Day by day
Slowly, at times pleasurably and at times painfully, the human entity builds up its consciousness and capacities through the ages.
16.26.4.206Listen 1 Oct 2020… the higher self's response to the ego's penitence is certain. And such response may stretch all the way to complete forgiveness of sins.
12.18.5.85, ExcerptListen 2 Oct 2020If the glimpse does not last, if a man discovers or rather comes back to find that he still is man, he should be pleased that it came at all.
14.22.7.30Listen 3 Oct 2020A further value of mantram yoga is that it keeps the practiser from thinking about himself. The two things--a specific mantram and a personal matter--cannot coexist in his consciousness.
4.4.6.17Listen 4 Oct 2020The soul constitutes both the connection between man and God and the ultimate attainment of man.
16.25.1.105Listen 5 Oct 2020The practice of mantram yoga is well known throughout India as a method of suppressing the wandering tendencies of the mind …Which one is used does not matter from the point of view of acquiring concentration, but it does matter from the point of view of developing any particular quality of character or devotional homage which the mantram symbolizes…
4.4.6.1, ExcerptListen 6 Oct 2020… if money can chain a man more tightly to materialism, it can also give him the conditions whereby he can set to work freeing himself from materialism.
3.2.7.178, ExcerptListen 7 Oct 2020Sometimes an intuition does not stay behind. It flashes through consciousness for a small fraction of a second and is gone. Unless it is detected and recognized during this quick passage while it is still fresh, we are hardly likely to do so afterwards.
14.22.1.148Listen 8 Oct 2020There is no reason to feel that love for a marriage partner is at variance with efforts toward self-evolvement. In its best sense, mutual love is an aid for both to progress and develop as individuals.
9.13.2.444Listen 9 Oct 2020What we know through the senses as forms points to the existence of the mind. What we know through the intellect as thoughts points to the mind. What does the individual mind itself point to? We can find the answer by plunging deep into its core, deeper and ever deeper in the practice of contemplation until we come to its ultimate source. There, where the world vanishes and the ego is stilled, we become one with the infinite and eternal Mind behind the universe.
16.25.1.34Listen 10 Oct 2020In the course of his life the student will pass from one phase of development to another, thus gradually enriching and expanding his whole character.
2.1.5.302Listen 11 Oct 2020The realized man does not look back constantly for memories of the past and does not consider them worth recapitulating, for they belong to the ego … The only exception would be where he has to draw upon them to instruct others to help them profit by his experiences.
16.25.2.285, ExcerptListen 12 Oct 2020Those who can only find their fun by the wanton killing of harmless animals, show no mercy and, at the appropriate time, will receive none.
5.6.7.19Listen 13 Oct 2020… the mantram is a handy device for attracting him to the remembrance of the Overself and making its achievement easier and sure …
4.4.6.4, ExcerptListen 14 Oct 2020The laborious effort and painful discipline of the Long Path bring him to a certain degree of spirituality but the easier, pleasanter, and quicker way of the Short Path brings him to a higher one.
15.23.5.25Listen 15 Oct 2020When the sacred moment comes, let him not hesitate to let himself go, to adore the Overself ecstatically, and to let his heart be ravished.
14.22.5.108Listen 16 Oct 2020The man who is no longer disturbed by the presence or working or characteristic of his own ego will not be disturbed by that of others. No negative feeling will enter his attitude toward them.
5.6.5.42Listen 17 Oct 2020All through history we see men inflicting suffering upon other men. This shows their ignorance of the higher laws, for by their own sin they punish themselves.
6.9.3.194Listen 18 Oct 2020The Short Path tries to get round the ego by ignoring it altogether!
15.23.2.58Listen 19 Oct 2020We are not sufficiently informed about the meaning of life and not sufficiently concerned with the purpose of life. In our ignorance we deify the machine and destroy ourselves. In our indifference we lose all chance of gaining peace of mind.
9.13.2.644Listen 20 Oct 2020… why does not every teacher teach the Short Path? The answer is: Because people have not got enough strength of character to give up the ego and are not willing to turn at once to the light …
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 21 Oct 2020He has entered a new and happier phase of his life. The problems of the past have disappeared. The door to inner light is always ready to open at his mere push.
15.23.1.172Listen 22 Oct 2020He is here to understand life; and it can be understood just as well in business as in a cave. Moreover if he stays in the world he will have a far better opportunity to serve mankind than if he runs away. The time for withdrawing from business in order to have more time for meditation and study will come when it is right later on …
3.2.7.109, ExcerptListen 23 Oct 2020The enlightened man has the same kind of body and the same five senses as unenlightened men have. His experience of the world must be the same, too. But — and this is a vast difference — he experiences it along with the Overself.
16.25.2.234Listen 24 Oct 2020… it is natural as well as inevitable that one who has entered into the larger life of the Overself should show forth some of its higher powers …
16.25.2.296, ExcerptListen 25 Oct 2020… adoration of the divine soul and humility in the divine presence are two necessary qualities which the quester ought to develop. The first is expressed through meditation and the second through prayer.
12.18.1.2, ExcerptListen 26 Oct 2020The higher self affects the ego but is not affected by it. Its existence goes on quite independently of the serialized earth appearances of the ego, and persists when the other ceases …
14.22.3.352, ExcerptListen 27 Oct 2020These great souls who have ascended to another plane of being altogether have sent us signals from that distant sphere. It is for us to heed those signals and to understand their meaning.
16.25.3.527Listen 28 Oct 2020The asceticism has its place, just like the Long Path, of which it is a component, but when it is stressed to an unnatural point, fanaticism is born, equilibrium is lost, and tolerance is destroyed.
3.3.7.59Listen 29 Oct 2020What this age needs to seek is a new intellectualism, a new science, one informed by deeper spiritual feeling and protected by higher spiritual ideals.
5.7.3.12Listen 30 Oct 2020The goal is achieved when the higher self encloses and absorbs the ego.
16.25.2.218Listen 31 Oct 2020
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