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TEACHINGS OF DADAJI ALIAS AMIYA ROYCHOWDHURY (1906-1992)

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Printed by Swapna Printing Works Pvt. Ltd. 52, Raja Rammohan Sarani Kolkata - 700 009 (ii)

In PART-I we have included excerpts from articles published by eminent persons who have narrated their experiences with DADAJI. The editor (and publisher) expresses gratitude to the authors and publishers of these articles.

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TRUTH MAHANAM SATYANARAYAN LOVE GURU DIVINE WILL DESTINY DUTY WORK PATH TO THE SUPREME RENUNCIATION EGO MIND & INTELLECT BODY & SENSES RELATIONSHIP MAYA ATTACHMENT & DETACHMENT BIRTH & DEATH WORLD WORLDLY RICHES MATH & ASHRAM WORSHIP SCIENCE & FAITH SPACE & TIME AROMA VOID & FULLNESS GRACE. SATYANARAYAN PUJA

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Nobel Laureate President, I.S.E. Society Philosopher. Ex-President of the Republic of India.

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WHO IS DADAJI

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I N T H E P R E S E N T V O L U M E A N AT T E M P T HAS BEEN MADE TO FULFIL, IN SOME MEASURE, DADAJI’S WISH ONCE EXPRESSED TO THE EDITOR : ‘IT IS YOU PEOPLE WHO WOULD SPREAD DADAJI’S T E A C H I N G S . ( T O M R A I T O D A D A R K AT H A BOLBE).’

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Published by S. N. Chakrabarti Pratap Bagan P.O. & Dist. Bankura(W.B.) PIN. — 722101

PART - I

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WHO IS DADAJI ?

All Rights Reserved

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First Published In Present Form : 1st October, 2004

Available at 188/10 A, Prince Anwarshah Road, Kolkata - 700045

For Correspondence Goutam Kr. Mandal Chandmaridanga, P.O. + Dist. Bankura (W.B.) PIN - 722101 Ph. No. (03242) 252678

Printed by Swapna Printing Works Pvt. Ltd. 52, Raja Rammohan Sarani Kolkata - 700 009 (ii)

In PART-I we have included excerpts from articles published by eminent persons who have narrated their experiences with DADAJI. The editor (and publisher) expresses gratitude to the authors and publishers of these articles.

....... Dadaji has appeared to remove all divisions causing endless problems to humanity. Universal Brotherhood has been inaugurated. THE AGE OF TRUTH HAS DAWNED.

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Dadaji alias Amiya Roy Chowdhury is an enigmatic, ever-elusive personality taking constant refuge in anonymity, a citizen of the world around and, may be, beyond us.

We, human beings, are like electrons. Orbiting the nuclear existence is our fated duty. We have to do it without any sense of agency, as Dadaji affirms so often.

Dr. Vernon D. Hansen President of Churches, Washington, U.S.A.

It is Will Supreme that fashions us as it would.

Causality is a freak of nature occasioned by the curvature caused by our egoistic mass. That brings in its wake an irresistible gravitational pull that dwarfs and enchains us. And we start chopping into fragments the continuous, unfragmented flow of life.

We now see chaos and multiplicity instead of unity of existence. How to transcend this causality ? Dadaji assures us, the frame of reference has to be thrown off , to shed off the last vestige of ego and to be in tune with the elan vital.

Dadaji, the displayer of breath-taking fantastic miracles that dislodge the entire battalion of scientists the world over, this proclaimer of the profoundest philosophy of love and integral Truth, dubs himself as nobody.

What, then, is Dadaji ? Is he the antibody, the antimatter, which effect the decay and destruction, in this case, redemption, of the discrete particles that we

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-IV

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are? Is he the nuclear existence of the world-show? One who has gone beyond all multiplicity may possibly negotiate the question.

Dr. Linus Pauling Nobel Laureate

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In day to day worldly life Dadaji is like any other house-holder. He does not set himself apart from the mainstream of common life. He is totally egoless such that, in spite of his worldly role, he is completely identified with Truth. One with infinite, he transcends all limitations of nature, and displays all manner of miracles to draw attention to his message in his role as the universal Elder Brother.

Dadaji is generating in mankind an awareness of Truth unapproachable by mind and intellect.

It is in the nature of mind to cut up reality into fragments. The world of nature we perceive is the world of mind. The laws of science are laws operating in this mind-perceived world.

The foundational reality, Truth, is Existence itself, beyond any mental geometrisation. It is thus beyond time and space. No concepts apply at that level.

In Dadaji one comes to experience happenings that fall so clearly outside the established framework of science, that an honest scientist has no choice but to accept the fact of that realm beyond his comprehension.

Truth is God. Dadaji refers to Him as Satyanarayan. He is the Lord to us humans. As our very existence, He resides in the depths of our hearts and is, thus, our nearest and dearest. It is only our individual sense, the ego, that shuts out the awareness of constant communion with Him.

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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One person called Dadaji has come on earth to present the simplest yet deepest and most radical philosophy of Divine Truth ever presented to the human race.

I have felt for a long time that the messiah must be round the corner. For these are the worst of days in man’s history. And if, therefore, the REDEEMER must make his appearance, then these are also the best of days.

In his divine presence all forms of phenomenon take place. These are beyond the scope and understanding of all mental and physical sciences.

Dadaji is here not to change our destiny, but to lend the quality of love to it. We have come to taste His Love. We have come to taste His Peace. We have come to live as One with Him.

What a soul-stirring beatific experience to find myself in his arms so unexpectedly one day ! He suddenly took me by storm breaking through the portals of my heart and filling my being with the omnific sound.

Yes, Dadaji, that enigmatic personality annihilating all personality cult, that omnipotent nobody came to me in flesh and blood as a CHRIST of love, a BUDDHA of wisdom, a KRISHNA of supreme yogic power, a CHAITANYA of the profoundest emotional abandon and a GOVINDA of the most deliciously amorous masculinity. And he conducted me to Mahanam— the be-all and end-all of my existence.

I have thus been made aware of the divinity in my core. I have found the omnific word inside me. And Dadaji himself is identified with this inner divinity.

Dr. Pauline Arneberg Nobel Laureate.

Dadaji removes the sense of limitation from which man suffers. There is only one Supreme Existence, only one Truth : why then should there be any divisions in the human race ? The same Mahanam rings in every heart.

Hence all mankind is one. All logic chopping stops in

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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front of Truth that is outside the reach of the mind, but ever approachable through love and self-surrender.

Henry Miller (U.S.A.)

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In the world of applied science we break down, analyse and classify all of the known physical properties according to their chemical make-up. For instance, we understand that water is basically two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, but WHY this is so is not really known.

There is an intelligence in the Universe that maintains these constant balances.

Dadaji defies all the laws of applied science in chemistry. He is in tune with the divine science and deals in the chemistry of love, the chemistry of life, the chemistry of existence itself.

While the applied scientist goes from all forms of creation back to their origins, the divine scientist Dadaji starts from the One and sees clearly all creation manifesting from it.

Dadaji’s science is both practical and applied, here and beyond. It explores and destroys all superstition. It is Truth and for this THE WORLD BOWS TO HIM.

Dr. Paul Berg Nobel Laureate Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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— my Dadaji — all about me ! Have I at long last achieved the internal frame of reference ? Who is he indeed ? I wonder in what relation he stands to Satyanarayan, — in manifest identity? Has JESUS been resurrected in the fullest blaze of love and wisdom to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth?

Dr. R. Haroldson Director, Physical Research Institute (U.S.A.)

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The family of humanity is divided today as never before in known history. There are conflicts galore all around. The tremendous achievements of science and technology, for all the promise they hold, are more often put to use for intensifying conflicts. The human heart yearns for peace, the human mind succeeds in producing more turmoil. In this situation, self-styled (religious leaders) have a field day exploiting others in the name of God. A perfect setting, this, for the appearance of the true REDEEMER. He has taken the form of the universal Elder Brother, Dadaji, to remind all people of their common ancestry. He proclaims and proves, “Truth is one and all humanity is one.”

Dadaji assures us that no mental or physical acts, no prohibitions, no esoteric rituals, no superstitious beliefs or practices are needed to lead us to the realisation of Truth.

By personal example, he shows how one is to participate in normal life, braving the world. As Amiya Roy Chowdhury he lives the life of a householder in Calcutta, supporting his wife and family by running a small toy shop. Anyone who approaches him in simplicity is gathered in his loving arms as a younger brother or sister. There are no barriers of religion, caste, community, sex or nationality with him. Divine Love he exudes for all, without exception.

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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Dadaji is showing humanity the path whereby a change in the angle of vision comes about that enables us to see the world as a Divine Play. Our duty is to play our part well here, living a natural life.

We have to submit to the Lord’s Will and remember Him with love and self-surrender. This, Dadaji exhorts us, is the only way to Him. At this critical period of the world, Dadaji, the Supreme Consciousness in human form, is moving about selflessly amongst us to bring home to our feeling consciousness that the transcendent alone is Truth, the asylum where the individual soul rests in utmost confidence, peace and harmony. Truth transforms the mind for peaceful living and universal brotherhood, which is the Eternal Religion.

Eugene N. Kovalenko Nobel Laureate

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-IV

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As a votary of science, I am nurtured heart-deep in the theory of Relativity and the concept of Complementarity. I take for granted that matter is finally reducible to energy and that the so-called objective realities are mere subjective illusions. An objective truth is a chimerical fantasy. For, a frame of reference is always there to vitiate it.

I chanced upon a man shining in white radiance, an Indian and a Bengali at that, though he himself claims no geographical nationality, and I was soon transported to a region where my science had no access.

This man clothed in dancing starlets of light — Dadaji, is a weired luminosity transfigured as a man like us !

A queer specimen of the homo sapiens, Dadaji seems to trifle with social norms and the laws of nature.

Who is he then — this Dadaji? He plays with rain and sunshine, cures fell diseases, materialises watches, fountain pens and sundry other things, sends aroma to far-flung places, transforms silver into abiding gold and has multiple manifestations. And yet he assures us : “He is nobody. Not even an instrument. All these happen through the Supreme Will of Satyanarayan for the edification of the unbelievers.” But the miracles that flash forth from him are inconceivable. And he advises us to attach no importance to them !

Am I speeding past the visible world with the velocity of light ? For, I find the delicious omnipotence 11

And, according to Dadaji, Truth is not only transcendent but also immanent in His Creation. The Lord resides in every heart in the form of Mahanam (Supreme Name). Many witnesses have been seeing Mahanam appear on a blank piece of paper in the presence of Dadaji.

Dadaji every time emphasizes that he is nobody in all these happenings. He is only your elder brother.

Everyone, everything is in essence divine. From the One all has arisen as nature. The mind conceptualises and produces the fragmented vision. This is the divine play we have come to relish in the world.

Every individual has an assigned role called ‘destiny’. The ups and downs of destiny must be borne with patience. They are equally necessary for the play to be possible. We have to perform our worldly duties with sincerity and utmost care, remembering with love the Lord within. Loving surrender to Him in all that we go through is the only true spiritual path to be followed in this world.

Dadaji is against all institution building in the name of God. Does the Lord of the universe need our buildings and money ? Can He be enticed and cajoled by our ego-boosting exercises and rituals ? He can be approached only through love and self-surrender.

To be one with the Supreme One we have to be rid of our petty egos and feel His fullness within us through loving submission to Mahanam.

Professor Denis Judd London University Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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Dadaji has come to us. He is right now with us, a picture of informal integrity, now reclining on the divan like a JESUS without any bearded solemnity and then sitting crosslegged like the BUDDHA under the shade of the Bodhi tree of perfect ‘equanimity’.

Why is he here ? Why are we, mostly materialists and atheists or agnostics, sitting on the floor before him, deflowering the ironed purity of our trousers ?

What will he deliver to us and may be to the modern world at large ? We are no customers of yoga patents or mystic trances or phoney miracles. But we have invited Dadaji into our land where time is money!

And we are spending hour after hour on him daily ! What is he indeed?

He is the greatest iconoclast the world has ever witnessed. He does not believe in any God who stands in icy isolation from us demanding bribe and austere worship to reach Him. To Dadaji, God is existence itself. It is I, you or even a speck of dust. God is unsegmented, infinite, ubiquitous existence.

Traditional religion is the breeding ground of all our maladies — social, political, spiritual. Demolish all churches, mosques and temples. The real church is your body or the entire world. Is he not an ATHEIST much beyond our depth ?

And he is an AGNOSTIC with a new vintage.

God never submits to our understanding. The very process of knowledge defeats its purpose.

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Does it not sound revolutionary ? By his atheism, Dadaji liquidates the old world; and, by his agnosticism, he ushers in ‘the brave new world’ in which space and time are tiny dots; patience and fortitude are the only penance and all work is worship.

The poet of life, the philosopher of existence, the seer of rapturous nothingness, Dadaji is with Eternity.

He is the alpha and omega of all our aspirations. That is the phenomenal relevance of Dadaji for our age, — why, for all ages to come.

Dr. Derek C. Bok President, Harvard University

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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To me, a scientist, meeting Dadaji has been an enchanting experience beyond normal comprehension.

The incredible has become credible.

Is there any transcending of nature ? Is there a Supreme Being or God to whom our laws of science do not and cannot apply ? With Dadaji, I have experienced, as have numerous people the world over, such supernatural miraculous happenings that the answer must be in the clearest affirmative.

His body and touch produce a characteristic fragrance. This fragrance is felt thousands of miles away from him. In his bare palm, while he is almost completely naked, may appear some present for you.

The names of donor or recipient may get transcribed by mere touch of his finger on those objects. In closed and sealed rooms hundreds of miles apart there may take place simultaneous manifestations known and described by many witnesses as Satyanarayan Puja (Worship of Truth). He may cure an ailing devotee thousands of miles away. Blank pages held by a recipient may get instantly filled with a Divine Message. Any number of such incredible experiences have been documented by many witnesses, all persons of high standing and good judgement.

Why all these miracles ? Dadaji replies that they are tokens from the Supreme Will to instill faith in the sceptical atheistic intellectuals of today. There is Truth Absolute outside the reach of man’s mind. It transcends the natural laws that the mind formulates.

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Does it not sound revolutionary ? By his atheism, Dadaji liquidates the old world; and, by his agnosticism, he ushers in ‘the brave new world’ in which space and time are tiny dots; patience and fortitude are the only penance and all work is worship.

The poet of life, the philosopher of existence, the seer of rapturous nothingness, Dadaji is with Eternity.

He is the alpha and omega of all our aspirations. That is the phenomenal relevance of Dadaji for our age, — why, for all ages to come.

Dr. Derek C. Bok President, Harvard University

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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To me, a scientist, meeting Dadaji has been an enchanting experience beyond normal comprehension.

The incredible has become credible.

Is there any transcending of nature ? Is there a Supreme Being or God to whom our laws of science do not and cannot apply ? With Dadaji, I have experienced, as have numerous people the world over, such supernatural miraculous happenings that the answer must be in the clearest affirmative.

His body and touch produce a characteristic fragrance. This fragrance is felt thousands of miles away from him. In his bare palm, while he is almost completely naked, may appear some present for you.

The names of donor or recipient may get transcribed by mere touch of his finger on those objects. In closed and sealed rooms hundreds of miles apart there may take place simultaneous manifestations known and described by many witnesses as Satyanarayan Puja (Worship of Truth). He may cure an ailing devotee thousands of miles away. Blank pages held by a recipient may get instantly filled with a Divine Message. Any number of such incredible experiences have been documented by many witnesses, all persons of high standing and good judgement.

Why all these miracles ? Dadaji replies that they are tokens from the Supreme Will to instill faith in the sceptical atheistic intellectuals of today. There is Truth Absolute outside the reach of man’s mind. It transcends the natural laws that the mind formulates.

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And, according to Dadaji, Truth is not only transcendent but also immanent in His Creation. The Lord resides in every heart in the form of Mahanam (Supreme Name). Many witnesses have been seeing Mahanam appear on a blank piece of paper in the presence of Dadaji.

Dadaji every time emphasizes that he is nobody in all these happenings. He is only your elder brother.

Everyone, everything is in essence divine. From the One all has arisen as nature. The mind conceptualises and produces the fragmented vision. This is the divine play we have come to relish in the world.

Every individual has an assigned role called ‘destiny’. The ups and downs of destiny must be borne with patience. They are equally necessary for the play to be possible. We have to perform our worldly duties with sincerity and utmost care, remembering with love the Lord within. Loving surrender to Him in all that we go through is the only true spiritual path to be followed in this world.

Dadaji is against all institution building in the name of God. Does the Lord of the universe need our buildings and money ? Can He be enticed and cajoled by our ego-boosting exercises and rituals ? He can be approached only through love and self-surrender.

To be one with the Supreme One we have to be rid of our petty egos and feel His fullness within us through loving submission to Mahanam.

Professor Denis Judd London University Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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Dadaji has come to us. He is right now with us, a picture of informal integrity, now reclining on the divan like a JESUS without any bearded solemnity and then sitting crosslegged like the BUDDHA under the shade of the Bodhi tree of perfect ‘equanimity’.

Why is he here ? Why are we, mostly materialists and atheists or agnostics, sitting on the floor before him, deflowering the ironed purity of our trousers ?

What will he deliver to us and may be to the modern world at large ? We are no customers of yoga patents or mystic trances or phoney miracles. But we have invited Dadaji into our land where time is money!

And we are spending hour after hour on him daily ! What is he indeed?

He is the greatest iconoclast the world has ever witnessed. He does not believe in any God who stands in icy isolation from us demanding bribe and austere worship to reach Him. To Dadaji, God is existence itself. It is I, you or even a speck of dust. God is unsegmented, infinite, ubiquitous existence.

Traditional religion is the breeding ground of all our maladies — social, political, spiritual. Demolish all churches, mosques and temples. The real church is your body or the entire world. Is he not an ATHEIST much beyond our depth ?

And he is an AGNOSTIC with a new vintage.

God never submits to our understanding. The very process of knowledge defeats its purpose.

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Dadaji is showing humanity the path whereby a change in the angle of vision comes about that enables us to see the world as a Divine Play. Our duty is to play our part well here, living a natural life.

We have to submit to the Lord’s Will and remember Him with love and self-surrender. This, Dadaji exhorts us, is the only way to Him. At this critical period of the world, Dadaji, the Supreme Consciousness in human form, is moving about selflessly amongst us to bring home to our feeling consciousness that the transcendent alone is Truth, the asylum where the individual soul rests in utmost confidence, peace and harmony. Truth transforms the mind for peaceful living and universal brotherhood, which is the Eternal Religion.

Eugene N. Kovalenko Nobel Laureate

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-IV

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As a votary of science, I am nurtured heart-deep in the theory of Relativity and the concept of Complementarity. I take for granted that matter is finally reducible to energy and that the so-called objective realities are mere subjective illusions. An objective truth is a chimerical fantasy. For, a frame of reference is always there to vitiate it.

I chanced upon a man shining in white radiance, an Indian and a Bengali at that, though he himself claims no geographical nationality, and I was soon transported to a region where my science had no access.

This man clothed in dancing starlets of light — Dadaji, is a weired luminosity transfigured as a man like us !

A queer specimen of the homo sapiens, Dadaji seems to trifle with social norms and the laws of nature.

Who is he then — this Dadaji? He plays with rain and sunshine, cures fell diseases, materialises watches, fountain pens and sundry other things, sends aroma to far-flung places, transforms silver into abiding gold and has multiple manifestations. And yet he assures us : “He is nobody. Not even an instrument. All these happen through the Supreme Will of Satyanarayan for the edification of the unbelievers.” But the miracles that flash forth from him are inconceivable. And he advises us to attach no importance to them !

Am I speeding past the visible world with the velocity of light ? For, I find the delicious omnipotence 11

— my Dadaji — all about me ! Have I at long last achieved the internal frame of reference ? Who is he indeed ? I wonder in what relation he stands to Satyanarayan, — in manifest identity? Has JESUS been resurrected in the fullest blaze of love and wisdom to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth?

Dr. R. Haroldson Director, Physical Research Institute (U.S.A.)

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The family of humanity is divided today as never before in known history. There are conflicts galore all around. The tremendous achievements of science and technology, for all the promise they hold, are more often put to use for intensifying conflicts. The human heart yearns for peace, the human mind succeeds in producing more turmoil. In this situation, self-styled (religious leaders) have a field day exploiting others in the name of God. A perfect setting, this, for the appearance of the true REDEEMER. He has taken the form of the universal Elder Brother, Dadaji, to remind all people of their common ancestry. He proclaims and proves, “Truth is one and all humanity is one.”

Dadaji assures us that no mental or physical acts, no prohibitions, no esoteric rituals, no superstitious beliefs or practices are needed to lead us to the realisation of Truth.

By personal example, he shows how one is to participate in normal life, braving the world. As Amiya Roy Chowdhury he lives the life of a householder in Calcutta, supporting his wife and family by running a small toy shop. Anyone who approaches him in simplicity is gathered in his loving arms as a younger brother or sister. There are no barriers of religion, caste, community, sex or nationality with him. Divine Love he exudes for all, without exception.

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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front of Truth that is outside the reach of the mind, but ever approachable through love and self-surrender.

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In the world of applied science we break down, analyse and classify all of the known physical properties according to their chemical make-up. For instance, we understand that water is basically two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, but WHY this is so is not really known.

There is an intelligence in the Universe that maintains these constant balances.

Dadaji defies all the laws of applied science in chemistry. He is in tune with the divine science and deals in the chemistry of love, the chemistry of life, the chemistry of existence itself.

While the applied scientist goes from all forms of creation back to their origins, the divine scientist Dadaji starts from the One and sees clearly all creation manifesting from it.

Dadaji’s science is both practical and applied, here and beyond. It explores and destroys all superstition. It is Truth and for this THE WORLD BOWS TO HIM.

Dr. Paul Berg Nobel Laureate Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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One person called Dadaji has come on earth to present the simplest yet deepest and most radical philosophy of Divine Truth ever presented to the human race.

I have felt for a long time that the messiah must be round the corner. For these are the worst of days in man’s history. And if, therefore, the REDEEMER must make his appearance, then these are also the best of days.

In his divine presence all forms of phenomenon take place. These are beyond the scope and understanding of all mental and physical sciences.

Dadaji is here not to change our destiny, but to lend the quality of love to it. We have come to taste His Love. We have come to taste His Peace. We have come to live as One with Him.

What a soul-stirring beatific experience to find myself in his arms so unexpectedly one day ! He suddenly took me by storm breaking through the portals of my heart and filling my being with the omnific sound.

Yes, Dadaji, that enigmatic personality annihilating all personality cult, that omnipotent nobody came to me in flesh and blood as a CHRIST of love, a BUDDHA of wisdom, a KRISHNA of supreme yogic power, a CHAITANYA of the profoundest emotional abandon and a GOVINDA of the most deliciously amorous masculinity. And he conducted me to Mahanam— the be-all and end-all of my existence.

I have thus been made aware of the divinity in my core. I have found the omnific word inside me. And Dadaji himself is identified with this inner divinity.

Dr. Pauline Arneberg Nobel Laureate.

Dadaji removes the sense of limitation from which man suffers. There is only one Supreme Existence, only one Truth : why then should there be any divisions in the human race ? The same Mahanam rings in every heart.

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are? Is he the nuclear existence of the world-show? One who has gone beyond all multiplicity may possibly negotiate the question.

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In day to day worldly life Dadaji is like any other house-holder. He does not set himself apart from the mainstream of common life. He is totally egoless such that, in spite of his worldly role, he is completely identified with Truth. One with infinite, he transcends all limitations of nature, and displays all manner of miracles to draw attention to his message in his role as the universal Elder Brother.

Dadaji is generating in mankind an awareness of Truth unapproachable by mind and intellect.

It is in the nature of mind to cut up reality into fragments. The world of nature we perceive is the world of mind. The laws of science are laws operating in this mind-perceived world.

The foundational reality, Truth, is Existence itself, beyond any mental geometrisation. It is thus beyond time and space. No concepts apply at that level.

In Dadaji one comes to experience happenings that fall so clearly outside the established framework of science, that an honest scientist has no choice but to accept the fact of that realm beyond his comprehension.

Truth is God. Dadaji refers to Him as Satyanarayan. He is the Lord to us humans. As our very existence, He resides in the depths of our hearts and is, thus, our nearest and dearest. It is only our individual sense, the ego, that shuts out the awareness of constant communion with Him.

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....... Dadaji has appeared to remove all divisions causing endless problems to humanity. Universal Brotherhood has been inaugurated. THE AGE OF TRUTH HAS DAWNED.

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Dadaji alias Amiya Roy Chowdhury is an enigmatic, ever-elusive personality taking constant refuge in anonymity, a citizen of the world around and, may be, beyond us.

We, human beings, are like electrons. Orbiting the nuclear existence is our fated duty. We have to do it without any sense of agency, as Dadaji affirms so often.

Dr. Vernon D. Hansen President of Churches, Washington, U.S.A.

It is Will Supreme that fashions us as it would.

Causality is a freak of nature occasioned by the curvature caused by our egoistic mass. That brings in its wake an irresistible gravitational pull that dwarfs and enchains us. And we start chopping into fragments the continuous, unfragmented flow of life.

We now see chaos and multiplicity instead of unity of existence. How to transcend this causality ? Dadaji assures us, the frame of reference has to be thrown off , to shed off the last vestige of ego and to be in tune with the elan vital.

Dadaji, the displayer of breath-taking fantastic miracles that dislodge the entire battalion of scientists the world over, this proclaimer of the profoundest philosophy of love and integral Truth, dubs himself as nobody.

What, then, is Dadaji ? Is he the antibody, the antimatter, which effect the decay and destruction, in this case, redemption, of the discrete particles that we

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perfection, have no parallel. And all these are only external exposition of the minutest fringe of his potentiality. These he displays to convince the atheists and sceptics of the Supreme Divine Force. These are his credentials before mankind to make the establishment of Truth easier — not for his own publicity. Of course, he is the master artist in this creation. The striking point here is that he is absolutely unattached to its credit or discredit. Rather, immediately after these happenings he declares that these are also extraneous, having nothing to do with realisation of the inner divinity.’

‘The multiple manifestations of Amiya Baba at the same time at different places defy rational explanation. This is the result of his absolute identification with the Virat Aham, or the Infinite, Pure I-consciousness, which means the resting of all objective experience within the Self. This is also known as Swatantrya or Sovereignty of Will Supreme, the basic cause of everything. In a moment it brings about creation, maintenance and dissolution of the Universe.’

‘It is by the Great Will of the Virat Aham that Amiya Baba is manifested at different places at the same time.’

‘You should follow the path shown by Amiya Baba who knows the Absolute Truth in perfect indentity with himself. Only intellectual inquisitiveness and discussions will never reveal the Truth.’

‘Amiya Baba has opened my eyes and granted me the boon of a new understanding, a new comprehension of Truth — Real and Eternal. After a life-long ransacking of scriptures in quest of Truth, I now realise

You would find Dadaji talking in a matter-of-fact manner to visitors who have assembled around him, enquiring after somebody’s health or poking fun at someone else, his face effusing child-like innocence. His informal and homely demeanour puts everyone at ease.

But behind this deceptively simple and apparently mundane exterior is hidden a personality with an innate spiritual strength of such profundity and immensity that only those who have been very near and close to him have had the opportunity to have glimpses of it occasionally.

But even otherwise, the subtle magnetism of his personality, the affectionately captivating gaze of his eyes, the heavenly fragrance that his body continually emits and fills the atmosphere, the honey-like aromatic oil that oozes from his finger-tips, the supernatural phenomena that have been witnessed by eminent men from all walks of life, extra-ordinary experience (such as miracle-healings and visions) that many persons have had not only in his presence but even in his absence, his ability to be simultaneously present at more than one place, the instances when he exhibited his control over nature’s elements ; all these go to prove that he is no ordinary human being, but a PROPHET come to this world with a specific mission.

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Dadaji walks on earth to help mankind realise its Real Self. His is a call to see the one Reality beyond the veil of ritual and dogma so that the pristine glory of the Self becomes resplendent in its own effulgence.

Dadaji is both an enigma to the scientists and a challenge to the materialists. Many supernatural things happen in his presence. Dadaji does not take any credit for these miracles ; in fact, every time a miracle happens, Dadaji says, “ He does, not this.”

Miracle begins where Nature ends. Nature is multiplicity held together by causality ; but miracle is an uncaused quality which is matrix of multiplicity, welded together by love which is verily the greatest miracle on earth. When such love is brimful and surrender is complete, Nature and mind are transcended. Space and time are not ; and egoity melts off. At such a time the wishes of the resigned lover is in tune with the Will Supreme and fantastic things happen beyond all computation.

Dr. Gopinath Kaviraj, the most erudite authority on the vast cultural heritage of India, and himself a Mahayogi, had the following to say on Dadaji whom he knew as Amiya Baba for a long time : ‘Amiya baba alone possesses in himself the infinite worlds of Supreme Wisdom, far above and beyond the reach of human mind and intellect.’

‘Whatever happens before your eyes in the physical nature is subject to the Divine Will of Amiya Baba. Even the minutest of the particles in the universe cannot move without his will.’

‘What is there that our Amiya Baba cannot do?

He governs the worlds with a wave of his fingers. He can create billions of universes at his will.’

‘The Mahanam which you have received in the presence of Amiya Baba is, in fact, the Truth or Sri Sri Satyanarayan Himself. And Amiya Baba is the living embodiment of that Truth. Since the Mahanam comes direct from the Divine Source, it is the highest manifestation of the Para Vak. It is most efficacious in bringing about Liberation or Self-realisation. On the contrary, mantras given by the mortal gurus in the ears of the seekers, manifest the stage of Vaikhari Vak i.e. the stage of empirical thought and speech. Since these are creations of mind, it can never help the seeker transcend the limitations of mind and ego.’

‘The brilliant miraculous manifestations in the presence of Amiya Baba, in exquisite beauty and

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manner of penance or ritualism is necessary to achieve Him. Our only duty is to submit to the Mahanam ringing spontaneously within us and to bear prarabdha with fortitude.

What a new dispensation! My life is the way to immortality. Religion, then, is neither magic nor a witchcraft, nor the opium of the people.

The greatest of the spiritualists is notwithstanding the greatest of the materialists. DADAJI IS A MIRACLE WOUND UP IN INFINITE MIRACLES THAT DEFY COMPREHENSION OF THE GREATEST SEERS OF ALL AGES.

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Philosopher, Ex-president, Republic of India

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Can there be more than one philosophy of Truth ?

The most amazing person on the Earth today, one called Dadaji, answers the question in the simplest and most profound way possible : “ Worldly philosophers and schools of philosophy are not correct. Truth which is the only philosophy of life and existence is One. Therefore, all the so-called systems of thought are confusing and misleading. They also separate people rather than uniting them as children of the one Creator.�

Although I am a professor of philosophy at a major world university having studied major philosophies of East and West, nothing has touched me and my work so deeply as my encounter with Dadaji.

How quickly and simply this Divine Master of philosophy who was beyond all philosophy explained Truth! How clearly he blew away the superstitions of the mind and opened the window of our hearts ! How lovingly he revealed the philosophy of Truth ! He took no credit, saying he knows nothing.

This Dadaji has not studied at universities nor read the great works of the sages. He holds no professional credentials. Yet the great minds of the world today come to him for advice.

My experience with Dadaji revealed that my search for Truth in the outer academic world had been in vain. The Truth had been with me all along.

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JESUS of today once again reminding us the values of Truth and Love. As before in history, only a few will recognise this messenger of Truth, others will try to crucify him, and his message of Truth, others will try to pervert, commercialise and institutionalise it. Truth, — Mahanam will always be present with us; no matter who tries to destroy it, it will be of no avail. Truth shall persevere and overcome all ignorance with its wisdom.

Dr. Bernadette o’ Keefe Professor of Philosophy, Oxford University

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It is really a superbly unique experience to meet Dadaji even for a short while. To see him is an occult vision, to go near him is a soul-stirring pilgrimage and to listen to him is to be bathed in the musical cadences of the Omnific Word. His star-bespangled smile is a miracle, the worlds cannot contain or comprehend. And his eyes? Their bewitching beauty, their fathomless depth in stillness, their aromatic incense of compassionate love have no reckonable compeer. Yet he is a man giving out airs of simplicity and normalcy to his very marrow. A picturesque figure, he dons a dhoti or lungi and a half-sleeved kurta. He wears no matted hair ; nor is his body or forehead besmeared or marked with ashes or vermilion or sandal paste. Yet his body constantly emits a variety of fragrance never dreamt of in a perfumery.

Now he is playful, and then he is serene and lost in infinity. He plays with fantastic miracles like a child with toys. And he constantly reminds his audience that he is NOBODY. It is the Supreme Divine Will that manifests itself as and when it chooses. His insurrection against gurudom is vitriolic in its vehemence.

No human being can ever be a Guru who is but Eternal. And what indeed, is the necessity of Guru? The Mahanam is being chanted in my heart. I have forgotten it through Maya which is but my egoism. One has to drain off the last vestige of ego and the Lord will make such a one full to the brim with self-abnegating love.

The Lord is my dearest and resides in my heart. No

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himself to be probed with all sorts of electronic devices, cameras, recorders, etc. The machines did or did not record the sought for signals according to Dadaji’s wish.

Or he may drive a car without petrol, negotiate bends without touching the steering .

All this is, of course, to remind the scientist that mind-bound man cannot comprehend what is beyond mind. Supremacy of Truth Absolute cannot be subject to dictates of the finite mind. To try to fathom him with our mind is to invite endless confusion. Loving submission to His Will is the only way to Him.

Dr. R. L. Dutta President, International Solar Energy Society

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Numerous seekers from all over the world and from all walks of life have experienced in Dadaji’s presence the revelation of ‘Mahanam’ — divine names of KRISHNA vibrating in every heart. The seeker holds in his palm a small piece of blank paper and bows to Sri Satyanarayan. And in a trice he hears ringing within him the ‘Mahanam’ which he also sees appear in his own native language on the piece of paper, and then disappear again as mysteriously.

This is real ‘Seeing’ (Darshan) of the Lord or Diksha. No farcical whispering of a ‘mantra’ by one mortal into the ear of another mortal for a fee is involved here — for it is beyond any mind function.

Many responsible persons of sound judgement have witnessed materialisations in the hands of Dadaji, while his upper body is completely bare, of various objects of all shapes and sizes.

Dadaji’s body constantly radiates a divine fragrance. The same fragrance appears thousands of miles away from him on various occasions to persons acquainted with it.

Miraculous cures, presence simultaneously in widely different places, control of nature, producing fragrant water as medicine when requested on the phone by a suffering brother or sister thousands of miles away, etc. are examples of an unending series of stupendous miracles shooting forth from Dadaji.

However, Dadaji takes great pains to emphasize

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that he is nobody in all these happenings. They happen at the Divine Will alone and can neither be asked for nor stopped. Their sole purpose is to instill in us a faith in the unfathomable power of the Supreme Being.

As He is already in us, all we have to do is just remember Him with love while practising patience and living naturally. There is no place for dogmas, ‘ashrams’, temples or churches in reaching Him. Dadaji proclaims that all human beings are the children of Supreme Bliss, and so all mankind is one.

This is the Perennial Religion (Sanatan Dharma).

Dr. Brian Schaller President, Solar Energy Commission (S.A.)

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It is not possible to describe Dadaji with the kind of clarity and certainty aimed at in the pursuit of science. His physical body certainly conforms to the laws of nature. Yet, from time to time he seems to literally break out of all the bounds and limitations of laws well-established by science.

With a mere touch of his hand, or even a distant gesture, your whole frame will be filled with a unique aroma. With numerous eyes of a large gathering rivetted on him in Calcutta, various well-documented phenomena associated with him may be taking place in a far off place in America. An ailing brother cannot get a medicine, for it must be specially imported. On Dadaji’s open raised palm may appear the required medicine. On certain occasions, when the best physicians have given up, a cure may be effected by him without any medicine at all.

His personality thus seems to shoot forth from the finite to the infinite, from the concrete here to the abstract beyond. How can one then describe a circle around him?

Dadaji asserts time and again : “This body is a mere appearance.” Yet, he also assures us that this appearance, too, is reality. For, He fully permeates all appearance — all creation.

Scientists in general cannot accept all that has been said above without challenge.

For establishing Truth, Dadaji has allowed

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His Will, to make us relish His Love, and bliss.’

And this is Dadaji, the Elder Brother who is an enigmatic ego-hunter, a playful brainwasher of the topmost celebrities of our age, a leisurely undoer of our world-shaking achievements, a breath-taking displayer of his love and divine fragrance well-matched by all manner of miracles conceivable by us.

And what is miraculous about him? Not the disarray and failure of scientific truths and machines and laws of nature. It is that despite all these, he calls himself NOBODY. It is his love, his smile, his bewitching look, his simple message in its mystic profundity, his simple homely manners switching back and forth from divinity to earthiness without any gusto.

To him there is only one human race, one language and one world. And space and time are not.

Is he the Supreme Word immanent in stoic transcendence?

Let the heart commune with the void within and dawn upon an answer.

Many votaries of ISLAM have found in him the dovecote of storm-tossed soul.

Amen is Amin is Om.

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What we experienced in the presence of Dadaji has left our minds baffled and our hearts deeply moved.

The miracles we witnessed fall way outside the framework and possibilities of science. They cannot be explained in our terms. All the same they are undeniable facts of our experience.

Dadaji explained to us that the Supreme Being is the sole Truth. The entire universe, including the mind and intellect with which we experience and study nature, is His creation. Our scientific terms — space, time, matter, energy, etc. — are all constructions of the mind. For the mind it is impossible to conceive undifferenced structureless Existence — the Supreme Truth.

We have come to this world to play our destined roles in His divine play. All we have to do is to simply remember Him with love and carry on our duties while living natural lives.

Dr. William H. Klein President, Smithsonian Biological Radiation Institution, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Aziza Mohammed El-Mazati Nobel Laureate Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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Dadaji has been making us conscious, in his unique way, of the potent Divine Truth that each of us carry from the moment of our birth.

Dadaji declares that the love and affection with which the Lord has been bringing up even minutest particles of the Universe, leave no room for observance of penance or physical or mental acrobatics. The Supreme Energy which vitalises our span of life is omnipotent, omniscient and all-pervasive. We are required to perform all our duties with which we are entrusted, sincerely and faithfully, appreciating the beatitude of His flawless perfection in every moment of our sojourn here. The moment we tune ourselves to the Supreme Will, the oars of our life boats are propelled by the Lord Himself.

We are fortunate in having Dadaji amongst us who has undertaken a prodigious task of teaching human beings to look within so that the obstructions in our angle of vision are removed and we are enabled to have a taste of quiet tranquil bliss which we possess but of which we are ignorant.

Bred and nurtured in the spiritual tradition of ISLAM, I assured myself that Islam alone was capable of making profound utterances on God, cosmology and life.

But the atoms of my being seemed to flee past me across my mauled ego to work into a novel configuration at the very sight of a normal man, who in mundane nomenclature, is a Hindu Bengali clad in Dhoti / Lungi and Kurta, sipping tea and smoking cigarettes, — a house-holder who has raised a daughter and a son and owns a toy shop in Calcutta.

Now a commoner and then a luminous presence beyond all trivialities of life, breezily he explains his point : ‘You can’t come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the Mahanam, the two sounds of which are being chanted within your heart round the clock in rapturous spontaneity. That Mahanam is the Lord of all of us. Your body itself is the shrine of God. Mosques, churches, temples and synagogues make Him dead matter. Make yourself void in loving submission to Him and be resonant with the sounds of Mahanam. He is Satyanarayan, the Absolute Truth (Satya) and basal resort (Narayan). He is the symbol of community of all religions.’

And he assures you instantly, ‘ the world is real and is in no way a dungeon, a purgatory, a prison house.

We have come here to taste the blissful rapture of His manifestation and to do our duties that stem forth from

Rev. Dr. Peter Cianchi Minister, Church of England Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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Dadaji has been making us conscious, in his unique way, of the potent Divine Truth that each of us carry from the moment of our birth.

Dadaji declares that the love and affection with which the Lord has been bringing up even minutest particles of the Universe, leave no room for observance of penance or physical or mental acrobatics. The Supreme Energy which vitalises our span of life is omnipotent, omniscient and all-pervasive. We are required to perform all our duties with which we are entrusted, sincerely and faithfully, appreciating the beatitude of His flawless perfection in every moment of our sojourn here. The moment we tune ourselves to the Supreme Will, the oars of our life boats are propelled by the Lord Himself.

We are fortunate in having Dadaji amongst us who has undertaken a prodigious task of teaching human beings to look within so that the obstructions in our angle of vision are removed and we are enabled to have a taste of quiet tranquil bliss which we possess but of which we are ignorant.

Bred and nurtured in the spiritual tradition of ISLAM, I assured myself that Islam alone was capable of making profound utterances on God, cosmology and life.

But the atoms of my being seemed to flee past me across my mauled ego to work into a novel configuration at the very sight of a normal man, who in mundane nomenclature, is a Hindu Bengali clad in Dhoti / Lungi and Kurta, sipping tea and smoking cigarettes, — a house-holder who has raised a daughter and a son and owns a toy shop in Calcutta.

Now a commoner and then a luminous presence beyond all trivialities of life, breezily he explains his point : ‘You can’t come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the Mahanam, the two sounds of which are being chanted within your heart round the clock in rapturous spontaneity. That Mahanam is the Lord of all of us. Your body itself is the shrine of God. Mosques, churches, temples and synagogues make Him dead matter. Make yourself void in loving submission to Him and be resonant with the sounds of Mahanam. He is Satyanarayan, the Absolute Truth (Satya) and basal resort (Narayan). He is the symbol of community of all religions.’

And he assures you instantly, ‘ the world is real and is in no way a dungeon, a purgatory, a prison house.

We have come here to taste the blissful rapture of His manifestation and to do our duties that stem forth from

Rev. Dr. Peter Cianchi Minister, Church of England Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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His Will, to make us relish His Love, and bliss.’

And this is Dadaji, the Elder Brother who is an enigmatic ego-hunter, a playful brainwasher of the topmost celebrities of our age, a leisurely undoer of our world-shaking achievements, a breath-taking displayer of his love and divine fragrance well-matched by all manner of miracles conceivable by us.

And what is miraculous about him? Not the disarray and failure of scientific truths and machines and laws of nature. It is that despite all these, he calls himself NOBODY. It is his love, his smile, his bewitching look, his simple message in its mystic profundity, his simple homely manners switching back and forth from divinity to earthiness without any gusto.

To him there is only one human race, one language and one world. And space and time are not.

Is he the Supreme Word immanent in stoic transcendence?

Let the heart commune with the void within and dawn upon an answer.

Many votaries of ISLAM have found in him the dovecote of storm-tossed soul.

Amen is Amin is Om.

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What we experienced in the presence of Dadaji has left our minds baffled and our hearts deeply moved.

The miracles we witnessed fall way outside the framework and possibilities of science. They cannot be explained in our terms. All the same they are undeniable facts of our experience.

Dadaji explained to us that the Supreme Being is the sole Truth. The entire universe, including the mind and intellect with which we experience and study nature, is His creation. Our scientific terms — space, time, matter, energy, etc. — are all constructions of the mind. For the mind it is impossible to conceive undifferenced structureless Existence — the Supreme Truth.

We have come to this world to play our destined roles in His divine play. All we have to do is to simply remember Him with love and carry on our duties while living natural lives.

Dr. William H. Klein President, Smithsonian Biological Radiation Institution, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Aziza Mohammed El-Mazati Nobel Laureate Source : On Dadaji-vol.-V

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that he is nobody in all these happenings. They happen at the Divine Will alone and can neither be asked for nor stopped. Their sole purpose is to instill in us a faith in the unfathomable power of the Supreme Being.

As He is already in us, all we have to do is just remember Him with love while practising patience and living naturally. There is no place for dogmas, ‘ashrams’, temples or churches in reaching Him. Dadaji proclaims that all human beings are the children of Supreme Bliss, and so all mankind is one.

This is the Perennial Religion (Sanatan Dharma).

Dr. Brian Schaller President, Solar Energy Commission (S.A.)

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It is not possible to describe Dadaji with the kind of clarity and certainty aimed at in the pursuit of science. His physical body certainly conforms to the laws of nature. Yet, from time to time he seems to literally break out of all the bounds and limitations of laws well-established by science.

With a mere touch of his hand, or even a distant gesture, your whole frame will be filled with a unique aroma. With numerous eyes of a large gathering rivetted on him in Calcutta, various well-documented phenomena associated with him may be taking place in a far off place in America. An ailing brother cannot get a medicine, for it must be specially imported. On Dadaji’s open raised palm may appear the required medicine. On certain occasions, when the best physicians have given up, a cure may be effected by him without any medicine at all.

His personality thus seems to shoot forth from the finite to the infinite, from the concrete here to the abstract beyond. How can one then describe a circle around him?

Dadaji asserts time and again : “This body is a mere appearance.” Yet, he also assures us that this appearance, too, is reality. For, He fully permeates all appearance — all creation.

Scientists in general cannot accept all that has been said above without challenge.

For establishing Truth, Dadaji has allowed

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himself to be probed with all sorts of electronic devices, cameras, recorders, etc. The machines did or did not record the sought for signals according to Dadaji’s wish.

Or he may drive a car without petrol, negotiate bends without touching the steering .

All this is, of course, to remind the scientist that mind-bound man cannot comprehend what is beyond mind. Supremacy of Truth Absolute cannot be subject to dictates of the finite mind. To try to fathom him with our mind is to invite endless confusion. Loving submission to His Will is the only way to Him.

Dr. R. L. Dutta President, International Solar Energy Society

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Numerous seekers from all over the world and from all walks of life have experienced in Dadaji’s presence the revelation of ‘Mahanam’ — divine names of KRISHNA vibrating in every heart. The seeker holds in his palm a small piece of blank paper and bows to Sri Satyanarayan. And in a trice he hears ringing within him the ‘Mahanam’ which he also sees appear in his own native language on the piece of paper, and then disappear again as mysteriously.

This is real ‘Seeing’ (Darshan) of the Lord or Diksha. No farcical whispering of a ‘mantra’ by one mortal into the ear of another mortal for a fee is involved here — for it is beyond any mind function.

Many responsible persons of sound judgement have witnessed materialisations in the hands of Dadaji, while his upper body is completely bare, of various objects of all shapes and sizes.

Dadaji’s body constantly radiates a divine fragrance. The same fragrance appears thousands of miles away from him on various occasions to persons acquainted with it.

Miraculous cures, presence simultaneously in widely different places, control of nature, producing fragrant water as medicine when requested on the phone by a suffering brother or sister thousands of miles away, etc. are examples of an unending series of stupendous miracles shooting forth from Dadaji.

However, Dadaji takes great pains to emphasize

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JESUS of today once again reminding us the values of Truth and Love. As before in history, only a few will recognise this messenger of Truth, others will try to crucify him, and his message of Truth, others will try to pervert, commercialise and institutionalise it. Truth, — Mahanam will always be present with us; no matter who tries to destroy it, it will be of no avail. Truth shall persevere and overcome all ignorance with its wisdom.

Dr. Bernadette o’ Keefe Professor of Philosophy, Oxford University

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It is really a superbly unique experience to meet Dadaji even for a short while. To see him is an occult vision, to go near him is a soul-stirring pilgrimage and to listen to him is to be bathed in the musical cadences of the Omnific Word. His star-bespangled smile is a miracle, the worlds cannot contain or comprehend. And his eyes? Their bewitching beauty, their fathomless depth in stillness, their aromatic incense of compassionate love have no reckonable compeer. Yet he is a man giving out airs of simplicity and normalcy to his very marrow. A picturesque figure, he dons a dhoti or lungi and a half-sleeved kurta. He wears no matted hair ; nor is his body or forehead besmeared or marked with ashes or vermilion or sandal paste. Yet his body constantly emits a variety of fragrance never dreamt of in a perfumery.

Now he is playful, and then he is serene and lost in infinity. He plays with fantastic miracles like a child with toys. And he constantly reminds his audience that he is NOBODY. It is the Supreme Divine Will that manifests itself as and when it chooses. His insurrection against gurudom is vitriolic in its vehemence.

No human being can ever be a Guru who is but Eternal. And what indeed, is the necessity of Guru? The Mahanam is being chanted in my heart. I have forgotten it through Maya which is but my egoism. One has to drain off the last vestige of ego and the Lord will make such a one full to the brim with self-abnegating love.

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manner of penance or ritualism is necessary to achieve Him. Our only duty is to submit to the Mahanam ringing spontaneously within us and to bear prarabdha with fortitude.

What a new dispensation! My life is the way to immortality. Religion, then, is neither magic nor a witchcraft, nor the opium of the people.

The greatest of the spiritualists is notwithstanding the greatest of the materialists. DADAJI IS A MIRACLE WOUND UP IN INFINITE MIRACLES THAT DEFY COMPREHENSION OF THE GREATEST SEERS OF ALL AGES.

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Philosopher, Ex-president, Republic of India

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Can there be more than one philosophy of Truth ?

The most amazing person on the Earth today, one called Dadaji, answers the question in the simplest and most profound way possible : “ Worldly philosophers and schools of philosophy are not correct. Truth which is the only philosophy of life and existence is One. Therefore, all the so-called systems of thought are confusing and misleading. They also separate people rather than uniting them as children of the one Creator.�

Although I am a professor of philosophy at a major world university having studied major philosophies of East and West, nothing has touched me and my work so deeply as my encounter with Dadaji.

How quickly and simply this Divine Master of philosophy who was beyond all philosophy explained Truth! How clearly he blew away the superstitions of the mind and opened the window of our hearts ! How lovingly he revealed the philosophy of Truth ! He took no credit, saying he knows nothing.

This Dadaji has not studied at universities nor read the great works of the sages. He holds no professional credentials. Yet the great minds of the world today come to him for advice.

My experience with Dadaji revealed that my search for Truth in the outer academic world had been in vain. The Truth had been with me all along.

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Dadaji walks on earth to help mankind realise its Real Self. His is a call to see the one Reality beyond the veil of ritual and dogma so that the pristine glory of the Self becomes resplendent in its own effulgence.

Dadaji is both an enigma to the scientists and a challenge to the materialists. Many supernatural things happen in his presence. Dadaji does not take any credit for these miracles ; in fact, every time a miracle happens, Dadaji says, “ He does, not this.”

Miracle begins where Nature ends. Nature is multiplicity held together by causality ; but miracle is an uncaused quality which is matrix of multiplicity, welded together by love which is verily the greatest miracle on earth. When such love is brimful and surrender is complete, Nature and mind are transcended. Space and time are not ; and egoity melts off. At such a time the wishes of the resigned lover is in tune with the Will Supreme and fantastic things happen beyond all computation.

Dr. Gopinath Kaviraj, the most erudite authority on the vast cultural heritage of India, and himself a Mahayogi, had the following to say on Dadaji whom he knew as Amiya Baba for a long time : ‘Amiya baba alone possesses in himself the infinite worlds of Supreme Wisdom, far above and beyond the reach of human mind and intellect.’

‘Whatever happens before your eyes in the physical nature is subject to the Divine Will of Amiya Baba. Even the minutest of the particles in the universe cannot move without his will.’

‘What is there that our Amiya Baba cannot do?

He governs the worlds with a wave of his fingers. He can create billions of universes at his will.’

‘The Mahanam which you have received in the presence of Amiya Baba is, in fact, the Truth or Sri Sri Satyanarayan Himself. And Amiya Baba is the living embodiment of that Truth. Since the Mahanam comes direct from the Divine Source, it is the highest manifestation of the Para Vak. It is most efficacious in bringing about Liberation or Self-realisation. On the contrary, mantras given by the mortal gurus in the ears of the seekers, manifest the stage of Vaikhari Vak i.e. the stage of empirical thought and speech. Since these are creations of mind, it can never help the seeker transcend the limitations of mind and ego.’

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perfection, have no parallel. And all these are only external exposition of the minutest fringe of his potentiality. These he displays to convince the atheists and sceptics of the Supreme Divine Force. These are his credentials before mankind to make the establishment of Truth easier — not for his own publicity. Of course, he is the master artist in this creation. The striking point here is that he is absolutely unattached to its credit or discredit. Rather, immediately after these happenings he declares that these are also extraneous, having nothing to do with realisation of the inner divinity.’

‘The multiple manifestations of Amiya Baba at the same time at different places defy rational explanation. This is the result of his absolute identification with the Virat Aham, or the Infinite, Pure I-consciousness, which means the resting of all objective experience within the Self. This is also known as Swatantrya or Sovereignty of Will Supreme, the basic cause of everything. In a moment it brings about creation, maintenance and dissolution of the Universe.’

‘It is by the Great Will of the Virat Aham that Amiya Baba is manifested at different places at the same time.’

‘You should follow the path shown by Amiya Baba who knows the Absolute Truth in perfect indentity with himself. Only intellectual inquisitiveness and discussions will never reveal the Truth.’

‘Amiya Baba has opened my eyes and granted me the boon of a new understanding, a new comprehension of Truth — Real and Eternal. After a life-long ransacking of scriptures in quest of Truth, I now realise

You would find Dadaji talking in a matter-of-fact manner to visitors who have assembled around him, enquiring after somebody’s health or poking fun at someone else, his face effusing child-like innocence. His informal and homely demeanour puts everyone at ease.

But behind this deceptively simple and apparently mundane exterior is hidden a personality with an innate spiritual strength of such profundity and immensity that only those who have been very near and close to him have had the opportunity to have glimpses of it occasionally.

But even otherwise, the subtle magnetism of his personality, the affectionately captivating gaze of his eyes, the heavenly fragrance that his body continually emits and fills the atmosphere, the honey-like aromatic oil that oozes from his finger-tips, the supernatural phenomena that have been witnessed by eminent men from all walks of life, extra-ordinary experience (such as miracle-healings and visions) that many persons have had not only in his presence but even in his absence, his ability to be simultaneously present at more than one place, the instances when he exhibited his control over nature’s elements ; all these go to prove that he is no ordinary human being, but a PROPHET come to this world with a specific mission.

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Dr. John Hastead London University.

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That which exists when you are in sound sleep is the Soul, the Life-Principle, God. Always remember the Supreme is within.

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Father is One. We have come from Him, from the Oneness. Then what is the difference between you and me ? Nothing.

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He is always within you. Everybody is He. And everything is being done by Him through you.

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So long as He is with you, you are. You are nothing other than Him. Just leave everything to Him. A person cannot do anything.

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He is standing on the way with outstretched arms. You just turn toward Him, you will see that He is awaiting a hundred times more anxiously than you.

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To know Truth, there must be an intense yearning, sincerity and right conduct.

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Put your devotion or love to the Absolute and find Him through your self.

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He is always within you. Do not worry.

Your Travel Agent will guide you unerringly, for you have resigned yourself to Him.

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Your experiences with Truth are working within you to find spontaneous expression in time. Don’t be in a hurry. Let It come when It chooses.

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that my gigantic efforts have been of no avail. For the scriptures are full of psycho-physical make-believe, displaying an egoistic hierarchy of spiritual values ill-conceived and are definitely a caricature of the Truth Eternal. Not only that ; now I realise from the depth of my being that they shut out the Truth from us.’

‘Amiya Baba alone knows the Truth. So far I have been able to follow him, in this age HE IS THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF THE INELUCTABLE, INFINITE AND ETERNAL TRUTH.’ ‘He is himself RAMA, the Supreme Divine.’

Nani Gopal Banerjee Dean of Faculties, University of Culcutta

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Truth in one’s own image is to deceive oneself.

Truth can not be achieved. Truth can only be lived. He is in you and you are in Him.

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The land where I first saw the light of day, was from time immemorial the cradle of scriptural pedagogy, meticulous sophistry and unsagging wrangling. And our way from the cradle to the creamatorium was engineered by the scriptures. Such was the tradition and heritage into which I was born.

I soon grew into a monolithic architecture of the hallowed scriptures. I looked like a mighty savant the world had seldom seen. And it dawned on me like an immaculate revelation that I was the Truth, the Way and the Life.

I could hardly realise that my transcendence would be transcended in no time, that my truth would prove trash in a trice.

The scene was laid in the heart of the city of Madras. All men of light and lead in the city, the topmost celebrities of every walk of life, a galaxy of intractable pundits and sadhus and a vast multitude of the urban populace had stormed into and around a big palatial building .......

At long last Dadaji did come. And we were face to face with him. Reclining on a divan, he was smoking cigarette. Now he was playful and a gentle ripple of light glided across his countenance ; then he was serene and sequestered and inscrutable. His eyes seemed to secrete pure life. And every speck of him seemed to cry a dead halt to our egoistic logistics.

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There is only One substance and It is constantly changing form. This is He or the Divine, without Name or Form, yet containing all names and forms.

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He is neither One nor many. How can I describe in words What He is. He cannot be realised by our own efforts.

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He has nothing to do with hard and fast rules. He is the Truth. He is within you. Other than Him you cannot do anything.

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He is ever-steady, All-merciful. He helps and guides those who follow Him.

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He is everywhere, horizontally and vertically too. That is to say, He is around. He is in all and all are in Him.

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You are yourself the creation of Truth, infact one with Truth. Let Truth be manifested in you in full blaze of Love and Wisdom. The devotee, devotion and the Divinity are one continuum.

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Know the Supreme Self. Through Him you can know yourself easily and properly as a being in Him. You can not know yourself but through the Love that is He.

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Remember He is, therefore, I am. You can try to run away, try to destroy Truth, but It cannot be run away from, nor can It be destroyed.

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He is unfragmented. He is limitless. Even being unfragmented and limitless, He has entangled Himself into the limited. That indeed is His Leela and His Joyous Manifestation.

Manifest and unmanifest, both are together One.

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Truth is universal, existential. You have been baptized even before your birth.

Remember your roots, but not apart from Him. He is the Root, to be sure.

He is in All. All is in Him. But live in tune with Him. Live beyond the realm of mind. Don’t live in wants, fears, hopes. Live in Swabhava (natural state of being in tune with God). Live in Swabhava in Real Self which is the only Truth.

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Truth is outside the reach of the mind. Who will reveal Truth except Truth Itself? Truth manifests Itself.

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One cannot make or unmake Truth. It dawns upon you and gets hold of your entire being.

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Truth is Self-manifested and the more you will follow Him, the more you will get peace and tranquility.

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But we too are hard-bred titans and we were a legion there ready to strike. In all ruthless fury raged a hail-storm — a hail-storm of Upanisads, the Geeta and other scriptures. We hurled at him the sharpest missiles from the armoury of sastras for his insurrection against guruvada and the scriptures. But they cut no ice. All our acrobatics and dogmaic callisthenics were, then, spent in vain.

But he spoke. And he spoke a tongue that turned time speechless, space sluggish and all harvest of the intellect a tissue of travesty. It is a few halting sentences and the whole world was stalled. He spoke a speech that takes the wind out of the sail of all speech : ‘Sastras are an abject caricature of the Truth Eternal, and egoistic exercise in intellectual wrangling.

They have been composed only with a view to protecting the world.’

‘You are born a purna-kumbha with Mahanama constantly vibrating within your heart. The Supreme Being, Satyanarayana, is the only Guru. The Guru is undecaying, eternal and ubiquitous. It is rabid materialism to take a human being as guru. You are all idiots. Don’t try to understand Him.’ ‘Truth is beyond the plane of mind and is One. Multiplicity is a mental construction. The world, however, is not an illusion ; it is the Vrindavan lila of the Supreme.’

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penance. Truth harbours no injunctions, inhibitions or taboos. Effort is effete where perfect equipoise of fullness is integral to one’s existence.’

really what matters. The greatest wealth is Mahanam.

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Truth is One and Indivisible. Truth pervades the whole universe and it is within you too.

There is n o v a c u u m . T h e p h e n o m e n a l world is a manifestation of Truth.

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Truth is Existence. But not inert existence of dead matter. Truth is living Existence.

It is Existence as Vital Principle, though at the rock bottom even beyond that.

To the Truth I am betrothed eternally ! To rationalise is to hoodwink the basal irrationality of reason ! And the emptiness of complete surrender is the fullness of Truth!

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Truth cannot be expressed but only lived.

Truth harbours no injunctions, inhibitions or taboos. Truth manifests through genuine hearts.

Love is the essence of Truth.

Dadaji took me to the ante-room and shut the door behind him. A picture of Satyanarayan was there. ‘That is the symbol of Truth.’ The next moment he thundered out : ‘Look here ! Give up wrangling ; would you see what is Truth? Look at me and say what you see and hear.’

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Truth is One. Truth expressed is Truth expired. Truth can only be lived as mere Existence and never be an Existent.

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Truth is never-changing Eternal Integral Existence.

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Truth cannot be for those who are lured by the glitter of wealth or fame in His Name. Not many hear the Truth and of those that hear only a few reach Him. Accept that not only is God One, also He is number One in your life. See Him before the pain, pleasure, success and failure. Your first duty, first priority is to remember Him Who is One, Who knows not about separation and makes provision for each and every need and even every greed.

‘It is prema and prema alone, that attuning elixir of life, that manifests Mahajnana. Your jnana can never even get a semblance of it.’

We were dazed; the old world with its huge ant-hills of scriptures seemed to evaporate. I seemed to know the self-imposed futility of my entire past life.

What was the experience? Dadaji presumably invoked into the room Garuda who covered three sides of the room with his wings ; and on his wings flashed forth the letters of the Mahanam and gripped my eyes while chanting of the same filled my ears from every direction. Dadaji’s figure, meanwhile, seemed to assume gigantic dimensions past the brick-and-mortar coverage of the room and soon dissolved into a deluging flood of white, radiant light that encompassed me for a while; and then I had a vision of the four-armed Narayana.

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Everyone is blind. They are looking into time and space for Him. He is beyond time and space.

Truth is everything, not one particular thing.

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You always see Truth in fragments, also from different angles of vision. Truth is infinite beyond mental grasp; but Its expression is partly definable, partly beyond definition. The manifest can be defined, the unmanifest cannot be defined. Never is a full grasp possible, that is why Dadaji gives you only glimpses.

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Be a lover of Truth. Rely solely on God. Let one step at a time be enough for you. Don’t worry about the future. The next step will be made clear for you when the time comes for it.

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You cannot find God. God finds you. Who can see God? They see God, who see God in themselves, as the same Godhead indwelling all.

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God is now-here, God is no-where, God is every-where.

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He resides in all of us in the form of sounds of Mahanam ringing within us around the clock.

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The Mahanam Itself is Sat-ChitAnanda (Existence — Consciousness — Bliss).

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Truth is Name. Repeat It long enough and you will be cleansed. Remembering Him, Mahanam, trying to return His Love, that is

The rest is beyond me : I fell into pieces, I became a piece with Dadaji, The Truth manifest.

Mm. Dr. Srinivasan “..... A gigantic bibliophile of encyclopaedic dimensions, an astute dialectician, a hard-boiled Vedantist, a monolithic architecture of the hallowed scriptures......”

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Take His Name and go on with your work.

No positive thinking, no negative thinking.

Think of Him, listen to His Mahanam.

Try not to understand, do it.

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He is within. He knows. He sees. He feels.

See Him everywhere, in everyone, in everything. God can never be exclusive. He is always inclusive.

He alone is your father, mother, friend, lover, your riches, your wisdom, your teacher.

He will never leave you.

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When you know He is within you, then you have everything. When you don’t know this, you may be the richest in the world but will still be impoverished.

Actually everyone, even worldly gurus, have a higher need, but mistake God for worldly accomplishment.

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The Truth you seek, cannot be realised through self-centred techniques: The scientist looks in his microscope for Truth; The mystic looks for Truth in meditation; The psychologist looks in the mind for Truth; The archaeologist digs under the earth for Truth; The astrologers and astronomers look to the stars and planets for Truth.

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State we could not relish the Joy of Love of the Absolute. All Creation is the manifestation of His Joyous spate and He has come here as many to have a taste of this Joy. 8.

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When you find Him, you will realise that there is no distinct Existence to be felt. Neither I nor you do exist. He is enveloped in Himself.

The Fullness is the Void. There is no Existence then. Nothing is. Only the Infinite is. How can there be any felt consciousness at that stage?

This is the Absolute. It is a sense of All-Engrossing I-ness in All Existence.

Truth is not an idea or a philosophy.

Churches and religions and gurus are much easier to follow than Truth. The most difficult and yet most joyful thing to face is Truth.

You build churches in your own image, for your own business and pleasure, not for Him. Many are called but very few are chosen.

Very few in each age can come to Him.

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It is true that only He exists. This Truth controls all of our action and reaction. The difficulty arises only when you delude yourself into thinking that you are the doer.

Man can do nothing, but sit in His lap and hear His loving song.

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Live with His Name on your lips. When you have come to the limit and can go no further, listen to Him chanting the Mahanam within the recess of your heart.

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invisible and can’t be seen. It is also visible. It is near. It is far. At the same time it is moving and not moving. The brightest, the darkest, the Absolute is vision and the end of vision.

TRUTH 1

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People have shrouded the Truth with traditions of penance, renunciation, physical and mental methods, rituals and recital of scriptures.

The A b s o l u t e i s n o t f o u n d i n a n y o f these prescriptions. Nor does He divide humanity into sexes and castes, holy people and sinners. We have to live normally in the world and not reject it.

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No physical or mental acrobatics can lead you to the Absolute. The Absolute Himself will show you the way. Your Existence Itself is the way to Him. How can you get the Absolute ? You can only live It.

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Life and all other substances which appear are but manifestation of God. While the human soul and the Absolute commingle with each other, the debt of the world is cleared. That is, constant practice of Mahanam with Love leads to Supreme Knowledge or Reality. And this Knowledge expels all other superficial knowledge and takes one to the Bliss Eternal.

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Put your devotion or Love to the Absolute and find Him through your self.

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Why do we come to the world at all ? In the Integral Existence which was our Primal

When there was only the One, there was no beyond. The One was formless. In the One arose Prem—Love. This was the seed from which all creation sprang up. This seed was the vibration, the sound of Mahanam.

This Mahanam manifested itself as the Universe. This was the connection between being and non-being, between manifest and the unmanifest, between the Absolute and the relative.

The Mahanam Itself is Sat-Chit-Ananda (Existence –Consciousness –Bliss ).

This was the Truth the sages of old heard in their hearts.

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What is the Absolute ? The Absolute is not this, not that, also at the same time this, and also that.

The Absolute is both neti neti (not that –not that) and Tat Tvam Asi (That thou art) . The Absolute is Light of Lights from which the sun, the lightning, the fire take illumination.

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invisible and can’t be seen. It is also visible. It is near. It is far. At the same time it is moving and not moving. The brightest, the darkest, the Absolute is vision and the end of vision.

TRUTH 1

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3.

People have shrouded the Truth with traditions of penance, renunciation, physical and mental methods, rituals and recital of scriptures.

The A b s o l u t e i s n o t f o u n d i n a n y o f these prescriptions. Nor does He divide humanity into sexes and castes, holy people and sinners. We have to live normally in the world and not reject it.

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No physical or mental acrobatics can lead you to the Absolute. The Absolute Himself will show you the way. Your Existence Itself is the way to Him. How can you get the Absolute ? You can only live It.

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Life and all other substances which appear are but manifestation of God. While the human soul and the Absolute commingle with each other, the debt of the world is cleared. That is, constant practice of Mahanam with Love leads to Supreme Knowledge or Reality. And this Knowledge expels all other superficial knowledge and takes one to the Bliss Eternal.

6.

Put your devotion or Love to the Absolute and find Him through your self.

7.

Why do we come to the world at all ? In the Integral Existence which was our Primal

When there was only the One, there was no beyond. The One was formless. In the One arose Prem—Love. This was the seed from which all creation sprang up. This seed was the vibration, the sound of Mahanam.

This Mahanam manifested itself as the Universe. This was the connection between being and non-being, between manifest and the unmanifest, between the Absolute and the relative.

The Mahanam Itself is Sat-Chit-Ananda (Existence –Consciousness –Bliss ).

This was the Truth the sages of old heard in their hearts.

2.

What is the Absolute ? The Absolute is not this, not that, also at the same time this, and also that.

The Absolute is both neti neti (not that –not that) and Tat Tvam Asi (That thou art) . The Absolute is Light of Lights from which the sun, the lightning, the fire take illumination.

The Absolute is beyond being and non-being. It is to be and not to be. It is 40

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State we could not relish the Joy of Love of the Absolute. All Creation is the manifestation of His Joyous spate and He has come here as many to have a taste of this Joy. 8.

9.

When you find Him, you will realise that there is no distinct Existence to be felt. Neither I nor you do exist. He is enveloped in Himself.

The Fullness is the Void. There is no Existence then. Nothing is. Only the Infinite is. How can there be any felt consciousness at that stage?

This is the Absolute. It is a sense of All-Engrossing I-ness in All Existence.

Truth is not an idea or a philosophy.

Churches and religions and gurus are much easier to follow than Truth. The most difficult and yet most joyful thing to face is Truth.

You build churches in your own image, for your own business and pleasure, not for Him. Many are called but very few are chosen.

Very few in each age can come to Him.

10.

It is true that only He exists. This Truth controls all of our action and reaction. The difficulty arises only when you delude yourself into thinking that you are the doer.

Man can do nothing, but sit in His lap and hear His loving song.

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Live with His Name on your lips. When you have come to the limit and can go no further, listen to Him chanting the Mahanam within the recess of your heart.

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Take His Name and go on with your work.

No positive thinking, no negative thinking.

Think of Him, listen to His Mahanam.

Try not to understand, do it.

13.

He is within. He knows. He sees. He feels.

See Him everywhere, in everyone, in everything. God can never be exclusive. He is always inclusive.

He alone is your father, mother, friend, lover, your riches, your wisdom, your teacher.

He will never leave you.

14.

When you know He is within you, then you have everything. When you don’t know this, you may be the richest in the world but will still be impoverished.

Actually everyone, even worldly gurus, have a higher need, but mistake God for worldly accomplishment.

15.

The Truth you seek, cannot be realised through self-centred techniques: The scientist looks in his microscope for Truth; The mystic looks for Truth in meditation; The psychologist looks in the mind for Truth; The archaeologist digs under the earth for Truth; The astrologers and astronomers look to the stars and planets for Truth.

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Everyone is blind. They are looking into time and space for Him. He is beyond time and space.

Truth is everything, not one particular thing.

16.

You always see Truth in fragments, also from different angles of vision. Truth is infinite beyond mental grasp; but Its expression is partly definable, partly beyond definition. The manifest can be defined, the unmanifest cannot be defined. Never is a full grasp possible, that is why Dadaji gives you only glimpses.

17.

Be a lover of Truth. Rely solely on God. Let one step at a time be enough for you. Don’t worry about the future. The next step will be made clear for you when the time comes for it.

18.

You cannot find God. God finds you. Who can see God? They see God, who see God in themselves, as the same Godhead indwelling all.

19.

God is now-here, God is no-where, God is every-where.

20.

He resides in all of us in the form of sounds of Mahanam ringing within us around the clock.

21.

The Mahanam Itself is Sat-ChitAnanda (Existence — Consciousness — Bliss).

22.

Truth is Name. Repeat It long enough and you will be cleansed. Remembering Him, Mahanam, trying to return His Love, that is

The rest is beyond me : I fell into pieces, I became a piece with Dadaji, The Truth manifest.

Mm. Dr. Srinivasan “..... A gigantic bibliophile of encyclopaedic dimensions, an astute dialectician, a hard-boiled Vedantist, a monolithic architecture of the hallowed scriptures......”

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penance. Truth harbours no injunctions, inhibitions or taboos. Effort is effete where perfect equipoise of fullness is integral to one’s existence.’

really what matters. The greatest wealth is Mahanam.

23.

Truth is One and Indivisible. Truth pervades the whole universe and it is within you too.

There is n o v a c u u m . T h e p h e n o m e n a l world is a manifestation of Truth.

24.

Truth is Existence. But not inert existence of dead matter. Truth is living Existence.

It is Existence as Vital Principle, though at the rock bottom even beyond that.

To the Truth I am betrothed eternally ! To rationalise is to hoodwink the basal irrationality of reason ! And the emptiness of complete surrender is the fullness of Truth!

25.

Truth cannot be expressed but only lived.

Truth harbours no injunctions, inhibitions or taboos. Truth manifests through genuine hearts.

Love is the essence of Truth.

Dadaji took me to the ante-room and shut the door behind him. A picture of Satyanarayan was there. ‘That is the symbol of Truth.’ The next moment he thundered out : ‘Look here ! Give up wrangling ; would you see what is Truth? Look at me and say what you see and hear.’

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Truth is One. Truth expressed is Truth expired. Truth can only be lived as mere Existence and never be an Existent.

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Truth is never-changing Eternal Integral Existence.

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Truth cannot be for those who are lured by the glitter of wealth or fame in His Name. Not many hear the Truth and of those that hear only a few reach Him. Accept that not only is God One, also He is number One in your life. See Him before the pain, pleasure, success and failure. Your first duty, first priority is to remember Him Who is One, Who knows not about separation and makes provision for each and every need and even every greed.

‘It is prema and prema alone, that attuning elixir of life, that manifests Mahajnana. Your jnana can never even get a semblance of it.’

We were dazed; the old world with its huge ant-hills of scriptures seemed to evaporate. I seemed to know the self-imposed futility of my entire past life.

What was the experience? Dadaji presumably invoked into the room Garuda who covered three sides of the room with his wings ; and on his wings flashed forth the letters of the Mahanam and gripped my eyes while chanting of the same filled my ears from every direction. Dadaji’s figure, meanwhile, seemed to assume gigantic dimensions past the brick-and-mortar coverage of the room and soon dissolved into a deluging flood of white, radiant light that encompassed me for a while; and then I had a vision of the four-armed Narayana.

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Remember He is, therefore, I am. You can try to run away, try to destroy Truth, but It cannot be run away from, nor can It be destroyed.

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He is unfragmented. He is limitless. Even being unfragmented and limitless, He has entangled Himself into the limited. That indeed is His Leela and His Joyous Manifestation.

Manifest and unmanifest, both are together One.

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Truth is universal, existential. You have been baptized even before your birth.

Remember your roots, but not apart from Him. He is the Root, to be sure.

He is in All. All is in Him. But live in tune with Him. Live beyond the realm of mind. Don’t live in wants, fears, hopes. Live in Swabhava (natural state of being in tune with God). Live in Swabhava in Real Self which is the only Truth.

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Truth is outside the reach of the mind. Who will reveal Truth except Truth Itself? Truth manifests Itself.

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One cannot make or unmake Truth. It dawns upon you and gets hold of your entire being.

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Truth is Self-manifested and the more you will follow Him, the more you will get peace and tranquility.

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But we too are hard-bred titans and we were a legion there ready to strike. In all ruthless fury raged a hail-storm — a hail-storm of Upanisads, the Geeta and other scriptures. We hurled at him the sharpest missiles from the armoury of sastras for his insurrection against guruvada and the scriptures. But they cut no ice. All our acrobatics and dogmaic callisthenics were, then, spent in vain.

But he spoke. And he spoke a tongue that turned time speechless, space sluggish and all harvest of the intellect a tissue of travesty. It is a few halting sentences and the whole world was stalled. He spoke a speech that takes the wind out of the sail of all speech : ‘Sastras are an abject caricature of the Truth Eternal, and egoistic exercise in intellectual wrangling.

They have been composed only with a view to protecting the world.’

‘You are born a purna-kumbha with Mahanama constantly vibrating within your heart. The Supreme Being, Satyanarayana, is the only Guru. The Guru is undecaying, eternal and ubiquitous. It is rabid materialism to take a human being as guru. You are all idiots. Don’t try to understand Him.’ ‘Truth is beyond the plane of mind and is One. Multiplicity is a mental construction. The world, however, is not an illusion ; it is the Vrindavan lila of the Supreme.’

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Truth in one’s own image is to deceive oneself.

Truth can not be achieved. Truth can only be lived. He is in you and you are in Him.

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The land where I first saw the light of day, was from time immemorial the cradle of scriptural pedagogy, meticulous sophistry and unsagging wrangling. And our way from the cradle to the creamatorium was engineered by the scriptures. Such was the tradition and heritage into which I was born.

I soon grew into a monolithic architecture of the hallowed scriptures. I looked like a mighty savant the world had seldom seen. And it dawned on me like an immaculate revelation that I was the Truth, the Way and the Life.

I could hardly realise that my transcendence would be transcended in no time, that my truth would prove trash in a trice.

The scene was laid in the heart of the city of Madras. All men of light and lead in the city, the topmost celebrities of every walk of life, a galaxy of intractable pundits and sadhus and a vast multitude of the urban populace had stormed into and around a big palatial building .......

At long last Dadaji did come. And we were face to face with him. Reclining on a divan, he was smoking cigarette. Now he was playful and a gentle ripple of light glided across his countenance ; then he was serene and sequestered and inscrutable. His eyes seemed to secrete pure life. And every speck of him seemed to cry a dead halt to our egoistic logistics.

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There is only One substance and It is constantly changing form. This is He or the Divine, without Name or Form, yet containing all names and forms.

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He is neither One nor many. How can I describe in words What He is. He cannot be realised by our own efforts.

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He has nothing to do with hard and fast rules. He is the Truth. He is within you. Other than Him you cannot do anything.

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He is ever-steady, All-merciful. He helps and guides those who follow Him.

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He is everywhere, horizontally and vertically too. That is to say, He is around. He is in all and all are in Him.

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You are yourself the creation of Truth, infact one with Truth. Let Truth be manifested in you in full blaze of Love and Wisdom. The devotee, devotion and the Divinity are one continuum.

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Know the Supreme Self. Through Him you can know yourself easily and properly as a being in Him. You can not know yourself but through the Love that is He.

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That which exists when you are in sound sleep is the Soul, the Life-Principle, God. Always remember the Supreme is within.

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Father is One. We have come from Him, from the Oneness. Then what is the difference between you and me ? Nothing.

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He is always within you. Everybody is He. And everything is being done by Him through you.

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So long as He is with you, you are. You are nothing other than Him. Just leave everything to Him. A person cannot do anything.

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He is standing on the way with outstretched arms. You just turn toward Him, you will see that He is awaiting a hundred times more anxiously than you.

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To know Truth, there must be an intense yearning, sincerity and right conduct.

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Put your devotion or love to the Absolute and find Him through your self.

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He is always within you. Do not worry.

Your Travel Agent will guide you unerringly, for you have resigned yourself to Him.

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Your experiences with Truth are working within you to find spontaneous expression in time. Don’t be in a hurry. Let It come when It chooses.

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that my gigantic efforts have been of no avail. For the scriptures are full of psycho-physical make-believe, displaying an egoistic hierarchy of spiritual values ill-conceived and are definitely a caricature of the Truth Eternal. Not only that ; now I realise from the depth of my being that they shut out the Truth from us.’

‘Amiya Baba alone knows the Truth. So far I have been able to follow him, in this age HE IS THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF THE INELUCTABLE, INFINITE AND ETERNAL TRUTH.’ ‘He is himself RAMA, the Supreme Divine.’

Nani Gopal Banerjee Dean of Faculties, University of Culcutta

Source : On Dadaji-vol.-IV

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When a person loves from the heart, he, himself, thinks of that person. He worries, thinking always for their well being. Still, somehow, some sense of self-interest remains.

But remember, objectives which we cannot attain with utmost efforts and thoughts which keep us worrying, at once get fulfilled with His mere Touch or Wish. So leave all hopes and yearnings to Him. He will get your things done. Do keep His remembrance. You will see how He has smoothly designed your way.

Flow with the stream of life without attempting to stem its tide. You are One with Him and yet separate so that you may love-play with Him. You can miss the Supreme Relish only if ego is allowed to wallow in selfimportance. So merge yourself into His All-engrossing Love.

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Always He is chanting the Mahanam inside of you. That is His Love. That is why I tell you, Love is the only answer.

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Mahanam alone is Real. Everything else is unreal.

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The substance is One and that alone is the Eternal Substance. It is the Supreme Integral Existence. We are the Eternal Substance of that unfragmented Supreme Being.

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You are free in your spiritual pursuit and need not depend on any one for your goal to be realised.

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Beware of gurus who claim to have keys to Him. There is only one Guru who is inside of everyone, in all creatures, pervading the whole Universe, the whole Creation.

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One has to woo one’s Nearest, one’s own Being. How does another person come in there? He is favouring us for ever with His Grace. The Mahanam is constantly ringing in our hearts. Only the unawakened do not hear It.

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Don’t believe anybody other than Him. Only He can guide. He can do whatever He likes.

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Truth is One. All declaration or announcement is sound only when it is dictated by the inner voice of Truth.

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Truth is One and Indivisible. To create a split in the Oneness of Truth is grave error and unless the angle of vision is changed Truth will never be realised.

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Each and everybody is God. Other than God, nobody is.

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If we can propitiate Narayan (the Supreme within), then all the deities, in your language, would be automatically satisfied.

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His manifest form is Krishna Chaitanya (God Consciousness). Name Itself is but Krishna Himself.

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Truth can never be crucified. Christ’s teachings were not accepted. That is crucifixion.

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Truth resides in every heart. The One Who is our Guide, is Govinda. Residing in our hearts Govinda becomes the Nam that is echoed and re-echoed constantly in our internal world and in the vast Universe outside.

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He alone is our Guru and the Name Itself is God. No mortal person can take the role of Guru.

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Without an awareness of Truth, when the first commandment, to love God with all your mind, heart and soul, and to place nothing before Him, is not obeyed, then it will be impossible to observe any proper way of life.

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Are you a lover of Truth or seeking an easier way of life ?

If you have been gifted with great riches, remain simple; If you have been gifted with great strength, remain gentle; If you have been gifted with great wisdom, remain unknowing; If you have been gifted with great beauty, remain plain.

Your duty is in living up to the Truth as you see it, in love. Do not be violent to yourself or others in thought or action except when duty calls for it.

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while. The flux around is static in its determinate gyrating.

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Gradually it will be realised by the aspirant as to how all events and circumstances, great and small, within and without have been subtly planned and brought about by the Infinite Wisdom to work out the imperfect and to work in the Perfection, and to carry out the natural process of bringing about harmony with the Eternal Source of our Life, the Self.

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He rules in every tiny detail of life. A blade of grass cannot blow in the wind without Him.

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Without an awareness of Truth it will be impossible to observe any proper way of life.

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There are principles of Truth which you must not compromise, even if you must give your life for them.

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What is the use of this life? You are born.

Why ? It is to realise God or Self, whatever you may call It.

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Realisation of Truth is the object of life.

This can be attained only through Mahanam from within.

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Name is Truth.

Do not be thoughtful over the Mahanam. It is Itself the Absolute Truth.

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The sincerity and depth of love seated in your heart gets more deepened and purified by the revelation and touch of Mahanam.

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All activities here are of this world, scientific study not excepted. Far from being shunned, they are to be fully participated in and enjoyed.

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The Divine Play is intrinsically bipolar, having positive and negative, ups and downs, good and bad, etc. Oscillations between them provide the basis for all the creative possibilities of this Play. When the Play is over, the two poles coalesce into mere Existence; all Existents having disappeared.

It is not a journey, it is a Play of the Almighty. A Play, too, is a part and parcel of His Manifestation. He is a Poet, we are His Composition. This is exactly the relation between the Creator and His Creation.

Human life is meant to feel His Divine Play and thereby understand the Nobility of the Creator. The mystery of birth will be unfolded only when the sweetness and beauty of the Divine Play which is the Eternal Truth is realised by turning the consciousness.

We have come to enjoy His Play.

Remember Him with love and remain in a natural state. This life is without any meaning unless we can realise His Divine Play.

You may work out your plan, but His Plan may be otherwise, though only apparently for He manifests Himself not to destroy, not to checkmate, but to fulfil. Amidst universal flux His Will alone is indeterminably active all the 62

you know that You Can Do Nothing.

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Tied to results rather than duty, life is bondage. To simply do your duty, accept all that comes in the way with discrimination of proper or improper behaviour, this itself is Grace.

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As Dadaji’s work is to establish the Truth once again in the world, so you should try to establish Truth in your life.

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If you cannot enjoy Him in your everyday life, work, family, everything, you do not understand anything about Truth. What is the use sitting, singing adoration, when you do not live in adoration?

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He should be known in the quiet of the mountains as the quiet of the mountains and in the noise of the city as the noise of the city. Do not search Him out by meditation or hypnotism of any form.

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Salvation, Realisation is in the ordinary common everyday experience ; not in going off to the jungles or Himalayas or becoming a saint or a guru.

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Devotion to Truth is the sole reason for your existence. All your work should be centred in Truth. Each breath, each heart-beat should be Truth. When this stage is reached, all other rules of proper living will come without effort.

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crucifixion, Dadaji means that ignorance and separation from Him are gone, put to death.

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Crucifixion is not nailing a man to a cross.

It is two things. First, it is showing that Truth cannot be crucified by killing a body. Second, each time we deny Truth, we are hammering the nails into the message of Truth.

Dadaji’s message of Truth comes to you when you are ready to submit to your Self as He and accept your destiny.

Hold your head high in faith, knowing God is your shelter.

All fear is but a mistrust of His Love.

Fear of man ? What man is there, what king can rival the King of kings? With the King of kings you dwell for all time and in Truth.

What power is there in the world to rob you of your freedom ? His freedom reaches the prisoners in the deepest, darkest dungeon. Must you cling to this mortal body in fear of death clutching like a miser his treasure ?

This soul of yours shall dine always at the Feast of Eternal Life. All pain and death are but shadows of the mind that blow between you and Truth.

should under any circumstances shun Him for worldly interest.

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No one is a relative or a stranger. All are He. Everything, everybody, everywhere… same. There is no difference.

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Never pine for anybody who leaves you.

There is no point in worrying so much. He is always with you.

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Your relations are His Grace embodied unto you. Be with that Grace and have faith in Him. Let His Will be done.

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Remember Him. Everything will be alright.

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Life Force is functioning through each body. Without life nothing exists. Life Force is the Root of all Existence. But the fullest manifestation of life is in spiritual form. Its manifestation is then in the Universe and the Mahakash (Infinite Space).

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Prior to sound of a word a Great Power functions. That Great Power is that Great Will. So also with psychic phenomena, that is also the Supreme Power.

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Remember, He is always with you, even during your sleep. ….. Dreams are mind function. But, when He comes, although you are sleeping, you are awake to His Darshan (Vision of the Supreme).

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For the relish of His Divine Play, He has appeared as many in the mirror of the mind.

Take refuge in none but Him. Our souls are part of the Eternal Soul (Paramatma). So all people are equal, irrespective of their differences.

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receiving so many things of life. But later we find it does not bring Real Happiness.

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Don’t worry. The Lord will take charge of your board and lodge and other comforts.

Leave everything to Him and you will have the best arrangements possible.

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We have come here to do all sorts of acting. We have come here as guests. After a certain time I shall have to go to my House, my own House, my permanent House.

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To live life successfully is a great challenge.

Every moment in different activities of life we are enhancing our problems, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. Results of such actions gradually become unbearable and fill one’s mind with despondency, a sense of insecurity and failure. Worldly affluence and wealth are of no help. Everyone faces this challenge individually in his or her own individual capacity. But one who can completely depend on God residing in one’s heart, will find that the Lord carries the burdens and eases all difficulties.

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To safeguard against unhappy situations of life, the All-Merciful Lord helps His children to withstand the impact of unforeseen jolts.

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Sanatana Dharma preaches that Truth is Indivisible and all human beings are the children of God.

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Fundamentally, there exists only One Being and that is within you. To realise Him, to come into communion with Him, you need not go against Nature by self-repression. Sadhus and ascetics experience a kind of delight through the practices of austerities but that delight pertains to the mind.

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One does not get Him by donning deception. Putting on deceptive garb means self-deception. With the help of the garb I show to others what I am not.

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Don’t believe anybody other than Him. Only He can guide. He can do whatever He likes.

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Do not try to understand with the mind that which is beyond mind. You can not see the Light of Lights with the physical eye.

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He without hands, holds all things and does all the work; He without eyes, sees all things; He without ears, hears all things; He without mind, knows all things; But no one knows Him save by His Grace.

The fundamental substance is One only and that is Eternal. It has no beginning or end. There is only one Entity. If we can understand the real Essence behind Truth and falsehood, virtue and 53

vice, good and bad, then, in the worldly sense, we shall see no difference in these.

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If you believe that He is the Master, He is the Supreme, He is making all things run, He is the breath within you, He is your very life, …......if you believe that the Supreme is All-pervasive, He is everywhere, in everybody in the same way, then you are not bothered by the idea of good or evil.

The Lord is everywhere And always perfect, What does He care for man’s evil Or man’s righteousness?

and Self then resides in Supreme Bliss.

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Ananda (Supreme Bliss) is beyond the plane of the Gita. Farther up, there is no Ananda, only Consciousness. Beyond that, there is no Consciousness even, only Existence. And farther u p , t h e r e i s n o E x i s t e n c e e v e n , a l l a r e undifferentiated.

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A spark of lightning removes all darkness in a fraction of a moment. The Consciousness of Light awakens in the midst of darkness.

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We have to be in a state of Swabhava (natural state of attunement with God) abjuring all sense of want to feel His Presence everywhere.

To feel that He is the Agent of all our actions, to feel and visualise Him, and Him only as one Integral Existence and through loving submission unite with Him.

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Those who deny Him, deny themselves.

Those who affirm Him, affirm themselves.

Don’t be concerned for those who do not believe in Truth. Truth believes in them.

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The Universe was created in sacrifice. He gave Himself so that you could be. This is the Creation. Those only who sacrifice all ownership can know Him.

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There is nothing to give up and at the same time nothing to acquire. Life will deliver everything that is coming to you. You simply do your duty. Use what you need. Do not try to force anything or anyone to do your bidding. Be at peace with your destiny. When you realise by His Grace that not you but He is the Real Doer, then you are free from karma.

You and infact the entire humanity are inseparably yoked with Him for Eternity.

But due to the compulsions of varied worldly activities, we are involved in temporary bondage of attachments and forget that tie with Him.

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One does not suffer from want if one is flawless (desireless). What else is better than detached joy ?

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Truth is negation of all fancied possessions.

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to everything, but do not get so deeply involved as to invite sufferings through them.

Of course, He will ensure this, you don’t have to make any effort for it. Just keep Him in remembrance.

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When the wholesome communion with the All-pervading Divine Soul and the Supreme Spirit occurs, even-tide sets in. No sooner does even-tide approach, than there is the advent of serene devoutness.

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The Almighty has never created us for suffering or bondage.

He is your shield. Destiny still comes but He eases the suffering.

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Patience results in strength. Keep patience and let God do the rest.

If one is not at cross-purposes with Him, one finds His manifestation in every happening. But one has to bear with patience the onrush of the forces one has let loose.

Yoke yourself unto Him and He will bear the brunt. Efface yourself out and enshrine Him in your body.

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Supreme Essence is neither true, nor false.

To try to expound or interprete It is sheer impertinence.

Intelligence cannot fathom Him.

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You have received Mahanam at the time of birth. By Maya you have forgotten. Again now you have received It. That is enough.

Do your work, and try to establish that Truth. He is within you. Try to love Him.

The events which upset and hurt you, you should consider as His Blessings. Parents with strong hand control and command their children for their welfare. But the children, in an emotional state, consider the parents to be harsh. Yet those children, when they grow up, feel that parental control was a blessing in disguise.

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The seat of mind is Sahasrara and Govinda resides in the heart. When the mind slowly moves down to the heart, it becomes Radha. Then starts the Leela of Radha and Govinda.

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Moksha you will not get other than Him. Mind cannot be liberated other than Him.

You ask why are some rich, some poor, some in good health and some in distress ? It is all a role that one has to play for a limited span of time in the Divine Play. Nobody can change the destiny. Have patience ! Just remember Him once, you will enjoy His Love no matter what the situation.

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companions. He keeps us protected in all calamities and adversities which are unpredictable.

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inflicting blows on you, so also is He giving you the capacity for bearing the suffering.

Otherwise one would go mad. As one tolerates these unbearable situations of life with patience, a time comes when He Himself resolves all problems of life.

Through all the afflictions of life one can live in peace and happiness when one can surrender all fears, thoughts, desires and expectations of loss or gain to the Will of the Supreme Lord.

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Actually we don’t understand what real happiness tastes like, so we remain ever deprived of that taste. Our natural tendencies are to get involved in the cycles of births and deaths and calamities.

We are born to undergo our individual destiny. One who makes that life splendorous in Divine Consciousness becomes a pilgrim to an lnner World and can happily bid adieu at last to this beautiful world.

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Those who depend on God with full faith, none can make them small and harm them. Go ahead with this firm faith.

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For your present griefs and afflictions of mind, just keep patience. Then one day your feelings will transcend to a state which will keep your mind full in various ways with inexplicable Truth. Unaffected by worldly tensions, you will be nicely doing your duties. That is the taste of Supreme Bliss.

Truth seems to be too hard, but it is blissful. His commandments, dictates are flawless. With this faith go ahead.

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He, Almighty, by His Wish and Touch takes away the worldly attractions gradually to bring one to a blissful, peaceful state. A person cannot realise this on his own due to the intensity of illusory worldly desires.

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You do everything, see everything, listen

Numerous thoughts, problems and anxieties, worries, fears, etc. are there all the time to dislodge us from the goal of being with Him. Mahanam is the safety shield which definitely leads us to the fundamental goal.

Do you know the reason? Nectar does the job of nectar, poison works like poison. So depend on Him when it has been your fortune to have once tasted that nectar.

Those will get the realm of Truth who will be in His company in weal and woe. People falter in life and suffer by discarding Him. But they cannot do anything without Him. Have faith in Him, unflinching faith. Remembering Him and depending on Him makes one fearless in life whatever may happen.

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companions. He keeps us protected in all calamities and adversities which are unpredictable.

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inflicting blows on you, so also is He giving you the capacity for bearing the suffering.

Otherwise one would go mad. As one tolerates these unbearable situations of life with patience, a time comes when He Himself resolves all problems of life.

Through all the afflictions of life one can live in peace and happiness when one can surrender all fears, thoughts, desires and expectations of loss or gain to the Will of the Supreme Lord.

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Actually we don’t understand what real happiness tastes like, so we remain ever deprived of that taste. Our natural tendencies are to get involved in the cycles of births and deaths and calamities.

We are born to undergo our individual destiny. One who makes that life splendorous in Divine Consciousness becomes a pilgrim to an lnner World and can happily bid adieu at last to this beautiful world.

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Those who depend on God with full faith, none can make them small and harm them. Go ahead with this firm faith.

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For your present griefs and afflictions of mind, just keep patience. Then one day your feelings will transcend to a state which will keep your mind full in various ways with inexplicable Truth. Unaffected by worldly tensions, you will be nicely doing your duties. That is the taste of Supreme Bliss.

Truth seems to be too hard, but it is blissful. His commandments, dictates are flawless. With this faith go ahead.

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He, Almighty, by His Wish and Touch takes away the worldly attractions gradually to bring one to a blissful, peaceful state. A person cannot realise this on his own due to the intensity of illusory worldly desires.

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You do everything, see everything, listen

Numerous thoughts, problems and anxieties, worries, fears, etc. are there all the time to dislodge us from the goal of being with Him. Mahanam is the safety shield which definitely leads us to the fundamental goal.

Do you know the reason? Nectar does the job of nectar, poison works like poison. So depend on Him when it has been your fortune to have once tasted that nectar.

Those will get the realm of Truth who will be in His company in weal and woe. People falter in life and suffer by discarding Him. But they cannot do anything without Him. Have faith in Him, unflinching faith. Remembering Him and depending on Him makes one fearless in life whatever may happen.

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to everything, but do not get so deeply involved as to invite sufferings through them.

Of course, He will ensure this, you don’t have to make any effort for it. Just keep Him in remembrance.

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When the wholesome communion with the All-pervading Divine Soul and the Supreme Spirit occurs, even-tide sets in. No sooner does even-tide approach, than there is the advent of serene devoutness.

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The Almighty has never created us for suffering or bondage.

He is your shield. Destiny still comes but He eases the suffering.

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Patience results in strength. Keep patience and let God do the rest.

If one is not at cross-purposes with Him, one finds His manifestation in every happening. But one has to bear with patience the onrush of the forces one has let loose.

Yoke yourself unto Him and He will bear the brunt. Efface yourself out and enshrine Him in your body.

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Supreme Essence is neither true, nor false.

To try to expound or interprete It is sheer impertinence.

Intelligence cannot fathom Him.

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You have received Mahanam at the time of birth. By Maya you have forgotten. Again now you have received It. That is enough.

Do your work, and try to establish that Truth. He is within you. Try to love Him.

The events which upset and hurt you, you should consider as His Blessings. Parents with strong hand control and command their children for their welfare. But the children, in an emotional state, consider the parents to be harsh. Yet those children, when they grow up, feel that parental control was a blessing in disguise.

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The seat of mind is Sahasrara and Govinda resides in the heart. When the mind slowly moves down to the heart, it becomes Radha. Then starts the Leela of Radha and Govinda.

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Moksha you will not get other than Him. Mind cannot be liberated other than Him.

You ask why are some rich, some poor, some in good health and some in distress ? It is all a role that one has to play for a limited span of time in the Divine Play. Nobody can change the destiny. Have patience ! Just remember Him once, you will enjoy His Love no matter what the situation.

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If you believe that He is the Master, He is the Supreme, He is making all things run, He is the breath within you, He is your very life, …......if you believe that the Supreme is All-pervasive, He is everywhere, in everybody in the same way, then you are not bothered by the idea of good or evil.

The Lord is everywhere And always perfect, What does He care for man’s evil Or man’s righteousness?

and Self then resides in Supreme Bliss.

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Ananda (Supreme Bliss) is beyond the plane of the Gita. Farther up, there is no Ananda, only Consciousness. Beyond that, there is no Consciousness even, only Existence. And farther u p , t h e r e i s n o E x i s t e n c e e v e n , a l l a r e undifferentiated.

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A spark of lightning removes all darkness in a fraction of a moment. The Consciousness of Light awakens in the midst of darkness.

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We have to be in a state of Swabhava (natural state of attunement with God) abjuring all sense of want to feel His Presence everywhere.

To feel that He is the Agent of all our actions, to feel and visualise Him, and Him only as one Integral Existence and through loving submission unite with Him.

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Those who deny Him, deny themselves.

Those who affirm Him, affirm themselves.

Don’t be concerned for those who do not believe in Truth. Truth believes in them.

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The Universe was created in sacrifice. He gave Himself so that you could be. This is the Creation. Those only who sacrifice all ownership can know Him.

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There is nothing to give up and at the same time nothing to acquire. Life will deliver everything that is coming to you. You simply do your duty. Use what you need. Do not try to force anything or anyone to do your bidding. Be at peace with your destiny. When you realise by His Grace that not you but He is the Real Doer, then you are free from karma.

You and infact the entire humanity are inseparably yoked with Him for Eternity.

But due to the compulsions of varied worldly activities, we are involved in temporary bondage of attachments and forget that tie with Him.

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One does not suffer from want if one is flawless (desireless). What else is better than detached joy ?

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receiving so many things of life. But later we find it does not bring Real Happiness.

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Don’t worry. The Lord will take charge of your board and lodge and other comforts.

Leave everything to Him and you will have the best arrangements possible.

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We have come here to do all sorts of acting. We have come here as guests. After a certain time I shall have to go to my House, my own House, my permanent House.

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To live life successfully is a great challenge.

Every moment in different activities of life we are enhancing our problems, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. Results of such actions gradually become unbearable and fill one’s mind with despondency, a sense of insecurity and failure. Worldly affluence and wealth are of no help. Everyone faces this challenge individually in his or her own individual capacity. But one who can completely depend on God residing in one’s heart, will find that the Lord carries the burdens and eases all difficulties.

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To safeguard against unhappy situations of life, the All-Merciful Lord helps His children to withstand the impact of unforeseen jolts.

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Fundamentally, there exists only One Being and that is within you. To realise Him, to come into communion with Him, you need not go against Nature by self-repression. Sadhus and ascetics experience a kind of delight through the practices of austerities but that delight pertains to the mind.

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One does not get Him by donning deception. Putting on deceptive garb means self-deception. With the help of the garb I show to others what I am not.

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Don’t believe anybody other than Him. Only He can guide. He can do whatever He likes.

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Do not try to understand with the mind that which is beyond mind. You can not see the Light of Lights with the physical eye.

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crucifixion, Dadaji means that ignorance and separation from Him are gone, put to death.

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Crucifixion is not nailing a man to a cross.

It is two things. First, it is showing that Truth cannot be crucified by killing a body. Second, each time we deny Truth, we are hammering the nails into the message of Truth.

Dadaji’s message of Truth comes to you when you are ready to submit to your Self as He and accept your destiny.

Hold your head high in faith, knowing God is your shelter.

All fear is but a mistrust of His Love.

Fear of man ? What man is there, what king can rival the King of kings? With the King of kings you dwell for all time and in Truth.

What power is there in the world to rob you of your freedom ? His freedom reaches the prisoners in the deepest, darkest dungeon. Must you cling to this mortal body in fear of death clutching like a miser his treasure ?

This soul of yours shall dine always at the Feast of Eternal Life. All pain and death are but shadows of the mind that blow between you and Truth.

should under any circumstances shun Him for worldly interest.

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No one is a relative or a stranger. All are He. Everything, everybody, everywhere… same. There is no difference.

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Never pine for anybody who leaves you.

There is no point in worrying so much. He is always with you.

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Your relations are His Grace embodied unto you. Be with that Grace and have faith in Him. Let His Will be done.

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Remember Him. Everything will be alright.

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Life Force is functioning through each body. Without life nothing exists. Life Force is the Root of all Existence. But the fullest manifestation of life is in spiritual form. Its manifestation is then in the Universe and the Mahakash (Infinite Space).

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Prior to sound of a word a Great Power functions. That Great Power is that Great Will. So also with psychic phenomena, that is also the Supreme Power.

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Remember, He is always with you, even during your sleep. ….. Dreams are mind function. But, when He comes, although you are sleeping, you are awake to His Darshan (Vision of the Supreme).

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For the relish of His Divine Play, He has appeared as many in the mirror of the mind.

Take refuge in none but Him. Our souls are part of the Eternal Soul (Paramatma). So all people are equal, irrespective of their differences.

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All activities here are of this world, scientific study not excepted. Far from being shunned, they are to be fully participated in and enjoyed.

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The Divine Play is intrinsically bipolar, having positive and negative, ups and downs, good and bad, etc. Oscillations between them provide the basis for all the creative possibilities of this Play. When the Play is over, the two poles coalesce into mere Existence; all Existents having disappeared.

It is not a journey, it is a Play of the Almighty. A Play, too, is a part and parcel of His Manifestation. He is a Poet, we are His Composition. This is exactly the relation between the Creator and His Creation.

Human life is meant to feel His Divine Play and thereby understand the Nobility of the Creator. The mystery of birth will be unfolded only when the sweetness and beauty of the Divine Play which is the Eternal Truth is realised by turning the consciousness.

We have come to enjoy His Play.

Remember Him with love and remain in a natural state. This life is without any meaning unless we can realise His Divine Play.

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you know that You Can Do Nothing.

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Tied to results rather than duty, life is bondage. To simply do your duty, accept all that comes in the way with discrimination of proper or improper behaviour, this itself is Grace.

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As Dadaji’s work is to establish the Truth once again in the world, so you should try to establish Truth in your life.

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If you cannot enjoy Him in your everyday life, work, family, everything, you do not understand anything about Truth. What is the use sitting, singing adoration, when you do not live in adoration?

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He should be known in the quiet of the mountains as the quiet of the mountains and in the noise of the city as the noise of the city. Do not search Him out by meditation or hypnotism of any form.

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Salvation, Realisation is in the ordinary common everyday experience ; not in going off to the jungles or Himalayas or becoming a saint or a guru.

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Devotion to Truth is the sole reason for your existence. All your work should be centred in Truth. Each breath, each heart-beat should be Truth. When this stage is reached, all other rules of proper living will come without effort.

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Truth can never be crucified. Christ’s teachings were not accepted. That is crucifixion.

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Truth resides in every heart. The One Who is our Guide, is Govinda. Residing in our hearts Govinda becomes the Nam that is echoed and re-echoed constantly in our internal world and in the vast Universe outside.

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He alone is our Guru and the Name Itself is God. No mortal person can take the role of Guru.

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Without an awareness of Truth, when the first commandment, to love God with all your mind, heart and soul, and to place nothing before Him, is not obeyed, then it will be impossible to observe any proper way of life.

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Are you a lover of Truth or seeking an easier way of life ?

If you have been gifted with great riches, remain simple; If you have been gifted with great strength, remain gentle; If you have been gifted with great wisdom, remain unknowing; If you have been gifted with great beauty, remain plain.

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while. The flux around is static in its determinate gyrating.

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Gradually it will be realised by the aspirant as to how all events and circumstances, great and small, within and without have been subtly planned and brought about by the Infinite Wisdom to work out the imperfect and to work in the Perfection, and to carry out the natural process of bringing about harmony with the Eternal Source of our Life, the Self.

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He rules in every tiny detail of life. A blade of grass cannot blow in the wind without Him.

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Without an awareness of Truth it will be impossible to observe any proper way of life.

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There are principles of Truth which you must not compromise, even if you must give your life for them.

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What is the use of this life? You are born.

Why ? It is to realise God or Self, whatever you may call It.

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Realisation of Truth is the object of life.

This can be attained only through Mahanam from within.

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Name is Truth.

Do not be thoughtful over the Mahanam. It is Itself the Absolute Truth.

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The sincerity and depth of love seated in your heart gets more deepened and purified by the revelation and touch of Mahanam.

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When a person loves from the heart, he, himself, thinks of that person. He worries, thinking always for their well being. Still, somehow, some sense of self-interest remains.

But remember, objectives which we cannot attain with utmost efforts and thoughts which keep us worrying, at once get fulfilled with His mere Touch or Wish. So leave all hopes and yearnings to Him. He will get your things done. Do keep His remembrance. You will see how He has smoothly designed your way.

Flow with the stream of life without attempting to stem its tide. You are One with Him and yet separate so that you may love-play with Him. You can miss the Supreme Relish only if ego is allowed to wallow in selfimportance. So merge yourself into His All-engrossing Love.

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Always He is chanting the Mahanam inside of you. That is His Love. That is why I tell you, Love is the only answer.

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Mahanam alone is Real. Everything else is unreal.

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The substance is One and that alone is the Eternal Substance. It is the Supreme Integral Existence. We are the Eternal Substance of that unfragmented Supreme Being.

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You are free in your spiritual pursuit and need not depend on any one for your goal to be realised.

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Beware of gurus who claim to have keys to Him. There is only one Guru who is inside of everyone, in all creatures, pervading the whole Universe, the whole Creation.

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One has to woo one’s Nearest, one’s own Being. How does another person come in there? He is favouring us for ever with His Grace. The Mahanam is constantly ringing in our hearts. Only the unawakened do not hear It.

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Don’t believe anybody other than Him. Only He can guide. He can do whatever He likes.

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Truth is One. All declaration or announcement is sound only when it is dictated by the inner voice of Truth.

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Truth is One and Indivisible. To create a split in the Oneness of Truth is grave error and unless the angle of vision is changed Truth will never be realised.

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Each and everybody is God. Other than God, nobody is.

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If we can propitiate Narayan (the Supreme within), then all the deities, in your language, would be automatically satisfied.

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His manifest form is Krishna Chaitanya (God Consciousness). Name Itself is but Krishna Himself.

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The only survival centre is within.

Awareness of Mahanam is all (you) need be armed with.

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His Name is the strength in living against all odds and uncertainties. Dependence on Him makes one fearless.

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Be always with Nam. Then the objective with which you have come here will be realised.

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Remember Mahanam with love and complete self-surrender. That is the only way.

anyone in her realm be a male? There is only One Supreme Male and He is the Lord unconditioned by Nature. Marriage really means the co-joining of those in this world of Nature with the Lord within. That is Love.

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He is you, your Self. When we come into this world, we come with Him in wedlock. That is true marriage. Your actions betrothed to Him, will elevate you to a state of inexplicable Ecstasy, with the World of Truth.

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Perfect and absolute self-surrender to God and a constant desireless or choiceless awareness of Him charged with single-minded devotion and reliance is the only perfect and real Yoga. Since then God within us takes over the entire responsibility for our lives, works, in His own Divine and infallible way and captains the ship of our life to its final destiny, realisation of our True Nature.

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Nothing to worry about. As He creates dangers so He also lays the path of peace.

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Whatever you have received in life, take that as His Blessing or Grace, and the road to peace is opened.

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Leave everything to Him and there will be peace.

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Value everything in the context of peace and Bliss will come automatically. You will then inhale the Divine Grace and you will hear the Music of your heart, Mahanam.

He is far out of reach of the clever and merely learned. By no means you can get Him through ritual. Only through Love!

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The individual has nothing else to do except call to mind that Mahanam.

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Practise remembering and adhering to Nam. Complete surrender in love to Mahanam is the only way.

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Dadaji has come to establish Truth, to make you aware of the Mahanam. Mahanam can not be defined or chanted. When you think you are chanting, the Supreme Absolute is chanting.

First thing in the morning, listen to Him chanting within. Last thing at night, listen to Him chanting within: Gopal Govinda.

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We do not know what is correct, what is incorrect. Don’t bother for all that. Just do your duty and take Name.

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His Nature is All-Merciful and All-Graceful. The Grace and Mercy constitute the Real Form. One who worships Name as Truth receives the Grace of God.

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There are stages for upholding of different inner developments which, by time factor, help a person to get into the Divine Lap of His All-Merciful Existence.

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What is meant by Paramananda ? It means but at-one-ment with Satyanarayan.

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A little exhibition of power is of no avail so far as realisation of Truth is concerned.

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Everyone who lives on the earth, sees according to the context of their circumstances.

All are indeed one substance. United with the Supreme Will, nothing else remains. With His one Wish, at a glance, the whole world is seen at a moment. All is then One and One indeed is All.

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He who is ever wakeful, who is never oblivious, He is indwelling. Nothing is unknown to Him. To Him there is no past, present, future. Time does not touch Him. For Him, there is no coming or going. He only is changing all the forms. As soon as you pierce the covering of Yogamaya, you will see All is One. Then everything shall be nicely cleared up about what you call transformation, coming and going, birth and death, light and darkness.

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Even though everything seems to be going wrong for you and for the world, take God’s Name.

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What you call a problem is simply a situation that is not the way you would like to be. If you are truthful with yourself, no matter what is going on, it is alright. Instead of feeding the situation by thinking and talking about it and creating a monster take the Lord’s Name — Ram, Ram.

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Don’t forget His Will. He is doing everything. Just depend on Him (Mahanam).

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D o i n g y o u r d u t y , t a k i n g M a h a n a m, surrendering to the One, this is true prayer.

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When you feel fear and you are confused, take His Mahanam ; know everything is alright.

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I am not saying to sit parrot-like with rosary beads repeating the Names of God. I am talking about a revelation coming from the depth of your heart.

This Ram Nam is for the pure heart, not for self-indulgence, not for petitioning God to do something for you, but for saying “Lord, Thy Will be done”.

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Try not to judge and find fault or be angry.

You cannot be angry, only your ego is angry.

Try to turn the anger and judgement to loving Him, to take the Mahanam.

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you will feel peace amidst all the strifes of life.

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You can but do your duty and take Mahanam. Don’t be so disturbed if the result has not come out the way you wanted it. You cannot possibly get more or less than He has willed for you.

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Let the duty itself be done with love and affection taking Mahanam. It is difficult to remember Him in the daily bustle of activities, but important to try.

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No preparation is necessary or possible except to do your duty and remember Him.

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Take Mahanam and do your duty. That is the only path.

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His Name is your own being. You are His Temple.

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Make it your first duty each day to remember Him. Repeat the Name. Keep thinking about Him and the rest will be taken care of.

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This body, though not the highest Truth, is yet the temple to be lovingly cared for by right living, natural diet, exercise and love.

The awareness of what is right here dawns by the Grace of Mahanam.

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Do not by Force but by Love try to rule and control the senses. If you trust in Mahanam, He will guide you in respect of these great desires.

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All hearts are united with His Heart.

All Existences merge into His Existence.

All diverg e n t f o r m s t a k e O n e U n i v e r s a l Form. All Creation becomes One. The Heart is One. Its language is One. It is infact One. It rejoices in Its Own Self. Nothing but Bliss remains.

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It is difficult to remember Him in the daily bustle of activities but important to try.

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Live with His Name on your lips. When you have come to the limit and can go no further, listen to Him chanting the Mahanam within the recess of your heart.

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We have come here to make love with Him ; to be bathed in His Love and to vibrate His Love through actions that come our way.

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Be always with Nam. Then the objective with which we have come here will be realised.

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Within a person He exists as the vibration of Existence (Mahanam) and He is steady, unchangeable, waveless, full of constant, desireless Love, Mercy and Beauty. He is Truth.

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In the beginning was the Mahanam; nothing was created that was not created of the Mahanam. All that is, all that was, and all that shall be, and what is beyond Eternity is already with you (as Mahanam). Thus He is hidden in His own creation.

The Divine Will is the sole creative and sustaining principle of the Universe. As Divine Power It (Mahanam) is revealed to our senses in various forms. It is the Shabda Brahma of Vedanta, the Vac of Rig Veda, and the Word of the Bible. Each of these terms is misleading in the literal sense. In Its true import, It (Mahanam) is identical with Truth.

Life comes from the Spirit and takes Mahanam in the shadow garment of all former lives as destiny.

Trusting a person, one ultimately gets jolted and suffers. So, hold on to Him who is within as Prana-Rama (God of life), the Eternal Existence of all beings. Without Him we are all dead.

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The Atman, the Supreme Spirit, dwells in the sound of the Mahanam, its vibration supplying the power for living.

Put your trust in the Lord and accept everything. Accept every jolt that life brings with Mahanam in your heart and His Name on your lips.

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You have come with the Maha-Mantra, the Mahanam, from birth. You cannot come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the

Try to make your work the devotion by always taking His Name and feeling the Mahanam within.

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When you put down the weapons of the mind and surrender to the Mahanam within you,

The spirit commands a new bodily kingdom for the destiny to rule over.

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Mahanam. That Mahanam is the Lord within everyone. It can only be revealed to you by the Guru within : Gopal Govinda.

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Remembering Him, Mahanam, trying to return His Love, that is really what matters.

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Submit to Mahanam in Love and brave the world. Do your work with Him as the Agent.

Have patience with the vicissitudes of life which are tokens of His Infinite Love.

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The Divine lives in everybody’s heart.

That Divine consciousness can be possible only in the human beings.

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The region of repose of respiration within the body which is void, is the place wherefrom out of void emerges Mahanam. It has no contact with the body. It transcends the mind.

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The Mahanam vibrates within the vacuous region of the heart which is the place of repose of all respiration unruffled by any mental mould. This Mahanam is Prana. It is the warp and woof of your Existence.

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The respiratory function is set into motion by spontaneous vibration of the Mahanam. If you closely follow the respiration, you may be led to rediscovery of the vibration of Mahanam.

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God is within the deep recess of our heart in the form of the sounds of Mahanam.

Mahanam is at the root of our respiration and all vibrations of the world are Mahanam. This Mahanam is our Real Self, the Guru.

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Mahanam comes from deep within a person’s consciousness. Its two rhythmic sounds manifest the bi-polarity of man’s Existence.

They harmonize the duality between human beings and God, Atma (individual Soul) and

Don’t restrain, don’t indulge. Be natural, shorn of all inhibitions.

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No method, no wrestling with the mind, no “I am doing”. All these things are full of ego.

First thing in the morning, listen to His Mahanam. Last thing at night, listen to His Mahanam.

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Fundamentally, there exists only One Being and that is within you. To realise Him, to come into communion with Him, you need not go against Nature (by self-repression).

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Take His Name and go on with your work.

No positive thinking, no negative thinking.

Think of Him. Listen to His Mahanam.

Try not to understand, do it.

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Try not to understand ; Try not to mis-understand ; Both are ignorance.

Take refuge in Mahanam.

Do not be thoughtful over the Mahanam. It is Itself the Absolute Truth.

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All want Him knowingly or unknowingly.

Only time, patience and the proper doing of your duty is necessary. Always, at least as much as possible, remember His Mahanam.

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Be thankful and adore Him, by taking Mahanam. What is blessing but being given the chance to try again with His Name from your heart on your lips?

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Keep on remembering Mahanam, the Name of the Lord, the seed that has been sown in your heart. It is a wonderful key that makes every door open of its own accord.

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The sincerity and depth of Love in your heart gets deepened and purified by the revelation and touch of Mahanam.

Practise remembering and adhering to Nam. His Name and He are the same.

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The Divine Truth that throbs in the hearts of all individuals reveals Itself not through intellectual inquisitiveness or speculation, but through Love and Love only. Love is the Divine Itself.

Take His Name, feel the Mahanam. When you are ready to change, not just pretending to be ready, He will know.

You cannot even remember Him without His Will. He has inscrutable ways to make you know when the time is ripe.

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Mahanam alone is Real. Everything else is unreal.

Mahanam is automatic. It cannot be done by the mind.

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You cannot come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the Mahanam. That Mahanam is the Lord within everyone.

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Wedded to Mahanam, we have come into this world which is an over-flowing of the Joy of Infinite Existence. Existence, Consciousness, Joy ........ this is the order of progressive Manifestation of the Infinite. In Existence as Existence, the sounds of Mahanam are in perfect Identity. That is Satyanarayan, the symbol of basal Truth. The Mahanam is His Joyous Manifestation.

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He resides in all of us as the Big I in the form of the sounds of Mahanam, ringing within us around the clock.

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This Mahanam is the be-all and end-all of all Existence. The matrix of all multiplicity, the Mahanam is the Eternal Refuge of all Existence.

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Other than Name, there is nothing. Name is the Supreme Authority. Name is the Guru.

Name is God. Name is Almighty and Truth.

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Rama is the Name of the Lord.

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The Mahanam Itself is but Krishna Himself.

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It is Mahanam that leads to Liberation, Realisation and Salvation.

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The Mahanam Itself is Sat (Truth Existence) — Chit (Consciousness) — Ananda (Bliss).

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The greatest wealth is the Mahanam — Gopal Govinda.

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Whom the beings do not know Whose body all beings are —

Realisation of Truth is the object of Life. It can be attained only by Mahanam from within.

With you is the Master Key, the Mahanam, the key to life and death.

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When you just remember it is all He and let it all go from your mind with Mahanam, no matter what you do, where you are, who you are with, it will be alright.

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To realise Him, one can achieve by simple and straightforward means. There is no necessity for mental or physical wrestling.

Awareness of Mahanam is all one needs be armed with. The only survival centre is within.

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Truth is Name. Repeat It long enough and you will be cleansed.

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When Mahanam becomes manifest, He Himself becomes manifest, and the entire body becomes a fragrant oblation.

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God resides in everyone and draws those that return His Love. No matter what, no one can stop His Mahanam within — no need for churches and temples to pray in.

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He who dwells in all beings;

He is your Self, the Immortal Controller from Whom you received the Mahanam.

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We have come here with the sound of Mahanam chiming within us continuously around the clock. That is the Guru, our Beloved.

The ego shuts it from us. Hence we cannot perceive or hear it.

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He keeps doing Mahanam whether you can hear It or not. We are receiving that very Nam from the air through breathing without knowing it. Still getting to know this produces extreme joy, and not knowing this we do not experience that Bliss.

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Everyone comes holding on to the Root (Mahanam). It is the Root that holds everyone.

Who is there without the Root ? All are bound up with the Root.

On knowing the Power of the Root, all differences such as saying, ‘the world is illusory’ or ‘Brahma is true’, do not remain. All is illusory and again all is true.

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Try and understand the Origin. If you can reach and grasp the Root, then you will understand the branches.

comes from within you. He alone can reveal Mahanam to you.

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At the time of birth Guru accompanies the body. Mahanam Itself is Guru. When the Vital Spirit (Pran) leaves the body, it means the Guru, the Mahanam, separates from it. The mind then remains with the Mahanam until they together take another body.

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Your Mahanam, Maha-Mantra is within you. It has been vibrating within your heart since your birth and you alone can find It. No outsider other than yourself can reveal It to you.

The point of stasis of respiration is the domain of Mahanam.

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A person is born initiated. One has simply to r e a l i s e t h i s f a c t . H e i s w i t h i n a s Mahanam. Initiation (Diksha) means seeing Him (Darshan).

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By Diksha you realise Him. Genuine Diksha means revelation. You must see what is going on within yourself.

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Mantra is already there with you. At the time of birth you have received the Maha-Mantra and Diksha. So who will give other than Him? It is He who is your Guru. He has been constantly ringing the Mantra in your heart.

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The reward which one obtains in the Satya Age by abstract meditation, in the Treta Age by sacrifices, in the Dwapara Age by

Life is the Play of the Divine and the birth is His Music. Death is a cessation, more precisely, a condition, a phase.

That which holds the body (Mahanam) will return to its own Abode. When it leaves the body, all the Reality of the mortals is then merged in the Eternal and continuous Life Force which never moves from or to any place.

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In the vacuous region of the heart, which is the Infinite within, two sounds are constantly ringing. When these two sounds go off, the mind shrinks and a person dies. When the mind can resort to another body, it buds forth again. When these two sounds of Mahanam stop, it is death.

Then the mind shrinks and is merged in pervasive Existence.

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He is favouring us for ever with His Grace.

The Mahanam is constantly ringing in our hearts.

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The Guru is within you as the Mahanam — the basal staff of your existence. The Guru is Unlimited, Integral Truth.

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The only Guru is the Supreme. He is within you as Mahanam since your birth.

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Try and understand the Origin. If you can reach and grasp the Root, then you will understand the branches.

comes from within you. He alone can reveal Mahanam to you.

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At the time of birth Guru accompanies the body. Mahanam Itself is Guru. When the Vital Spirit (Pran) leaves the body, it means the Guru, the Mahanam, separates from it. The mind then remains with the Mahanam until they together take another body.

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Your Mahanam, Maha-Mantra is within you. It has been vibrating within your heart since your birth and you alone can find It. No outsider other than yourself can reveal It to you.

The point of stasis of respiration is the domain of Mahanam.

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A person is born initiated. One has simply to r e a l i s e t h i s f a c t . H e i s w i t h i n a s Mahanam. Initiation (Diksha) means seeing Him (Darshan).

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By Diksha you realise Him. Genuine Diksha means revelation. You must see what is going on within yourself.

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Mantra is already there with you. At the time of birth you have received the Maha-Mantra and Diksha. So who will give other than Him? It is He who is your Guru. He has been constantly ringing the Mantra in your heart.

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The reward which one obtains in the Satya Age by abstract meditation, in the Treta Age by sacrifices, in the Dwapara Age by

Life is the Play of the Divine and the birth is His Music. Death is a cessation, more precisely, a condition, a phase.

That which holds the body (Mahanam) will return to its own Abode. When it leaves the body, all the Reality of the mortals is then merged in the Eternal and continuous Life Force which never moves from or to any place.

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In the vacuous region of the heart, which is the Infinite within, two sounds are constantly ringing. When these two sounds go off, the mind shrinks and a person dies. When the mind can resort to another body, it buds forth again. When these two sounds of Mahanam stop, it is death.

Then the mind shrinks and is merged in pervasive Existence.

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He is favouring us for ever with His Grace.

The Mahanam is constantly ringing in our hearts.

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The Guru is within you as the Mahanam — the basal staff of your existence. The Guru is Unlimited, Integral Truth.

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The only Guru is the Supreme. He is within you as Mahanam since your birth.

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adoration, one receives in the Kali Age by merely reciting the Names of Keshava.

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The Mahanam Itself is but Krishna Himself.

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It is Mahanam that leads to Liberation, Realisation and Salvation.

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The Mahanam Itself is Sat (Truth Existence) — Chit (Consciousness) — Ananda (Bliss).

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The greatest wealth is the Mahanam — Gopal Govinda.

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Realisation of Truth is the object of Life. It can be attained only by Mahanam from within.

With you is the Master Key, the Mahanam, the key to life and death.

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When you just remember it is all He and let it all go from your mind with Mahanam, no matter what you do, where you are, who you are with, it will be alright.

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To realise Him, one can achieve by simple and straightforward means. There is no necessity for mental or physical wrestling.

Awareness of Mahanam is all one needs be armed with. The only survival centre is within.

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Truth is Name. Repeat It long enough and you will be cleansed.

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When Mahanam becomes manifest, He Himself becomes manifest, and the entire body becomes a fragrant oblation.

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God resides in everyone and draws those that return His Love. No matter what, no one can stop His Mahanam within — no need for churches and temples to pray in.

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He who dwells in all beings;

He is your Self, the Immortal Controller from Whom you received the Mahanam.

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We have come here with the sound of Mahanam chiming within us continuously around the clock. That is the Guru, our Beloved.

The ego shuts it from us. Hence we cannot perceive or hear it.

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He keeps doing Mahanam whether you can hear It or not. We are receiving that very Nam from the air through breathing without knowing it. Still getting to know this produces extreme joy, and not knowing this we do not experience that Bliss.

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Everyone comes holding on to the Root (Mahanam). It is the Root that holds everyone.

Who is there without the Root ? All are bound up with the Root.

On knowing the Power of the Root, all differences such as saying, ‘the world is illusory’ or ‘Brahma is true’, do not remain. All is illusory and again all is true.

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Paramatma (Supreme Being).

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All want Him knowingly or unknowingly.

Only time, patience and the proper doing of your duty is necessary. Always, at least as much as possible, remember His Mahanam.

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Be thankful and adore Him, by taking Mahanam. What is blessing but being given the chance to try again with His Name from your heart on your lips?

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Keep on remembering Mahanam, the Name of the Lord, the seed that has been sown in your heart. It is a wonderful key that makes every door open of its own accord.

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The sincerity and depth of Love in your heart gets deepened and purified by the revelation and touch of Mahanam.

Practise remembering and adhering to Nam. His Name and He are the same.

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The Divine Truth that throbs in the hearts of all individuals reveals Itself not through intellectual inquisitiveness or speculation, but through Love and Love only. Love is the Divine Itself.

Take His Name, feel the Mahanam. When you are ready to change, not just pretending to be ready, He will know.

You cannot even remember Him without His Will. He has inscrutable ways to make you know when the time is ripe.

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Mahanam alone is Real. Everything else is unreal.

Mahanam is automatic. It cannot be done by the mind.

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You cannot come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the Mahanam. That Mahanam is the Lord within everyone.

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Wedded to Mahanam, we have come into this world which is an over-flowing of the Joy of Infinite Existence. Existence, Consciousness, Joy ........ this is the order of progressive Manifestation of the Infinite. In Existence as Existence, the sounds of Mahanam are in perfect Identity. That is Satyanarayan, the symbol of basal Truth. The Mahanam is His Joyous Manifestation.

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He resides in all of us as the Big I in the form of the sounds of Mahanam, ringing within us around the clock.

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This Mahanam is the be-all and end-all of all Existence. The matrix of all multiplicity, the Mahanam is the Eternal Refuge of all Existence.

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Other than Name, there is nothing. Name is the Supreme Authority. Name is the Guru.

Name is God. Name is Almighty and Truth.

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Rama is the Name of the Lord.

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Mahanam. That Mahanam is the Lord within everyone. It can only be revealed to you by the Guru within : Gopal Govinda.

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Remembering Him, Mahanam, trying to return His Love, that is really what matters.

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Submit to Mahanam in Love and brave the world. Do your work with Him as the Agent.

Have patience with the vicissitudes of life which are tokens of His Infinite Love.

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The Divine lives in everybody’s heart.

That Divine consciousness can be possible only in the human beings.

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The region of repose of respiration within the body which is void, is the place wherefrom out of void emerges Mahanam. It has no contact with the body. It transcends the mind.

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The Mahanam vibrates within the vacuous region of the heart which is the place of repose of all respiration unruffled by any mental mould. This Mahanam is Prana. It is the warp and woof of your Existence.

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The respiratory function is set into motion by spontaneous vibration of the Mahanam. If you closely follow the respiration, you may be led to rediscovery of the vibration of Mahanam.

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God is within the deep recess of our heart in the form of the sounds of Mahanam.

Mahanam is at the root of our respiration and all vibrations of the world are Mahanam. This Mahanam is our Real Self, the Guru.

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Mahanam comes from deep within a person’s consciousness. Its two rhythmic sounds manifest the bi-polarity of man’s Existence.

They harmonize the duality between human beings and God, Atma (individual Soul) and

Don’t restrain, don’t indulge. Be natural, shorn of all inhibitions.

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No method, no wrestling with the mind, no “I am doing”. All these things are full of ego.

First thing in the morning, listen to His Mahanam. Last thing at night, listen to His Mahanam.

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Fundamentally, there exists only One Being and that is within you. To realise Him, to come into communion with Him, you need not go against Nature (by self-repression).

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Take His Name and go on with your work.

No positive thinking, no negative thinking.

Think of Him. Listen to His Mahanam.

Try not to understand, do it.

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Try not to understand ; Try not to mis-understand ; Both are ignorance.

Take refuge in Mahanam.

Do not be thoughtful over the Mahanam. It is Itself the Absolute Truth.

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It is difficult to remember Him in the daily bustle of activities but important to try.

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Live with His Name on your lips. When you have come to the limit and can go no further, listen to Him chanting the Mahanam within the recess of your heart.

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We have come here to make love with Him ; to be bathed in His Love and to vibrate His Love through actions that come our way.

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Be always with Nam. Then the objective with which we have come here will be realised.

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Within a person He exists as the vibration of Existence (Mahanam) and He is steady, unchangeable, waveless, full of constant, desireless Love, Mercy and Beauty. He is Truth.

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In the beginning was the Mahanam; nothing was created that was not created of the Mahanam. All that is, all that was, and all that shall be, and what is beyond Eternity is already with you (as Mahanam). Thus He is hidden in His own creation.

The Divine Will is the sole creative and sustaining principle of the Universe. As Divine Power It (Mahanam) is revealed to our senses in various forms. It is the Shabda Brahma of Vedanta, the Vac of Rig Veda, and the Word of the Bible. Each of these terms is misleading in the literal sense. In Its true import, It (Mahanam) is identical with Truth.

Life comes from the Spirit and takes Mahanam in the shadow garment of all former lives as destiny.

Trusting a person, one ultimately gets jolted and suffers. So, hold on to Him who is within as Prana-Rama (God of life), the Eternal Existence of all beings. Without Him we are all dead.

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The Atman, the Supreme Spirit, dwells in the sound of the Mahanam, its vibration supplying the power for living.

Put your trust in the Lord and accept everything. Accept every jolt that life brings with Mahanam in your heart and His Name on your lips.

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You have come with the Maha-Mantra, the Mahanam, from birth. You cannot come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the

Try to make your work the devotion by always taking His Name and feeling the Mahanam within.

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When you put down the weapons of the mind and surrender to the Mahanam within you,

The spirit commands a new bodily kingdom for the destiny to rule over.

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you will feel peace amidst all the strifes of life.

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You can but do your duty and take Mahanam. Don’t be so disturbed if the result has not come out the way you wanted it. You cannot possibly get more or less than He has willed for you.

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Let the duty itself be done with love and affection taking Mahanam. It is difficult to remember Him in the daily bustle of activities, but important to try.

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No preparation is necessary or possible except to do your duty and remember Him.

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Take Mahanam and do your duty. That is the only path.

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His Name is your own being. You are His Temple.

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Make it your first duty each day to remember Him. Repeat the Name. Keep thinking about Him and the rest will be taken care of.

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This body, though not the highest Truth, is yet the temple to be lovingly cared for by right living, natural diet, exercise and love.

The awareness of what is right here dawns by the Grace of Mahanam.

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Do not by Force but by Love try to rule and control the senses. If you trust in Mahanam, He will guide you in respect of these great desires.

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All hearts are united with His Heart.

All Existences merge into His Existence.

All diverg e n t f o r m s t a k e O n e U n i v e r s a l Form. All Creation becomes One. The Heart is One. Its language is One. It is infact One. It rejoices in Its Own Self. Nothing but Bliss remains.

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His Nature is All-Merciful and All-Graceful. The Grace and Mercy constitute the Real Form. One who worships Name as Truth receives the Grace of God.

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There are stages for upholding of different inner developments which, by time factor, help a person to get into the Divine Lap of His All-Merciful Existence.

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What is meant by Paramananda ? It means but at-one-ment with Satyanarayan.

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A little exhibition of power is of no avail so far as realisation of Truth is concerned.

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Everyone who lives on the earth, sees according to the context of their circumstances.

All are indeed one substance. United with the Supreme Will, nothing else remains. With His one Wish, at a glance, the whole world is seen at a moment. All is then One and One indeed is All.

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He who is ever wakeful, who is never oblivious, He is indwelling. Nothing is unknown to Him. To Him there is no past, present, future. Time does not touch Him. For Him, there is no coming or going. He only is changing all the forms. As soon as you pierce the covering of Yogamaya, you will see All is One. Then everything shall be nicely cleared up about what you call transformation, coming and going, birth and death, light and darkness.

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Even though everything seems to be going wrong for you and for the world, take God’s Name.

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What you call a problem is simply a situation that is not the way you would like to be. If you are truthful with yourself, no matter what is going on, it is alright. Instead of feeding the situation by thinking and talking about it and creating a monster take the Lord’s Name — Ram, Ram.

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Don’t forget His Will. He is doing everything. Just depend on Him (Mahanam).

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D o i n g y o u r d u t y , t a k i n g M a h a n a m, surrendering to the One, this is true prayer.

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When you feel fear and you are confused, take His Mahanam ; know everything is alright.

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I am not saying to sit parrot-like with rosary beads repeating the Names of God. I am talking about a revelation coming from the depth of your heart.

This Ram Nam is for the pure heart, not for self-indulgence, not for petitioning God to do something for you, but for saying “Lord, Thy Will be done”.

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Try not to judge and find fault or be angry.

You cannot be angry, only your ego is angry.

Try to turn the anger and judgement to loving Him, to take the Mahanam.

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The only survival centre is within.

Awareness of Mahanam is all (you) need be armed with.

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His Name is the strength in living against all odds and uncertainties. Dependence on Him makes one fearless.

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Be always with Nam. Then the objective with which you have come here will be realised.

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Remember Mahanam with love and complete self-surrender. That is the only way.

anyone in her realm be a male? There is only One Supreme Male and He is the Lord unconditioned by Nature. Marriage really means the co-joining of those in this world of Nature with the Lord within. That is Love.

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He is you, your Self. When we come into this world, we come with Him in wedlock. That is true marriage. Your actions betrothed to Him, will elevate you to a state of inexplicable Ecstasy, with the World of Truth.

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Perfect and absolute self-surrender to God and a constant desireless or choiceless awareness of Him charged with single-minded devotion and reliance is the only perfect and real Yoga. Since then God within us takes over the entire responsibility for our lives, works, in His own Divine and infallible way and captains the ship of our life to its final destiny, realisation of our True Nature.

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Nothing to worry about. As He creates dangers so He also lays the path of peace.

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Whatever you have received in life, take that as His Blessing or Grace, and the road to peace is opened.

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Leave everything to Him and there will be peace.

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Value everything in the context of peace and Bliss will come automatically. You will then inhale the Divine Grace and you will hear the Music of your heart, Mahanam.

He is far out of reach of the clever and merely learned. By no means you can get Him through ritual. Only through Love!

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The individual has nothing else to do except call to mind that Mahanam.

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Practise remembering and adhering to Nam. Complete surrender in love to Mahanam is the only way.

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Dadaji has come to establish Truth, to make you aware of the Mahanam. Mahanam can not be defined or chanted. When you think you are chanting, the Supreme Absolute is chanting.

First thing in the morning, listen to Him chanting within. Last thing at night, listen to Him chanting within: Gopal Govinda.

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We do not know what is correct, what is incorrect. Don’t bother for all that. Just do your duty and take Name.

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at the Lotus Feet of the Divine Being may yield an enjoyment of pleasures alone, it does not bestow Love Divine.

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Resort to the Mahanam and become wide awake in the atmosphere of the Love Divine to get rid of the fetters of fate, to develop intimacy of the Divine Being and endure the alluring forces of the body, mind and the material intellect.

The egoistic prayer and practices may bring certain realisations commonly called Vibhuti of the Divine Being. But Love Divine is revealed alone by entering the V a i s n a v a S t a t e (of devotion to God) in the bower of Vrindaban or the Truth Absolute and nowhere else.

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Beyond right and wrong is Mahanam, the Supreme Reality in your indwelling life.

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Who is good, who is bad, we do not know.

Don’t go for judging. Just try to take Name.

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By remembering Him, you realise Him. That is true work.

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The remembrance of Him amidst your work is an act of Love. Love is the path to Truth. This insures integrity of character and purity of conduct.

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Do submit to your within, Mahanam.

Isolation or a crowded hour makes no difference with Him.

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Satisfy the needs of physical life. Let there be your family, spouse and children. Perform your duty to them. But that should not be all. Remember the Mahanam at the same time.

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Immersed in His Love one is opened to the Light of His Nectarine world.

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It is Prema (Divine Love) and Prema alone, that attuning Elixir of Life, that manifests Supreme Knowledge and the Divine. Your knowledge can never get a semblance of It. No Prema, no Mahajnana.

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Nobody can do Prema except He. For nobody else’s perspective is absolutely innocuous.

Those who live with you in Mahanam are your brothers and sisters.

Take His Name together and bow down to Him in each other.

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It is not your duty to understand why things happen the way they do. You are not expected to understand or agree with everyone and everything. It is not possible. When you feel confused, remember Mahanam.

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Human beings are born in the body with Him from His Blissful World to get real Ananda

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by the taste of His Love in this mortal and illusory world.

But our superstitious human involvements and irresponsible attitude toward Him, in ignorance, do not allow us to come near to Him or to feel His Love for which we get the rare human birth. We ignore Him in pursuit of worldly deceitful pleasures, profits and attachments which please now and depress the very next moment. We waste the precious human birth given to us. We cannot give up the superstitions of our egoistic living in this world and so we forget Him. Even when He comes to our presence, we do not realise it.

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Going without Him or keeping Him away, we always remain in wants. We go for the heartless love of people, lifeless inert matter that cannot take us to the Love of Krishna, of Krishna Bhakti.

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We have come here to make love to Him. To be bathed in His Love. And to vibrate in His Love through the actions that come our way.

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Love is the only language He understands.

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You cannot love Him. He only can love you, and that as Himself. You can only feel His Love, passively of course.

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If one thinks, I will make an effort to love God, then one cannot reach Him.

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Love is the only answer to everything. Love is the Divine Itself.

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By cultivating the habit of patience and by remembering Mahanam with love, we move toward God-realisation.

Human love is based on self-interest. His Love is something.

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Our Nearest and Dearest is He, who is Truth, beyond actions and reactions, beyond death, eternal Love, Omnipotent.

Mental love is worth nothing, for the mind is fickle. Today it is after one thing, tomorrow after another. But His Love is infinite.

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Swabhava and surrender reveal Love Divine, the way of devotion. Love Divine is neither an object of the practices nor of the prayers, in as much as practices and prayers aim at aspiration of fulfilment of one’s wants. Moreover, the hankering through prayer

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Religion is nothing divorced from life.

Work is worship when the sole frame of reference is the soul, the vibrant Mahanam.

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He is favouring us for ever with His Grace.

The Mahanam is constantly ringing in our hearts. Only the unawakened do not hear It.

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Mercy and Beauty.

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A person cannot do everything. Just try to remember Him. Just try to love Him.

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Before work or action, there arises a desire.

After that through action one gains different kinds of knowledge.

The light of wisdom comes from action and the light of action comes from wisdom. Where is the conflict? When action and wisdom become unified, then one is drowned in Supreme Bliss. This then is called Divine Love.

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When your heart is in love with Him and entwined with Him, why do you worry about your mind? When the time comes, He will control your mind. Now let the mind be as it is.

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The remembrance of Him amidst your work is an act of Love. Love is the path to Truth.

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Just try to love Him and do your duty. Duty is the first thing. Your one hand is held by Him and the other one is left free for your daily action. So, go ahead, no need for worry.

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bear with patience your Prarabdha, the vicissitudes of life.

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The All-merciful Lord helps His children to withstand the impact of unforeseen jolts. Remember Mahanam with full devotion.

Whatever has to happen will happen. Humans can do nothing, have no power of their own and cannot get things always according to their expectations. God bears the burden of those fortunate ones who depend on Him. So depend on Him only.

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Passive remembrance of the Mahanam through all the vicissitudes of our life is our only duty.

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Ever since we are born, inside the womb of our mother, the sound of Mahanam pervades our consciousness. From that moment onward, all through our life, He is there with us; He is there in our heart of hearts. By remembrance of Him as Mahanam, we realise that we are part of that Great Being Who holds the entire creation together.

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peace means something different. What they think will bring them peace will only be a momentary truce in the war raging between mind and heart. The mind wants to rule the heart trying to shout louder than Mahanam.

When you put down the weapons of the mind and surrender to the Mahanam within, you will find peace amidst all the strifes of life — you will no longer be seeking peace.

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Taking His Name can help in any affliction, even in the leaving of the body itself.

To pass over with the Lord’s Name on your lips to accompany you is the highest blessing.

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The working out of desire through cycles of birth and death ends at the destined moment when constant awareness of Mahanam dawns on you by His Grace.

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When all the desires disappear then a mortal becomes immortal, with no thought of death, and even in this body he is liberated.

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For those that have been crucified in His Name, there is no need for the great escape. He has caught you, you have caught Him.

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As long as you have the Mahanam, that is more than enough.

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It is not formalities, but it is Love that moves our Heavenly Father towards us. Remember that Mahanam and desire Him. Call Him in loving tears and He will be there with you.

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The smiles and frowns of life are tokens of His Love. Bear them with loving patience.

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The Supreme Father’s Love and Affection are billions of times superior to worldly parents’ love. Because in His Love there is no mind, no expectations, no judgement, no narrowness of a relationship of give and take.

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Love excels in fragrance and depth when, even while one is embodied, one transcends the sense of the body. Whoever feels this sort of love for Him, his or her body sense and sufferings diminish. It is only possible with His direct touch. Worldly involvements become less. Worldly afflictions and the impact of external influences on our mind become greatly reduced.

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The only good is to remember Him, to try to love Him. The only evil is in forgetting.

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He is your Supreme Courage to Love, courage to speak, to do, to suffer. His Will be done.

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He alone is the Giver of Supreme Faith of Love, the Faith of life, of victory in defeat, of the power hidden in the frailness of beauty, of the dignity of pain that accepts hurt but refuses to return it.

Existence expresses Itself as Consciousness and Consciousness manifests Itself as Joy. That is the description of the basal Reality. This may be otherwise described in the inverse order : Self-Love, Consciousness as Identity and Simple Vital Impulse respectively. The world is the Manifestation of that Superabundant Self-Love, that overflowing Joy. He is All-Love.

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He is such a loving Father ! He asks nothing. He sees no fault. For Him there is no virtue or vice. He is so easily satisfied by just remembering Him once !

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The only way to Truth is complete self-resignation and Divine Love.

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Love alone can make both good and evil merge into values of One. Friend and Foe are the same to Him.

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rid of the fetters of fate, to develop intimacy with the Divine Being and endure the alluring forces of the body, mind and intellect.

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Mahanam is the only boat to take you across the sea of destiny. His Love is the only answer to free you from the bonds of destiny

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The Mahanam is the Infinite and the finite, not two but two-in-one. In this consciousness, there is no question of peace, birth or death. It is complete unknowing faith.

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Divine Name is the only path. He and His Name are identical.

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He gets moved by our constant remembrance of Nam. With His Touch your works will be All-blissful, All-joyful. Sadhus and Yogis want to attain this state by efforts, rituals, meditation and austerities. But doing such things, they cannot get His Love. A person gets It only by the natural process of living.

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Submit to Satyanarayan, the Supreme Consciousness. Dis-engage yourself from your ego. Let your ego abdicate in favour of Him and you are blessed with the sound and vision of the Mahanam through His Infinite Grace.

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Then the world becomes His Ashram. Then even the sadness and sorrow will become beautiful in the Glory and Grace of the Supreme Creator.

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The manifestation of Truth within the Divine consciousness or Universal Consciousness, has been personified in the image of Sri Satyanarayan. This brings Truth within the reach of human conception. It is then known as God. The Divine Will which is the outward manifestation of Sri Satyanarayan, is the sole creative and sustaining principle in this Universe.

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He is steady, unchangeable, waveless, full of constant, desireless Love, Mercy and Beauty.

He is Truth. He is Satyanarayan, the Absolute Truth (Satya) and the basal resort of all (Narayan).

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Wedded to the Mahanam we have come into this world which is an overflowing of the joy of Infinite Existence. Existence, Consciousness, Joy ‌..this is the order of progressive manifestation of the Infinite. In Existence as Existence the sounds (of Mahanam) are in perfect Identity. That is Satyanarayan, the symbol of basal Truth. The Mahanam is His Joyous Manifestation.

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Truth, Love is like this. It is the tree of life : the more you care for it, the more you eat from it, the more it replenishes itself.

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He is with you always. You are His Temple, take care of the Temple, feed It properly, exercise It properly, don’t abuse It. Be natural, try to love God.

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God is a difficult but loving task-master.

You will have to do your duty, bear your destiny. He is always with you at your beck and call but on His terms, not yours.

8.

The Supreme Father does everything.

Dadaji has not come to do away with what you call life and death, woe and happiness but to help you bear your destiny and to know the Truth. He has come to show you that to paint a beautiful picture is nice, also to wash the dishes and clean your house is nice. His Love is a living Reality. That you exist, work, talk, feel is proof enough of His Love. When you are in deep sleep, who looks after you?

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If you are a lover of Truth, you also love the silence. It is with Him that you feel the silence. It may be in the woods or on a mountain, anywhere in Nature. It may be in the home or office or market.

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Satyanarayan is beyond mind and intellect, beyond one’s reach but Dearest to all, residing within as pure Existence, as Life.

6.

Satyanarayan is nobody. He is no body. He is only a symbol of Truth.

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Submit to Satyanarayan, the Supreme Consciousness. Disengage yourself from your ego. Let your ego abdicate in favour of Him. And you are blessed with the sound and vision of the Mahanam through His Infinite Grace.

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Satyanarayan within you is your only Guru.

He is within you. The Mahamantra comes from within you. He alone can reveal Mahanam to you. The Lord residing within you is the only Guru.

9.

Mahanam comes from deep within a person’s consciousness. Its rhythmic sounds manifest the bipolarity of human Existence.

They harmonise the duality between human beings and God, Atma (individual soul) and Paramatma (Supreme Being) in Satyanarayan, the highest Truth of Cosmic Consciousness.

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Satyanarayan transcends the worldly plane, even the Krishna State. It is the Essence of Vacuity. Here All is not ; yet All is. Infinite is Infinitude. I and Thou are merged in One. Even pure devotion is not. Beyond the plane of Radha-Krishna state, the body evaporates and Prema withers away.

LOVE 4

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Be a lover of Truth. Rely solely on God. Do not worry about the future. The next step will be made clear for you when the time comes for it.

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You must love Truth even if the heavens fall on you. Truth is the easiest and the greatest joy — beyond mere logic and understanding.

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Those who are Truth lovers also have a balanced mental health. The body and mind on some days are steadier than others. You should not be concerned about this. People who love Him don’t waste too much time and energy over every grey hair, wrinkle, ache or pain.

They have a good sense of feeling about duty and can accept whatever life brings to the doorstep of their experience. Even though they may cry or be hurt, they know it is destiny and His Love will see them through. These people are the survivors, not the victims and have the ability to withstand all the jolts, cruelties and continue on in Truth.

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When the mind no longer says my will be done or their will be done, but the heart feels His Love and accepts whatever experience comes to them, they are on the path of Truth.

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Satyanarayan transcends the plane of Leela.

Govinda delivers Mahanam and the Omnipotent Will is His too. No potency of Will even does ruffle Satyanarayan.

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To be aware of Truth is meditation. When this awareness appears, one realises Satyanarayan with all hindrances and covers removed.

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Within you there is a priceless wealth, your companion is Satyanarayan. The work to which you are devoted fully will fill your inner self with Divine splendour. One who is fortunate to achieve It has to tolerate lots of humiliations and pains. These afflictions are superficial dust flakes that drop off, but do not touch the inside.

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Whenever the Light appears, all sorts of earthly impediments or ignorance veiling the True Nature of things are removed and thereby the Mercy and Blessings of Satyanarayan are invoked.

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Satyanarayan is the solution to the mind’s problems. There is no other way. This is Truth.

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When Satyanarayan descends from the state of Bhuma (Infinity), He can descend upto the state of Krishna. But others also accompany Him and Prakriti too. Bhuma is unmanifest, still, in a sense, it is manifest. It is indescribable. It is not inert, but it is beyond mind. It opens up into Infinity.

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For those that know Him, there is the Light of the Sun of Truth. Only with the Grace of Satyanarayan is it possible to see this Light that shines in the deepest dungeon of darkness.

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Satyanarayan transcends the plane of Leela.

Govinda delivers Mahanam and the Omnipotent Will is His too. No potency of Will even does ruffle Satyanarayan.

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To be aware of Truth is meditation. When this awareness appears, one realises Satyanarayan with all hindrances and covers removed.

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Within you there is a priceless wealth, your companion is Satyanarayan. The work to which you are devoted fully will fill your inner self with Divine splendour. One who is fortunate to achieve It has to tolerate lots of humiliations and pains. These afflictions are superficial dust flakes that drop off, but do not touch the inside.

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Whenever the Light appears, all sorts of earthly impediments or ignorance veiling the True Nature of things are removed and thereby the Mercy and Blessings of Satyanarayan are invoked.

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Satyanarayan is the solution to the mind’s problems. There is no other way. This is Truth.

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When Satyanarayan descends from the state of Bhuma (Infinity), He can descend upto the state of Krishna. But others also accompany Him and Prakriti too. Bhuma is unmanifest, still, in a sense, it is manifest. It is indescribable. It is not inert, but it is beyond mind. It opens up into Infinity.

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For those that know Him, there is the Light of the Sun of Truth. Only with the Grace of Satyanarayan is it possible to see this Light that shines in the deepest dungeon of darkness.

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Satyanarayan is beyond mind and intellect, beyond one’s reach but Dearest to all, residing within as pure Existence, as Life.

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Satyanarayan is nobody. He is no body. He is only a symbol of Truth.

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Submit to Satyanarayan, the Supreme Consciousness. Disengage yourself from your ego. Let your ego abdicate in favour of Him. And you are blessed with the sound and vision of the Mahanam through His Infinite Grace.

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Satyanarayan within you is your only Guru.

He is within you. The Mahamantra comes from within you. He alone can reveal Mahanam to you. The Lord residing within you is the only Guru.

9.

Mahanam comes from deep within a person’s consciousness. Its rhythmic sounds manifest the bipolarity of human Existence.

They harmonise the duality between human beings and God, Atma (individual soul) and Paramatma (Supreme Being) in Satyanarayan, the highest Truth of Cosmic Consciousness.

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Satyanarayan transcends the worldly plane, even the Krishna State. It is the Essence of Vacuity. Here All is not ; yet All is. Infinite is Infinitude. I and Thou are merged in One. Even pure devotion is not. Beyond the plane of Radha-Krishna state, the body evaporates and Prema withers away.

LOVE 4

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Be a lover of Truth. Rely solely on God. Do not worry about the future. The next step will be made clear for you when the time comes for it.

2.

You must love Truth even if the heavens fall on you. Truth is the easiest and the greatest joy — beyond mere logic and understanding.

3.

Those who are Truth lovers also have a balanced mental health. The body and mind on some days are steadier than others. You should not be concerned about this. People who love Him don’t waste too much time and energy over every grey hair, wrinkle, ache or pain.

They have a good sense of feeling about duty and can accept whatever life brings to the doorstep of their experience. Even though they may cry or be hurt, they know it is destiny and His Love will see them through. These people are the survivors, not the victims and have the ability to withstand all the jolts, cruelties and continue on in Truth.

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When the mind no longer says my will be done or their will be done, but the heart feels His Love and accepts whatever experience comes to them, they are on the path of Truth.

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Then the world becomes His Ashram. Then even the sadness and sorrow will become beautiful in the Glory and Grace of the Supreme Creator.

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2.

The manifestation of Truth within the Divine consciousness or Universal Consciousness, has been personified in the image of Sri Satyanarayan. This brings Truth within the reach of human conception. It is then known as God. The Divine Will which is the outward manifestation of Sri Satyanarayan, is the sole creative and sustaining principle in this Universe.

3.

He is steady, unchangeable, waveless, full of constant, desireless Love, Mercy and Beauty.

He is Truth. He is Satyanarayan, the Absolute Truth (Satya) and the basal resort of all (Narayan).

4.

Wedded to the Mahanam we have come into this world which is an overflowing of the joy of Infinite Existence. Existence, Consciousness, Joy ‌..this is the order of progressive manifestation of the Infinite. In Existence as Existence the sounds (of Mahanam) are in perfect Identity. That is Satyanarayan, the symbol of basal Truth. The Mahanam is His Joyous Manifestation.

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Truth, Love is like this. It is the tree of life : the more you care for it, the more you eat from it, the more it replenishes itself.

6.

He is with you always. You are His Temple, take care of the Temple, feed It properly, exercise It properly, don’t abuse It. Be natural, try to love God.

7.

God is a difficult but loving task-master.

You will have to do your duty, bear your destiny. He is always with you at your beck and call but on His terms, not yours.

8.

The Supreme Father does everything.

Dadaji has not come to do away with what you call life and death, woe and happiness but to help you bear your destiny and to know the Truth. He has come to show you that to paint a beautiful picture is nice, also to wash the dishes and clean your house is nice. His Love is a living Reality. That you exist, work, talk, feel is proof enough of His Love. When you are in deep sleep, who looks after you?

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If you are a lover of Truth, you also love the silence. It is with Him that you feel the silence. It may be in the woods or on a mountain, anywhere in Nature. It may be in the home or office or market.

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The only good is to remember Him, to try to love Him. The only evil is in forgetting.

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He is your Supreme Courage to Love, courage to speak, to do, to suffer. His Will be done.

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He alone is the Giver of Supreme Faith of Love, the Faith of life, of victory in defeat, of the power hidden in the frailness of beauty, of the dignity of pain that accepts hurt but refuses to return it.

Existence expresses Itself as Consciousness and Consciousness manifests Itself as Joy. That is the description of the basal Reality. This may be otherwise described in the inverse order : Self-Love, Consciousness as Identity and Simple Vital Impulse respectively. The world is the Manifestation of that Superabundant Self-Love, that overflowing Joy. He is All-Love.

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He is such a loving Father ! He asks nothing. He sees no fault. For Him there is no virtue or vice. He is so easily satisfied by just remembering Him once !

15.

The only way to Truth is complete self-resignation and Divine Love.

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Love alone can make both good and evil merge into values of One. Friend and Foe are the same to Him.

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rid of the fetters of fate, to develop intimacy with the Divine Being and endure the alluring forces of the body, mind and intellect.

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Mahanam is the only boat to take you across the sea of destiny. His Love is the only answer to free you from the bonds of destiny

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The Mahanam is the Infinite and the finite, not two but two-in-one. In this consciousness, there is no question of peace, birth or death. It is complete unknowing faith.

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Divine Name is the only path. He and His Name are identical.

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He gets moved by our constant remembrance of Nam. With His Touch your works will be All-blissful, All-joyful. Sadhus and Yogis want to attain this state by efforts, rituals, meditation and austerities. But doing such things, they cannot get His Love. A person gets It only by the natural process of living.

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Submit to Satyanarayan, the Supreme Consciousness. Dis-engage yourself from your ego. Let your ego abdicate in favour of Him and you are blessed with the sound and vision of the Mahanam through His Infinite Grace.

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peace means something different. What they think will bring them peace will only be a momentary truce in the war raging between mind and heart. The mind wants to rule the heart trying to shout louder than Mahanam.

When you put down the weapons of the mind and surrender to the Mahanam within, you will find peace amidst all the strifes of life — you will no longer be seeking peace.

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Taking His Name can help in any affliction, even in the leaving of the body itself.

To pass over with the Lord’s Name on your lips to accompany you is the highest blessing.

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The working out of desire through cycles of birth and death ends at the destined moment when constant awareness of Mahanam dawns on you by His Grace.

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When all the desires disappear then a mortal becomes immortal, with no thought of death, and even in this body he is liberated.

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For those that have been crucified in His Name, there is no need for the great escape. He has caught you, you have caught Him.

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As long as you have the Mahanam, that is more than enough.

Once one experiences the Mahanam, then It does not disappear.

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by remembering Him and mentally recalling His Mahanam. He is not subject to any condition.

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It is not formalities, but it is Love that moves our Heavenly Father towards us. Remember that Mahanam and desire Him. Call Him in loving tears and He will be there with you.

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The smiles and frowns of life are tokens of His Love. Bear them with loving patience.

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The Supreme Father’s Love and Affection are billions of times superior to worldly parents’ love. Because in His Love there is no mind, no expectations, no judgement, no narrowness of a relationship of give and take.

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Love excels in fragrance and depth when, even while one is embodied, one transcends the sense of the body. Whoever feels this sort of love for Him, his or her body sense and sufferings diminish. It is only possible with His direct touch. Worldly involvements become less. Worldly afflictions and the impact of external influences on our mind become greatly reduced.

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Love Him. Hazards will take care of themselves.

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or when we get re-inforced by His Love’s Touch, no hindrances can block our way because attachment is for Him. 24.

A person cannot do everything. Just try to remember Him. Just try to love Him.

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Before work or action, there arises a desire.

After that through action one gains different kinds of knowledge.

The light of wisdom comes from action and the light of action comes from wisdom. Where is the conflict? When action and wisdom become unified, then one is drowned in Supreme Bliss. This then is called Divine Love.

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When your heart is in love with Him and entwined with Him, why do you worry about your mind? When the time comes, He will control your mind. Now let the mind be as it is.

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The remembrance of Him amidst your work is an act of Love. Love is the path to Truth.

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Just try to love Him and do your duty. Duty is the first thing. Your one hand is held by Him and the other one is left free for your daily action. So, go ahead, no need for worry.

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bear with patience your Prarabdha, the vicissitudes of life.

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The All-merciful Lord helps His children to withstand the impact of unforeseen jolts. Remember Mahanam with full devotion.

Whatever has to happen will happen. Humans can do nothing, have no power of their own and cannot get things always according to their expectations. God bears the burden of those fortunate ones who depend on Him. So depend on Him only.

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Passive remembrance of the Mahanam through all the vicissitudes of our life is our only duty.

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Ever since we are born, inside the womb of our mother, the sound of Mahanam pervades our consciousness. From that moment onward, all through our life, He is there with us; He is there in our heart of hearts. By remembrance of Him as Mahanam, we realise that we are part of that Great Being Who holds the entire creation together.

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Complete surrender to Him, with remembrance of Mahanam, in abiding love, can alone lead you to Him.

Human love is fickle, fragile and imbued with egoism. Remember Him. His Love is pure and everlasting.

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Always, at least as much as possible, remember His Mahanam.

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by the taste of His Love in this mortal and illusory world.

But our superstitious human involvements and irresponsible attitude toward Him, in ignorance, do not allow us to come near to Him or to feel His Love for which we get the rare human birth. We ignore Him in pursuit of worldly deceitful pleasures, profits and attachments which please now and depress the very next moment. We waste the precious human birth given to us. We cannot give up the superstitions of our egoistic living in this world and so we forget Him. Even when He comes to our presence, we do not realise it.

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Going without Him or keeping Him away, we always remain in wants. We go for the heartless love of people, lifeless inert matter that cannot take us to the Love of Krishna, of Krishna Bhakti.

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We have come here to make love to Him. To be bathed in His Love. And to vibrate in His Love through the actions that come our way.

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Love is the only language He understands.

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You cannot love Him. He only can love you, and that as Himself. You can only feel His Love, passively of course.

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If one thinks, I will make an effort to love God, then one cannot reach Him.

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Love is the only answer to everything. Love is the Divine Itself.

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By cultivating the habit of patience and by remembering Mahanam with love, we move toward God-realisation.

Human love is based on self-interest. His Love is something.

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Our Nearest and Dearest is He, who is Truth, beyond actions and reactions, beyond death, eternal Love, Omnipotent.

Mental love is worth nothing, for the mind is fickle. Today it is after one thing, tomorrow after another. But His Love is infinite.

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Swabhava and surrender reveal Love Divine, the way of devotion. Love Divine is neither an object of the practices nor of the prayers, in as much as practices and prayers aim at aspiration of fulfilment of one’s wants. Moreover, the hankering through prayer

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Religion is nothing divorced from life.

Work is worship when the sole frame of reference is the soul, the vibrant Mahanam.

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He is favouring us for ever with His Grace.

The Mahanam is constantly ringing in our hearts. Only the unawakened do not hear It.

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Mercy and Beauty.

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Don’t forget His Will. He is doing everything. Just depend on Him (Mahanam).

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at the Lotus Feet of the Divine Being may yield an enjoyment of pleasures alone, it does not bestow Love Divine.

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Resort to the Mahanam and become wide awake in the atmosphere of the Love Divine to get rid of the fetters of fate, to develop intimacy of the Divine Being and endure the alluring forces of the body, mind and the material intellect.

The egoistic prayer and practices may bring certain realisations commonly called Vibhuti of the Divine Being. But Love Divine is revealed alone by entering the V a i s n a v a S t a t e (of devotion to God) in the bower of Vrindaban or the Truth Absolute and nowhere else.

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Beyond right and wrong is Mahanam, the Supreme Reality in your indwelling life.

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Who is good, who is bad, we do not know.

Don’t go for judging. Just try to take Name.

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By remembering Him, you realise Him. That is true work.

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The remembrance of Him amidst your work is an act of Love. Love is the path to Truth. This insures integrity of character and purity of conduct.

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Do submit to your within, Mahanam.

Isolation or a crowded hour makes no difference with Him.

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Satisfy the needs of physical life. Let there be your family, spouse and children. Perform your duty to them. But that should not be all. Remember the Mahanam at the same time.

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Immersed in His Love one is opened to the Light of His Nectarine world.

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It is Prema (Divine Love) and Prema alone, that attuning Elixir of Life, that manifests Supreme Knowledge and the Divine. Your knowledge can never get a semblance of It. No Prema, no Mahajnana.

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Nobody can do Prema except He. For nobody else’s perspective is absolutely innocuous.

Those who live with you in Mahanam are your brothers and sisters.

Take His Name together and bow down to Him in each other.

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It is not your duty to understand why things happen the way they do. You are not expected to understand or agree with everyone and everything. It is not possible. When you feel confused, remember Mahanam.

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Human beings are born in the body with Him from His Blissful World to get real Ananda

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it. You cannot know yourself but through Love which is He.

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His Love is not like love in the world of mind. In His Love there is no distinction between man and woman. He is within all as Prana. Prana is Prema. You may call It Love or whatever you wish. It cannot be expressed in words.

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His Love is beyond body and mind, a unique, inexplicable Love that keeps the heart full of Joy, unknown to the nearest person.

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The Lord is immediately available to you through love.

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When your heart will be void of anything, the Divine will fill your heart (with love).

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Put your devotion or love to the Absolute and find Him through yourself.

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Make love to Him. Addiction to His Love will minimise slowly the vehemence of Prarabdha.

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As love for Him gains ground, it becomes so deeply rooted that even the next person does not know of it. Amidst hard blows of life and narrowness of people, this love remains unsullied, irremovable, unlustful. No external influence, human opposition or distance can remove it. And separation cannot destroy it. It is so strong, nothing can weaken its Root. You will feel, year by year, in gradual steps that He

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Do your duties sincerely as they present themselves, remember Him and live your natural life as destined.

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You must do your duty as it has been assigned to you to come fully to Him. It can be done as a labourer, a scientist, a warrior.

Worldly duties are many. You may be a son, a father, a teacher. Do these to the best of your ability. He is always with you. Don’t worry.

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Nature itself has assigned certain natural duties. Sometimes destiny may call you to perform above and beyond the call of duty. This also should be done willingly in love of Him. Your duty is in living upto the Truth as you see it. Do not be violent to yourself or others in thought or action except when duty calls for it.

Just keep trying, that is all you can do till you know that you can do nothing.

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Make it your first duty each day to remember Him. He provides for the need of everyone and everything. Try to use your God-given brain in right and earnest performance of your duties.

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gives you extra Life Force (Vitality) in various manifestations.

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The Safety-locket of Him you have tied in your heart will make your journey of life smooth. Wealth, fame, learning, love or lack of love, will not bother you, if you have the Love of Immortal He.

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Flow with the stream of life without attempting to stem its tide. You are one with Him and yet separate so that you may love-play with Him. You can miss the Supreme Relish only if ego is allowed to wallow in self-importance. So merge yourself into His All-engrossing Love.

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Resort to the Mahanam and become wide awake in the atmosphere of Love Divine to get rid of the fetters of fate.

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Human beings are born in the body with Him from His Blissful World, to get Real Ananda by the taste of His Love in this mortal and illusory world.

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To be born with human form in this mortal world has only one happy object. That is to relish the Joy of God’s Love.

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No other beings, Devas, Devis, Gandharvas and Kinnaras, who live in another world created by Him, can ever taste Love of Him until they are born as mortal human beings.

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If you love Him, Prarabdha withers away, and then He takes you to Vraja.

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Prarabdha must have its course. The Guru will lead you through the deserts of Prarabdha.

Don’t you be anxious on that score.

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Primal State, we could not relish the Joy of Love of the Absolute . All creation is the Manifestation of His Joyous Spate and He has come here as many to have a taste of this Joy.

have to acquiesce in Prarabdha.

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There is no escape from Prarabdha and one has to bear it with patience.

21.

Taking on a body one has to accept suffering. There is release from it when your angle of vision is changed.

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When you realise by His Grace that not you but He is the Real Doer, then you are freed from karma.

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Only by His Grace will destiny change.

Beware, change is only new destiny; it is not the end of destiny.

24.

The only way Dadaji can change your destiny is to show you how to end your destiny.

Mahanam is the only boat to take you across the sea of destiny. His Love is the only answer to free you from the bonds of destiny.

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Prarabdha cannot be fleeced off without the emergence of Love.

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Addiction to His Love will minimise slowly the vehemence of Prarabdha. One has to bear with fortitude the onrush of Prarabdha.

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Unless and until one’s Prarabdha is full, until one is merged in Him, one’s mind will have to come back, will have to again take a body in the world.

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Being born with a human body in this world is itself destiny. One who has a taste for His Love wants to be born again and again with a human body, because this taste of His Love is not possible other than in the human birth.

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The hand that rocks your cradle is All-Love and is at the Nativity of all existence.

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You are a role set by the Great Designer.

Play your part well, alive to the fact that you do whatever He chooses you to do. He is the Pilot of your life and you have come here at His Will to taste of His Overflowing Love.

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When you feel confused, remember Mahanam.

GURU 11.

All life is wishing and wanting — what is the need — all life is destiny — man can do nothing.

12.

Destiny must be borne with patience born of His remembrance.

13.

God is a difficult but loving task-master.

You will have to do your duty, bear your destiny. He is always with you, at your beck and call but on His terms, not yours.

14.

Sometimes destiny may call you to perform above and beyond the call of duty. This also should be done willingly in love of Him.

15.

God’s Will must be accepted. Don’t fight destiny. You will thereby only lose and be crushed by the frustration of frustrations.

16.

It will be a great mistake to blame any particular person or make anybody responsible for the untoward situations which trouble us. All these are destined. What has to happen, happens and none can avert it.

17.

Destiny brings us together and takes us apart.

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2.

3.

4.

5.

God is within, in the deep recesses of your heart in the form of the sounds of Mahanam.

Mahanam is at the root of our respiration and all vibrations in the world are Mahanam. This Mahanam is our Real Self, the Guru.

Satyanarayan within is your only Guru. He is within you. The Mahamantra comes from within you. He alone can reveal the Mahanam to you. The Lord residing within you is the only Guru.

He who dwells in all beings; whom the beings do not know ; whose body all beings are —He is your Self, the Immortal Controller, from whom you receive the Mahanam.

Other than Name (Mahanam) there is nothing. Name is the Supreme Authority. Name is the Guru. Name is God. Name is the Almighty and Truth.

Your Real Guru lies within you. To guide you to your final destination, to the realisation of your True Nature which is Divine and Blissful, you do not require any human being as Guru. Your Self or God alone is Guru.

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Your only duty is to bear destiny or fate with patience.

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Everything is pre-destined.

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5.

Your karma is to bear your Prarabdha (destiny). Destiny itself is suffering. Suffering is permitting His Will to work itself out.

6.

Nobody knows how destiny works. Try to live everyday of your life in such a way that in the end you have the consolation that you have successfully utilised all the days and years with the gifts of body, mind and Prana bestowed by God on you.

7.

8.

Remember your plan can always be revised, God’s plan cannot be revised. If it is going to happen, it will happen. Fate will find you.

Have patience. Do not try to force destiny— it will force you back much harder and you will be put into great difficulty.

When you insist on having it your own way, it is tragic because He will always have it in His own way.

You have been given the appearance of choice. But I tell you man has no power, man can do nothing.

9.

Life will deliver everything that is coming to you. You simply do your duty. Don’t try to force anything or anyone to do your bidding.

Be at peace with your destiny.

10.

It is not your duty to understand why things happen the way they do. You are not expected to understand or agree with everyone and everything.

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6.

By Guru is meant Mahanam. It is Mahanam who is Guru. With Guru it is complete Bliss. Where Mahanam is firmly established and is constantly attended to, an appetite for Mahanam comes from Its faithful recital. And that is Happiness Eternal.

7.

We have come here with the sound of Mahanam chiming within us continuously around the clock. That is the Guru.

8.

It is He who is your Guru. He has been constantly ringing the Mantra in your heart. If you want to hear It, do approach Him and pray for His Favour.

9.

The Mahanam is God. In this world, without Mahanam nothing of nature endures.

Only Mahanam lasts.

10.

The relation with Guru is of happiness with Love serene. Both disciple and Guru (Soul within) commingle with Love, with Ecstasy, with Eternal Attraction and then merge into One.

11.

Make Him the Guru and you will find that He Himself will take you safely to the shore through the stream of life, tiding all storms by holding the oar Himself.

12.

A time comes for difficult situations to change. Truth wins. It is established and proved.

Whenever you have tumults in the mind, try to remember this. One can do this much. The key is with Him, the Guru.

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The Self plays a dual role, that of the Guru and the disciple at the same time. Real Guru is Immortal and Eternal Truth, our own Self or God. Guru is all the time with us. He never leaves. He is the Eternal Source of our life, our Existence.

14.

One who can completely depend on the Guru or God residing in one’s heart, will find that the Lord carries the burdens and eases all difficulties.

15.

Truth resides in every heart. The One, who is our Guide, is Govinda. Residing in our hearts, Govinda becomes the Mahanam that is echoed and re-echoed in our internal world and in the vast Universe outside. He alone is our Guru and the Mahanam Itself is God. No mortal person can take the role of a Guru.

16.

All is God. He is Infinite, Indivisible, Full.

God is we. So who will give Mantra? Guru is within.

17.

Priesthood and Gurubad can never lead one to the domain of purification where the Divine dwells within. Flawless perfection can only be possible when the Divine Creator appears before us not through any medium or interpreter.

18.

Anyone who tells you he can take you to God is simply not telling the Truth.

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DESTINY 7

1.

A new born baby cannot grow into a full-fledged person in a moment miraculously.

He must grow through a process. And this process is also called Prarabdha (destined unfolding of life).

Prarabdha means you have to undergo some predestined process both physically and mentally. Remember, even Nature has no hand in it. So, do not be afraid of Prarabdha or of its turns. Self is above and beyond all these.

2.

Destiny itself has brought you into this birth.

When you start thinking I am doing, I have done, this starts the action and reaction, the destiny.

When you know you can do nothing and surrender to God, that is the end of reaction.

After God has accepted your surrender, destiny cannot touch you.

3.

A person’s destiny is already planned by Him and cannot be changed. Look ahead with Him. Don’t look back. Do not shut out His Manifestation.

4.

You will have to surrender to your destiny and not try to change it. That will be the end of reaction, the end of destiny itself.

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according to Divine Will of the Lord in spite of the fact that they originate from the same natural elements.

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within.

19.

Philosophy means a system of thoughts, a creation of the mental plane. Beyond this there is the Divine Will, unconditional, free of any system or any limitation.

10.

Amidst Universal flux His Will alone is indeterminably active all the while.

11.

The Doer is within you. What He wishes will be. His Will prevails, not the will of a human being.

12.

He is the sole Doer. All things happen at His Will.

13.

The Supreme Will can make anything possible.

14.

It is the Will of the Creator to help the conscious mind to move toward a flawless perfection.

15.

When one goes beyond mind, one’s mind is in tune with the Will Supreme.

16.

By doing our duties, which come from His Will, we relish His Love and Bliss.

17.

In facing the blows in life, from any one, any corner, any sphere of life, be certain that it is only His Supreme Will in operation.

18.

He is the Pilot of your life and you have come here at His Will to have a taste of His overflowing Love.

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If anyone realises Him, he cannot give Mantra to anyone because the Supreme is in everybody, everywhere. How is it possible for him to say “I am Guru, you are disciple ?”

The Lord residing within you is the only Guru. Everything is His. The moment one poses as an agent, everything is lost.

20.

No human being with finite knowledge can be a Guru. How can finite lead to Infinite, darkness to Light or ignorance to Wisdom !

It is the expression of ego that makes a person to boast to be guru.

When those who sell God, realise Him, they are out of business.

21.

Do not run after gurus, yogis, priests.

Instead look within. Then He alone appears to exist.

NO HUMAN BEING CAN EVER BE A GURU.The Guru is within you as Mahanam — the basal stuff of your Existence.

We are all limitations, fragmentations of Truth. But the Guru is Unlimited, Integral Truth.

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Do not run after a guru, run after knowing your Self. Therein lies the whole secret. You have immense power. Use it to awaken from the great slumber.

23.

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to Him. There is only one Guru who is inside everyone, in all creatures, pervading the whole Universe, the entire Creation.

24.

25.

The only sinners are the spies of Kali Yuga, charlatans who go about deceiving innocent fellow human beings by practising the Guru business, by putting on deceptive garb. The Lord alone is Guru.

No human guru, no guide can help you to know Him. The Lord is within you. Complete surrender to Him with remembrance of Mahanam in abiding Love can alone lead you to Him.

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DIVINE WILL 6

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Take His Name, feel the Mahanam.

You cannot even remember Him without His Will. He has inscrutable ways to make you remember when the time is ripe.

2.

You cannot but do your duty and take Mahanam. Don’t be so disturbed if the result has not come out the way you wanted it. You cannot possibly get more or less than He has willed for you.

3.

Only when it is His WILL, by His Grace, Dadaji can take you across the bridge between the limitation of time and space and the unlimited Eternal. The breeze from across the bridge is the Aroma, Fragrance of the Divine.

4.

Don’t forget His Will. He is doing everything. Just depend on Him.

5.

The Divine Will which is the outward manifestation of Sri Satyanarayan is the sole creative and sustaining principle of the Universe.

6.

We don’t know His Will. So we grieve over all He does. But He always does for the best.

7.

There is difference between His Permission and His Will. Permission is profaned by seeking, while His Will is free.

8.

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to Him. There is only one Guru who is inside everyone, in all creatures, pervading the whole Universe, the entire Creation.

24.

25.

The only sinners are the spies of Kali Yuga, charlatans who go about deceiving innocent fellow human beings by practising the Guru business, by putting on deceptive garb. The Lord alone is Guru.

No human guru, no guide can help you to know Him. The Lord is within you. Complete surrender to Him with remembrance of Mahanam in abiding Love can alone lead you to Him.

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DIVINE WILL 6

1.

Take His Name, feel the Mahanam.

You cannot even remember Him without His Will. He has inscrutable ways to make you remember when the time is ripe.

2.

You cannot but do your duty and take Mahanam. Don’t be so disturbed if the result has not come out the way you wanted it. You cannot possibly get more or less than He has willed for you.

3.

Only when it is His WILL, by His Grace, Dadaji can take you across the bridge between the limitation of time and space and the unlimited Eternal. The breeze from across the bridge is the Aroma, Fragrance of the Divine.

4.

Don’t forget His Will. He is doing everything. Just depend on Him.

5.

The Divine Will which is the outward manifestation of Sri Satyanarayan is the sole creative and sustaining principle of the Universe.

6.

We don’t know His Will. So we grieve over all He does. But He always does for the best.

7.

There is difference between His Permission and His Will. Permission is profaned by seeking, while His Will is free.

8.

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according to Divine Will of the Lord in spite of the fact that they originate from the same natural elements.

9.

within.

19.

Philosophy means a system of thoughts, a creation of the mental plane. Beyond this there is the Divine Will, unconditional, free of any system or any limitation.

10.

Amidst Universal flux His Will alone is indeterminably active all the while.

11.

The Doer is within you. What He wishes will be. His Will prevails, not the will of a human being.

12.

He is the sole Doer. All things happen at His Will.

13.

The Supreme Will can make anything possible.

14.

It is the Will of the Creator to help the conscious mind to move toward a flawless perfection.

15.

When one goes beyond mind, one’s mind is in tune with the Will Supreme.

16.

By doing our duties, which come from His Will, we relish His Love and Bliss.

17.

In facing the blows in life, from any one, any corner, any sphere of life, be certain that it is only His Supreme Will in operation.

18.

He is the Pilot of your life and you have come here at His Will to have a taste of His overflowing Love.

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If anyone realises Him, he cannot give Mantra to anyone because the Supreme is in everybody, everywhere. How is it possible for him to say “I am Guru, you are disciple ?”

The Lord residing within you is the only Guru. Everything is His. The moment one poses as an agent, everything is lost.

20.

No human being with finite knowledge can be a Guru. How can finite lead to Infinite, darkness to Light or ignorance to Wisdom !

It is the expression of ego that makes a person to boast to be guru.

When those who sell God, realise Him, they are out of business.

21.

Do not run after gurus, yogis, priests.

Instead look within. Then He alone appears to exist.

NO HUMAN BEING CAN EVER BE A GURU.The Guru is within you as Mahanam — the basal stuff of your Existence.

We are all limitations, fragmentations of Truth. But the Guru is Unlimited, Integral Truth.

22.

Do not run after a guru, run after knowing your Self. Therein lies the whole secret. You have immense power. Use it to awaken from the great slumber.

23.

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The Self plays a dual role, that of the Guru and the disciple at the same time. Real Guru is Immortal and Eternal Truth, our own Self or God. Guru is all the time with us. He never leaves. He is the Eternal Source of our life, our Existence.

14.

One who can completely depend on the Guru or God residing in one’s heart, will find that the Lord carries the burdens and eases all difficulties.

15.

Truth resides in every heart. The One, who is our Guide, is Govinda. Residing in our hearts, Govinda becomes the Mahanam that is echoed and re-echoed in our internal world and in the vast Universe outside. He alone is our Guru and the Mahanam Itself is God. No mortal person can take the role of a Guru.

16.

All is God. He is Infinite, Indivisible, Full.

God is we. So who will give Mantra? Guru is within.

17.

Priesthood and Gurubad can never lead one to the domain of purification where the Divine dwells within. Flawless perfection can only be possible when the Divine Creator appears before us not through any medium or interpreter.

18.

Anyone who tells you he can take you to God is simply not telling the Truth.

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1.

A new born baby cannot grow into a full-fledged person in a moment miraculously.

He must grow through a process. And this process is also called Prarabdha (destined unfolding of life).

Prarabdha means you have to undergo some predestined process both physically and mentally. Remember, even Nature has no hand in it. So, do not be afraid of Prarabdha or of its turns. Self is above and beyond all these.

2.

Destiny itself has brought you into this birth.

When you start thinking I am doing, I have done, this starts the action and reaction, the destiny.

When you know you can do nothing and surrender to God, that is the end of reaction.

After God has accepted your surrender, destiny cannot touch you.

3.

A person’s destiny is already planned by Him and cannot be changed. Look ahead with Him. Don’t look back. Do not shut out His Manifestation.

4.

You will have to surrender to your destiny and not try to change it. That will be the end of reaction, the end of destiny itself.

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5.

Your karma is to bear your Prarabdha (destiny). Destiny itself is suffering. Suffering is permitting His Will to work itself out.

6.

Nobody knows how destiny works. Try to live everyday of your life in such a way that in the end you have the consolation that you have successfully utilised all the days and years with the gifts of body, mind and Prana bestowed by God on you.

7.

8.

Remember your plan can always be revised, God’s plan cannot be revised. If it is going to happen, it will happen. Fate will find you.

Have patience. Do not try to force destiny— it will force you back much harder and you will be put into great difficulty.

When you insist on having it your own way, it is tragic because He will always have it in His own way.

You have been given the appearance of choice. But I tell you man has no power, man can do nothing.

9.

Life will deliver everything that is coming to you. You simply do your duty. Don’t try to force anything or anyone to do your bidding.

Be at peace with your destiny.

10.

It is not your duty to understand why things happen the way they do. You are not expected to understand or agree with everyone and everything.

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6.

By Guru is meant Mahanam. It is Mahanam who is Guru. With Guru it is complete Bliss. Where Mahanam is firmly established and is constantly attended to, an appetite for Mahanam comes from Its faithful recital. And that is Happiness Eternal.

7.

We have come here with the sound of Mahanam chiming within us continuously around the clock. That is the Guru.

8.

It is He who is your Guru. He has been constantly ringing the Mantra in your heart. If you want to hear It, do approach Him and pray for His Favour.

9.

The Mahanam is God. In this world, without Mahanam nothing of nature endures.

Only Mahanam lasts.

10.

The relation with Guru is of happiness with Love serene. Both disciple and Guru (Soul within) commingle with Love, with Ecstasy, with Eternal Attraction and then merge into One.

11.

Make Him the Guru and you will find that He Himself will take you safely to the shore through the stream of life, tiding all storms by holding the oar Himself.

12.

A time comes for difficult situations to change. Truth wins. It is established and proved.

Whenever you have tumults in the mind, try to remember this. One can do this much. The key is with Him, the Guru.

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When you feel confused, remember Mahanam.

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All life is wishing and wanting — what is the need — all life is destiny — man can do nothing.

12.

Destiny must be borne with patience born of His remembrance.

13.

God is a difficult but loving task-master.

You will have to do your duty, bear your destiny. He is always with you, at your beck and call but on His terms, not yours.

14.

Sometimes destiny may call you to perform above and beyond the call of duty. This also should be done willingly in love of Him.

15.

God’s Will must be accepted. Don’t fight destiny. You will thereby only lose and be crushed by the frustration of frustrations.

16.

It will be a great mistake to blame any particular person or make anybody responsible for the untoward situations which trouble us. All these are destined. What has to happen, happens and none can avert it.

17.

Destiny brings us together and takes us apart.

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2.

3.

4.

5.

God is within, in the deep recesses of your heart in the form of the sounds of Mahanam.

Mahanam is at the root of our respiration and all vibrations in the world are Mahanam. This Mahanam is our Real Self, the Guru.

Satyanarayan within is your only Guru. He is within you. The Mahamantra comes from within you. He alone can reveal the Mahanam to you. The Lord residing within you is the only Guru.

He who dwells in all beings; whom the beings do not know ; whose body all beings are —He is your Self, the Immortal Controller, from whom you receive the Mahanam.

Other than Name (Mahanam) there is nothing. Name is the Supreme Authority. Name is the Guru. Name is God. Name is the Almighty and Truth.

Your Real Guru lies within you. To guide you to your final destination, to the realisation of your True Nature which is Divine and Blissful, you do not require any human being as Guru. Your Self or God alone is Guru.

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Your only duty is to bear destiny or fate with patience.

19.

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Everything is pre-destined.

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Primal State, we could not relish the Joy of Love of the Absolute . All creation is the Manifestation of His Joyous Spate and He has come here as many to have a taste of this Joy.

have to acquiesce in Prarabdha.

20.

There is no escape from Prarabdha and one has to bear it with patience.

21.

Taking on a body one has to accept suffering. There is release from it when your angle of vision is changed.

22.

When you realise by His Grace that not you but He is the Real Doer, then you are freed from karma.

23.

Only by His Grace will destiny change.

Beware, change is only new destiny; it is not the end of destiny.

24.

The only way Dadaji can change your destiny is to show you how to end your destiny.

Mahanam is the only boat to take you across the sea of destiny. His Love is the only answer to free you from the bonds of destiny.

25.

Prarabdha cannot be fleeced off without the emergence of Love.

26.

Addiction to His Love will minimise slowly the vehemence of Prarabdha. One has to bear with fortitude the onrush of Prarabdha.

27.

Unless and until one’s Prarabdha is full, until one is merged in Him, one’s mind will have to come back, will have to again take a body in the world.

28.

To get rid of the fetters of fate resort to the Mahanam and become wide awake in the 110

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Being born with a human body in this world is itself destiny. One who has a taste for His Love wants to be born again and again with a human body, because this taste of His Love is not possible other than in the human birth.

61.

The hand that rocks your cradle is All-Love and is at the Nativity of all existence.

62.

You are a role set by the Great Designer.

Play your part well, alive to the fact that you do whatever He chooses you to do. He is the Pilot of your life and you have come here at His Will to taste of His Overflowing Love.

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gives you extra Life Force (Vitality) in various manifestations.

53.

The Safety-locket of Him you have tied in your heart will make your journey of life smooth. Wealth, fame, learning, love or lack of love, will not bother you, if you have the Love of Immortal He.

54.

Flow with the stream of life without attempting to stem its tide. You are one with Him and yet separate so that you may love-play with Him. You can miss the Supreme Relish only if ego is allowed to wallow in self-importance. So merge yourself into His All-engrossing Love.

55.

Resort to the Mahanam and become wide awake in the atmosphere of Love Divine to get rid of the fetters of fate.

56.

Human beings are born in the body with Him from His Blissful World, to get Real Ananda by the taste of His Love in this mortal and illusory world.

57.

To be born with human form in this mortal world has only one happy object. That is to relish the Joy of God’s Love.

58.

No other beings, Devas, Devis, Gandharvas and Kinnaras, who live in another world created by Him, can ever taste Love of Him until they are born as mortal human beings.

59.

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atmosphere of Love Divine.

29.

If you love Him, Prarabdha withers away, and then He takes you to Vraja.

30.

Prarabdha must have its course. The Guru will lead you through the deserts of Prarabdha.

Don’t you be anxious on that score.

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it. You cannot know yourself but through Love which is He.

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His Love is not like love in the world of mind. In His Love there is no distinction between man and woman. He is within all as Prana. Prana is Prema. You may call It Love or whatever you wish. It cannot be expressed in words.

47.

His Love is beyond body and mind, a unique, inexplicable Love that keeps the heart full of Joy, unknown to the nearest person.

48.

The Lord is immediately available to you through love.

49.

When your heart will be void of anything, the Divine will fill your heart (with love).

50.

Put your devotion or love to the Absolute and find Him through yourself.

51.

Make love to Him. Addiction to His Love will minimise slowly the vehemence of Prarabdha.

52.

As love for Him gains ground, it becomes so deeply rooted that even the next person does not know of it. Amidst hard blows of life and narrowness of people, this love remains unsullied, irremovable, unlustful. No external influence, human opposition or distance can remove it. And separation cannot destroy it. It is so strong, nothing can weaken its Root. You will feel, year by year, in gradual steps that He

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1.

Do your duties sincerely as they present themselves, remember Him and live your natural life as destined.

2.

You must do your duty as it has been assigned to you to come fully to Him. It can be done as a labourer, a scientist, a warrior.

Worldly duties are many. You may be a son, a father, a teacher. Do these to the best of your ability. He is always with you. Don’t worry.

3.

4.

Nature itself has assigned certain natural duties. Sometimes destiny may call you to perform above and beyond the call of duty. This also should be done willingly in love of Him. Your duty is in living upto the Truth as you see it. Do not be violent to yourself or others in thought or action except when duty calls for it.

Just keep trying, that is all you can do till you know that you can do nothing.

5.

Make it your first duty each day to remember Him. He provides for the need of everyone and everything. Try to use your God-given brain in right and earnest performance of your duties.

6.

Don’t worry so much about your rights.

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No methods, no wrestling with the mind. No ‘I am doing.’ All these things are full of ego.

8.

Unless you are shorn of your ego and are beyond your mind, you cannot be in tune with Him.

9.

Know full well that the ego can achieve nothing except going out of the track.

10.

Truth is beyond expression, beyond description. With ego you describe Him as full, as void. On becoming one with that Supreme Joy does there remain any awareness of all this difference of fullness or void? Aware or unaware, He is beyond all these.

11.

Choose your centre of co-ordinates properly. If your consciousness has its centre of co-ordinates in Him, all manifestation and non-manifestation appear as your own self. Only one existence is perceived.

But if you do not reside in Him, if your centre of co-ordinates is in Energy, variously known as Maya or Prakriti, you conceive yourself as a separate entity divided by the walls of body, concrete matter and ego.

12.

Divine Grace will descend upon you if your mind is bereft of ego and your heart void of desire.

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properly, there will be no question of your rights.

Action is the duty, fruit is the right.

7.

Your first duty, first priority, is to remember Him, Who is One, Who knows not about separation, yet makes provision for each and every need and even every greed.

8.

When you just remember it is all He, no matter what you do, where you are, who you are with, it will be alright. Otherwise you will never be happy with anything. Only this change of attitude will finish the work you have come to do.

9.

Take His Name and go on with your work.

No positive thinking. No negative thinking. Think of Him. Listen to His Mahanam.

Try not to understand, do it.

10.

It is not your duty to understand why things happen the way they do. You are not expected to understand or agree with everyone and everything. It is not possible.

When you feel confused, remember Mahanam.

11.

You can but do your duty and take Mahanam. Don’t be so disturbed if the result has not come out the way you wanted it. You cannot possibly get more or less than He has willed for you.

12.

Tied to results rather than duty, life is bondage. Simply do your duty, accept all that comes your way with discrimination of proper and improper behaviour. This itself is Grace.

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13.

Try to be Karma-Yogi. Do your work. Let the work itself be of Him. While you are in this mortal body, you must do some work. Try to make your work the devotion by always taking His Name and by feeling the Mahanam within.

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14.

You must do your duty as it has been assigned to you to come fully to Him. When you are touched by the Oneness, you will be released from the delusion of ‘I am the doer’.

Know thy Self and you will know the One.

1.

The ego is the vanity of the I-sense.

Egoism has divorced us from Truth. When there is no ego, when there is no other, no separation of any kind, this is a glimpse of Truth.

15.

In reality you can do nothing. God is the Sole Doer.

2.

16.

Remember He alone is the real Doer — you are helpless without Him. Do your duty and try to remember that He Loves and never forgets you.

Try and find Him in your heart, within yourself. Try and get rid of your small i (ego) and you will feel His Presence.

3.

Vanity or egoism has divorced us from Truth. Shake off the sense of egoism and be a servant of Mahanam.

The main difficulties in life arise from not doing the duty properly.

4.

If you shirk your duty, then you will always be crying, “it is not fair”. It is not right always crying for rights. Do the work assigned to you and leave the fruit to Him.

It is only the individual sense, the ego, that shuts out the awareness of constant communion with Him.

5.

Only time, patience and the proper doing of your duty is necessary. Always, at least as much as possible, remember His Mahanam.

Those who are Truth lovers have a good sense of feeling about duty and can accept whatever life brings to the doorstep of their

The ego is the root cause of our suffering and bondage. Complete surrender to Him is the only way to get rid of ego and then to know one’s purpose which is to enjoy the Play of the Divine.

6.

Cast off egoism or else there will be no Kingdom of Truth.

17.

Let the duty itself be done with love and affection taking Mahanam.

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19.

20.

21.

Everybody is He, everything is being done

by Him through you.

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experience. Even though they may cry or be hurt, they know it is their destiny and His Love will see them through.

There is no escape from His Creation — it encompasses one from all sides.

5.

6.

7.

God is available here and now, anywhere and everywhere.

22.

The so-called sannyasi tries to escape the burdens of family life to avoid the pangs of Prarabdha.

When your age is advanced, and most worldly duties and senses are resting, it is easier to keep your mind on God.

23.

Remember Him. Do your duty. Enjoy His creation. I shall be with you eternally.

24.

If you want to be happy, the responsibilities you have towards others should be remembered and fulfilled. The responsibilities others have towards you, you should forget.

This is letting go of expectation. All is filled with expectation and disappointment.

25.

Although life appears to be prohibitions and remedies, do’s and don’ts, there is only one do, remember Him and one don’t, don’t forget Him.

26.

Dadaji never tells you what role to play, but directs you how to play it properly. The only proper way is knowing He is the director, producer and actor.

27.

Take Mahanam and do your duty. That is the only path.

28.

Doing your duty, taking Mahanam, surrendering to the One, this is true prayer.

When you feel fear and you are confused, take His Mahanam ; know everything is alright.

29.

Try not to judge and find fault or be angry.

Try to turn the anger and judgement to loving Him, to take the Mahanam.

Sadhus and Yogis avoid responsibilities of natural life and become escapists, ritualists, and achieve nothing.

Being a Saint or Monk has nothing to do with God, but is only accepted by tradition.

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Our only duty is to submit to Him in Trust and Love and to do our mundane duties devotedly without any sense of agency.

31.

It is our duty to let His Truth and Love be manifested through us.

32.

Be like a log of wood in the stream of His Will. Love life, love work, love duty. Be of good cheer. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

33.

Do your work with Him as the Agent. Have patience with the vicissitudes of life which are tokens of His Infinite Love.

34.

Work itself is God, if it works of itself and you are a passive spectator. Just perform the duties with which you are entrusted faithfully accepting His Will.

35.

Let not your work bring in its wake an endless cycle of works. Rather, be with Him. Work belongs to Him. But your duty, you must not evade.

36.

Do your duties but don’t be worried over your burden. Let your burden be the burden of His music of manifestation.

37.

We have to brave the world, bear Prarabdha with fortitude and do our respective duties without any sense of ego.

38.

By doing our duties which come from His Will we relish His Love and Bliss.

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Sannyas (renunciation) is the state of one who is self-poised, one who has no egoattachment. Sannyas implies the total annihilation of ego and identification with the Supreme I-consciousness absolutely in everyday life. The five senses also surrender completely to the Self.

2.

Real renunciation is to be shorn of ego and to be in Swabhava (natural state of attunement with the Supreme)

3.

So-called renunciation and self-denial enlarge the ego and do not eliminate it. They create vanity — a vanity of calculated achievement, a vanity of having a distinct position in society. Renunciates project their vanity which leads to complete darkness.

A little exhibition of power is of no avail so far as realisation of Truth is concerned.

Complete silent surrender to Him without any exhibitionism is the only path to Him.

4.

The world is His. Every object, from the stars to the sun and the moon, that shines to dispel darkness and gives life and joy is His handiwork.

So what does one renounce? And for what?

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31.

Self-realisation is possible only by the Grace of God which dawns after the aspirant for Truth is initiated into the spiritual life by God or the Self directly.

32.

Complete surrender to the Supreme leads to emancipation, realisation and salvation.

33.

Love Him, surrender yourself to Him and the moment you surrender your entire existence to Him, He will be the Pilot of your life and will take the vehicle to safe landing.

duties. You should not be enchained by the work effort even. Let work grow into your life as your duties.

40.

Evaporation of ego, loving submission to Mahanam and to brave the world of Reality as His Bountious Expression is your duty.

41.

What is wanted for us is to do our duties keeping Him in view.

42.

Do your duties. Remember Him. That is enough, more than enough.

43.

Perform bodily duties. Eat, drink, do everything. But remember Him who is inside the body. Do not go beyond the limitations of the body.

44.

Your only duty is to bear destiny or fate with patience.

He will find you. You cannot hide.

45.

You have to do your duty without inviting the dissipating and disintegrating forces of Nature. Duties are born with you, are latent in your talents. Make the best use of your talents with loving submission to Him. Otherwise you go against His Design.

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knowledge? What is manifested through undivided attunement with none but Him is Supreme Knowledge.

WORK 9

1.

Be in His work most devotedly. Your work is His work.

2.

Work itself is God, if it works of itself and you are a passive spectator. Just perform the duties with which you are entrusted faithfully, accepting His Will.

23.

Is it ever possible to know the Supreme Being with the mind and intellect? On being called ardently, with complete surrender, He embraces the devotee immediately. On your advancing one step toward Him, He advances hundred steps toward you.

24.

The ego is the root cause of our suffering and bondage. Complete surrender to Him is the only way to get rid of ego and then to know one’s purpose, which is to enjoy the Play of the Divine.

3.

Don’t worry, for worry makes you the doer.

Work (Penance) is necessary for Existence in this world, but not for Him.

4.

He who has destined you in your Penance (work) of a specified art, is all the time with you. As long as you are in His remembrance, He is with you.

25.

Divine Grace Will descend upon you only if your mind is bereft of ego and your heart void of desire.

5.

Work is penance indeed. The only penance is to brave the outrages of Prarabdha.

26.

6.

Every bit of work is worship. But the moment any kind of work grips your consciousness as the one thing indispensible and it stems the tide of your life, it is invested with multiple nuances and drives of your ego and lacks spirituality.

When we walk daily with the conscious companionship of the Supreme, then only our inner Divine Consciousness is awakened.

27.

The Lord is immediately available to you through love.

28.

Put your devotion or love to the Absolute and find Him through your self.

29.

Self-realisation is not possible in its fullest and truest sense through any other means except perfect and absolute self-surrender.

30.

Truth cannot be realised by your own effort.

7.

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Him. All you need is to remember Him and do your work.

Him in loving tears and He will be with you.

17.

A person is self-centred in as much as he is drawn toward meditation, asceticism and solitude. This is so because in this way duty to others and society is ignored.

No so-called transcendental meditation or concentration will ever be able to reach the plane of Truth unless it is channelled through work.

18.

Perfect and Absolute self-surrender to God and a constant desireless or choiceless awareness of Him charged with single-minded devotion and reliance is the only perfect or real Yoga. Since then God takes over the entire responsibility for our life’s works in His own Divine and Infallible way and captains the ship of our life to its destiny, realisation of our True Nature.

9.

He gets moved by our constant remembrance of Him. With His Touch your work will be All-Blissful, All-Joyful.

10.

God is the real Doer of all actions. After the aspirant realises the Great Truth that one is not doer of anything and puts himself in God’s hand, one is neither haunted by the idea of sin, nor takes any pride in virtuous deeds.

11.

Just be aware of the fact that you are an instrument. The real Doer is the Almighty Himself.

12.

The individual can at best put in effort (for work) regardless of the result.

13.

God is within you . You don’t need to seek Him. Fulfil your duties, do your work, and enjoy your days.

19.

All is God. He is Infinite, Indivisible, Full.

God is we. He, God is within.

Just remember Him. That is enough.

14.

The remembrance of Him amidst your work is an act of love. Love is the path to Truth. This insures integrity of character and purity of conduct.

20.

He is only touched by inner love and devotion.

15.

21.

Resort to the Mahanam only. Be not bewildered in search of worldly pleasures or happiness. On completion of one’s destined sufferings, the Lotus Feet of the Divine Being are guaranteed.

Before work or action, there arises a desire.

After that, through action one attains different kinds of knowledge. The light of wisdom comes from action and the light of action comes from wisdom. Where is the conflict? When action and wisdom become unified, then one is drowned in Supreme Bliss. This is called Divine Love.

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is an act of love. Love is the path to Truth.

PATH TO THE SUPREME 10

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2.

All want Him knowingly or unknowingly.

Only time patience and proper doing of your duty is necessary. Always, at least as much as possible, remember His Mahanam.

You cannot reach Supreme Wisdom through knowledge or by any other means. The only way to Truth is complete self-resignation and Divine Love.

3.

You go on searching for Him by counting beads and meditating with closed eyes. You can never have Him if you follow these practices.

4.

Your Existence Itself is the way to Him. No physical or mental acrobatics can lead you to Him. How can you get the Absolute? You can only live It.

5.

Life is meditation itself, not some method or technique of communication with Him or with your Self. He is always in communion with you.

6.

Actually there are no paths to Him. Even in what is called pleasure or joy, there is only one path and that is the One Itself.

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To know Truth, there must be intense yearning, sincerity and right conduct.

9.

The Absolute Himself will show you the way.

10.

Path and goal are the same in the end analysis.

11.

He is our very own. Only through complete self-surrender to Him is everything achieved.

That indeed is Dharma.

12.

No human guru, no guide can help you to know Him. The Lord is within you. Complete surrender to Him with remembrance of Mahanam in abiding Love, can alone lead you to Him.

13.

The Almighty is as anxious to help you as you are to have Him. Do not bother with an external guide. You have only to search Him within.

14.

Constant practice of Mahanam with Love leads to Supreme Knowledge or Reality.

15.

He must be reached through simplicity and naturalness, not through putting on disguise. It is only one’s self that one has to cherish.

16.

We don’t have to undergo penance to get to God. It is not formalities, but it is Love that moves our Heavenly Father toward us.

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is an act of love. Love is the path to Truth.

PATH TO THE SUPREME 10

1.

2.

All want Him knowingly or unknowingly.

Only time patience and proper doing of your duty is necessary. Always, at least as much as possible, remember His Mahanam.

You cannot reach Supreme Wisdom through knowledge or by any other means. The only way to Truth is complete self-resignation and Divine Love.

3.

You go on searching for Him by counting beads and meditating with closed eyes. You can never have Him if you follow these practices.

4.

Your Existence Itself is the way to Him. No physical or mental acrobatics can lead you to Him. How can you get the Absolute? You can only live It.

5.

Life is meditation itself, not some method or technique of communication with Him or with your Self. He is always in communion with you.

6.

Actually there are no paths to Him. Even in what is called pleasure or joy, there is only one path and that is the One Itself.

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To know Truth, there must be intense yearning, sincerity and right conduct.

9.

The Absolute Himself will show you the way.

10.

Path and goal are the same in the end analysis.

11.

He is our very own. Only through complete self-surrender to Him is everything achieved.

That indeed is Dharma.

12.

No human guru, no guide can help you to know Him. The Lord is within you. Complete surrender to Him with remembrance of Mahanam in abiding Love, can alone lead you to Him.

13.

The Almighty is as anxious to help you as you are to have Him. Do not bother with an external guide. You have only to search Him within.

14.

Constant practice of Mahanam with Love leads to Supreme Knowledge or Reality.

15.

He must be reached through simplicity and naturalness, not through putting on disguise. It is only one’s self that one has to cherish.

16.

We don’t have to undergo penance to get to God. It is not formalities, but it is Love that moves our Heavenly Father toward us.

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Him. All you need is to remember Him and do your work.

Him in loving tears and He will be with you.

17.

A person is self-centred in as much as he is drawn toward meditation, asceticism and solitude. This is so because in this way duty to others and society is ignored.

No so-called transcendental meditation or concentration will ever be able to reach the plane of Truth unless it is channelled through work.

18.

Perfect and Absolute self-surrender to God and a constant desireless or choiceless awareness of Him charged with single-minded devotion and reliance is the only perfect or real Yoga. Since then God takes over the entire responsibility for our life’s works in His own Divine and Infallible way and captains the ship of our life to its destiny, realisation of our True Nature.

9.

He gets moved by our constant remembrance of Him. With His Touch your work will be All-Blissful, All-Joyful.

10.

God is the real Doer of all actions. After the aspirant realises the Great Truth that one is not doer of anything and puts himself in God’s hand, one is neither haunted by the idea of sin, nor takes any pride in virtuous deeds.

11.

Just be aware of the fact that you are an instrument. The real Doer is the Almighty Himself.

12.

The individual can at best put in effort (for work) regardless of the result.

13.

God is within you . You don’t need to seek Him. Fulfil your duties, do your work, and enjoy your days.

19.

All is God. He is Infinite, Indivisible, Full.

God is we. He, God is within.

Just remember Him. That is enough.

14.

The remembrance of Him amidst your work is an act of love. Love is the path to Truth. This insures integrity of character and purity of conduct.

20.

He is only touched by inner love and devotion.

15.

21.

Resort to the Mahanam only. Be not bewildered in search of worldly pleasures or happiness. On completion of one’s destined sufferings, the Lotus Feet of the Divine Being are guaranteed.

Before work or action, there arises a desire.

After that, through action one attains different kinds of knowledge. The light of wisdom comes from action and the light of action comes from wisdom. Where is the conflict? When action and wisdom become unified, then one is drowned in Supreme Bliss. This is called Divine Love.

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knowledge? What is manifested through undivided attunement with none but Him is Supreme Knowledge.

WORK 9

1.

Be in His work most devotedly. Your work is His work.

2.

Work itself is God, if it works of itself and you are a passive spectator. Just perform the duties with which you are entrusted faithfully, accepting His Will.

23.

Is it ever possible to know the Supreme Being with the mind and intellect? On being called ardently, with complete surrender, He embraces the devotee immediately. On your advancing one step toward Him, He advances hundred steps toward you.

24.

The ego is the root cause of our suffering and bondage. Complete surrender to Him is the only way to get rid of ego and then to know one’s purpose, which is to enjoy the Play of the Divine.

3.

Don’t worry, for worry makes you the doer.

Work (Penance) is necessary for Existence in this world, but not for Him.

4.

He who has destined you in your Penance (work) of a specified art, is all the time with you. As long as you are in His remembrance, He is with you.

25.

Divine Grace Will descend upon you only if your mind is bereft of ego and your heart void of desire.

5.

Work is penance indeed. The only penance is to brave the outrages of Prarabdha.

26.

6.

Every bit of work is worship. But the moment any kind of work grips your consciousness as the one thing indispensible and it stems the tide of your life, it is invested with multiple nuances and drives of your ego and lacks spirituality.

When we walk daily with the conscious companionship of the Supreme, then only our inner Divine Consciousness is awakened.

27.

The Lord is immediately available to you through love.

28.

Put your devotion or love to the Absolute and find Him through your self.

29.

Self-realisation is not possible in its fullest and truest sense through any other means except perfect and absolute self-surrender.

30.

Truth cannot be realised by your own effort.

7.

The concentration and sincerity with which you do your work is the only Tapasya, the hardest of penances. No meditation will ever be able to reach that plane of Truth, unless it is channelled through work.

8.

You have come here full to the brim with 118

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31.

Self-realisation is possible only by the Grace of God which dawns after the aspirant for Truth is initiated into the spiritual life by God or the Self directly.

32.

Complete surrender to the Supreme leads to emancipation, realisation and salvation.

33.

Love Him, surrender yourself to Him and the moment you surrender your entire existence to Him, He will be the Pilot of your life and will take the vehicle to safe landing.

duties. You should not be enchained by the work effort even. Let work grow into your life as your duties.

40.

Evaporation of ego, loving submission to Mahanam and to brave the world of Reality as His Bountious Expression is your duty.

41.

What is wanted for us is to do our duties keeping Him in view.

42.

Do your duties. Remember Him. That is enough, more than enough.

43.

Perform bodily duties. Eat, drink, do everything. But remember Him who is inside the body. Do not go beyond the limitations of the body.

44.

Your only duty is to bear destiny or fate with patience.

He will find you. You cannot hide.

45.

You have to do your duty without inviting the dissipating and disintegrating forces of Nature. Duties are born with you, are latent in your talents. Make the best use of your talents with loving submission to Him. Otherwise you go against His Design.

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30.

Our only duty is to submit to Him in Trust and Love and to do our mundane duties devotedly without any sense of agency.

31.

It is our duty to let His Truth and Love be manifested through us.

32.

Be like a log of wood in the stream of His Will. Love life, love work, love duty. Be of good cheer. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

33.

Do your work with Him as the Agent. Have patience with the vicissitudes of life which are tokens of His Infinite Love.

34.

Work itself is God, if it works of itself and you are a passive spectator. Just perform the duties with which you are entrusted faithfully accepting His Will.

35.

Let not your work bring in its wake an endless cycle of works. Rather, be with Him. Work belongs to Him. But your duty, you must not evade.

36.

Do your duties but don’t be worried over your burden. Let your burden be the burden of His music of manifestation.

37.

We have to brave the world, bear Prarabdha with fortitude and do our respective duties without any sense of ego.

38.

By doing our duties which come from His Will we relish His Love and Bliss.

39.

You grow ascetic or try to create an ivory tower around you if you try to avoid your 116

RENUNCIATION 11

1.

Sannyas (renunciation) is the state of one who is self-poised, one who has no egoattachment. Sannyas implies the total annihilation of ego and identification with the Supreme I-consciousness absolutely in everyday life. The five senses also surrender completely to the Self.

2.

Real renunciation is to be shorn of ego and to be in Swabhava (natural state of attunement with the Supreme)

3.

So-called renunciation and self-denial enlarge the ego and do not eliminate it. They create vanity — a vanity of calculated achievement, a vanity of having a distinct position in society. Renunciates project their vanity which leads to complete darkness.

A little exhibition of power is of no avail so far as realisation of Truth is concerned.

Complete silent surrender to Him without any exhibitionism is the only path to Him.

4.

The world is His. Every object, from the stars to the sun and the moon, that shines to dispel darkness and gives life and joy is His handiwork.

So what does one renounce? And for what?

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experience. Even though they may cry or be hurt, they know it is their destiny and His Love will see them through.

There is no escape from His Creation — it encompasses one from all sides.

5.

6.

7.

God is available here and now, anywhere and everywhere.

22.

The so-called sannyasi tries to escape the burdens of family life to avoid the pangs of Prarabdha.

When your age is advanced, and most worldly duties and senses are resting, it is easier to keep your mind on God.

23.

Remember Him. Do your duty. Enjoy His creation. I shall be with you eternally.

24.

If you want to be happy, the responsibilities you have towards others should be remembered and fulfilled. The responsibilities others have towards you, you should forget.

This is letting go of expectation. All is filled with expectation and disappointment.

25.

Although life appears to be prohibitions and remedies, do’s and don’ts, there is only one do, remember Him and one don’t, don’t forget Him.

26.

Dadaji never tells you what role to play, but directs you how to play it properly. The only proper way is knowing He is the director, producer and actor.

27.

Take Mahanam and do your duty. That is the only path.

28.

Doing your duty, taking Mahanam, surrendering to the One, this is true prayer.

When you feel fear and you are confused, take His Mahanam ; know everything is alright.

29.

Try not to judge and find fault or be angry.

Try to turn the anger and judgement to loving Him, to take the Mahanam.

Sadhus and Yogis avoid responsibilities of natural life and become escapists, ritualists, and achieve nothing.

Being a Saint or Monk has nothing to do with God, but is only accepted by tradition.

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Try to be Karma-Yogi. Do your work. Let the work itself be of Him. While you are in this mortal body, you must do some work. Try to make your work the devotion by always taking His Name and by feeling the Mahanam within.

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14.

You must do your duty as it has been assigned to you to come fully to Him. When you are touched by the Oneness, you will be released from the delusion of ‘I am the doer’.

Know thy Self and you will know the One.

1.

The ego is the vanity of the I-sense.

Egoism has divorced us from Truth. When there is no ego, when there is no other, no separation of any kind, this is a glimpse of Truth.

15.

In reality you can do nothing. God is the Sole Doer.

2.

16.

Remember He alone is the real Doer — you are helpless without Him. Do your duty and try to remember that He Loves and never forgets you.

Try and find Him in your heart, within yourself. Try and get rid of your small i (ego) and you will feel His Presence.

3.

Vanity or egoism has divorced us from Truth. Shake off the sense of egoism and be a servant of Mahanam.

The main difficulties in life arise from not doing the duty properly.

4.

If you shirk your duty, then you will always be crying, “it is not fair”. It is not right always crying for rights. Do the work assigned to you and leave the fruit to Him.

It is only the individual sense, the ego, that shuts out the awareness of constant communion with Him.

5.

Only time, patience and the proper doing of your duty is necessary. Always, at least as much as possible, remember His Mahanam.

Those who are Truth lovers have a good sense of feeling about duty and can accept whatever life brings to the doorstep of their

The ego is the root cause of our suffering and bondage. Complete surrender to Him is the only way to get rid of ego and then to know one’s purpose which is to enjoy the Play of the Divine.

6.

Cast off egoism or else there will be no Kingdom of Truth.

17.

Let the duty itself be done with love and affection taking Mahanam.

18.

19.

20.

21.

Everybody is He, everything is being done

by Him through you.

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No methods, no wrestling with the mind. No ‘I am doing.’ All these things are full of ego.

8.

Unless you are shorn of your ego and are beyond your mind, you cannot be in tune with Him.

9.

Know full well that the ego can achieve nothing except going out of the track.

10.

Truth is beyond expression, beyond description. With ego you describe Him as full, as void. On becoming one with that Supreme Joy does there remain any awareness of all this difference of fullness or void? Aware or unaware, He is beyond all these.

11.

Choose your centre of co-ordinates properly. If your consciousness has its centre of co-ordinates in Him, all manifestation and non-manifestation appear as your own self. Only one existence is perceived.

But if you do not reside in Him, if your centre of co-ordinates is in Energy, variously known as Maya or Prakriti, you conceive yourself as a separate entity divided by the walls of body, concrete matter and ego.

12.

Divine Grace will descend upon you if your mind is bereft of ego and your heart void of desire.

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properly, there will be no question of your rights.

Action is the duty, fruit is the right.

7.

Your first duty, first priority, is to remember Him, Who is One, Who knows not about separation, yet makes provision for each and every need and even every greed.

8.

When you just remember it is all He, no matter what you do, where you are, who you are with, it will be alright. Otherwise you will never be happy with anything. Only this change of attitude will finish the work you have come to do.

9.

Take His Name and go on with your work.

No positive thinking. No negative thinking. Think of Him. Listen to His Mahanam.

Try not to understand, do it.

10.

It is not your duty to understand why things happen the way they do. You are not expected to understand or agree with everyone and everything. It is not possible.

When you feel confused, remember Mahanam.

11.

You can but do your duty and take Mahanam. Don’t be so disturbed if the result has not come out the way you wanted it. You cannot possibly get more or less than He has willed for you.

12.

Tied to results rather than duty, life is bondage. Simply do your duty, accept all that comes your way with discrimination of proper and improper behaviour. This itself is Grace.

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When the ego evaporates, one finds Bliss within oneself.

This is the ultimate statement of Vedanta.

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BODY

1.

2.

3.

This bodily life is the most important time to come to Truth. Only in this life can you know Truth. Eventually all must eat the fruit to know its taste. This is His Will.

This body, though not the highest Truth, is yet the temple to be lovingly cared for by right living, natural diet, exercise and love. The awareness of what is right here dawns by the 144 Grace of Mahanam.

Without this human body no other being and no other-world Divinity can taste His Love.

In the body of a person resides Govinda. So the

* Your ego is also His Creation. How will you carry on your work, deal with your relationships, without it?

Remember Him. He will do what is necessary.

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that each Existence is inseparably connected with Truth.

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89.

Until the mind becomes conscious of and gets yoked with Him, we cannot relish the taste of Constant Bliss.

1.

The mind is God’s creation for His Play. It is subject to the law of Karma. He is the law of karma itself, which permits all things in the realm of appearance to take place.

90.

The mind gets fullness of right vision when, while being in the body, it becomes conscious of Him. Then that moment is mind’s new year, a new birth of Light.

2.

The mind is the King of organs. The mind is a benevolent and indulgent King, granting the organs free pastures.

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3.

He sent us here to relish the taste of His Love. That is why He gave us the mind.

Without His Grace, nothing can be understood. He goes far away as soon as you try to understand. Is it a matter of understanding? It is a matter of experiencing.

All will become One when you have the experience. It must happen.

4.

Mind and the feeling of attachment are necessary to do your duty, to complete your work, your karma.

92.

5.

In its natural way the mind helps to live life, do our duty and remember Him.

6.

By nature the mind is restless. Like the ocean, it’s tides and waves.

It is the Will of the Creator to help the conscious mind to move toward a flawless perfection. This cannot be achieved through a particular process which is an external affair.

Actually, when consciousness turns inward, it merges with the Bliss in the heart. And then, only then, does one realise the Divine Play.

7.

You want to make the mind a still lake. Can you stop the waves from crashing on the shore by yelling at them, or by throwing yourself into them, or by being drowned by them?

8.

Sadhu, Yogi, Muni, Rishi doing hard penance for ages cannot restrain the mind.

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out of Void emerges Mahanam. It has no contact with the body in as much as it transcends the mind. This state is possible only when one goes beyond mind or when one reaches the Void.

83.

When one finds Mahanam all about, immersing in and emerging from Infinity, then where is the mind?

84.

All pain and death are but shadows of the mind that blow between you and Truth.

85.

When the fire of life is gone, the senses become absorbed in the mind and the last thoughts of the mind lead to the next experience of birth.

86.

87.

88.

To complete the endless journey of the mind is called the end of Yajna (sacrifice). Then only the Supreme Lord takes a person in His Lap and the mind is freed from the tiring and helpless living in the world that causes endless suffering.

Your mind, the architect of science and other relative truths, is the matrix of all frames of reference; its finitude is self-secreted and self-imposed. Once your mental being, your ego, is merged in the Infinite Existence, the Soul, you recapture the Absolute Vision.

Know thyself and realise the Self. Remove all obstacles which stand on the way to realisation. Only then will your greatness appear to your intellect. It will then be realised 142

Only by performing one’s duty with remembrance of Mahanam can one get one’s mind stabilised.

9.

Everything must be done in a natural way.

Mind must follow its own nature. Any effort to control the mind makes it all the more restless.

Let the mind follow its own course and remember Mahanam.

This Eternal sound smooths up the artificial barrenness of life with a shower of Divine Grace and in course of time it is the mind, but transformed, that leads the seeker to realise his True Divine and Blissful Nature.

10.

Don’t indulge your mind. If you indulge, mind becomes restless and confused. Patience is the only solution.

11.

Mind’s tendencies and nature, if indulged, drive a person like an unbridled horse. Unless the mind is at rest or brought to rest, a person cannot taste the Nectar of His Love. By remembrance of Mahanam with loving submission, the bridle of the mind gets automatically controlled.

12.

Mind has to be turned inward. The inside and the outside will become One. Then will you awake. By His Grace, you will do everything and then also do nothing.

13.

Mind must come in a natural, effortless, spontaneous way to Him.

14.

Let us bear with patience and fortitude the 131

compulsions of Prarabdha and the compulsions of mind which lead us to feelings of happiness and misery, gain and loss, near and distant, good and evil. These create various confusions and take a person to numerous attractions and ultimately to bondage. To bear the force of these compulsions with patience is Tapasya.

While practising this Tapasya, the Name of God lights the mind thus purified. When the Name is firmly set in, desire is removed and complete Bliss reigns.

15.

Mind itself is the bondage. Mind is unlimited in wants. The whole body is full of mind’s nature.

contemplates God and comprehends the Divine Mystery, then it is Vikasa.

In the next stage, when the mind loses its own identity, becomes fully submerged in Divinity and is in full communion with Him, then it is Prakasa.

77.

Is it ever possible to know the Supreme Being with mind and intellect? On being called ardently, with complete surrender, He embraces the devotee immediately. On your advancing one step toward Him, He advances hundred steps toward you.

78.

It is a fact that our Creator, the Omnipotent, the All-powerful and the Eternal cannot be fathomed by intellect and reasoning.

But all the same it is possible to realise Him through Love.

16.

Fear and desire bind you to the mind.

Desire for a certain result and fear that it will not be obtained. This creates the destiny.

17.

All kinds of mental impulses tend to create varied impediments and hindrances putting bondage and shackles around human beings.

79.

Truth is outside the reach of the mind. By no means can you get Him through rituals, only through Love.

To check and forbear the forces of impediments is Tapasya. By dint of continuous practice of such Tapasya through pure mental coolness, ignorance veiling the Pure Nature of things is removed. Thereafter it is possible to stay and remain with absolute peace and happiness.

80

When your heart is in love with Him, why do you worry about your mind? When the time comes, He will control your mind. Now let the mind be as it is.

81.

The Divine Truth which throbs in the heart of all individuals reveals Itself not through intellectual inquisitiveness or speculation, but through Love and Love only.

82.

The region of repose of respiration within the body, which is Void, is the place wherefrom

18.

Scriptures are creation of the mind. How much of Truth is present in them? Truth of a surity never submits to the mental moulds which 132

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fragmented ground, it is illuminated by the light of the unfragmented Being. Then what is fragmented and what is unfragmented, what is full and what is void, intelligence and intuition, all become united in Oneness. Right then the mind experiences the swing of devotion.

70.

71.

72.

73.

74.

Philosophy means a system of thoughts, a creation of the mental plane. Beyond this there is the Divine Will, unconditional, free of any system or any limitation.

Truth is eternal but remains shrouded in mystery. And know that mind and intellect have no power to pierce the mystery.

Teachers and commentators have not been able to free us of doubt. The reason is that each person explains according to his mind. On seeing with unfragmented vision, no such divisions and differences remain.

Environment is in the mind. Are desire, anger etc. finished by becoming an ascetic, going to mountains, eating vegetarian food?

Can we get Him imposing any condition? He is above all these. Nothing of these touches Him. Our own ego alone is involved in all these.

Time and space are mental constructions of measurement. He is beyond this framework.

75.

Divisions, segmentations and classifications are mental functions. There is only one human race.

76.

When the introspective mind deeply 140

scriptures typify.

19.

You cannot find the Supreme Entity by searching scriptures. You find only doubts. The conflicts and differences come from the mind and intellect.

20.

To come to the Supreme Who is already with you, there is no need to read scriptures.

21.

Prayers, Pujas, donations and sacrifices cannot reach Him. They have no connection with Him. They are mind functions.

22.

With the mind it is not possible to comprehend the Supreme. By Grace, sometimes, you can have a glimpse.

23.

Through thought He comes to those beyond thought. He does not come to those who think they can know Him by mental gymnastics.

24.

In remembering God and realising His Love there is no room for mental and physical acrobatics.

25.

Sadhus and ascetics experience a kind of delight through the practice of austerities. But that delight pertains to the mind. To realise Him, to come into communion with Him, you need not go against nature by self-repression.

26.

The original sin, the original mind function, was the creation of good and evil. He does not care for good and evil. The only good is to remember Him. The only evil is in forgetting.

27.

Good, bad, virtue, sin are all in the mind.

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28.

29.

30.

31.

Good and evil are reflections of mind.

63.

Who is good? Who is bad? We do not know.

The idea of sin or virtue, good or evil are only creations of the mind. They bear no value. You need not concern yourself with them.

We commit a grave error in thinking that it is we who are doing things and not He. When we surrender all thoughts to Him alone, He responds to our prayers.

64.

Don’t you bother yourself with virtue and vice. They are mental constructions and have nothing to do with Him.

Go on doing everything while enshrining Him in your mind. All responsibility revolves on Him.

65.

It will be wrong to assess a person by one momentary action. It may be that they are driven to the action by the pressure of mind, intellect, circumstances and surrounding events. It is always advisable if you can forgive and forget in case they have done really any wrong.

It is not possible to isolate yourself from your Self. Only by mind does this occur.

The mind has created separation, and is itself Maya, illusion. Because of this Maya, it is not possible to have a casteless, classless society.

66.

Happiness perceived by mind is only a diversion from the true path and it is only a temporary phase.

67.

When you just remember it is all He and let it all go from your mind with Mahanam, no matter what you do, where you are, who you are with, it will be alright. Otherwise you will never be happy with anything. Only this change of attitude will finish the work you have come to do.

68.

Unless one is free of the covers of the mind’s compulsions, one cannot come closer to Him to the Supreme State (of Vraja). Covers of mind are hindrances to being in that State.

69.

Mind and senses must be there when you have come with the body. The mind will be purified only when, while staying on the

Most judgements of our mind are based on trivial actions arising out of force of circumstances. We can make ourselves good human beings if we can adjust to all these events with patience and forgiveness.

32.

The mind is blind. The five sense organs show off in five different ways to it. That is to say, it sees nothing and is blind.

33.

The mind itself cannot see the things of the world. It has to depend upon the five senses and they present a babble of pictures to it. The laws of physical nature impose diverse restrictions on the mind. Thus the entire spectacle of the world is veiled from the purview of the mind.

34.

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there come anger, sorrows and afflictions. If we indulge them, our mind will never be free of complaints and we would not be able to go near Him. 59.

A person has no vision, no eyes, cannot distinguish between right and wrong, true and false.

it sees nothing. The mind is itself a penetration of opposites. It is the matrix of all polarisation and contradiction.

35.

What arises from the mind is a distortion of Truth.

36.

Is the mind trustworthy? If you cannot trust your own mind, how can you trust others? A snake or a lion is more trustworthy. They will never fool you by saying one thing and doing another.

37.

The mind rules the body and thinks it is the doer.

Of itself the mind can never realise the True Power.

Finally, the mind will have to surrender and relinquish the illusion of doership. That will be the end of action and reaction : the end of destiny itself.

38.

One sees in the mind’s eye what is already in the mind.

39.

People always want God or Truth to suit their mental pictures and images. When there is mind, there are actions and reactions and waves of desires. He is beyond mind and intellect, beyond one’s reach but residing within as pure Existence, as Life.

40.

Truth is within you. It is your True Nature.

You cannot realise It through the agency of your intellect and reason or through the ways and means of science.

A person is the slave of mind which is crammed with age-old sanskaras through which the person acts and reacts.

60.

61.

62.

When one is prompted by the restless waves of mind, as a natural reaction one invites more Prarabdha, and, therefore, gets more estranged from the potential flow of one’s True Divine Nature.

The mind, without which no relish is possible, sunders us from the Infinite and makes of us so many individuals. The Rasa of the Absolute is thus screened and the stage is set for relishing the Rasa of Nature instead. Action and reaction now hold the stage and the mind conceives them as virtue and vice.

Mortal beings are diverted to various directions and are enslaved by different confusions arising out of mind, senses and intellect. These create feelings of happiness and misery, profit and loss, near and distant relation, good and evil. To bear these compulsions with patience and fortitude, and the Name of God implanted in your mind, will naturally bring about purification and freedom.

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41.

Scientists with their instruments and by intellectual efforts keep searching for the ultimate force in the Universe. But the Ultimate Entity is beyond science.

42.

Do not try to analyse and dissect Truth.

Mind is limited and cannot realise Truth through the intellect.

Dissection is destruction.

43.

44.

45.

46.

47.

48.

It is impossible to understand how He works, how fragrance is experienced all over the world at the same time. It is as impossible as trying to drink all the waters of the earth.

Unless you are shorn of your ego and are beyond your mind, you cannot be in tune with Him. So don’t try to understand Him. If the mind is not, even for a short time, the Almighty is.

When one goes beyond mind, one’s mind is in tune with the Will Supreme.

He is in All. All is in Him. But live in tune with Him. Live beyond the realm of mind. Don’t live in wants, fears, hopes. Live in swabhava.

A person can never know Him through the mind, intellect and ego.

Truth is Infinite beyond mental grasp.

Do not try to understand with the mind that which is beyond mind.

You cannot see the Light of Lights with the physical eye.

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49.

To understand is to stand apart. Truth can only be lived. You are inspired when He breathes into your being and you are a vehicle of Truth unawares. You cannot see because mind intervenes.

50.

Don’t go for understanding. Don’t go through arguments or anything. If you go on arguing, you won’t be able to realise Him your whole life.

51.

Intelligence cannot fathom Him. Do not try to understand Him. Argument has no place. Do not try to realise Him. Do your duty.

52.

Do not try to understand Him. Truth is beyond the plane of mind and is One.

53.

Those who don’t try to understand or assess Him, He holds them firmly by the hand.

He remains far away from those who try to understand Him.

54.

Don’t try to measure Divine Wisdom by the yardstick of your limited mind and intellect.

55.

These intellectuals are completely blind.

They want to follow their books and Truth is something else.

56.

You are in a state of befogged intellect, in the state of mental modification. You won’t get Him this way.

57.

Never try to understand. Only accept as gift whatever He gives. Take it as His Blessings.

58.

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41.

Scientists with their instruments and by intellectual efforts keep searching for the ultimate force in the Universe. But the Ultimate Entity is beyond science.

42.

Do not try to analyse and dissect Truth.

Mind is limited and cannot realise Truth through the intellect.

Dissection is destruction.

43.

44.

45.

46.

47.

48.

It is impossible to understand how He works, how fragrance is experienced all over the world at the same time. It is as impossible as trying to drink all the waters of the earth.

Unless you are shorn of your ego and are beyond your mind, you cannot be in tune with Him. So don’t try to understand Him. If the mind is not, even for a short time, the Almighty is.

When one goes beyond mind, one’s mind is in tune with the Will Supreme.

He is in All. All is in Him. But live in tune with Him. Live beyond the realm of mind. Don’t live in wants, fears, hopes. Live in swabhava.

A person can never know Him through the mind, intellect and ego.

Truth is Infinite beyond mental grasp.

Do not try to understand with the mind that which is beyond mind.

You cannot see the Light of Lights with the physical eye.

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49.

To understand is to stand apart. Truth can only be lived. You are inspired when He breathes into your being and you are a vehicle of Truth unawares. You cannot see because mind intervenes.

50.

Don’t go for understanding. Don’t go through arguments or anything. If you go on arguing, you won’t be able to realise Him your whole life.

51.

Intelligence cannot fathom Him. Do not try to understand Him. Argument has no place. Do not try to realise Him. Do your duty.

52.

Do not try to understand Him. Truth is beyond the plane of mind and is One.

53.

Those who don’t try to understand or assess Him, He holds them firmly by the hand.

He remains far away from those who try to understand Him.

54.

Don’t try to measure Divine Wisdom by the yardstick of your limited mind and intellect.

55.

These intellectuals are completely blind.

They want to follow their books and Truth is something else.

56.

You are in a state of befogged intellect, in the state of mental modification. You won’t get Him this way.

57.

Never try to understand. Only accept as gift whatever He gives. Take it as His Blessings.

58.

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there come anger, sorrows and afflictions. If we indulge them, our mind will never be free of complaints and we would not be able to go near Him. 59.

A person has no vision, no eyes, cannot distinguish between right and wrong, true and false.

it sees nothing. The mind is itself a penetration of opposites. It is the matrix of all polarisation and contradiction.

35.

What arises from the mind is a distortion of Truth.

36.

Is the mind trustworthy? If you cannot trust your own mind, how can you trust others? A snake or a lion is more trustworthy. They will never fool you by saying one thing and doing another.

37.

The mind rules the body and thinks it is the doer.

Of itself the mind can never realise the True Power.

Finally, the mind will have to surrender and relinquish the illusion of doership. That will be the end of action and reaction : the end of destiny itself.

38.

One sees in the mind’s eye what is already in the mind.

39.

People always want God or Truth to suit their mental pictures and images. When there is mind, there are actions and reactions and waves of desires. He is beyond mind and intellect, beyond one’s reach but residing within as pure Existence, as Life.

40.

Truth is within you. It is your True Nature.

You cannot realise It through the agency of your intellect and reason or through the ways and means of science.

A person is the slave of mind which is crammed with age-old sanskaras through which the person acts and reacts.

60.

61.

62.

When one is prompted by the restless waves of mind, as a natural reaction one invites more Prarabdha, and, therefore, gets more estranged from the potential flow of one’s True Divine Nature.

The mind, without which no relish is possible, sunders us from the Infinite and makes of us so many individuals. The Rasa of the Absolute is thus screened and the stage is set for relishing the Rasa of Nature instead. Action and reaction now hold the stage and the mind conceives them as virtue and vice.

Mortal beings are diverted to various directions and are enslaved by different confusions arising out of mind, senses and intellect. These create feelings of happiness and misery, profit and loss, near and distant relation, good and evil. To bear these compulsions with patience and fortitude, and the Name of God implanted in your mind, will naturally bring about purification and freedom.

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28.

29.

30.

31.

Good and evil are reflections of mind.

63.

Who is good? Who is bad? We do not know.

The idea of sin or virtue, good or evil are only creations of the mind. They bear no value. You need not concern yourself with them.

We commit a grave error in thinking that it is we who are doing things and not He. When we surrender all thoughts to Him alone, He responds to our prayers.

64.

Don’t you bother yourself with virtue and vice. They are mental constructions and have nothing to do with Him.

Go on doing everything while enshrining Him in your mind. All responsibility revolves on Him.

65.

It will be wrong to assess a person by one momentary action. It may be that they are driven to the action by the pressure of mind, intellect, circumstances and surrounding events. It is always advisable if you can forgive and forget in case they have done really any wrong.

It is not possible to isolate yourself from your Self. Only by mind does this occur.

The mind has created separation, and is itself Maya, illusion. Because of this Maya, it is not possible to have a casteless, classless society.

66.

Happiness perceived by mind is only a diversion from the true path and it is only a temporary phase.

67.

When you just remember it is all He and let it all go from your mind with Mahanam, no matter what you do, where you are, who you are with, it will be alright. Otherwise you will never be happy with anything. Only this change of attitude will finish the work you have come to do.

68.

Unless one is free of the covers of the mind’s compulsions, one cannot come closer to Him to the Supreme State (of Vraja). Covers of mind are hindrances to being in that State.

69.

Mind and senses must be there when you have come with the body. The mind will be purified only when, while staying on the

Most judgements of our mind are based on trivial actions arising out of force of circumstances. We can make ourselves good human beings if we can adjust to all these events with patience and forgiveness.

32.

The mind is blind. The five sense organs show off in five different ways to it. That is to say, it sees nothing and is blind.

33.

The mind itself cannot see the things of the world. It has to depend upon the five senses and they present a babble of pictures to it. The laws of physical nature impose diverse restrictions on the mind. Thus the entire spectacle of the world is veiled from the purview of the mind.

34.

Where there is mind, there is meaning. The mind sees the pageantry of the world, but in fact 134

139

fragmented ground, it is illuminated by the light of the unfragmented Being. Then what is fragmented and what is unfragmented, what is full and what is void, intelligence and intuition, all become united in Oneness. Right then the mind experiences the swing of devotion.

70.

71.

72.

73.

74.

Philosophy means a system of thoughts, a creation of the mental plane. Beyond this there is the Divine Will, unconditional, free of any system or any limitation.

Truth is eternal but remains shrouded in mystery. And know that mind and intellect have no power to pierce the mystery.

Teachers and commentators have not been able to free us of doubt. The reason is that each person explains according to his mind. On seeing with unfragmented vision, no such divisions and differences remain.

Environment is in the mind. Are desire, anger etc. finished by becoming an ascetic, going to mountains, eating vegetarian food?

Can we get Him imposing any condition? He is above all these. Nothing of these touches Him. Our own ego alone is involved in all these.

Time and space are mental constructions of measurement. He is beyond this framework.

75.

Divisions, segmentations and classifications are mental functions. There is only one human race.

76.

When the introspective mind deeply 140

scriptures typify.

19.

You cannot find the Supreme Entity by searching scriptures. You find only doubts. The conflicts and differences come from the mind and intellect.

20.

To come to the Supreme Who is already with you, there is no need to read scriptures.

21.

Prayers, Pujas, donations and sacrifices cannot reach Him. They have no connection with Him. They are mind functions.

22.

With the mind it is not possible to comprehend the Supreme. By Grace, sometimes, you can have a glimpse.

23.

Through thought He comes to those beyond thought. He does not come to those who think they can know Him by mental gymnastics.

24.

In remembering God and realising His Love there is no room for mental and physical acrobatics.

25.

Sadhus and ascetics experience a kind of delight through the practice of austerities. But that delight pertains to the mind. To realise Him, to come into communion with Him, you need not go against nature by self-repression.

26.

The original sin, the original mind function, was the creation of good and evil. He does not care for good and evil. The only good is to remember Him. The only evil is in forgetting.

27.

Good, bad, virtue, sin are all in the mind.

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compulsions of Prarabdha and the compulsions of mind which lead us to feelings of happiness and misery, gain and loss, near and distant, good and evil. These create various confusions and take a person to numerous attractions and ultimately to bondage. To bear the force of these compulsions with patience is Tapasya.

While practising this Tapasya, the Name of God lights the mind thus purified. When the Name is firmly set in, desire is removed and complete Bliss reigns.

15.

Mind itself is the bondage. Mind is unlimited in wants. The whole body is full of mind’s nature.

contemplates God and comprehends the Divine Mystery, then it is Vikasa.

In the next stage, when the mind loses its own identity, becomes fully submerged in Divinity and is in full communion with Him, then it is Prakasa.

77.

Is it ever possible to know the Supreme Being with mind and intellect? On being called ardently, with complete surrender, He embraces the devotee immediately. On your advancing one step toward Him, He advances hundred steps toward you.

78.

It is a fact that our Creator, the Omnipotent, the All-powerful and the Eternal cannot be fathomed by intellect and reasoning.

But all the same it is possible to realise Him through Love.

16.

Fear and desire bind you to the mind.

Desire for a certain result and fear that it will not be obtained. This creates the destiny.

17.

All kinds of mental impulses tend to create varied impediments and hindrances putting bondage and shackles around human beings.

79.

Truth is outside the reach of the mind. By no means can you get Him through rituals, only through Love.

To check and forbear the forces of impediments is Tapasya. By dint of continuous practice of such Tapasya through pure mental coolness, ignorance veiling the Pure Nature of things is removed. Thereafter it is possible to stay and remain with absolute peace and happiness.

80

When your heart is in love with Him, why do you worry about your mind? When the time comes, He will control your mind. Now let the mind be as it is.

81.

The Divine Truth which throbs in the heart of all individuals reveals Itself not through intellectual inquisitiveness or speculation, but through Love and Love only.

82.

The region of repose of respiration within the body, which is Void, is the place wherefrom

18.

Scriptures are creation of the mind. How much of Truth is present in them? Truth of a surity never submits to the mental moulds which 132

141

out of Void emerges Mahanam. It has no contact with the body in as much as it transcends the mind. This state is possible only when one goes beyond mind or when one reaches the Void.

83.

When one finds Mahanam all about, immersing in and emerging from Infinity, then where is the mind?

84.

All pain and death are but shadows of the mind that blow between you and Truth.

85.

When the fire of life is gone, the senses become absorbed in the mind and the last thoughts of the mind lead to the next experience of birth.

86.

87.

88.

To complete the endless journey of the mind is called the end of Yajna (sacrifice). Then only the Supreme Lord takes a person in His Lap and the mind is freed from the tiring and helpless living in the world that causes endless suffering.

Your mind, the architect of science and other relative truths, is the matrix of all frames of reference; its finitude is self-secreted and self-imposed. Once your mental being, your ego, is merged in the Infinite Existence, the Soul, you recapture the Absolute Vision.

Know thyself and realise the Self. Remove all obstacles which stand on the way to realisation. Only then will your greatness appear to your intellect. It will then be realised 142

Only by performing one’s duty with remembrance of Mahanam can one get one’s mind stabilised.

9.

Everything must be done in a natural way.

Mind must follow its own nature. Any effort to control the mind makes it all the more restless.

Let the mind follow its own course and remember Mahanam.

This Eternal sound smooths up the artificial barrenness of life with a shower of Divine Grace and in course of time it is the mind, but transformed, that leads the seeker to realise his True Divine and Blissful Nature.

10.

Don’t indulge your mind. If you indulge, mind becomes restless and confused. Patience is the only solution.

11.

Mind’s tendencies and nature, if indulged, drive a person like an unbridled horse. Unless the mind is at rest or brought to rest, a person cannot taste the Nectar of His Love. By remembrance of Mahanam with loving submission, the bridle of the mind gets automatically controlled.

12.

Mind has to be turned inward. The inside and the outside will become One. Then will you awake. By His Grace, you will do everything and then also do nothing.

13.

Mind must come in a natural, effortless, spontaneous way to Him.

14.

Let us bear with patience and fortitude the 131

that each Existence is inseparably connected with Truth.

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89.

Until the mind becomes conscious of and gets yoked with Him, we cannot relish the taste of Constant Bliss.

1.

The mind is God’s creation for His Play. It is subject to the law of Karma. He is the law of karma itself, which permits all things in the realm of appearance to take place.

90.

The mind gets fullness of right vision when, while being in the body, it becomes conscious of Him. Then that moment is mind’s new year, a new birth of Light.

2.

The mind is the King of organs. The mind is a benevolent and indulgent King, granting the organs free pastures.

91.

3.

He sent us here to relish the taste of His Love. That is why He gave us the mind.

Without His Grace, nothing can be understood. He goes far away as soon as you try to understand. Is it a matter of understanding? It is a matter of experiencing.

All will become One when you have the experience. It must happen.

4.

Mind and the feeling of attachment are necessary to do your duty, to complete your work, your karma.

92.

5.

In its natural way the mind helps to live life, do our duty and remember Him.

6.

By nature the mind is restless. Like the ocean, it’s tides and waves.

It is the Will of the Creator to help the conscious mind to move toward a flawless perfection. This cannot be achieved through a particular process which is an external affair.

Actually, when consciousness turns inward, it merges with the Bliss in the heart. And then, only then, does one realise the Divine Play.

7.

You want to make the mind a still lake. Can you stop the waves from crashing on the shore by yelling at them, or by throwing yourself into them, or by being drowned by them?

8.

Sadhu, Yogi, Muni, Rishi doing hard penance for ages cannot restrain the mind.

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BODY & SENSES

When the ego evaporates, one finds Bliss within oneself.

This is the ultimate statement of Vedanta.

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BODY

1.

This bodily life is the most important time to come to Truth. Only in this life can you know Truth. Eventually all must eat the fruit to know its taste. This is His Will.

2.

This body, though not the highest Truth, is yet the temple to be lovingly cared for by right living, natural diet, exercise and love. The awareness of what is right here dawns by the Grace of Mahanam.

3.

Without this human body no other being and no other-world Divinity can taste His Love.

In the body of a person resides Govinda. So the body is to be treated as His Temple and taken care of.

4.

The fundamental fact is that Eternal Substance is not a distant thing. He is actually present in the body in a fragmented state, yet remaining united with the unfragmented. The unfragmented Eternal Substance stays in the body in the form of the resident Atma for a certain time.

5.

Being in tune with Him, you create the Eternal Truth of your life. You can create because it is right there in your heart eternally.

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* Your ego is also His Creation. How will you carry on your work, deal with your relationships, without it?

Remember Him. He will do what is necessary.

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You created the uncreated to recreate your body, mind and senses with it. You immerse yourself in the water of Ganga (Integral Consciousness) and are nestled in the Lotus Feet with Ecstasy never experienced before.

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1.

Whatever is, is within. But that does not brush off the outside world. Whatever is within must also be there in the world outside. The cycle must be completed. Otherwise, I shall suffer from a cleavage in consciousness.

2.

The world is not an illusion. It is the Vrindaban Leela of the Supreme.

3.

The world is real. Of course with Him as the Reality.

4.

The world is real and is in no way a dungeon, a purgatory or a prison house. We have come here to taste the blissful rapture of His Manifestation. By doing our duties which come from His Will, we relish His Love and Bliss.

5.

6.

No, no! the world is not non-existent. The reason is that only in this earth have human beings the right to savour His Taste and nowhere else. Even gods do not have that right. That being so, how can the world be illusory?

Manifestation of God Himself is the Universe. How can it be unreal?

The Supreme is the Poet and the Universe is His Poem.

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6.

What a priceless treasure God has sent us with! This body is unreal, and though unreal, it has turned real because of the Truth that accompanies it.

7.

You have to fulfil the duties of the body.

Having come to the realm of Nature, but not paying her taxes by practising austerities, by suppressing natural desires, and by fleeing away from her, will one attain salvation? Has He sent us here to spend this life in practising deprivation? In enjoyment, happiness, work, in everything, one has to be aware of Him. On the vision becoming clear, you will become a Seer.

8.

Only for performing the bodily duties have the riches of the body been given. Eat, drink, do everything, but remember Him Who is inside the body.

9.

To move according to Nature is the only safe course. Do not go against the limitations of the body. Go about doing everything while remembering Him. That is all that is needed.

10.

Satisfy the needs of physical life. Let there be your family, spouse and children. Perform your duty to them. But that should not be all.

Remember the Mahanam at the same time.

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11.

Do not shun the needs of the body. Satisfy the wants but at the same time be aware of its triviality. Remember the body, but He Who is beyond that alone can bring salvation.

16.

When a person is born, one day he must leave the body. Nobody goes anywhere ; only the body changes and transforms while the Soul (Atma) exists.

12.

Human beings have their individual shape (male or female) according to the Divine Will of the Lord in spite of the fact that they originate from the same natural elements.

You cannot come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the Mahanam. That Mahanam is the Lord within everyone. Your body is the shrine of God.

17.

Action and reaction hold the stage. When the reaction gathers momentum, one cries for succour. Then comes death. But the reaction persists and that leads to re-birth.

18.

When you give up the body, the mind is caught by Him. After that it is a question of time, you come back in a different body.

19.

We have come to another’s house. We must leave it someday. He (Dadaji) will come and take you off.

20.

How many days we can and do live is not important. How we live is important. Keep it in mind.

21.

The love of humanity and desire to serve all will bring Blissful Peace to your heart.

13.

Body and life bestowed on by God are to be fully tasted and enjoyed.

14.

Food is only for the sake of the body. What is required for the body must be eaten. There is no connection between eating and drinking with Him. Fasting is not good.

15.

Take care of the body which is the channel for experiencing His Love.

16.

The body is the Temple of Viswanath (the Lord Almighty).

17.

He is with you always. You are His Temple, feed it properly, exercise it properly, don’t abuse it. Be natural, try to love God.

18.

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is Love. If, on the contrary, one’s habitat be crooked, all appears crooked.

Mandir too.

19.

And one can have communion with Him without building a Mandir, the outside of which only demonstrates the ego of the person who built it.

20.

We have taken the Ashram, the body. He is within us. It is futile to seek Him in the exterior world, in holy shrines and holy places, or in Maths, Mandirs and Ashrams. He is within you.

21.

How can you confine the Lord of the Universe in a little spot and do all kinds of things in His Name? Ashram is this body. Because Govinda is with us, it is a moving Ashram.

22.

The Name, the Form and the Abode, all these are the same and One.

23.

The Abode where Mahanam sounds and is established, is called the Temple of Name.

24.

The body itself is Prarabdha. After all, human body is perishable, decaying and has various problems. Unconsciously and inevitably our bodies develop and decay in their own way.

25.

Life is Eternal. What you call death or end of life, is actually a phase and is concerned with the body. Body consists of matters which dissolve in time to their original form. But Self has no dissolution. The mind is caught by Him.

26.

When He leaves the body, He does not go

The Joy of Love being achieved, emotional abundance ensues.

9.

10.

If you can relish His Love, that is all. If you shed one tear out of love for Him, that is more than enough.

How ineffably is this world filled with beauty and flavour! We have come to taste it.

But we have become otherwise engaged.

11.

Be of good cheer and enjoy. If you fail to enjoy here, how dare you expect it after death?

12.

This human birth is the rarest of all births.

So try to live this life keeping Him in view.

13.

Human beings get crippled in life with so many ups and downs, shocks and jolts, still they do not care to remember Him. Right upto the time of death, they carry the burden of hopes and desires, becoming victims of the miseries of repeated births and deaths and unavoidable destiny.

14.

You have come here for a few days, not for ever. Why should you bother for anything?

15.

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anywhere. When Atma leaves the body, in your language, only Vivek (Conscience) remains with Him. Then Conscience Itself says, why, having received such human life has one remained deprived of enjoyment of the taste of the Supreme? Conscience alone reminds one of the indwelling Atma.

27.

28.

That which holds the body will return to Its own abode when It leaves the body. All the Reality of the mortals is then merged in that Eternal and Continuous Life Force which never moves from or to any place.

Life is the play of the Divine and the birth is His Music. Death is a secession, more precisely, a condition or phase. He who has created us has done so for a great cause, all for good.

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1.

Look, He has sent us here to experience His Divine Play.

2.

If we have not understood the purpose of coming into this world, then the coming has been a waste.

3.

We have come here to taste His Superabundant Rasa. The Joy of Love is Rasa.

4.

The essential thing about life is to see it and enjoy it taking part in His Leela.

5.

It is a stage where we are to enact our respective roles for a stipulated period of time.

6.

This time of the body is temporary. We are actors and are paid according to our performances.

7.

Play your part well in the Vraja Leela (His Supreme Play), shaking off desires a n d obsessions. Be always in a state of Swabhava. Our duty is to watch His Leela as passive witnesses.

If one’s own habitat is Sri Kshetra, then all

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30.

When one is born with a body, the mind comes with all the senses and drives one forcibly blinding the vision, so that one fails to assess things in the right perspective.

One who undertakes all activities while remembering God will find the senses and desires become friends giving the feeling that they have all been beneficial. Otherwise one would have been helpless in grief or madness.

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We don’t know why we have come here in the world. Why have we come and where will we go? Have we come here for ever or not?

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devotion.

6.

When you are engrossed in concentration in your work, do you remember the considerations behind your action? The aim is that the work should be beautiful in all respects.

Let it be an offering to Him, the Lord. This attachment is called Love.

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shall have to give something to them. If you stop everything they will revolt.

31.

The natural appetites that you have come with are called senses. They are not evil tendencies. What is called evil or wild is a natural appetite overfed. It happens when human love becomes confused and frightened, not trusting enough of God’s Love.

32.

The sensual urges have come with us. We should not disturb them. He will take them over.

If you disturb them, ultimately there will be difficulty.

33.

You will try not to have desire. But with this mind and body, you must have desire. It can be a kind of ego, never asking for anything.

It is necessary to feed the appetites a little bit for you have invited the desires while entering this world.

34.

Let your senses and mind do any manner of antics. If you starve them, you are the worst criminal. You cannot then do the Aswa-Medha (let your senses run their course and turn inward) and the Raj-Suya (sacrifice your ego).

35.

The senses may be suppressed for the time being, but the time will come when they will take the inescapable revenge.

Those who are conscious of their role know that these very senses will turn inward in time, and will become the internal ladder to help them climb to the plane of Divine Consciousness.

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36.

The senses have an essential role. Unless they are satisfied, we can hardly expect their cooperation in helping us to rise above this physical level of body consciousness.

37.

Don’t go against your nature. Let your inner drives lead your senses wherever they will. Neither resist nor indulge. Be a passive spectator of the drama. No asceticism, no austerity, no penance, no physical callisthenics, no mechanical muttering of mystic syllables. All these are egoistic activities. Your inner fullness can dawn only when the ego is fleeced off.

38.

The senses are real; but regarding Sight, who is seeing? What is being seen?

Touch, who is touching? What is being touched?

Smell, who is smelling? What is being smelt?

Taste, who is tasting? What is being tasted?

Hearing, who is hearing? What is being heard?

He is looking. He is feeling. He is the fragrance. He is flavour itself. He is listening.

He alone loves you. Try to love Him Who is within.

39.

Mind is taken up with the senses. Without them, how can there be realisation?

40.

The senses are your guests come to help you relish His Love and Bliss.

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ATTACHMENT & DETACHMENT 17

1.

The word attachment is mostly misunderstood. Behind great works of Art is the driving force of attachment or love of creation that brings about union of the artist and the created art into one identity. That union generates new forms of creation.

2.

One cannot undertake any work without a pragmatic end in view. So with attachment one has to do one’s works, although without any desire for the results. No sooner has the work been finished, then the attachment evaporates.

That should be the mental attitude.

3.

Can anybody work without attachment? On the contrary, one has to work with full attachment. But if that be with full awareness of Him, then it is detached.

4.

If there is no expectation for the result of the action or effort to create, then that action cannot bloom in fullness, nor can it be an object for offering to the Lord because that detached action cannot have life put into it.

5.

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are very strong. So, in consequence, come innumerable problems. Unseen, unpredictable, unbearable events of life cause burdens and bondage, full of sufferings and miseries. (If) your intensity of devotion is there, leave the rest to Him.

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RELATIONSHIP 15

1.

Your relations are His Grace embodied unto you. Be with that Grace and have faith in Him. Let His Will be done.

2.

Getting married, setting up household is not the way to self-destruction ! Is His Creation for the purpose of self-destruction? If we do not follow the plan of His Creation and walk on the reverse path (by renunciation) will liberation ever come to us?

3.

Aren’t your relations His manifestations?

Should you not serve them devotedly though without attachment? Mother, father, everyone, everything is His.

4.

Individuals always try to put down others out of jealousy, contempt, anger, etc. But those who depend on God with full faith, none can make them small or harm them. Go ahead with this firm faith.

5.

You have no right to harm anybody. You have no right to exploit anybody in any sense — politically, economically, spiritually.

6.

Worldly love is tainted with selfishness and falsehood. It is not steady and constant in degree. That is why sorrows, blows and jolts come that cause hurt and make life burdensome.

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7.

Love that is of the world is a great mental disease.

8.

Human love is fickle, fragile and imbued with egoism. Remember Him. His Love is pure and ever-lasting.

9.

Never trouble yourself with what is happening here and there and with faults of others.

10.

Being born in the world we forget the Existence of our Real Best Friend, the Lord, Who is our own. We place confidence on others, thus invite sufferings, griefs and restlessness.

11.

MAYA 16

1.

Everybody is harsh and comments on Maya, calling it illusion of mind, which causes suffering. But this Maya makes us forget the unbearable blows of life’s events, obliterates the impact of so many strains and humiliations of life, and we get energy to rise again with old memories brushed off.

2.

Afflicted by desire and staying without the practice of devoted love with complete surrender, people get entangled in their desire and develop the ego. They become confined to the deep abyss of Maya or illusion. From this Maya they fall victims to many temptations, imaginings and speculations which lead them to the waves of good and evil, arguments and dissertations, and they are pushed hither and thither without finding the Anchor. So know this, their pursuit of happiness is beset with misery awaiting them.

3.

When you take on a body, then in the realm of Nature, the power of Yogamaya is bound to create restrictions and obstacles in the course of life for individuals, families, societies and even nations.

4.

Worldly attachments and the Play of Maya

I have come here only for certain acting.

That is alright. Then I shall have to go.

Everybody shall have to go. That is all destiny.

Nobody is anybody’s anything.

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7.

Love that is of the world is a great mental disease.

8.

Human love is fickle, fragile and imbued with egoism. Remember Him. His Love is pure and ever-lasting.

9.

Never trouble yourself with what is happening here and there and with faults of others.

10.

Being born in the world we forget the Existence of our Real Best Friend, the Lord, Who is our own. We place confidence on others, thus invite sufferings, griefs and restlessness.

11.

MAYA 16

1.

Everybody is harsh and comments on Maya, calling it illusion of mind, which causes suffering. But this Maya makes us forget the unbearable blows of life’s events, obliterates the impact of so many strains and humiliations of life, and we get energy to rise again with old memories brushed off.

2.

Afflicted by desire and staying without the practice of devoted love with complete surrender, people get entangled in their desire and develop the ego. They become confined to the deep abyss of Maya or illusion. From this Maya they fall victims to many temptations, imaginings and speculations which lead them to the waves of good and evil, arguments and dissertations, and they are pushed hither and thither without finding the Anchor. So know this, their pursuit of happiness is beset with misery awaiting them.

3.

When you take on a body, then in the realm of Nature, the power of Yogamaya is bound to create restrictions and obstacles in the course of life for individuals, families, societies and even nations.

4.

Worldly attachments and the Play of Maya

I have come here only for certain acting.

That is alright. Then I shall have to go.

Everybody shall have to go. That is all destiny.

Nobody is anybody’s anything.

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are very strong. So, in consequence, come innumerable problems. Unseen, unpredictable, unbearable events of life cause burdens and bondage, full of sufferings and miseries. (If) your intensity of devotion is there, leave the rest to Him.

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RELATIONSHIP 15

1.

Your relations are His Grace embodied unto you. Be with that Grace and have faith in Him. Let His Will be done.

2.

Getting married, setting up household is not the way to self-destruction ! Is His Creation for the purpose of self-destruction? If we do not follow the plan of His Creation and walk on the reverse path (by renunciation) will liberation ever come to us?

3.

Aren’t your relations His manifestations?

Should you not serve them devotedly though without attachment? Mother, father, everyone, everything is His.

4.

Individuals always try to put down others out of jealousy, contempt, anger, etc. But those who depend on God with full faith, none can make them small or harm them. Go ahead with this firm faith.

5.

You have no right to harm anybody. You have no right to exploit anybody in any sense — politically, economically, spiritually.

6.

Worldly love is tainted with selfishness and falsehood. It is not steady and constant in degree. That is why sorrows, blows and jolts come that cause hurt and make life burdensome.

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36.

The senses have an essential role. Unless they are satisfied, we can hardly expect their cooperation in helping us to rise above this physical level of body consciousness.

37.

Don’t go against your nature. Let your inner drives lead your senses wherever they will. Neither resist nor indulge. Be a passive spectator of the drama. No asceticism, no austerity, no penance, no physical callisthenics, no mechanical muttering of mystic syllables. All these are egoistic activities. Your inner fullness can dawn only when the ego is fleeced off.

38.

The senses are real; but regarding Sight, who is seeing? What is being seen?

Touch, who is touching? What is being touched?

Smell, who is smelling? What is being smelt?

Taste, who is tasting? What is being tasted?

Hearing, who is hearing? What is being heard?

He is looking. He is feeling. He is the fragrance. He is flavour itself. He is listening.

He alone loves you. Try to love Him Who is within.

39.

Mind is taken up with the senses. Without them, how can there be realisation?

40.

The senses are your guests come to help you relish His Love and Bliss.

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ATTACHMENT & DETACHMENT 17

1.

The word attachment is mostly misunderstood. Behind great works of Art is the driving force of attachment or love of creation that brings about union of the artist and the created art into one identity. That union generates new forms of creation.

2.

One cannot undertake any work without a pragmatic end in view. So with attachment one has to do one’s works, although without any desire for the results. No sooner has the work been finished, then the attachment evaporates.

That should be the mental attitude.

3.

Can anybody work without attachment? On the contrary, one has to work with full attachment. But if that be with full awareness of Him, then it is detached.

4.

If there is no expectation for the result of the action or effort to create, then that action cannot bloom in fullness, nor can it be an object for offering to the Lord because that detached action cannot have life put into it.

5.

You cannot do any work without attachment. You must do your work with 155

devotion.

6.

When you are engrossed in concentration in your work, do you remember the considerations behind your action? The aim is that the work should be beautiful in all respects.

Let it be an offering to Him, the Lord. This attachment is called Love.

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shall have to give something to them. If you stop everything they will revolt.

31.

The natural appetites that you have come with are called senses. They are not evil tendencies. What is called evil or wild is a natural appetite overfed. It happens when human love becomes confused and frightened, not trusting enough of God’s Love.

32.

The sensual urges have come with us. We should not disturb them. He will take them over.

If you disturb them, ultimately there will be difficulty.

33.

You will try not to have desire. But with this mind and body, you must have desire. It can be a kind of ego, never asking for anything.

It is necessary to feed the appetites a little bit for you have invited the desires while entering this world.

34.

Let your senses and mind do any manner of antics. If you starve them, you are the worst criminal. You cannot then do the Aswa-Medha (let your senses run their course and turn inward) and the Raj-Suya (sacrifice your ego).

35.

The senses may be suppressed for the time being, but the time will come when they will take the inescapable revenge.

Those who are conscious of their role know that these very senses will turn inward in time, and will become the internal ladder to help them climb to the plane of Divine Consciousness.

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anywhere. When Atma leaves the body, in your language, only Vivek (Conscience) remains with Him. Then Conscience Itself says, why, having received such human life has one remained deprived of enjoyment of the taste of the Supreme? Conscience alone reminds one of the indwelling Atma.

27.

28.

That which holds the body will return to Its own abode when It leaves the body. All the Reality of the mortals is then merged in that Eternal and Continuous Life Force which never moves from or to any place.

Life is the play of the Divine and the birth is His Music. Death is a secession, more precisely, a condition or phase. He who has created us has done so for a great cause, all for good.

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1.

Look, He has sent us here to experience His Divine Play.

2.

If we have not understood the purpose of coming into this world, then the coming has been a waste.

3.

We have come here to taste His Superabundant Rasa. The Joy of Love is Rasa.

4.

The essential thing about life is to see it and enjoy it taking part in His Leela.

5.

It is a stage where we are to enact our respective roles for a stipulated period of time.

6.

This time of the body is temporary. We are actors and are paid according to our performances.

7.

Play your part well in the Vraja Leela (His Supreme Play), shaking off desires a n d obsessions. Be always in a state of Swabhava. Our duty is to watch His Leela as passive witnesses.

If one’s own habitat is Sri Kshetra, then all

SENSES 29.

30.

When one is born with a body, the mind comes with all the senses and drives one forcibly blinding the vision, so that one fails to assess things in the right perspective.

One who undertakes all activities while remembering God will find the senses and desires become friends giving the feeling that they have all been beneficial. Otherwise one would have been helpless in grief or madness.

With birth we have invited and come with certain desires, lusts, passions and greed. You 148

We don’t know why we have come here in the world. Why have we come and where will we go? Have we come here for ever or not?

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is Love. If, on the contrary, one’s habitat be crooked, all appears crooked.

Mandir too.

19.

And one can have communion with Him without building a Mandir, the outside of which only demonstrates the ego of the person who built it.

20.

We have taken the Ashram, the body. He is within us. It is futile to seek Him in the exterior world, in holy shrines and holy places, or in Maths, Mandirs and Ashrams. He is within you.

21.

How can you confine the Lord of the Universe in a little spot and do all kinds of things in His Name? Ashram is this body. Because Govinda is with us, it is a moving Ashram.

22.

The Name, the Form and the Abode, all these are the same and One.

23.

The Abode where Mahanam sounds and is established, is called the Temple of Name.

24.

The body itself is Prarabdha. After all, human body is perishable, decaying and has various problems. Unconsciously and inevitably our bodies develop and decay in their own way.

25.

Life is Eternal. What you call death or end of life, is actually a phase and is concerned with the body. Body consists of matters which dissolve in time to their original form. But Self has no dissolution. The mind is caught by Him.

26.

When He leaves the body, He does not go

The Joy of Love being achieved, emotional abundance ensues.

9.

10.

If you can relish His Love, that is all. If you shed one tear out of love for Him, that is more than enough.

How ineffably is this world filled with beauty and flavour! We have come to taste it.

But we have become otherwise engaged.

11.

Be of good cheer and enjoy. If you fail to enjoy here, how dare you expect it after death?

12.

This human birth is the rarest of all births.

So try to live this life keeping Him in view.

13.

Human beings get crippled in life with so many ups and downs, shocks and jolts, still they do not care to remember Him. Right upto the time of death, they carry the burden of hopes and desires, becoming victims of the miseries of repeated births and deaths and unavoidable destiny.

14.

You have come here for a few days, not for ever. Why should you bother for anything?

15.

One has no right to put a violent end to one’s own life. Live the normal term of life doing your work without coveting wealth of others and enjoying Him. 158

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11.

Do not shun the needs of the body. Satisfy the wants but at the same time be aware of its triviality. Remember the body, but He Who is beyond that alone can bring salvation.

16.

When a person is born, one day he must leave the body. Nobody goes anywhere ; only the body changes and transforms while the Soul (Atma) exists.

12.

Human beings have their individual shape (male or female) according to the Divine Will of the Lord in spite of the fact that they originate from the same natural elements.

You cannot come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the Mahanam. That Mahanam is the Lord within everyone. Your body is the shrine of God.

17.

Action and reaction hold the stage. When the reaction gathers momentum, one cries for succour. Then comes death. But the reaction persists and that leads to re-birth.

18.

When you give up the body, the mind is caught by Him. After that it is a question of time, you come back in a different body.

19.

We have come to another’s house. We must leave it someday. He (Dadaji) will come and take you off.

20.

How many days we can and do live is not important. How we live is important. Keep it in mind.

21.

The love of humanity and desire to serve all will bring Blissful Peace to your heart.

13.

Body and life bestowed on by God are to be fully tasted and enjoyed.

14.

Food is only for the sake of the body. What is required for the body must be eaten. There is no connection between eating and drinking with Him. Fasting is not good.

15.

Take care of the body which is the channel for experiencing His Love.

16.

The body is the Temple of Viswanath (the Lord Almighty).

17.

He is with you always. You are His Temple, feed it properly, exercise it properly, don’t abuse it. Be natural, try to love God.

18.

Wherever He resides becomes a Mandir(Temple) and the body where He resides becomes a Mandir too. This Universe is a 146

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You created the uncreated to recreate your body, mind and senses with it. You immerse yourself in the water of Ganga (Integral Consciousness) and are nestled in the Lotus Feet with Ecstasy never experienced before.

WORLD 19

1.

Whatever is, is within. But that does not brush off the outside world. Whatever is within must also be there in the world outside. The cycle must be completed. Otherwise, I shall suffer from a cleavage in consciousness.

2.

The world is not an illusion. It is the Vrindaban Leela of the Supreme.

3.

The world is real. Of course with Him as the Reality.

4.

The world is real and is in no way a dungeon, a purgatory or a prison house. We have come here to taste the blissful rapture of His Manifestation. By doing our duties which come from His Will, we relish His Love and Bliss.

5.

6.

No, no! the world is not non-existent. The reason is that only in this earth have human beings the right to savour His Taste and nowhere else. Even gods do not have that right. That being so, how can the world be illusory?

Manifestation of God Himself is the Universe. How can it be unreal?

The Supreme is the Poet and the Universe is His Poem.

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6.

What a priceless treasure God has sent us with! This body is unreal, and though unreal, it has turned real because of the Truth that accompanies it.

7.

You have to fulfil the duties of the body.

Having come to the realm of Nature, but not paying her taxes by practising austerities, by suppressing natural desires, and by fleeing away from her, will one attain salvation? Has He sent us here to spend this life in practising deprivation? In enjoyment, happiness, work, in everything, one has to be aware of Him. On the vision becoming clear, you will become a Seer.

8.

Only for performing the bodily duties have the riches of the body been given. Eat, drink, do everything, but remember Him Who is inside the body.

9.

To move according to Nature is the only safe course. Do not go against the limitations of the body. Go about doing everything while remembering Him. That is all that is needed.

10.

Satisfy the needs of physical life. Let there be your family, spouse and children. Perform your duty to them. But that should not be all.

Remember the Mahanam at the same time.

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7.

The world is an escapable reality. Space and time each have infinite dimensions. Every segment of space is present in every other segment. Every split second is also present in every other second. So space and time are both ubiquitous.

8.

Reality is One. He is All- pervading. Other than Him, there is nothing. Whatever you see, all that is our illusion. That illusion is created due to the influence of Yogamaya.

9.

Everyone comes holding on to the Root (Mahanam), for it is the Root that holds everyone. On knowing the Power of the Root, which is manifested by His power only, all differences such as saying that the world is illusory or Brahma is true, do not remain.

All is illusory and again all is true.

10.

He is the world ; its flora, fauna and humanity. We are in fact He Himself. It is the Supreme Will as the Vital Spasm that ushers in the Primal I, the Big I, and the world also. The Big I branches off into individual small i’s. The small i is not real, the Big I is the only Reality.

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Dadaji sometimes conducts a ceremony of Truth called Sri Sri Satyanarayan Puja. Sri Sri Satyanarayan, Truth personified, is the sole creative and sustaining principle perceptible in this Universe as Divine Power.

To witness supernatural phenomena or miracles, the elite of the city, including educators, chancellors, physicians, scientists, senators, governors, presidents of churches gathered yesterday in the presence of Dadaji and received Mahanam, the Name of the Lord, from within.

The Satyanarayan Puja happened simultaneously in a closed room in the houses of Dr. Khetani in Los Angles and the residence of Dr. Albert in New York City, and in the home of Dr. William Jones in Washington D.C. Dadaji was all along seated outside amongst the visitors, but simultaneously his presence was felt in those three widely separated locations in the United States.

When the Puja began, the floor of the closed room was dry, but after the phenomenal worship it was found to be wet with fragrant water. The coconut water in a container in front of the Satyanarayan portrait was found congealed into a thick condensed milk-like pudding, and a glass of plain water had acquired a sweet aroma and taste. A honey-like nectar with a sweet aroma was found dripping from the glass-covering of the framed portrait of Sri Sri Satyanarayan..............

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Eugene N. Kovalenko Nobel Laureate

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1.

2.

1.

Greed and love for power are to be conquered.

One has nothing else to desire for other than His Grace which makes one’s life glorious and significant. Otherwise one is just born to die without purpose. So, seek His Grace, do not worry.

2.

Whatever you get in this world is transitory mundane merchandise and egoistic tapestry that goes off in no time.

As you have received His Grace, you have nothing to worry about. He is with you to guide you to the right path. Leave it to Him.

3.

There are endless materials in Nature for our enjoyment, but we have turned them into objects of greed and aspiration. This is the cause of schism between people everywhere.

Grace comes directly from Him.

The temporal and temporary assets have no value except in this material world. They are at best a fleeting phantom. In fact they are a distraction from the path to Eternal Joy, Peace and Bliss.

4.

Without His Grace nothing can be understood.

5.

Divine Grace will descend upon you if your mind is bereft of ego and your heart void of desires.

4.

Whatever you have received in life, take that as His Blessing and the road to peace is opened.

6.

5.

Your sincerity will take you to natural living with Him, where any sense of poverty, wants, confusions and nervousness of mind have no place.

Those who are my own are always with me. Whatever happens to them happens for their good. May be sometimes their load of sufferings is very heavy. Know it to be certain all are Manifestations of His Supreme Grace.

6.

To live life successfully is a great challenge.

Every moment in different activities of life we are enhancing our problems, sometimes

3.

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is. How can there be any felt consciousness at that stage? This is the Absolute. It is a sense of All-engrossing I-ness in All-Existence.

7.

God or Divine Being is the Reality. It is the abstract idea of Zero, of One, of Brahma.

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consciously, sometimes unconsciously. Results of such actions gradually become unbearable and fill our mind with despondency, a sense of insecurity and failure. Worldly affluence and wealth are of no help. Everyone faces this challenge individually, in his or her individual capacity. But one who can completely depend on God residing in one’s heart, will find that the Lord carries the burden and eases all difficulties.

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MATH & ASHRAM

VOID & FULLNESS 21

1.

2.

People go to enjoy Him in holy places, with holy people doing Puja. This is all false, emotional, full of ego, mind function.

If you cannot enjoy Him in everyday life, work, family, everything, you don’t understand anything of Truth.

You build churches in your own image, for your own business and pleasure, not for Him.

3.

How can you confine the Lord of the Universe in a little spot and do all kinds of things in His Name? Ashram is this body. Because Govinda is staying with us, the body becomes a moving Ashram.

4.

Ashram is this body, the real Ashram, because He is within, full Force.

5.

He is with you always. You are His Temple, take care of the Temple, feed it properly, exercise it properly, don’t abuse it. Be natural, try to love God.

6.

Our heart is the true place of pilgrimage.

Due to ignorance and superstition we run from place to place in search of Him.

7.

He resides in the heart of each human being. One has only to search Him within.

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1.

Truth is negation of all fancied possessions. It is stark nudity. That is why we are to witness ourselves being void in order that He may manifest His Fullness within us.

2.

We are all Full to the brim with Him. To install this consciousness in our empiric being is the only necessity.

3.

Truth is beyond expression, beyond description. With ego you describe It in so many ways as full, as void. On becoming One with that Supreme Joy, does there remain any awareness of all this difference of fullness or void? Aware or unaware, He is beyond all this.

4.

No act can ever lead to the zero experience.

5.

When one gets the Real Thing, that person becomes One with Him. It is just like when the heart is full. That is the domain of quietness, even feeling is absent there. That is why many confuse Void and Fullness. That is a matter of realisation, not the object of understanding.

Neither I nor you do exist. He is enveloped in Himself. The Fullness is the Void. There is no Existence then. Nothing is. Only the Infinite

6.

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8.

We have taken the Ashram, the body. He is within us. It is futile to seek Him in the exterior world, in Holy Shrines and Holy places or in Maths, Mandirs and Ashrams. He is within.

9.

Wherever He resides, becomes a Mandir and the body where He resides becomes a Mandir too. The Universe is too a Mandir. And one can have communion with Him without building a Mandir which only demonstrates the ego of the person who has built it.

10.

The Name, the Form and the Abode, all these are the same and One. The Abode where His Name sounds and is established, is called the Temple of Name.

11.

There is only one substance and it is constantly changing form. This is He or the Divine, without name or form, yet containing all names and forms. This chemistry is beyond mind. We are not chemicals, we are Temples of the Divine.

12.

What a priceless treasure God has sent us with! This body is unreal and though unreal, it has turned real because of Truth that accompanies it.

13.

You cannot come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the Mahanam. The Mahanam is the Lord within everyone. Your body is the Shrine of God.

AROMA 25

1.

When one gets Aroma, that is manifestation of Will Supreme.

2.

It is the fragrance that reminds one of Him.

3.

Fragrance is the real Vanshi Dhwani (Sound of Lord Krishna’s Flute calling all to Him). The sound of His Flute is His Fragrance. It is All- pervasive.

4.

AROMA IS THE INFALLIBLE MARK OF HIS PRESENCE ANYWHERE.

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7.

WORSHIP 22

1.

Worship has no meaning. Who will worship whom? The worshipper and the worshipped is the same.

2.

Who worships whom? How can an individual do it? Puja is performed only where the subject and object become One.

3.

To be in tune with the Lord, Sri Satyanarayan, is called Puja. This is possible only when one can leave the physical body and mind of the mundane plane to taste the Bliss of the Infinite. Then only the Divine communion is made the Reality. Since it is impossible for the mortal body to transcend the ego, Puja in the true sense of the term is never performed.

4.

The Self worships the Self. That indeed is the worship.

The future is unknown, unseen, un-achieved and not in the hands of people.

So they always worry and die of uncertainty.

There is no use being concerned about the future. The future is best when it is unknown.

Let the future feature Him, who has taken charge of you.

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He cannot be worshipped. He is won by Love alone.

5.

To do prescribed worship is to put a wall between the worshipper and the worshipped.

To think of worshipping the Absolute Who pervades this Creation and at the same time is enshrined in us, only smacks of egoistic appraisal.

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6.

Even worship is a fine division. One worships, One is worshipped. It is only Divine Love that does not divide, but rather reveals the Union.

7.

What is Puja? It is His State of Manifestation.

8.

What is meant by Utsava? ‘Ut’ means luminous manifestation and ‘ sava’ means Existence. That is to say, it means to be immersed in Existence Itself.

9.

Mahotsava is everywhere and for all the time. Your entire life is Mahotsava.

SPACE & TIME 24

1.

Space and time both have infinite dimensions. Every segment of space is present in every other segment. Every split second is also present in every other second. So space and time are both ubiquitous.

2.

Time is a ceaseless duration and space an unfettered expanse. So an elsewhere-elsewhen Reality appears here and now.

3.

Humanity is limited by mind, and space and time. He, who is Truth, is beyond space and time.

4.

There is no limit to space. The world is only a small speck.

5.

In mind is the space-time complex. He is beyond time and space. Calendar time is mere repetition of time fixed by the human mind.

6.

It is a most difficult task not to think of past, present and future. A person nurses recollection of the past, thinks of the future but does not take care of the present and throws away its gifts. But one who can relish and utilise the present without worrying about the present, past and future, really enjoys the state of Vraja.

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behave in an unnatural way? Of course Nature has a tendency to grow restless, but is it a breach of law? In your words, good and evil, auspicious and ominous, all these are mere states of mind.

SCIENCE & FAITH 23

1.

For the relish of His Divine Play, He has appeared as many in the mirror of the mind. All activities here are of this world, scientific study not excepting. Far from being shunned, they are to be fully participated in and enjoyed.

2.

The Divine Play is intrinsically bi-polar, having positive and negative, ups and downs, good and bad, etc. Oscillations between them provide the basis for all the creative possibilities of the Play. When the Play is over, the two poles coalesce into mere Existence, the Existents having disappeared.

3.

His science is the ruling factor over Nature.

When Nature is manifested, it follows laws.

4.

Faith proves itself much as science proves physical facts. Physical and spiritual nature obey their own laws, which meet at a point.

For the world-maker and the mind-maker are the same Supreme Being. He has physical or Cosmic laws and also moral and mental laws. These work in different ways but converge at a point, however distant it may be. Apparent contradictions resolve at a far end.

5.

When the world is hit by storms, rains, cyclones, you may think : why does Nature 168

6.

He has made certain rules and regulations for the sake of His Creation. In this creation, just as calamities appear, to find a way out of them, He has provided the means. As we see troubles and bondage in God’s Creation, so also we see that He has made the means of attaining safety and liberation.

7.

See how material science keeps changing from Age to Age. What is at one time established as true, gets overthrown sometime later. Do you know that Nature moves at a furious pace? There is no beginning or end of this movement. It is eternal.

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behave in an unnatural way? Of course Nature has a tendency to grow restless, but is it a breach of law? In your words, good and evil, auspicious and ominous, all these are mere states of mind.

SCIENCE & FAITH 23

1.

For the relish of His Divine Play, He has appeared as many in the mirror of the mind. All activities here are of this world, scientific study not excepting. Far from being shunned, they are to be fully participated in and enjoyed.

2.

The Divine Play is intrinsically bi-polar, having positive and negative, ups and downs, good and bad, etc. Oscillations between them provide the basis for all the creative possibilities of the Play. When the Play is over, the two poles coalesce into mere Existence, the Existents having disappeared.

3.

His science is the ruling factor over Nature.

When Nature is manifested, it follows laws.

4.

Faith proves itself much as science proves physical facts. Physical and spiritual nature obey their own laws, which meet at a point.

For the world-maker and the mind-maker are the same Supreme Being. He has physical or Cosmic laws and also moral and mental laws. These work in different ways but converge at a point, however distant it may be. Apparent contradictions resolve at a far end.

5.

When the world is hit by storms, rains, cyclones, you may think : why does Nature 168

6.

He has made certain rules and regulations for the sake of His Creation. In this creation, just as calamities appear, to find a way out of them, He has provided the means. As we see troubles and bondage in God’s Creation, so also we see that He has made the means of attaining safety and liberation.

7.

See how material science keeps changing from Age to Age. What is at one time established as true, gets overthrown sometime later. Do you know that Nature moves at a furious pace? There is no beginning or end of this movement. It is eternal.

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6.

Even worship is a fine division. One worships, One is worshipped. It is only Divine Love that does not divide, but rather reveals the Union.

7.

What is Puja? It is His State of Manifestation.

8.

What is meant by Utsava? ‘Ut’ means luminous manifestation and ‘ sava’ means Existence. That is to say, it means to be immersed in Existence Itself.

9.

Mahotsava is everywhere and for all the time. Your entire life is Mahotsava.

SPACE & TIME 24

1.

Space and time both have infinite dimensions. Every segment of space is present in every other segment. Every split second is also present in every other second. So space and time are both ubiquitous.

2.

Time is a ceaseless duration and space an unfettered expanse. So an elsewhere-elsewhen Reality appears here and now.

3.

Humanity is limited by mind, and space and time. He, who is Truth, is beyond space and time.

4.

There is no limit to space. The world is only a small speck.

5.

In mind is the space-time complex. He is beyond time and space. Calendar time is mere repetition of time fixed by the human mind.

6.

It is a most difficult task not to think of past, present and future. A person nurses recollection of the past, thinks of the future but does not take care of the present and throws away its gifts. But one who can relish and utilise the present without worrying about the present, past and future, really enjoys the state of Vraja.

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167

7.

WORSHIP 22

1.

Worship has no meaning. Who will worship whom? The worshipper and the worshipped is the same.

2.

Who worships whom? How can an individual do it? Puja is performed only where the subject and object become One.

3.

To be in tune with the Lord, Sri Satyanarayan, is called Puja. This is possible only when one can leave the physical body and mind of the mundane plane to taste the Bliss of the Infinite. Then only the Divine communion is made the Reality. Since it is impossible for the mortal body to transcend the ego, Puja in the true sense of the term is never performed.

4.

The Self worships the Self. That indeed is the worship.

The future is unknown, unseen, un-achieved and not in the hands of people.

So they always worry and die of uncertainty.

There is no use being concerned about the future. The future is best when it is unknown.

Let the future feature Him, who has taken charge of you.

He cannot be worshipped. He is won by Love alone.

5.

To do prescribed worship is to put a wall between the worshipper and the worshipped.

To think of worshipping the Absolute Who pervades this Creation and at the same time is enshrined in us, only smacks of egoistic appraisal.

166

171

8.

We have taken the Ashram, the body. He is within us. It is futile to seek Him in the exterior world, in Holy Shrines and Holy places or in Maths, Mandirs and Ashrams. He is within.

9.

Wherever He resides, becomes a Mandir and the body where He resides becomes a Mandir too. The Universe is too a Mandir. And one can have communion with Him without building a Mandir which only demonstrates the ego of the person who has built it.

10.

The Name, the Form and the Abode, all these are the same and One. The Abode where His Name sounds and is established, is called the Temple of Name.

11.

There is only one substance and it is constantly changing form. This is He or the Divine, without name or form, yet containing all names and forms. This chemistry is beyond mind. We are not chemicals, we are Temples of the Divine.

12.

What a priceless treasure God has sent us with! This body is unreal and though unreal, it has turned real because of Truth that accompanies it.

13.

You cannot come here without being wedded to Truth, the Word, the Mahanam. The Mahanam is the Lord within everyone. Your body is the Shrine of God.

AROMA 25

1.

When one gets Aroma, that is manifestation of Will Supreme.

2.

It is the fragrance that reminds one of Him.

3.

Fragrance is the real Vanshi Dhwani (Sound of Lord Krishna’s Flute calling all to Him). The sound of His Flute is His Fragrance. It is All- pervasive.

4.

AROMA IS THE INFALLIBLE MARK OF HIS PRESENCE ANYWHERE.

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MATH & ASHRAM

VOID & FULLNESS 21

1.

2.

People go to enjoy Him in holy places, with holy people doing Puja. This is all false, emotional, full of ego, mind function.

If you cannot enjoy Him in everyday life, work, family, everything, you don’t understand anything of Truth.

You build churches in your own image, for your own business and pleasure, not for Him.

3.

How can you confine the Lord of the Universe in a little spot and do all kinds of things in His Name? Ashram is this body. Because Govinda is staying with us, the body becomes a moving Ashram.

4.

Ashram is this body, the real Ashram, because He is within, full Force.

5.

He is with you always. You are His Temple, take care of the Temple, feed it properly, exercise it properly, don’t abuse it. Be natural, try to love God.

6.

Our heart is the true place of pilgrimage.

Due to ignorance and superstition we run from place to place in search of Him.

7.

He resides in the heart of each human being. One has only to search Him within.

164

26

1.

Truth is negation of all fancied possessions. It is stark nudity. That is why we are to witness ourselves being void in order that He may manifest His Fullness within us.

2.

We are all Full to the brim with Him. To install this consciousness in our empiric being is the only necessity.

3.

Truth is beyond expression, beyond description. With ego you describe It in so many ways as full, as void. On becoming One with that Supreme Joy, does there remain any awareness of all this difference of fullness or void? Aware or unaware, He is beyond all this.

4.

No act can ever lead to the zero experience.

5.

When one gets the Real Thing, that person becomes One with Him. It is just like when the heart is full. That is the domain of quietness, even feeling is absent there. That is why many confuse Void and Fullness. That is a matter of realisation, not the object of understanding.

Neither I nor you do exist. He is enveloped in Himself. The Fullness is the Void. There is no Existence then. Nothing is. Only the Infinite

6.

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is. How can there be any felt consciousness at that stage? This is the Absolute. It is a sense of All-engrossing I-ness in All-Existence.

7.

God or Divine Being is the Reality. It is the abstract idea of Zero, of One, of Brahma.

174

consciously, sometimes unconsciously. Results of such actions gradually become unbearable and fill our mind with despondency, a sense of insecurity and failure. Worldly affluence and wealth are of no help. Everyone faces this challenge individually, in his or her individual capacity. But one who can completely depend on God residing in one’s heart, will find that the Lord carries the burden and eases all difficulties.

163

GRACE

WORLDLY RICHES

27

20

1.

2.

1.

Greed and love for power are to be conquered.

One has nothing else to desire for other than His Grace which makes one’s life glorious and significant. Otherwise one is just born to die without purpose. So, seek His Grace, do not worry.

2.

Whatever you get in this world is transitory mundane merchandise and egoistic tapestry that goes off in no time.

As you have received His Grace, you have nothing to worry about. He is with you to guide you to the right path. Leave it to Him.

3.

There are endless materials in Nature for our enjoyment, but we have turned them into objects of greed and aspiration. This is the cause of schism between people everywhere.

Grace comes directly from Him.

The temporal and temporary assets have no value except in this material world. They are at best a fleeting phantom. In fact they are a distraction from the path to Eternal Joy, Peace and Bliss.

4.

Without His Grace nothing can be understood.

5.

Divine Grace will descend upon you if your mind is bereft of ego and your heart void of desires.

4.

Whatever you have received in life, take that as His Blessing and the road to peace is opened.

6.

5.

Your sincerity will take you to natural living with Him, where any sense of poverty, wants, confusions and nervousness of mind have no place.

Those who are my own are always with me. Whatever happens to them happens for their good. May be sometimes their load of sufferings is very heavy. Know it to be certain all are Manifestations of His Supreme Grace.

6.

To live life successfully is a great challenge.

Every moment in different activities of life we are enhancing our problems, sometimes

3.

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PUJA

7.

The world is an escapable reality. Space and time each have infinite dimensions. Every segment of space is present in every other segment. Every split second is also present in every other second. So space and time are both ubiquitous.

8.

Reality is One. He is All- pervading. Other than Him, there is nothing. Whatever you see, all that is our illusion. That illusion is created due to the influence of Yogamaya.

9.

Everyone comes holding on to the Root (Mahanam), for it is the Root that holds everyone. On knowing the Power of the Root, which is manifested by His power only, all differences such as saying that the world is illusory or Brahma is true, do not remain.

All is illusory and again all is true.

10.

He is the world ; its flora, fauna and humanity. We are in fact He Himself. It is the Supreme Will as the Vital Spasm that ushers in the Primal I, the Big I, and the world also. The Big I branches off into individual small i’s. The small i is not real, the Big I is the only Reality.

L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L

Dadaji sometimes conducts a ceremony of Truth called Sri Sri Satyanarayan Puja. Sri Sri Satyanarayan, Truth personified, is the sole creative and sustaining principle perceptible in this Universe as Divine Power.

To witness supernatural phenomena or miracles, the elite of the city, including educators, chancellors, physicians, scientists, senators, governors, presidents of churches gathered yesterday in the presence of Dadaji and received Mahanam, the Name of the Lord, from within.

The Satyanarayan Puja happened simultaneously in a closed room in the houses of Dr. Khetani in Los Angles and the residence of Dr. Albert in New York City, and in the home of Dr. William Jones in Washington D.C. Dadaji was all along seated outside amongst the visitors, but simultaneously his presence was felt in those three widely separated locations in the United States.

When the Puja began, the floor of the closed room was dry, but after the phenomenal worship it was found to be wet with fragrant water. The coconut water in a container in front of the Satyanarayan portrait was found congealed into a thick condensed milk-like pudding, and a glass of plain water had acquired a sweet aroma and taste. A honey-like nectar with a sweet aroma was found dripping from the glass-covering of the framed portrait of Sri Sri Satyanarayan..............

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Eugene N. Kovalenko Nobel Laureate

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