India Reflections

Everything that begins must end. We feel sad when good things come to an end, but if they did not, bad things also would not end. And as Babuji Maharaj used to say, only one thing has no end – the spiritual life, because the soul being an amsha, or a spark of the Divine, is also immortal and everlasting. It partakes also of existence, which means no beginning, no end. We are embarked on that journey, without any conscious participation, ever since the beginning of time, creation, and shall continue...

Everything that begins must end. We feel sad when good things come to an end, but if they did not, bad things also would not end. And as Babuji Maharaj used to say, only one thing has no end – the spiritual life, because the soul being an amsha, or a spark of the Divine, is also immortal and everlasting. It partakes also of existence, which means no beginning, no end. We are embarked on that journey, without any conscious participation, ever since the beginning of time, creation, and shall continue...

I would urge upon you the necessity of making up your minds, that what must be achievable as a spiritual goal must be achieved now rather than later, today rather than tomorrow, here rather than elsewhere. 'Here and now' – it should be the slogan.

Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2002, Vol. 2 (1st edn., 2011)", Chapter "Here and Now", pg. 3, by Revered Chariji

[As a Teacher] I need the knowledge of what I am going to teach. I need the humility to know that I can never teach it is as well as I should and that while I am teaching I am also learning from you [students] all. Isn't it? That is humility – because learning never ends. And I must have the courage to accept it.

Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2009 (1st edn., 2010)", Chapter "Teach with Faith, Patience and Love", pg. 150, by Revered Chariji

We may begin at one point, our own hearts, but the seed of purity sown there must be nurtured and made to grow in such a manner that it radiates beyond the confines of the individual human system, radiates beyond his home and beyond his small world until finally the whole universe comes within its divine embrace.

Taken from the book "My Master", Chapter "The Environment", pg. 23, by Revered Chariji

We should recognise that we are born with limitations brought here by our samskaras, which we have acquired by our past lives of thought, of action. Our present life should precisely be targeted at wiping out those samskaric influences that we have brought with us – the drags on our evolutionary possibilities, the anchors that keep us fixed in one situation – with the absolute necessity not to add more samskaras as we go on.

Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2010 (1st edn., 2011)",...