The Lord Is My Shepherd    Psalm23    The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.    He makes me lie down in green pastures.    He leads me beside still waters    He restores my soul.    He leads me in paths of righteousness    for his name's sake.     Even though I...

Talk 146 In reply to Miss Leena Sarabhai, a cultured Indian lady of high rank, Sri Bhagavan said: The state of equanimity is the state of bliss. The declaration in the Vedas ‘I am This or That’, is only an aid to gain equanimity of mind. D.: So, it is wrong to begin...

Questioner: Would Maharaj talk about the grace of the guru? Maharaj: It is the intensity of the faith you have in the guru's words that is most important; once that is there, the grace flows automatically. The faith in the guru is based on the consciousness within,...

  “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain...

God is the ultimate “I” Who is the Self of every self! Thomas Merton may be the most prominent Christian writer of the 20th century. He was a mystic writer, and he received a little pushback from traditional Catholics because he was close with men of all faiths and...

The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. To know what you are, you...

  It is a great discovery when one realizes that Buddha's Nirvana, Christianity's Salvation and Vedanta's Self Realization are one and the same at the deepest level. Only a rare seeker may ever journey down the  well deep enough to realize it. I truly love Jesus...

The former president of India, Mr. Rajendra Prasad, once went to the asramam of Mahatma Gandhi and said, “Bapuji, I have come to you for peace!” The abode of peace was known well to Gandhiji and hence he advised, “if you want peace, go to Sri Ramanasramam and remain...

 “The kingdom of heaven is like a  treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.( Gospel of Mathew) Jesus says: "Let him who seeks cease not to seek until he finds: when he finds...

“The seeker is he who is in search of himself… To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all that you are not — body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that — nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be...