Ramana Maharshi on the Waking and the Dream States

(from Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p.232 and 236): Ramana Maharshi once made the following remarks about the waking…

The Great Escape

Please stop the earthI want to step off it nowAnd float away, far awayInto the wide blue spaceAnd hide among…

We all knowOnly too wellHow things can go wrongA fetus being stillbornA 25-year-oldDying of a rare cancerA 60-year-oldDiagnosed with Alzheimer’sAn…

Try as hard as you may Figure out you cannot Why things happen The way they do Who’ll carry the…

“You will learn more by being silent for an hour than by reading all the books in the world.”—D. Samarender…

Ah, the mistakes I’ve committedTo ask for forgivenessWould itself seemLike another mistakePerhaps it suffices to knowThey were mistakes.

Love ain’t enough No, it ain’t enough Neither is reason Nor words of any kind Nor memories fresh Nothing calms…

There seems to be such a thing as “greed” (some may prefer to call it “hunger”) for knowledge. One seeks…

“The inability to love is the root of all evil.”—D. Samarender Reddy