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The 30 latest published notes
”… You have to go beyond seeing and find out who is the ‘I’ who experiences this light,” said Ramana Maharshi to a disciple.
14.22.4.206, ExcerptListen 13 Nov 2025Your reaction to events and persons depends on your recognition of Overself. If you see only little ego, and fail to see the Overself, there will be a negative reaction. Both are within you.
15.23.1.136Listen 12 Nov 2025The Psalmist’s advice, “Be still, and know that I am God,” may be taken on one level—the mystical—as a reference to the ultimate state achieved intermittently in contemplation; but on another level—the philosophical—the reference can be carried even deeper. For here it is a continuous state achieved not by quietening the mind for half an hour but by emptying the mind for all time of agitation and illusion. Towards this end the cultivation of calmness amid all circumstances makes a weighty contribution.
15.24.2.27Listen 11 Nov 2025It is amazing paradox that the Overself completely transcends the body yet completely permeates it: both these descriptions are simultaneously true.
14.22.3.336Listen 10 Nov 2025The Void which man finds at the centre—whether of his own being or of the universe’s—is divine. It holds both godlike Mind and godlike Energy. It is still and silent, yet it is the source of all the dynamic energies, human and universal.
16.26.1.214Listen 9 Nov 2025The time has come to teach the masses principles which formerly they were taught in parables.
13.20.2.325Listen 8 Nov 2025The body’s organs are affected by the mind’s states. Worry or fear, shock or excessive emotion may disturb, reduce, increase, or even paralyse their working for a time—in some cases for all time.
7.10.3.36Listen 7 Nov 2025It is better to attain such high status without knowing it. For this absence of pride and presence of humility keeps the ego from threatening it.
16.25.2.87Listen 6 Nov 2025An experience which ended in disillusionment is not necessarily a wasted one. It may have its positive side: it may have contributed certain ideas.
3.2.3.144Listen 5 Nov 2025True altruism of a philosophic kind is not done by the self but through the self, not by the ego but by the Overself using the ego …
6.8.3.85, ExcerptListen 4 Nov 2025His attitude need not be utterly pessimistic. He may say to himself, If I have made a mistake, very well; I am undergoing a process of spiritual trial and error. Some errors are inevitable, but I shall catch up with them, study them, understand their results, and wring their meaning and their lessons out of them. In that way they will become steps which I shall mount towards Truth …
12.18.3.65, ExcerptListen 3 Nov 2025In becoming conscious of the not-thinking hinterground of my personality, I attain true being.
14.22.5.79Listen 2 Nov 2025The earnest seeker who has already achieved a certain degree of awareness and understanding has the beginnings of what may be a splendid opportunity to make phenomenal progress in his present incarnation …
13.20.3.127, ExcerptListen 1 Nov 2025It is an obstacle to success in meditation if he times himself by a watch or a clock. This will create a subconscious pressure diverting his attention intermittently towards the outer world, towards his affairs and schedules in that world, towards the passage of time—all things he had better forget if he wants to remember the Overself and reach its consciousness.
4.4.2.293Listen 31 Oct 2025If he is to remember the Overself with all his undivided attention, he must forget everything and everyone else without exception.
4.4.2.133Listen 30 Oct 2025If we seek an origin for the consciousness, however small finite and limited it may be, that a man possesses, none other can be found except the universal consciousness which informs the entire universe and guides its development.
16.27.2.82Listen 29 Oct 2025We spend so much of the day concentrating on our personal selves. Can we not spend a half hour concentrating on the higher self?
4.4.1.57Listen 28 Oct 2025Some find it fascinating to speculate about whom they are the reincarnation of, but they ought to keep clear in mind that this is imagination given free play. In other cases, however, there is genuine remembrance, which may appear in either waking or dream states.
6.9.2.131Listen 27 Oct 2025This beneficent, freedom-bestowing, character-transforming, soul-awakening, gentle Presence is The Overself.
14.22.3.253Listen 26 Oct 2025The first reason for the warning not to pursue occult powers is that pursuing them is a sure way to prevent the soul’s self-revelation. For the soul cannot be found unless its Grace has been granted. And it will not grant its Grace unless sought in all purity for its own sake. Hence the aspirant has to choose between it and occultism.
11.16.13.1Listen 25 Oct 2025It is true that wisdom comes with experience but that experience need not be gained at the cost of one’s own suffering. It can just as well be gained by the observation of it in others.
9.13.1.68Listen 24 Oct 2025Let him humbly acknowledge that he does not have the wisdom and purity to know what is right for him to have and what is right to do. Let him turn in silent waiting to the Interior Word, and listen for it to tell him these answers.
14.22.2.168Listen 23 Oct 2025If before performing an impulsive, undisciplined, and irresponsible deed he would remember what the consequences are and that he will have to bear them, then he will have taken the first step towards self-mastery.
5.6.4.181Listen 22 Oct 2025The seeker should remember that it is possible to learn just as much from joyous, satisfying experiences as from those of suffering and frustration.
9.13.1.164Listen 21 Oct 2025The intelligence displayed by Nature is an infinite one. This fact, once recognized, forces us to concede that there is a deeper meaning and a wiser purpose in life than our puny intellects can adequately fathom.
16.26.1.83Listen 20 Oct 2025The concentration of attention instead of the dispersal of it—this is the guiding rule which is behind the Japanese custom of displaying a single picture for a period of time instead of several competing with one another …
9.14.1.72, ExcerptListen 19 Oct 2025All are benefited by remembering at all times the practice of harmlessness towards all creatures in thought, word, and action. He should not consider himself alone, but ought also consider his duty to those other beings who cross his path, including animal beings.
5.6.5.63Listen 18 Oct 2025Our greatest strength comes from reliance on the Higher Self and faith in the Higher Laws.
12.18.1.13Listen 17 Oct 2025The person who is afraid to alter his living habits, and especially his eating and drinking habits, because he is afraid that other persons may regard him as queer, eccentric, or fanatic forgets that the ownership of his body, the responsibility for its well-being, belongs to him, not them.
4.5.3.74Listen 16 Oct 2025The heart leaps at the thought that life has some higher meaning, some better worth.
2.1.2.166Listen 15 Oct 2025Frankly confess your past mistakes, then analyse and absorb their unpalatable lessons, and resolve to apply the unpleasant result to your future actions. This is practical wisdom. It may be a saddening procedure, and if it is to be an effectual one, it ought to be. But having done it, be done with it. Turn your face toward the sun of hopefulness. Remember the strength, light, and joy waiting to be drawn from your higher self.
9.13.1.414Listen 14 Oct 2025
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