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The 30 latest published notes
The death of the body does not mean the death of the mind …
6.9.1.154, ExcerptListen 21 Sep 2021Sri Ramakrishna: “The mind ordinarily moves in the three lower chakras. But if it rises above them and reaches the heart, one gets the vision of Light . . . Even though it has reached the throat, the Mind may come down again (from utterly unworldly consciousness—PB). One ought to be always alert. Only if his mind reaches the spot between the eyebrows need he have no more fear of a fall, the Supreme Self is so close.”
15.23.7.306Listen 20 Sep 2021To surrender is to know one’s own incompetence and to put one’s life in wiser hands.
12.18.4.27Listen 19 Sep 2021… We must all give life what it demands from the human—that it shall seek to transcend its present state …
16.26.4.87, ExcerptListen 18 Sep 2021Since most of us have to live in the world as laymen, or even prefer to do so, we must learn how to make use of the world so that it will promote our spiritual aspirations and not obstruct them.
3.2.5.101Listen 17 Sep 2021The godlike abides in each of us but only the master knows and feels its glory.
14.22.3.46Listen 16 Sep 2021A man who wants to pursue this quest will have to become a different man—different from what he was in the past because the old innate tendencies have to be replaced by new ones, and different from other men because he must refuse to be led unresistingly into the thoughtlessness, the irreverence, and the coarseness which pervade them.
2.1.5.26Listen 15 Sep 2021What he learns from outside himself, from teacher or tradition, will never lead to his true fulfilment until he joins it with what he learns in the stillness from inside himself.
2.1.3.93Listen 14 Sep 2021If the ego were as prone to condemn itself as it is to justify itself, or to justify others as it is to condemn them, how quick and easy would the quest be.
6.8.3.112Listen 13 Sep 2021Though overshadowed continuously by this divine being that is really his own other self, he remains nevertheless quite human.
16.25.3.368Listen 12 Sep 2021When a man grows as unconsciously as a flower, it surprises him to discover how much larger is the area, how much deeper is the penetration, of his personal influence in the circle of people which he meets.
8.12.4.222Listen 11 Sep 2021The Long Path offers a negative process whose end result is to disidentify the man from his body. The Short Path offers a positive process whose result is to identify him with his Overself.
15.23.5.47Listen 10 Sep 2021… the reward of giving up the ego-sense is the ability to live in the deepest part of one's deepest being—the Overself …
8.12.1.2, ExcerptListen 9 Sep 2021The “I” is immeasurably greater than the ego which it projects or than the intellect, which the ego uses.
14.22.3.339Listen 8 Sep 2021That crafty old fox, the ego, is quite capable of engaging in spiritual practices of every kind and of showing spiritual aspirations of every degree of warmth.
6.8.4.319Listen 7 Sep 2021He who experiences it only intermittently may guess from this how wonderful his existence would be if he were able to experience it constantly.
14.22.8.98Listen 6 Sep 2021Outwardly he appears to act as intensely or as vigorously as other men. But inwardly he will really be at rest in the Overself, which will lead him like a child into performing necessary actions. His mind is still, even though his body is busy. And because of this leading, his actions will be right and even inspired ones, his personal will will be expressive of a higher one.
16.25.2.297Listen 5 Sep 2021Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.
6.8.4.102Listen 4 Sep 2021He is no longer able to will for himself for the simple reason that some other entity has begun to will for him. Egoism in the human sense, sensualism in the animal sense, have both been eliminated from his heart.
16.25.2.270Listen 3 Sep 2021Those who have passed through the disciplines of body, intellect, and emotion are no longer on the same level as those who have not. They need a teaching appropriate in every way to their higher development.
12.17.6.112Listen 2 Sep 2021The concept of the Overself is foundational. It provides meaning for life.
14.22.3.111Listen 1 Sep 2021The weariness of life which shows itself in the desire not to be born again at all, in the yearning for Nirvanic peace, may come from having endured too deep suffering. But it may also come from having saturated oneself with experiences of all kinds during a series of reincarnations far longer than the average one. It is then really a desire to extinguish the tired ego.
6.8.4.353Listen 31 Aug 2021… the truth-seeker will begin to turn inward in quest of unity with his own soul and outward in quest of unity with mankind. Life is the guide that is bringing him home to himself and to kindlier relation to his fellows …
13.20.3.82, ExcerptListen 30 Aug 2021This is the magic talisman which will strengthen and save you, even though you go down into Hades itself—this faith and love for the inner self.
12.18.1.22Listen 29 Aug 2021To the degree that we loose ourselves from the ego's grip, to that degree we loose ourselves from its mental anxieties and emotional agitations. As its power wanes, our care-free peace waxes.
6.8.4.475Listen 28 Aug 2021When this consciousness takes hold of a man, it takes him by surprise. Infinity is so utterly different from what he was experiencing a few minutes earlier that its wonder, its truth, its beauty, its love fill him abruptly, as if in descent from the skies.
14.22.6.5Listen 27 Aug 2021It seems to be a law of the inner life that we have to ask for the inner help that is needed long long before it begins to manifest.
12.18.2.192Listen 26 Aug 2021If he identifies with the ego as a real entity by itself, and not as the complex of thoughts and tendencies which it is, he is caught in the net of illusion and cannot get out of it.
6.8.2.33Listen 25 Aug 2021How can the ego’s self-effort bring about the grand illumination? It can only clear the way for it, cleanse the vehicle of it, and remove the weaknesses that shut it out … Only the divine can give the divine. That is to say, only by grace can illumination be attained …
12.18.5.162, ExcerptListen 24 Aug 2021The tests show whether he has become sufficiently strong to translate his ideals into action, whether he has conquered his passions and ruled his emotions at the bidding of those ideals, whether he will be willing to take the path of self-denial when the lower nature seeks to lure him away from the path.
3.2.3.68Listen 23 Aug 2021Whether he is leisurely at ease or actively at work, the practice of Remembrance can go on—the only difference between the two states being a difference of its intensity and vividness.
15.23.6.220Listen 22 Aug 2021
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