalo and headed towards the region we now know of as Tibet. When he arrived at the Han-ku Pass the gatekeeper recognized him as a renowned sage, as the “dragon” referred to by Confucius. The gatekeeper tried to convince him to return to his village and his people. Failing in this attempt, the gatekeeper then asked the venerable sage to put his teachings into writing to benefit future generations, because, sad to say, the men of his time were not capable of developing the natural wisdom these teachings refer to…

~ An excerpt from a talk given by Prabhuji at the August 2012 retreat in New York State

Mumukshutva is the ardent desire for enlightenment, a fervent desire for liberation.

This is interesting – what is this desire for liberation? Swami Shivananda wrote in one of his
books: ”Collect all your desires for family, for children, for money, for fame, all of them… and
concentrate them all in the Divine.” He said: “take all your other desires and concentrate only in one
desire.”

When I was very young, somebody told me, “You know, you can achieve anything you want in life.”

“Really?” I said?

“Yes,” he said, “But the problem is that we want many different things…”

In order to escape suffering, we search for distraction through amusement, parties, and jubilee. Pursuing entertainment, we go to the radio, newspapers, television, as well as to spirituality. With this erroneous attitude, we approach different spiritual masters, learn from their books, workshops, and lectures. Nevertheless, to move along on the paths of the soul merely in search of amusement will be a sheer waste of time. Seriousness is essential in order to explore, investigate, and inquire. I mean that seriousness with which we reflect on our lives after attending a funeral or facing complicated situations. With this kind of seriousness, I invite you to explore the path of karma-yoga.

Don’t think too much about the answer, the answer is something which is dead. When you have the answer the quest is finished. The question is alive and the question would lead you, but not to an answer… An answer is only an escape from reality and truth; it’s not the direction to realize something. A spiritual question does not search for an answer but a presence. When you ask the Guru what is life and you don’t search for some words as an answer, but you’re sensitive enough to perceive the presence with your question then that presence is your real answer. The answer is you. Your presence now and here in this moment, the presence of your reality is the real answer…