Darshana Upanishad

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प्रश्नकर्ता: मेरा सवाल फिर से मृत्यु के ऊपर ही है। आम ज़िन्दगी में जीवन के बारे में बोला जाता है कि जीवन आनन्द है या जीवन यह है, पर इसमें मृत्यु की कोई बात नहीं आती। जैसे आध्यात्मिकता में भी आप देखें तो लोगों ने मृत्यु पर ज़्यादा चर्चा नहीं…

What is the ultimate purpose of life? Earning money or happiness? How can this stupid thing be the purpose of life?

The common happiness that we know, I have said, has two characteristics: one, it is an acquired conditioning, and second, it depends on the presence of sadness. So, if…

If you have seriously something worthwhile to do in life, then time is a friend. But if you are just loafing around and you fully well know that you are just killing time, then obviously time is an enemy. Every passing moment reminds you that you are committing a crime…

Welcome pain. You have no option. That’s the way life is meant to be. Life is suffering. Because not only are you designed to have pain, you are also designed to resist pain.

Have pain, and have a lot of depth in your being. So much depth that it can…

Happiness and sadness are both wonderful, are both welcome.

But in some deep sense, sadness is a little better than happiness. It teaches us a little more than happiness does. It elevates us a little more than happiness does. It has a certain purifying effect that happiness does not quite…

Where are the pleasures? I do not see any pleasures! I do not see anybody being pleased. You are talking of renunciation of pleasures as if pleasures do exist. Where are the pleasures? Go to a weekend party and show me who is happy. And if people were indeed happy,…

Real relaxation is about relaxing even in the middle of activity. You are relaxed even as you exert yourself. You are relaxed even as you are running. You are relaxed even as you are drained out. You are not waiting for a special activity like going to bed or sitting…

The Upanishads were not composed to give you the normal kind of comfort and happiness. The Upanishads are there to give you an exalted happiness, a transcendental happiness, an eternal happiness. A happiness so rare and exquisite that it is not called as harṣa or moda or prasannatā; a…

Even if you want a deeper pleasure, you will have to go deeper into the mind, and going deeper into the mind is what the spiritual process is all about.

If the fellow is a lover of the good things of life, let’s say a complete hedonist, then encourage him…

Know your duty and give yourself totally to it. Will there be pleasure? No sir, not at all. There would be some higher than pleasure, more fulfilling, more satisfying than pleasure. Pleasure is a turncoat: today one thing, tomorrow another thing.

The one who lives by his duty, his dharma…

If it was possible for one man to move towards greatness, it was possible for everybody. Nothing hurts the small man more than seeing a great man in his vicinity, or a small man trying to move towards greatness. It’s an utter insult.

The moment even one person defies smallness…

Several people dislike their few glimpses of joy. They hold themselves accountable, they hold themselves guilty for having tasted even a few drops of joy, because joy is not a socially sanctioned kind of happiness. Joy is deep, disruptive, rebellious. It takes you far away from everything into yourself. It…

It is a very common and a very harmful misconception to take dhyāna as something. Dhyāna is nothing. Dhyāna is not an object. Dhyāna is not a thing. Dhyāna is not a routine, not a practice, not an exercise. Dhyāna, rather, is on all these things. Dhyāna is what…

You must learn aloneness. Before you relate with people, you must be very, very comfortable with yourself. If you are someone who can not be with herself comfortably, easily, gladly, then kindly spare the other person. If you are not alright with yourself, then don’t start piggybacking on the other.…

Heaven should be a happy place instead, but all the happy ones are found in hell. All hours in hell are happy hours, and heaven is such a dry place. Why have you allowed that? All the people who are laughing, giggling, they are all found in hell.

Somebody said…

बहुत सारा मेडिटेशन वगैरह वही है जो आपको झटका नहीं खाने देगा। ज़िन्दगी बर्बाद चल रही है, सबकुछ आपका ग़लत है, लेकिन सुधरने की कोई ज़रूरत नहीं। आधे-एक घण्टे बैठ करके गाइडेड मेडिटेशन कर लो, वहाँ तुमको गुरुजी कान में बता देंगे कि तुम एक सरोवर के किनारे बैठे हो,…

All the trauma that you experience on a daily basis, that you happily call as life. All the nonsense you remain mired in, that you happily call as life. Your interactions and your relationships with all the foolish and unworthy and mediocre people, that you will gladly accept as life.…

कार खरीद कर और फर्नीचर खरीद कर ज़िंदगी नहीं बन जाती है। सुख के नाम पर क्या है? एक गाड़ी है, एक ईएमआई पर घर खरीद लिया है, एक घर पहले से था, फिर बीवी है जो बुढ़ा रही है, दो बच्चे हैं जो खून पीने को तैयार हो रहे…

Do not call joy as freedom from pleasure. Just call joy as higher pleasure. If you call joy as higher pleasure, then it becomes possible to sacrifice lower pleasures for the sake of the higher pleasure called joy.

Otherwise, spirituality remains very scary to people who have been spoken to…

Whatever has come to the mind has come with a promise. What is the promise? The promise is: I will give you peace.

The mind feels inadequate. The mind feels incomplete. Whosoever promises it completion, the mind latches on to it. It could be a thought, it could be a…

The old scriptures warned us that if you do bad, you will receive bad. You can be utterly evil and yet lead a very, very happy life. In fact, the more evil you are, chances are, the more prosperous and more happy you would be found.

So, the ancient trick…

Some psychedelics, some drugs, some excitement, some women, some booze—that’s what your pleasure is, right? High-speed driving, somehow managing a room in a posh hotel, walking into it with a girl—that’s what your pleasure is.

All the fun and merry-making will never give you what you really want. So have…

Have you ever wondered what kind of perverse pleasure people find in denigrating Gods? The pleasure is, “If I am not high, why should I allow you to remain high? You must be pulled down because, as far as I am concerned, I refuse to rise up. I refuse to…

प्रेम का अर्थ ये नहीं कि, “तुम मुझे खुश रखो, मैं तुम्हें खुश रखूँ।“ बिलकुल भी नहीं!

जिससे देह का सुख मिल गया, जिससे मन का सुख मिल गया, धन का सुख मिल गया उसी को कह दिया, ‘इससे प्रेम है।‘ यही है न प्रेम हमारा?

दूसरे को सुख देने…

ये मेडिटेशन चीज़ क्या है? मैं बताता हूँ यह चीज़ क्या है, यह फ़र्ज़ी चीज़ है, यह फ़रेब है, यह आत्म-प्रवंचना है, ख़ुद को धोखा है। यह जीवन के आमूलचूल बदलाव का तरीका नहीं है, यह कुछ समय का आध्यात्मिक मनोरंजन है। यह आपको आपकी गंदी दिनचर्या के तनाव से…

ये लाज की, धिक्कार की बात है कि छोटे से सुख से ही खरीद लिया गया। अगर मैं छोटा आदमी होऊँगा ज़रूर, जो छोटे से सुख से बिलकुल लार टपका दी मैंने। फिर सवाल पूछते हैं अपने-आप से कि, “तू इतना गिर गया, इतनी बड़ी चीज़ हो गई तेरे लिए…

सिकंदर दुनिया में सिर्फ़ एक ही है असली; कौन? जो घड़ी को हरा दे। वरना बहुत बड़े-बड़े बादशाह हो गए, सब से जीत लेते हैं, किससे हार जाते हैं? घड़ी से; घड़ी से जीत कर दिखाओ तो बात है! समझ में आ रही बात?

वो टिक-टिक लगातार याद रहे। कलाई…

There is no search as ignorant, as useless, and as tragic as the search for happiness. And unfortunately, happiness or sukha is something that all your well-wishers want for you, that all the markets and systems in the world promise you, and all that your mind is mad for.

It…

Remember that all that you remember is not worthy of remembering. You will be at peace.

Know that all that you know is really not worthy of being known. You will remain lighter.

Remember that all that you have is not necessary to be had. You will remain humble.

Remember…

Limit yourself to consciousness and learn about the ways of consciousness. If you can learn the ways of consciousness, that is the blessing of the Absolute.

The Absolute is not just another thing in the consciousness. The Absolute is when you go to the very root of consciousness. And how…

You cannot wish for health only in the moments when the virus attacks you. When pain hits you, then you cry out, “Awareness, awareness!” but in your moments of pleasure you forget all about it.

Health will not suddenly come to you. But if you have been healthy, then health…

In vikarma (sinful action) you say, “I am already liberated and I don’t need any liberation.” In vikarma, the one who is in bondages is so deeply dishonest that he starts proclaiming his liberation and says, “I am already liberated. Who needs liberation? I am happy and I will…

We are brilliant artists—makeup artists. We are adept in calling false happiness as happiness. We pretend to be happy when we are not even happy, and all of us know fully well what I am talking of. Go to your social media pages and you will see what we are…

Sex is nothing but a killer of your precious time. You think it is a means of pleasure; it is rather a killer of your precious time.

If you could honestly calculate how much of your life has gone towards sex and sex-related activities, you would be horrified; you would…

The mind is a simmering cauldron, always burning. Now, tell me what coolness is.

The mind is a madman rushing about, stumbling, falling, getting up randomly, darting, hurtling. Now, tell me what calmness is.

These aren’t things that first come to the exterior and can later be extended to the…

What do you call as a positive thought? A thought that makes you happy. A thought about your well-being. A thought that you would be alright or better off. A thought of hope.

But hope is not ever certain. Hope is always accompanied by fear. You hope that you might…

Happiness is when you have something with you that makes you feel happy. Joy is when you do not need anything in particular to feel happy.

Happiness is to carry the obligation to be happy. Joy is when you are no more obligated to be happy.

If these basics are…

Look at a river, or look at a tree; both have life cycles. Once the tree was tender and young, there was a particular way it responded to the wind. And now the tree is getting old, now there is another way it responds to the wind. Both are beautiful.…

Now success and failure cannot really matter because neither can they inflate you nor diminish you. Why won’t they inflate you? “Because I am already alright. Now, what can the fruit of my action give me? I require no fruit.” Ah, wonderful word: I require no fruit.

“That doesn’t mean…

You must love joy so much that even a slight departure towards stress or tension should activate an inner alarm. All these imaginations that take you away from your natural joy, the moment they arise you must start feeling restless; you must start feeling as if distanced from your own…

The dog knows love in spite of never having been taught anything about love. And man is continuously being taught love and man does not know love. The dog fully well knows that it is right to be loyal to the hand that feeds you. The dog knows, and the…

Some drugs, some excitement, some women, some booze—that’s what your pleasure is, right? High speed driving, somehow managing a room in a posh hotel, walking into it with a girl—that’s what your pleasure is. How does the bedsheet look after the night? How is the morning after the rampage? How…

There are many for whom love is just a great sari. Then they don’t need love: in lieu of love, you can give them a great sari, and they are happy.

Often when they need a sari, they do not say they need a sari. She won’t directly say, “Get…

Do you know why pizzas are so overpriced? If a pizza is selling for 400 bucks, 100 is the cost of the pizza and 300 is the cost of the peace. That is why you pay so much for the pizza.

When you go to a luxury hotel and pay…

Human beings are not born human beings; they have to be educated to become human beings.

A human baby needs to take two births before it can be rightfully called as a human being. There is ignorance, there is greed, there is envy, there is lust, there is fear, there…