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... WHEN RAISED TO HIS HEIGHTS, BY FALLING UNDER THE GLANCE OF HIS ALL-COMPASSIONATE GRACE. Nanak is saying: Greater than You is Your name. You are endless. For us the name is our only clue, through the name alone are we joined to You. Whether You are or You are not, we do not know. It is the name alone that brings tidings of You. Through the power of the name shall we be drawn gradually towards You...
.... When the resonance sounds by itself you are drawn towards God. Scientists speak of the force of gravitation. We remain on the ground because of gravitation. If the earth were to lose this power of gravitation we would be flung up into the skies. Simone Weil, a leading thinker in our century, has written a book called Grace and Gravitation. She says, "Just as we cannot see the force of...
... rise to the highest heaven, He will not obstruct you. You get His power under all conditions; His grace is unconditional. His gift does not make you dependent in any way. He gives - you may use His gift as you please. He does not question. O LORD, THESE TOO ARE YOUR GIFTS. YOUR ORDER ALONE GIVES FREEDOM OR BONDAGE. But it is we who ask to be enslaved, and slavery results. The order is His, the...
... Buddha, Nanak, Kabir; until then you will suffer. Understand the eternal principle: if you do not become what you could become, you will suffer; if you become what you should have become, your life will be filled with bliss. Bliss means fulfillment - the attainment of that which you had the power to attain. Until the tree that lies dormant in the seed attains its full growth and bears flowers and fruit...
..., "Do you?" It is all arrogant talk when a man asks, "Do you know how rich I am? Don't you know my status, my position?" He implies that he can get you in trouble, that he is a dangerous man. It is a proclamation of violence. You say that, only when you want to convey your power to destroy the other person. All your arrogance is violence. Ego is the thread of violence. The one who...
... power of awakening awareness - an overabundance of consciousness - not of answers or of scriptures or principles, but of awareness. Knowledge means awareness, not scriptural knowledge or information or words. KNOWING IS THE EXPRESSION OF THE REALM OF KNOWLEDGE. THERE IS MUSIC AND MIRTH AND FROLIC AND BLISS. Nanak does not mention scriptures at all, nor does he talk of doctrines or principles. There...
... annihilation of the ego. Drop the ego and you will know the mystery. How does the 'I' (ego) hinder? The ego blinds us and does not allow the mystery to be seen. The very meaning of Rahasya is, "My will is naught, my power is of no avail, by myself I can never know. I have no competence to know. I am helpless." When this feeling becomes intense, the knowledge of mystery dawns on us. This is why we...
... physical illness, intellectuals die often of mental illness. If you are thoroughly convinced that you are dying, you are dying, then you will die. Your physical mechanism is absolutely alright and can still work. Only your consciousness within has contracted. The hand of Jesus can loosen the contraction of the consciousness. It is not a miracle. The magnetic power of the hand of Jesus can bring up the...
... one moment. And when Krishna tells Arjuna: "These whom you think you are going to kill, I see them dead already. They are dead Arjuna, they only seem standing before you, for you do not have the power to see in to the future." This is a miracle! Miracle means - where the cause and causality are not apart. They are not apart actually. It is our manner of looking that is wrong. The way we...
.... SANSARA, the world, is nothing but an effort to fill this inner vacuum. Fill it with money, fill it with women, fill it with men, fill it with power, fill it with anything - big houses, fill it with fame - but fill it. Go on throwing things into it - so one day you can feel you are not just nothing, you ARE somebody, you ARE something. But it never happens, it CANNOT happen. Because the abyss is...
... thousand by-paths. Somebody may go away through money, somebody may go through power, somebody may go through sex, somebody may go through alcohol, drugs - a thousand paths, by-paths. But they basically belong to one direction - going without, going withoutwards, going outside. Going farther and farther away from the center towards the periphery. And that periphery exists not. So you go on and on and on...
... madly playing the game of power. This word 'capital' is very beautiful, it comes from a root-word 'capita' which means 'head'. So 'capital' means a head city, or a mad city. All kinds of mad people have gathered in capitals. If God wants to save this world, he can do a single miracle and it will be saved: just let capitals disappear. Suddenly, no New Delhi, no Washington, no Moscow, no Peking, no...
... wastage. You have the money, and nothing has come. You have the power and the prestige and the respectability, and you remain empty - in fact, your whole life is gone, has gone down the drain. Now only death is waiting. Of course you will die as a successful man and there will be reports in the newspaper... but you never lived! You will die as a successful man, but you never lived truly, because life is...
... mind has no power. At the most it can give you all the alternatives. At the most it can just give you the total view - this is good, this is bad - but the choice finally is yours. So whenever there is an alternative, lean towards the good, even if it is difficult in the beginning. To choose the evil, the bad, is easy. It is downhill. In fact no gas is needed. You can put off the engine and the car...
... be the same again. The old values - the old life, the competition, the market the money, the power, the prestige, the politics - all seem meaningless. Once you have tasted a little of death, then you know that all this is futile; it has no intrinsic value. One starts seeking for meaning for the first time. So go immediately, mm? For a few days he will be very vulnerable. If you catch hold of him...
... from the distance... it has no meaning at all, but yet it is so significant, so lovely, who cares whether it has meaning or not? A rubai is a song which is beautiful not for its meaning but for its juice, for its tremendous beauty, for its penetrating power. And life should be a song of bliss; it should not be sad. Sadness is something manufactured by us, it is not made by God; sadness is our...
... one cannot understand how one could have believed in money so much, in power politics so much, in name and fame so much. How could one have believed in the body so much knowing that death is happening every day, all around? How one went on living as if one was not going to die at all! But right now when you are metaphysically asleep all these things seem to be very real. Somebody insults you and it...
... ego needs the marketplace. The ego can exist only in relationship; the ego cannot exist without relationship. Just as a bridge needs two banks to exist... It cannot exist only with one bank, if there is only one bank the bridge will fall. And that is the beauty of being alone: when you are tremendously alone, all the bridges that connect you - with money, power, people, prestige - start evaporating...
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