Saying a big “No” with deep conviction is better and greater than saying it to please others. If there is a pure confession and realization, receiving and forgiving is true religion. There is no medicine for unaccepted things, as they are worse than undigested food. These aspects of Upanishad are for seekers to contemplate, and[…]

Prema beejagalihuvu vaira beejagala vole Soumyamum sankshobheyanthe prakruthiyali Bramakada srushtiya vishama  lakshanagalali  saamarasyavanaraso             – Mankuthimma As there are seeds of love, so also the seeds of hatred. The face of calmness is common in nature, so also the face of turmoil. The illusion of creation that is expressed in these opposite versions is for you[…]

Pathanjali Yoga sutra Atha yoganushasanam, yogaschitha vrithi nirodhaha Thadadrashtaha swaroopeva asthanam vrithi saropya mitharathya The mind is addictive and intoxicated. All the techniques are against mind. Until you realize that you are in the path opposite to yoga and that it is useless, you cannot enter the path of sutra. Only those who are totally[…]

Self knowledge itself is detachment from cravings. All cravings are due to insufficiency residing within you. To come out of maya means knowing that you do not lack anything. Then the craving will be lost. The seeker should dissolve himself in his search, or the searching itself should dissolve. The Guru, God, the Self, and[…]

Pathanjali Yoga sutra Atha yoganushasanam, yogaschitha vrithi nirodhaha Thadadrashtaha swaroopeva asthanam vrithi saropya mitharathya Yoga is “Amana”, which means the end of mind. Only in Amana, the witness becomes witnessed and one can rest in oneself. If you are not in this state, you become one with the vrithis [thoughts] of the mind. In introspection,[…]

Shikhi is fire, the rage of mind on one side of the stone of life, and the fire of heart on the other side. Bring the life stone to boil by softening it. A life that does not melt in the heat of living and that does not become clear like water cannot fill into[…]

  Man keeps renewing himself, every moment being refined thoroughly in the oven of life on earth, and becomes the very personification of essence by losing all the dirt, and grows into the universal soul. Hosahosabanaguvanu manavanu vasudheya mooseyali puta paakavanthu Rasamurthiaguvanu jagadathmamathi beleye kasavella kaledavanu ~ Mankuthimma.