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.

True sanyasa is born out of joy and freedom. Only he can serve the world sharing his happiness. The unhappy person considers sanyasa as escape. Do not cover your ugliness with beautiful words. Our world would not have been so impotent if we had understood God truly. These aspects of the Upanishads is for seekers[…]

  Pathanjali Yoga sutra Pathajanli Yoga is superior to scriptures. There is limitless unbounded wisdom that only a Guru, who has completely understood and imbibed the Sutras, can transmit in a very subtle, creative and artistic way. The Sutras appear very difficult, but the Guru, by deriving the Sutras, makes it simple to dive deep.[…]

Na tatsvabhasam drsyatvat Na tat svabhasam drsyatvat Just as the senses of perception and mind act as the mirror of consciousness, the consciousness acts as the mirror of the seer. The seer does not need a mirror to act or reflect as he is self illuminative. Patanjali defines consciousness in its real form. He says[…]

Mankuthimmana kagga is so beautiful. It has covered the significance of the Gayatri mantra as well. The Gayatri Mantra is not just a word or sentence. It is not even a sound or a cluster of words. It is the Power. All the four Vedas are condensed in the 24 letters of the Gayatri. When[…]