Day by day
Man’s main business is to become aware of his true purpose in life; all other business is secondary to this concern.
1.1.0.17Listen 1 Sep 2018If after you reach the deepest contemplation, you then direct attention towards a particular problem on which you are seeking knowledge, knowledge which neither the senses nor the intellect has so far been able to supply, you may be able to perceive as in a flash what is the proper solution of this problem.
15.23.7.276Listen 2 Sep 2018To those who want to travel to India or elsewhere in search of salvation, or of a master who shall lead them to it, the question must be asked, Can you not see that if you take yourself there you will still have to cope with your ego there as here? Look deeper into your own heart, for that is where what you seek really is.”
2.1.5.291Listen 3 Sep 2018What happens to a man is important, but not quite so important as what he makes of it.
1.13.0.29Listen 4 Sep 2018Happiness depends on our understanding of life…
2.1.6.12, ExcerptListen 5 Sep 2018The technique of art is important, but the mission of art--to communicate and awaken the intuitive feeling of Beauty--is still more important.
9.14.1.137Listen 6 Sep 2018The holy joy may visit you but cannot stay in you if both the animal and the ego are staying in you. Purify yourself of the one and empty yourself of the other, if you would convert a passing glimpse into the permanent union.
16.25.2.75Listen 7 Sep 2018In the ordinary waking state, men are well aware that they are not sleeping; but in the dreaming state they mistakenly believe that they are in the other one. A few, however, have come to a degree of development where they know that they are dreaming, and fewer still know that they are in deep thought-free sleep. They are the sages.
13.19.3.148Listen 8 Sep 2018If weeping comes, be it in sound or in silence, it will not be to express unhappiness nor to express joy. For it is very important, and on a deeper, more mysterious, level. So let it continue if it chooses.
3.2.9.54Listen 9 Sep 2018He is a messenger come from a far place to tell people that there is a reality, and that truth awaits them; he points out the direction where they are to be found, and how.
16.25.5.90Listen 10 Sep 2018Powerful forces in the heaven worlds are gathering for a transmission and will enter our world at an appropriate time, which is fixed and measurable within this century. These forces will stimulate new thoughts and new feelings, new intuitions and new ideals of a religious, mystical, and philosophic kind in humanity. It will verily be the opening of a new epoch on earth…
9.13.4.352, ExcerptListen 11 Sep 2018The cure for loneliness is company; but if there is no affinity in the company, then it is only a quack cure. This prescription is true for everyone, even for the sage, for he finds his company in the Overself's self-presence.
2.1.3.336Listen 12 Sep 2018The aim is to work, little by little, toward slowing down the action of thinking first and stilling it altogether later.
4.4.3.36Listen 13 Sep 2018If he is sufficiently advanced he need make no verbal formulation or pictured image to prepare a point of concentration, but can begin straightaway in an abstract wordless pressure towards the heart.
15.23.7.227Listen 14 Sep 2018It is not only the unnecessary killing of tamed animals for food that shows man's thoughtless lack of mercy, but also the unnecessary hunting and killing of wild animals. They are entitled to their mountain or forest home.
4.5.3.51Listen 15 Sep 2018He is not asked to abandon his social aspirations, for instance, in favour of his spiritual aspirations, but to balance them sanely…
15.24.3.159, ExcerptListen 16 Sep 2018We are not left to find out for ourselves what the truth is. Now and then messengers appear among us, each bearing his own personal communication about the existence of a higher power and the need of a higher life.
2.1.6.4Listen 17 Sep 2018Chemical changes in every cell of his body are the outer physical result of this inner second birth.
4.5.2.99Listen 18 Sep 2018The Goal towards which man is slowly travelling by successive steps is a threefold one: the fully developed environment, the fully developed intelligence, and the realized soul. The last is the best and the other two are but servants of it, for here he comes first to a comprehension and then to a realization of himself. Yes, he is on his way to the grand awakening into full self-consciousness.
16.26.4.250Listen 19 Sep 2018Long Path--here is working through the ego. The student thinks he is the ego and develops concentration, aspiring to improve himself, getting more and more pure. He says: I am doing this work…”
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 20 Sep 2018… Short Path — it is different because the idea ”ego” does not come in, only the Overself, not the longing (which belongs to the Long Path), but the identification…
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 21 Sep 2018The divine power to help, heal, guide, or instruct others begins to show itself when we begin to turn our face towards it humbly, prayerfully, and thus make the necessary connection through meditation and study, through altruistic action and religious veneration.
3.2.8.78Listen 22 Sep 2018At this level, he is beyond bothering to listen to the discordant sounds of competing sects and cults: he is uninterested in the claims made for different teachings. He has only one concern: direct communion with the God within him as a felt, grace-giving Presence.
16.25.2.309Listen 23 Sep 2018To turn our gaze to past times and look for similar situations in them and then to observe what happened thereafter, will not avail us today. For such a situation has never before existed. It is without historical precedent.
9.13.4.91Listen 24 Sep 2018There is nothing to do, no technique to practise when you already are in the Light.
15.23.7.271Listen 25 Sep 2018The repeated invocation of a sacred name, with trust in its saving power, eventually keeps away all other thoughts and thus focuses the mind in a kind of constant meditation. In the earlier stages it is the man himself who labours at this repetition, but in the advanced stages it is the Overself's grace which actuates it--his own part being quite passive and mechanical.
4.4.6.9Listen 26 Sep 2018The real meaning of these constant injunctions to practise selflessness is not moral but metaphysical and mystical. It is to give up the lower order of living and thinking so as to be able to climb to a higher one.
12.18.4.109Listen 27 Sep 2018In these brief but glorious moments we discover that we are divine beings. If most of us are worse than the front we present to our neighbours, all of us are better than they think through our affiliation with divinity.
14.22.6.353Listen 28 Sep 2018Philosophical understanding can bloom within him only after he has cultivated his metaphysical intelligence as well as his mystical intuition.
13.20.4.59Listen 29 Sep 2018If one returns daily to the Centre of his being, keeps the access to it open by meditation, he withdraws more and more from the body's domination and the intellect's one-sidedness. That is to say, he becomes more and more himself, less and less limited by his instruments.
4.4.1.328Listen 30 Sep 2018
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