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Yeh Duniya Yeh Mehfil Mere Kaam Ki Nahi


Happiness and love we keep seeking While we ourselves are that which we seek Look at God’s Maya or is … More

Happiness, Ignorance, Illusion, Love, Maya, Name and Fame, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, World

Mind is Your Friend, NOT Your Enemy


You are attempting the wrong, unnecessary and almost impossible thing. Why? Because you are making the mistaking of thinking mind … More

Action, Desires, Happinesss, Ignorance, Karma, Karma Yoga, Maya, Meditation, Mental discipline, Mental health, Mind, Mind as a computer, Mind control, Mind is not free, Mind is programmed, Mindfulness, personal-development, personal-growth, Purpose of Mind, Spirituality, Thoughts

Is the search for truth the subtlest form of Maya? Janak asks Ashtavakra


Janak asks Ashtavakra: Is the search for truth the subtlest form of Maya? What follows is not a teaching, not … More

Ashtavakra, Avidya, Awakening, Bondage, Enligtenment, Ignorance, Illusion, Liberation, Maya, Meditation, Moksha, Nirvana, Quest for truth, Samsara, Search for Truth, Seeker, Seeking, Spiritual awakening, Spiritual Sadhana, Spirituality

Muslims


“Every time your BP rises when you remember the Muslims, just think about Sahir Ludhianvi.”

Ignorance, Indian Muslims, Islam, Multiculturalism, Muslims, Prejudice, Quran, Religion, Sahir Ludhianvi, Terrorism

“The cause of suffering is desire”: Buddha’s Second Noble Truth


“At last, at long last, I have understood Buddha’s Second Noble Truth that ‘The cause of suffering is desire’.”–DSR Buddha’s … More

Attachments, Buddha's second noble truth, Buddhism, Craving, Desire, Dukkha, Greed Hatred Ignorance, Ignorance, Pleasures, Roots of evil, Sensual pleasures, Suffering, Tanha, The three poisons

Iski Maa Ki Kirkiri (or, Who Am I?)


How did I come to beThis me that I am nowWhat past has shaped meKarma? Tut, tut,How did the first … More

Creation, Ignorance, Kalpa, Karma, Maya, Oneself, Original nature, Personality, Poem, Poetry, Pralaya, Rebirth, Reincarnation, Samsara, The "I", Who am I?

“The world is a drama of women and gold” (or more accurately, “lust and greed”)


The phrase, “The world is a drama of women and gold” (or more accurately, “lust and greed”), is a central teaching of Sri … More

Bondage, Ignorance, Kamini Kanchana, Liberation, Lust and Greed, Maya, Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ramana Maharshi, Women and gold, World

God, World, Ignorance, Knowledge, Love, Wisdom


“It is very easy to understand God, but very difficult to understand this world.” “When and how will I discard this … More

God, Ignorance, Knowledge, Love, Quotations, Quotes, Wisdom, World

Parable of the Farmer and the Law of Karma


from The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Parable of the Farmer It was about five o’clock in the afternoon. Sri Ramakrishna … More

Death, faith, God, Ignorance, Illusion, Karma, Maya, Sense of Doership, World as a dream

Truth & Untruth


Read this story that refers to a prayer Ramakrishna made to the Divine Mother where he asked for pure love, … More

Dharma, Falsehood, God, Holiness, Ignorance, Knowledge, Pure love, Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ramakrishna Paramahansa on Truth, Truth

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