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The search for reality and truth through self inquiry

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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…

What is a prayer?

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Prayer is not about words, it is not a communication and not a way to make contact. These are not prayer.
A prayer is a state of being. You can express it through words, you can say every morning that you thank God, but is this a prayer? If so, then every parrot can pray…
What kind of state of being is it? Christians thank God before they eat; Jews thank God for returning their soul after the night’s sleep, what do they do? They say thank you. This is the highest form of prayer. Why is it the highest level of prayer to say thank you and the lowest to ask for things?

Bhagavad-gita 2.58 – Pay Attention To The Observer

Posted in Bhagavad Gita, PodcastBhagavad-gita 2.58: Pratyahara - Introspection of the senses

The rays of our attention are searching like a bee. The senses are nothing more than an extension of our mind…The eyes see through the mind…and the mind is searching for happiness while it is moving as a bee from one flower to the other, from one object to the other…