| The body has changed, the mind has changed,and the intellect has changed, but there is something in the mind that has not changed. This is how we feel; we have not only grown old, we are the same- this is a glimpse of the soul. |
| Life has to be seen from a larger perspective. |
| What is life? How long are we going to live here? What is the truth of life? We should put some light on this. And when we do this, the gist comes to doing meditation. See, in all our temples, this is what is shown to us, God sitting with his eyes closed, steady, in meditation. That meditation, we should all do because meditation has a lot of importance in life. |
| Lord Buddha said, ‘Life has sorrow and sadness, but there is a way to come out of sadness.’ Lord Mahavir said, ‘Repose in the self; the nature of the soul is happiness.’ For both these messages, the way is meditation. Discontinuation of sadness and attainment of happiness, both will happen through meditation. |
| Don’t give your life's authority in somebody else's hand. If you give it, this is what will happen. You will have no freedom. You lose your freedom. And when you lose freedom, the next thing you lose is love, and compassion, because someone who is stifled cannot express their compassion or love. |
| You should drive the mind rather than the mind driving you. What do you think? Is it correct? |
| What does wisdom do? Wisdom empowers you to drive the mind, how you want to drive it. Otherwise you are not in the driving seat, the mind is driving. It is an automated car which goes on its own. You are sitting, wondering that you want to go left, and the car is going right, and you feel helpless. |
| Our life is endless, and it does not end here. After this, we will come again. We are infinite, endless; there is an element in us that is eternal. A small glimpse of this is achieved when you realize that nothing has happened to me, nothing has changed in me. |
| There are two words that are used from the ancient times. One is called Anadhi which means beginning-less, and the other is Anantha which means endless. |
| Three things are eternal: One is life, the other is matter, and third is the supreme energy which you call God or Aatma. These three things neither begin nor end, but its permutation and combination makes this whole universe. | |
| Souls are many, they take many forms, and they come and they go. |
| There are five secrets, and one of them is the secret of creation. To know more about it, you have to go deep in meditation.
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