I want to repeat that famous statement, a famous wisdom of the past, which says, "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the arrows sped forth, opportunity lost, and time wasted." Time is the most important because in time only you have arrows, in time only you can speak, and in time only you can have opportunities. So that is the most fundamental resource that we have, and human life is...
The real test of a mahatma or guru is not his miracles but experience on the path of realisation. The popular meaning of a mahatma as a great individual does not appeal to me. I would define a mahatma as the most insignificant being, or rather a neglected figure, beyond all feelings of greatness, pride or egoism, dwelling permanently in a state of complete self-negation.
Taken from the book "Complete Works...
Afflictions are the boons from God. There are many secrets in them and many inner experiences can be had by undergoing sufferings. It is good to be put to worries. The home is the training centre for submission and endurance, etc. It is the greatest form of penance and sacrifice.
Taken from the book "Truth Eternal (5th edn., 2010)", Chapter "Lalaji", pg. 16, by Babuji Maharaj
If people come to spiritual life only to change the world, they will not achieve anything. I assure you. If you come to change yourself, there is guarantee of success provided you apply yourself to changing yourself. This world is full of people who want to change the world. Every rapacious conqueror through the history of this world wanted to change the world. Every philosopher and wise man wanted to...
Meditation makes us get an enormous degree of regulation over our own minds, and it becomes an instrument for revelation. When our meditation is successful, we have complete control over our minds.
Taken from the book "The Fruit of the Tree", Chapter "Questions and Answers I" pg. 13, by Revered Chariji
Babuji said, "We only look for lost things; we search for lost things." God is not lost. I am lost. Therefore, when I look, I am looking for my Self. Therefore, I am seeking my Self when I am meditating. When I find it, I find myself. That is Self-realisation.
Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2005", Chapter "Existence, Consciousness, Bliss",...
We meditate and make meditation a state of life so that we are eternally in a contemplative mood, even when we are involving ourselves in other activities, which will mean minimum involvement in activities, maximum involvement in contemplation. Which will mean also automatically leading a right life, because we have no time and inclination to do what is not necessary, or what is wrong. So, we get into...
Devotion and love, of course, remain so easy and yet so difficult of achievement at once. Real devotion has no tinge of affection in it and goes hand in glove with enlightenment. In the initial stages the devotee may be conscious of his feeling towards the object of his love; but at higher stages the foam and fury is dimmed to the extent of an almost total loss of its awareness at the Ultimate stage. The superfine level...
Vairagya (Renunciation) can be attained only when one is wholly diverted towards the Divine. When it is so, one naturally becomes disinterested in his own self including everything connected with it. Thus he loses not only the body-consciousness but subsequently the soul-consciousness as well.
Taken from the book "Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Vol. 1 (1st Indian edn., 1989)", Chapter "Way to Realisation (Role of the Abhyasi)", pg. 339, by Babuji Maharaj
As Babuji Maharaj said, "Good samskara will bring you back, perhaps as a king, perhaps as a multimillionaire. What you call bad samskara may bring you here as a leper, a beggar, a diseased person, but both bring you back here - only the conditions change. So, don't create samskara. How not to create samskara? Remain in Constant Remembrance. When you are in Constant Remembrance, you do things without creating impressions;...