Sanatana Dharma

We must have a consciousness, a mindfulness that in this 'Tandava', this dance of creation, everything is changing.

On the anniversary of their birthday, not their death, go to a church or a temple or place and put some flowers and say, "Thank you, this is in remembrance of you. May God grant you peace so you live on in the grace of God."

You have to teach people from an early age when they are little children growing up, that there's a duality in them so sometimes one aspect of that duality will make more demands than the other.

I know you are in a hurry to master yourself and the mind. To master the mind means you must get rid of your undigested thoughts. Why are they undigested? Because you have not spent time perfecting them or your actions. [Analyse] what you should be doing, how you should be doing it, and be aware of the causes and effects that you set in motion in your life. You have to perfect your thoughts to digest them.

Sit down and say to yourself, "From the moment I got up what was my behaviour pattern? What were the vibrations I set in motion? What did I do? How did my friends react? Was I critical? Was I aggressive? Was I understanding? Was I acting with loving-kindness?"

You must be able to say to yourself, “I lost my temper. I see that, now why did I do that? I must control myself. I must become aware and mindful, and then I am in charge of my whole being. I become depressed, I'm unhappy, I want more. Why? I am the master. I am the person who is free.”

I don't like to use the word ‘evil'. ‘Good' and ‘bad' are very unintelligent methods of looking at life. I would like you to look at the causes and effects you set in motion, which are positive or negative. Positive or negative means you realise what you are doing and the consequences of your actions. It means that you realise what the results of your actions are. It means that you realise whether or not there is love or whether you are hurting people, or yourself in the process. This is what I want you to study.

Real ‘contraception' is responsibility. Responsibility means that you choose one partner, settle down in life, and be responsible. We want to see that responsibility because [nowadays] people are using contraception as a way to enable more and more promiscuity.

When you grow up, you throw away the things that you played with as a child. What matters then as you advance spiritually is that all the things that other people are attached to, you will soon push away. You think, “They are not for me. What satisfies me?” Why are you here? Why are you feeling within yourself a sense of satisfaction to come and have this interaction with me? Why?

When you sleep, sleep. When you eat, eat. When you work, work. When you play, play hard, never mind. When you laugh, laugh. You must be aware of all you set in motion in your body and your mind. You must be acutely alert then you develop your senses more and more to register the impulses from around you.

I want every opportunity for every life. My advice to you when you see such a child is to go to the child, clasp your hands together, and say to the Divine Mother, “Mother, I can't understand the totality of karma that this child is born with. Please help this child. I pray that you are the best judge of all this and that you will help to assist this child in birth and death.” That is the best solution to the problem.

Love is a most powerful weapon. You have got a weapon that is more powerful than a gun. You can disarm people with love.

I promise you anything that I have said in this room, I have applied, and I have experienced Divinity. I know what I am talking about, it is not what somebody else has handed to me on a plate.

Parents believe they know it. With all their love they want to do what they believe is in the interests of their child. Those are the things that sometimes recur in your mind and make you question why you had to have this battle, but this battle was necessary for you to grow up.

I don't need to tell you, but I am telling you to discover your divinity. You are divine - realise your divinity. Behave in the fashion and manner of a divine human being, and every day chip some of the old habits away. Push them away every day so that you discover your greater Self and your divinity. Then you will have great peace of mind.

The body is an instrument with which we work to discover the potential within ourselves, which is Divine. Your eyes, ears, voice, actions, and energies - all are but instruments with which to discover the highest embodiment within yourself.

That is what life is about. You want to liberate yourself, to discover your inner power, and your divinity. That is the drama that you are going through. You are fighting for survival. None of your attachments will help you to become liberated.

When you have an animal or anything that is suffering say, “Come I will look after you.” Don't put yourself before an animal or life that is sacred. All life is sacred. When you begin to think like that, then you open the window of your heart for the Lord to dwell in it.

Let each emotion come one by one. If they flood into your mind say, "Wait, wait a minute." Put them in a queue. Say, "Wait till I call you," as I am doing now for you. Don't let them flood into your mind because it is uncontrolled. You tell them to wait. You see, this is what contemplation is about.

The Divine Mother is ‘Maha Shakti'. Maha Shakti means universal energy. Form and formlessness. The formlessness that encompasses the whole universe. That formlessness is in the mountains, rivers, Earth, and throughout the whole universe. The stars, moon, and suns are all a part of the energy of the Divine Mother.

Remember, from the moment you get up to the moment you go to sleep if you watch that television set it will insidiously plant a vibration in your mind to register in your mind's eye to tell you what to buy, and how to associate that item with your life. My advice to you is don't watch that television set. God has given you intelligence - use it. God has given you the power to discriminate - discriminate. God has given you the power to say to yourself, “This is not for me, I don't need it.” That's when you begin to change your lifestyle.

If a person has a real problem physically and you want to help that person and say, “I want to heal you”, that means you want to share your karma with them. I want to take that karma from you and wear it, and if possible with the grace of God He will take some part of that karma from you. It's a big responsibility, not an easy one.

What is that? It's cause and effect. Somewhere down the line of birth and death, you have picked up this karma - something positive, or something negative. From birth to this consciousness, we have created karma both positive and negative. We are going to have to be accountable for that and suffer the consequences of that. This is very important. We are the architects of both pain and pleasure. So, look at it.

I want you to stand on your feet now. Have confidence within yourself. You have the capacity and the ability to do exactly what I do and more by being able to link yourself, plug yourself into that divine consciousness. You have to discover that ability. That is what it is all about.

It's a possibility that the mind transcends the physical and that's what he's doing. He's doing it with his mind and he's able to do it. That is his grace; he's received that grace and he can do that. It's very difficult to put it in a form of analysis so that you can understand it.

Christ was forgiveness; Christ was understanding; To be a Christian is not to accuse another person of being something that you are as well. To realise that every human being has an opportunity to be liberated, in Christ. For liberation means that you have begun to change your lifestyle, to absorb the energies of Christ, to make your heart the temple of Christ.

Develop the power of perception. Do you know what the power of perception means? To feel how things are going your way or what is obstructing you. That was how you (human beings) were before when you were primitive, so-called primitive.

Every action has a reaction - a cycle of reactions. Positive and negative thoughts interfere with our lives. Non-constructive vibrations - vibrations that are interfering and which are an impediment to your own wellbeing - are negative.

Love is compassion; love is understanding; love is forgiveness; love is to integrate — to become one — and without that love, nothing else functions.

You will never be satisfied until you have discovered your Divinity. You will always say to yourself, ”Yes, I have all things that I want. I have a good job and a very kind wife who makes good food for me. Yet there is something inside me that makes me irritable.” That is why you are here. You want to find out what it is that people are talking about; what is it about meditation that would help you - how can you discover the link between yourself and God.

You know there is a thought that in the name of righteousness you can take up arms. But I can't see any righteousness in any of the wars that man has fought. To defend righteousness, the human being must upgrade his values and defend them. I can't see that what has happened anywhere is righteous.

To meditate is to take control of yourself. Meditation masters your lower nature. Meditation reduces your aggression.

Don't try to meditate during the midday period. it is not a good vibration. Find a time, early hours of the morning or late in the evening. You get better results because the atmosphere is slowly steadying and calming you.

Everybody who wants to evolve spiritually must first contemplate before they meditate. Do you know what contemplation is? Contemplation means to go through your actions from the moment you have got up to the moment you are going to sit to meditate. To understand the causes and effects that you have set in motion that are helpful to you, or unhelpful to you in your life.

There are no limits. You transcend all matter; you transcend all boundaries and you can become integrated with God. There is no roof to your house. Sometimes it can be very daunting for that person. Because you realise that you're in an amazing power, and nothing exists around you except that power. Immerse yourself in it. Forget everything and merge with that consciousness.

Joy! That is the vibration of God. Miserableness is not a passage to God – joy is. The Lord has created us to realise the Divinity within us. Being miserable you will never realise God. Start the day with love; fill the day with love; end the day with love. If you have nobody to love, look at yourself in the mirror and say, ”I love you!"

God is Love. Love is God. You will transform all your [lower] natures until you know love. Love is what you must aim to reach out to get, for it is compassion. It is understanding. It is forgiveness. It changes your whole nature to become sweet. The past is beyond recovery; the present is at hand. Sanctify it.

Where you have power, where you have discipline, your aura becomes golden. The opportunity for a person to advance spiritually is there when you have disciplined yourself and your aura is golden.

She educates the human being to realise who God is; what our life's journey is about, and to see for ourselves what is expected of us. This is not exclusive to me.

You know, a lot of Gurus and Swamis come to the West. I'm sorry to say, but they have no time for their devotees. They float in and float out, they pick the pockets and off they go to another country. And the poor devotees are left high and dry.

I was walking through that place and there, surrounding me, were all the old, ancient Indian chiefs to greet me. They were very concerned [about] what was happening in the country. I have never forgotten them. I always pray for them, so that they will be successful.

Don't go into competition with anybody because that won't do you any good at all. You'll be frustrated. What that person experiences is for him and not for you. You will have your own experience and you hold on to it, that's yours. Be patient with yourself. Lots of people will come to you and say, “Oh, in my meditation I get so many experiences,” say, “Good for you!”

Bliss is love. When you really experience bliss you forget to control your senses. The inhibitions of the human being are of no use when you are in the presence of the Lord. You cry and you cry and you cry. They are called tears of bliss. There is no means of holding back. Don't be afraid.

Prayer must come from your heart, not from your lips. From all that format of formality, we have to change it to the feeling of the rapport of love.

"She has come, disintegrated my body (and possibly put it upside down together!) But She has created great power – She handed to me power to give you. If you think that this has happened just once or twice you are wrong. It has been a continuous drama for the last five years." GURU SRI SUBRAMANIUM

"If a person started on a spiritual journey and made every effort to advance spiritually, then the reincarnation period will be that much shorter. And he will re-enter the world bearing with him great power and a future for his own spiritual advancement." GURU SRI SUBRAMANIUM

"I'll take this opportunity today to talk about the rhythms, the rhythms of the human being. Now, we always suggest to people that if they are going to meditate, it is better to meditate after midnight because the rhythm of the body is changed." GURU SRI SUBRAMANIUM

"Angels are there as messengers, guarding and protecting people against influences. Those angels will only again respond if the human being has truly, honestly, sincerely set sail in a spiritual path. If a human being were to follow a negative path of life – do you honestly believe angels will come to help him? No, he will be attracted by other forces that are negative and will pull him down." GURU SRI SUBRAMANIUM

"I know your innermost thoughts. I understand why sometimes you are drawn to some special person of spiritual experience and content. I understand that, but that won't liberate you. What will liberate you is your own hard work. By doing as much karma yoga as you can, combined with bhakti yoga. There is no easy way." GURU SRI SUBRAMANIUM

"Imagine if everything was nice and rosy? You will never make an effort. Every person who evolves spiritually, who wants to evolve spiritually, has to do battle with the lower nature." GURU SRI SUBRAMANIUM

"If you think you have a problem in your body, chant 'Om'. And make it resonate in every single cell of your being. Bring that consciousness to the top of your head and go and identify yourself with the totality of Maha Shakti." GURU SRI SUBRAMANIUM