Probing inside, I came Seeking the moon within me: Sifting the chaff from the grain. I went seeking The Like, Alike, Thou art Narayan. Thou art Narayan, then, Why this will-of-the-wisp?
~ Saint Lalleshwari
Question: Acharya Ji, Why do I have ego?
Acharya Prashant: Do not ask why does the… read_more
Probing inside, I came
Seeking the moon within me:
Sifting the chaff from the grain.
I went seeking
The like, Alike,
Thou art Narayan.
Thou art Narayan, then,
Why this will-o-wisp.
Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, why do I have ego?
Acharya Prashant (AP): Do not ask, “Why… read_more
Life is given. Nothing is earned. So, learn to serve others, not your own desire, greed, and ego. They steal your energies. Whereas devotion builds your strength and protects the intelligent flame that leads to the Truth within.
Acharya Prashant: So, the Questioner is asking, ‘Is the… read_more
Acharya Prashant: Lal Ded is the most remarkable name not only in Kashmir, not only in India. She defies being confined to a particular area, or time, or category. Physically, she was born in thirteenth century Kashmir. An ordinary girl, as ordinary as all of us are. Medieval India, she… read_more
At the end of a crazy moon night
the love of God rose.
I said, “It’s me Lalla.”
The beloved woke. We became That,
and the lake is crystal-clear.
~Lal Ded
Acharya Prashant: “At the end of a crazy moon night, the love of God rose.” There is nothing in… read_more
DANCE NAKED
Dance, Lalla, with nothing on
But air: Sing, Lalla,
wearing the sky.
Look at this glowing day! What clothes
Could be so beautiful or
more sacred?
Acharya Prashant- what does it mean to dance with nothing on?
L1- No causes.
AP- What does it mean to… read_more
They kept coming, they kept coming, now they’ve got to go.They’ve got to keep moving, day or night,and where they came from, there they’ve got to go.From nothing to nothing to nothing and why?
Lalleshwari
There is nothing called the ‘world’. What you call as the ‘world’, what you call… read_more
Impart not esoteric Truth to fools, Nor on molasses feed an ass. Do not sow seeds in sandy beds, Nor waste your oil on cakes of bran. -Lal Ded
Speaker: The question is, ‘Why is a compassionate saint speaking such words? They look more like coming from a result oriented… read_more
‘In what direction am I going, how shall I find that road? I hope they will send me a map before it’s too late, or it is all over for me. My breath all gone to waste.’ ~ Lalleshwari
Questioner (Q): Lalla had surrendered all her life to That. Now… read_more
Question: ‘What is bitter at first is sweet in the end, What is sweet at first is poison in the end. To everyone is given the choice. It all depends on the effort put in, and the unflagging determined will; for whoever strives must soon arrive at the city of… read_more
लड़की को पढ़ाई के लिए दो-सौ किलोमीटर दूर भेजना हो तो यही माँ-बाप और भाई कन्नी काट जाते हैं, और ब्याह कर वो दो-हज़ार किलोमीटर दूर जा रही हो इन्हें कोई फ़र्क नहीं पड़ेगा। और पढ़ाई के लिए जाएगी तो किसी यूनिवर्सिटी के हॉस्टल में रहेगी, सुरक्षा में रहेगी, हॉस्टल… read_more
Now, mind is movement, right? Why does the mind move at all? The mind wants to reach somewhere. Where does the mind want to reach? Is that place within the mind? The mind wants to reach somewhere. Every thought, every action, every motivation, every emotion rides on a desire, is… read_more
How should one interpret the coming forth of Krishna when righteousness is on decline? Does this statement have any significance at an individual level, or is it said in the social context?
Also, in Christianity it is believed that Jesus will come again on the judgement day. Please help me… read_more
श्रद्धावान् लभते ज्ञानं तत्पर: संयतेन्द्रिय: | ज्ञानं लब्ध्वा परां शान्तिमचिरेणाधिगच्छति || ४, ३९ || जितेन्द्रिय, साधनापरायण और श्रद्धावान मनुष्य ज्ञान को प्राप्त होता है तथा ज्ञान को प्राप्त होकर वह बिना विलम्ब के तत्काल ही भगवत्प्राप्तिरूप शान्ति को प्राप्त हो जाता है। —श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, अध्याय ४, श्लोक ३९प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी,… read_more
उन्होंने भारतीय स्त्रियों को दयनीय स्थिति से बाहर निकालने के लिए अपना जीवन समर्पित कर दिया था। उनका जीवन इस बात का प्रमाण है कि अगर व्यक्ति दृढ़ निश्चय कर ले तो गरीबी, अभाव, व दुर्दशा की स्थिति पर विजय प्राप्त करके वे अपने लक्ष्य की ओर बढ़ सकता है।… read_more
आज ही के दिन, 22 अगस्त 1907 को जर्मनी में आयोजित अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय सम्मेलन में इन्होंने भारत का झंडा फहराया था।
आज़ादी से 40 साल पहले, भारत का झंडा फहराने वाली वे पहली भारतीय बनी। अधिकतम समय उन्होंने भारत से बाहर ही बिताया लेकिन उन्हें आज भी 'भारतीय क्रांति की जननी'… read_more
इन्होंने पिछड़े वर्ग व महिलाओं की शिक्षा के लिए काम किया, लेकिन अधिकतर लोग इन्हें भूल चुके हैं। इन्होंने आधुनिक भारत के सबसे बड़े शिक्षा आंदोलनों में से एक को, फलने-फूलने की ज़मीन दी, लेकिन आज लोगों को उनका नाम भी नहीं पता। इन्हें भारत की पहली मुस्लिम महिला अध्यापिका… read_more
Hurt is not automatic. Somewhere there is an admission from you that you are hurt, and that you would be hurt, and that you would call yourself as hurt. Don’t call yourself as hurt, and see what happens.
Hurt is not an obligation. Hurt is a choice. Insecurity, fear, temptations—none… read_more
Have you looked at kids playing? If you look at kids playing and if you look at animals playing, you won’t find much difference. In fact, human kids go along very well with animal kids. Later on, when we cover ourselves with a lot of acquired knowledge, with a lot… read_more
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… read_more
A woman is murdered—even that is just a two-inch thing in some newspaper. But if it is a sensational rape case, then the entire country joins in.
Are we really concerned about women? Had we been concerned about women, how is it that the common man of this country is… read_more
Just as the ego loves to take credit, it also loves to play the victim.
If something good has happened, “I did it!”
If something bad happened, “It happened to me.”
“Good things I do, bad things happen to me”—this is astounding.
Playing the victim is a favorite pastime of… read_more
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… read_more
If you are suffering, there is nobody but you who is responsible. Unless you fully accept that responsibility, there is no freedom. If your suffering is just incidental, then how can there be freedom from it?—because incidents can happen any way, any day.
You have to, first of all, clearly… read_more
A strange situation is that a beautiful woman’s life is perhaps more complex than an average-looking woman’s life, because a beautiful looking woman has a lot of men eyeing upon her, and she can get whatever she wants. And what you will get for your beauty, that is the real… read_more
Let nobody say that he or she is making the right choices in life because she does not know. We all know. We prefer to suppress the inner knowledge. It’s an inner conspiracy against ourselves, just because we want to continue enjoying certain privileges in life—certain physical privileges, material privileges,… read_more
Both the genders have become even more anchored to their physical identity. The more you do that, the more you are in misery because, really, the body is not who you are.
There are places better and higher than the place of your gender specific hormones. Why do you want… read_more
When you say sadness is just sadness, then you have gained freedom from sadness. It means being free from the obligation to label sadness as a loss of self-worth. If you let sadness go deeply into you, there is no way it is not going to touch joy.
It is… read_more
How do we justify our anger? We justify our anger by feeling short-changed, cheated, or victimized; by continuing to assert that we are incomplete, while simultaneously bemoaning the incompleteness. If you have grudges within, if you feel a victim of situations, or past, or persons, and if you lend credence… read_more
The problem is, the usual feminism always proceeds keeping the man at the center. The woman is saying, “The man is alright, and I want to be like the man.” This is such a low standard to set. Whereas, true feminism would proceed keeping the person that the female is,… read_more
Emotions, they can do whatever they want to do. It doesn’t matter how I am feeling. What matters is what I must do.
Ask yourself: Had you not been feeling this way or that way, what would have you done? And you will get a very good answer.
When you… read_more
Teach the girls that their body is not an instrument to bear kids. Teach them that their self-worth is not at all linked to their motherhood. Teach them where the real fulfilment of life lies, and teach them that it is not in birthing or breastfeeding.
Teach them creativity. Teach… read_more
The approach of self-help is: “I am sad because my desires have not met fulfillment. So, the way to help myself is: fulfill desires.” It’s a dimensional difference. Therefore, self-help pleases but helps not. It is not then ‘self-help’; the genre should be more correctly called ‘self-gratification’.
And if you… read_more
Just watched this movie, Chichore. It is based on IIT Bombay. In the campus, there is one girl in a batch of forty boys. But the girl’s only contribution in the whole story is that she is extremely beautiful, and all the guys are after her. So, in the… read_more
‘Save the girl child’ campaigns, many of these campaigns say, “If today you kill the girl child, how will you find a bride for your son tomorrow?” So, the girl has no independent worth of her own, right?
If we go by the government propaganda, even if she is to… read_more
“Enjoy the moment! Go with the flow!” What is that flow? Where is it coming from? Why should I go with it? Why don’t you just pause and ask, which flow are we talking of?
The tsunamis are coming to take you away, and the great master is teaching you:… read_more
As a young woman, you must be open to going out, experiencing, seeing what the world is all about. Won’t you want to explore it—the rivers, the mountains, the people? Yes, you needed somebody’s hand to walk, but it doesn’t quite look nice now. Test your legs. And how will… read_more
The shopkeeper’s business is to sell his goods, and that’s what most gurus of today are: they have to sell their goods. When that is what you want to do, how can you afford to antagonize a big chunk of the population? And you would never, never do that if… read_more