There is nothing in spirituality that will ever violate science. It’s just that spirituality will venture into areas where science never goes at all. Spirituality, for example, will talk about you. Science never talks about you. That’s the difference—that’s the only difference.
It is very, very sad that 99%, I… read_more
Hope is a very dangerous animal. It can make you do the most stupid things. It can make you fall in the same trap one million times.
There was the Cricket World Cup in 2003, and the finals were played between India and Australia. I know of a man who… read_more
If someone practices black magic, then you say that he is badly conditioned by centuries of rituals, right? If you find somebody practicing black magic, then you are quick to decry, “Oh! Medieval rituals!”
And how old is this ritual of procreation? I ask you. And why must this continue… read_more
If someone comes to you quoting this kind of a logic that, “You know, if I am eating the goat or the chicken, then you too are eating the rice grain and the wheat grain, and the rice plant and wheat plant have been slaughtered. So, if I am guilty… read_more
If you want to know an atom, you have to go to nuclear physics. There you do not just proudly claim, “Oh, I know atoms. Everything is an atom. I have been with atoms since my birth!” There you want to read a book. There you want to consult somebody… read_more
I’ll tell you what the rape of the mind is. When the mind has nonsensical purposes, that is rape of the mind. When things like stuff that happened in the childhood or teenage attracts you and dominates you, then the mind is being raped. Forgive me the clichéd expression, but… read_more
On its own, stupidity is so feeble; it can be crushed very easily. But because stupidity is feeble, it knows one thing: it must gather numbers. So, it forms huge organizations, colonies where all the stupid ones can stick around, and then they are very difficult to tackle.
If there… read_more
The lion kills all his life, but he cannot be called violent. He cannot be called non-violent either. He is just doing what his physical conditioning compels him to do. He has no option. Man has the option to kill and not to kill. Man has the option to choose… read_more
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… read_more
ना ब्रह्म से मतलब, ना गीता से मतलब, ना उपनिषदों से मतलब। अंधविश्वासों से मतलब है, कुट्टू के आटे से मतलब है।
"क्या चबा रही हो भाभी?" कहेंगी, "ये फलाहारी लड्डू हैं।" ये फलाहारी लड्डू कौन-से होते हैं? अब यह धार्मिकता का प्रमाण दिया जा रहा है कि, "हम फलाहारी… read_more
दिल में जिसको बैठाना था उसकी जगह और बहुत कुछ बैठा लिया। अब सरकारी नौकरी का लालच बैठा हुआ है दिल में, क्यों? सब जानते हैं क्यों! गाड़ी मिल जाएगी, सरकारी बंगला मिल जाएगा, कोई निकाल नहीं सकता। कोई निकाल नहीं सकता बड़ा आनंद रहता है, अज़ीम-ओ-शान-शहंशाह। ग्यारह बजे जाओ,… read_more
All powerlessness is just a pretense. Even in your feeblest moment, you are still powerful enough to exercise choice, and you must always hold this very close to your heart.
The world can take anything, everything away from you, but nothing and nobody ever can take away from you your… read_more
हर आदमी अपनी नज़र में नाकाम आशिक़ बन कर घूम रहा है। बहुतों का तो ब्रेकअप तब हो जाता है जब उनका कोई अफ़ेयर भी नहीं था। कहो, “क्यों इतने उदास हो?” “ब्रेकअप हो गया है!” तेरा अफ़ेयर कब था भाई? पर ब्रेकअप में जो रुहानी आनंद है वो तो … read_more
एक बेज़ुबान निरीह को पकड़ कर काट दिया, उसका माँस पका कर खा गए – इससे कौन-सी परम सत्ता आपको आशीर्वाद देने वाली है, बताइए ज़रा? इससे आसमानों से फूल बरसेंगे आप पर? क्या तुक है!
जब बात की जाती है पशु बलि की, तो वास्तव में कहा जाता है… read_more
सोचो तुम किसी शॉपिंग-मॉल में हो और वहाँ कबीर साहब का भजन बजने लग जाए; बिक्री आधी रह जाएगी बता रहा हूँ। इसलिए बाज़ार का अध्यात्म से छत्तीस का आँकड़ा है। बाज़ार कभी नहीं चाहेगा कि अध्यात्म सफल हो और बाज़ार हर तरह की साज़िशें करेगा अध्यात्म को गिराने की।… read_more
X says, “If I am with A, I want to keep A running after me because that’s what makes me feel important.” The more A tells me that “Without you I feel lonely, lonely, and lonely,” the more X feels important.
Does X sound familiar? Most people in the world… read_more
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… read_more
Please remember this very, very clearly: Whenever you find something unscientific being said, just get up and walk away—anything, even remotely unscientific.
It is very, very sad that ninety-nine percent of that which we call as spirituality today is just illogical, unscientific superstition. And it is being pedalled very loudly,… read_more
तुम ग़लत राहों को ठुकरा कर तो देखो, सही राह खुलती है कि नहीं खुलती। और यह घटिया और झूठा तर्क बिलकुल मत दे दो कि, “मुझे सही राह मिली नहीं मैं इसलिए ग़लत राह चल पड़ा।“ बात यह नहीं है, सही राह हमेशा खुली होती है और उपलब्ध होती… read_more
बहुत मोटी मार पड़ती है ठीक तब जब तुम्हें ज़रा भी अंदेशा नहीं होता कि मार खाने वाले हो। माया भी कोई छोटी-मोटी खिलाड़न थोड़े ही है। बेहोशों को छोड़ देती है, वह कहती है, “यह तो पहले ही गिरा हुआ है इसको क्या गिराएँ? शू!” वह भी पसंद करती… read_more
You are fantasizing: “When I meet that man, such and such great things will happen. And now we are having coffee, and now we are watching the movie, and the movie is wonderful”—and the entire three-hour movie you are visualizing.
What is at the basis of this entire fantasy? That… read_more
You might be twenty-five today; where is the one who was twenty yesterday? Isn’t he gone? How can you stop the other from departing when you couldn’t prevent even your own old self from departing?
Remember your old self, the one that was there at the age of five, ten,… read_more
Look at most people who, for example, learn to play guitar. What is their objective? You just carry the guitar, get yourself photographed, learn a few basic tunes, impress girls or impress boys… It all looks so romantic, doesn’t it? Guitar by a bonfire. A bonfire by a river on… read_more
जिस स्तर के तुम आदमी हो, जिस औकात की तुम्हारी ज़िंदगी है, तुम्हारी प्रेम कथा भी उसी स्तर, उसी औकात की होगी। तो ये हिमाक़त तो करना ही मत कि ज़िंदगी है दो फुट की औकात की और दुनिया को बताते घूम रहे हो कि, “मेरी आशिक़ी का आसमानी अफ़साना… read_more
दुनिया की ताक़तों से, और घरवालों से, और पचास लोगों से डरते हो इस बात से भी तो डरो कि, ‘जन्म ही व्यर्थ हो गया तो?’
जीवन से छोटे-मोटे डर सब हटाने हों तो बड़ा डर ले आओ। और बड़ा डर यही है – कल्पना में तो खोए ही रहते… read_more
अकसर जो नंगा होता जाता है उसको हम लिख देते हैं, “ये तो बोल्ड (निर्भीक) कपड़ों में आया है।“ उसमें बोल्डनेस (निर्भीकता) क्या है? फिर तो सबसे बोल्ड जानवर हुए। एक गधा तो बोल्डनेस की प्रतिमूर्ति हो गया, उसे बोल्डनेस का नोबेल प्राइज़ मिलना चाहिए, उसने ज़िन्दगी में कोई कपड़ा… read_more
माया एक औसत ज़िंदगी का नाम है।
उफ्! कैसे पकड़ोगे?
द एवरेज लाइफ़!
माया, वो चेहरा है जिसमें कुछ खास नहीं। तुम उसे याद ही नहीं रख सकते, इतना साधारण चेहरा है माया। माया जीवन के उन दिनों, उन घण्टों, उन हफ़्तों, उन पलों का नाम है जिनमें कुछ खास… read_more
Were our bodies to reflect accurately and honestly the state of our minds, none of us would have been able to walk firmly even for a distance of ten meters. Our legs would have shown up as cut, wounded, bruised, fractured the way, exactly the way our mind is.
Unfortunately,… read_more
There is this new bunch of spiritual hoodlums who come up and say, “Be yourself. Accept yourself as you are.” And who are you? Somebody fundamentally dangerous to yourself. We said the ego is its own bleeding wound, and you are being told, “Be yourself, remain the wound. Remain the… read_more
पुरुषों ने खूब बहती गंगा में हाथ धोए हैं। स्त्री वैसे ही आतुर रहती है कि कोई ज़रा तारीफ़ कर दे, तो उन्होंने कहा “इसको फँसाने का तो बढ़िया तरीका है, ज़रा-सी तारीफ़ कर दो।”
एक बात बताना, तुमने आज तक कितनी शायरी, कितनी कविताएँ, ग़ज़लें, नग़में पढ़ीं जिसमें स्त्री… read_more
जो लोग ग़लत राह पर चल रहे हों, और सफल आदि होते दिखाई देते हों, समृद्ध होते दिखाई देते हों, मौज मारते दिखाई देते हों, उनको देख कर कभी मन छोटा मत कीजिएगा। उनकी सफलता, उनकी समृद्धि, उनकी मौज बहुत सतही है। अंदर-ही-अंदर महा दुःख है उनमें। उनके लिए प्रार्थना… read_more
तुम्हें क्या लगता है नर्क वो जगह है जहाँ बड़े-बड़े कड़ाहों में तेल उबल रहा है और लोग उसमें पकौड़ो की तरह तले जा रहे हैं? ना! नर्क वो जगह है जहाँ सब खूब मेहनत करते हैं, कमाते हैं, खाते हैं और सो जाते हैं। नर्क बड़ी साफ़-सुथरी जगह है… read_more
दुनिया के सामने इंसान की तरह खड़े होना सीखो भाई! केचुए की तरह थोड़े ही है कि किसी भी के भी पाँव के नीचे आ गए। इस चेहरे पर तेज होना चाहिए, ऑंखों में ताक़त झलकनी चाहिए! कुछ बोलो तो उसमें साहस हो और संकल्प हो! आवाज़ काँपे नहीं, थरथराए… read_more
Ask yourself this one question: The way I am living, is it reducing my inner darkness? This question, only this question, determines whether you are living rightly.
It doesn’t matter how well fed you are, how well clothed you are, how well monied you are, how reputed, how respectable you… read_more
Never forget your essential reality beyond your immediate fact. You are really, really all-powerful, though that is not testified by the way you live, eat, breathe, act, decide, think.
We live lives of helpless compulsiveness. Looking at the way we exist, it becomes impossible to believe that we are omnipotent.… read_more
Even in those situations that we call as utterly woeful, utterly hopeless, if we just do that which we are capable of doing, would there be space and opportunity and time to despair? If you do what you must, where is the time to suffer?
In fact, the more impossibly… read_more
Your action has to be one with the Truth. Let wisdom guide your action. That’s Yoga of Wisdom. What is the other kind of action? Prescribed action.
Each of us, in each moment, has to make this choice. Where is your action going to come from? Is it going to… read_more
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… read_more
A certain word falls upon your ears and there is an instant reaction, is there not? Your entire body can get heated up. One word falling on your ears can raise your temperature by two degrees within two minutes. Is it not a chemical reaction?
This body is a bunch… read_more
Passion, too, comes from surroundings, but passion becomes dangerous because it presents itself as if it is something internal. Not only does it present itself as something internal, it decorates itself as something of the heart.
The fellow will say, “My heart beats for cricket.” You must ask him: Why… read_more
You want the other person to be nice. We are such idiots. We want the other person to be nice. And if the other person is not nice, we feel there is no love. We do not understand anything. We are prepared to give up our life probably when somebody… read_more
Desire defeats all the petty evils. Desire is the great evil that defeats all the petty evils. For the sake of desire, you can shake hands with your worst enemy. Don’t you see that happening every day in politics? In national politics, in geopolitics, everywhere.
You know what ended the… read_more
In fact, if there is one unpardonable crime, it is bad parenting. You are not even killing someone; you are disfiguring someone and sentencing him to live an entire life. How does that sound? It is like chopping off somebody’s limbs but ensuring that he lives—and he lives an entire… read_more
We talked of enlightenment. We are talking of deceptions in the spiritual field.
So many people say they are enlightened. Would they have talked of enlightenment had there not been other so-called enlightened people before them? Even their concept of enlightenment is a borrowed concept. Such a borrowed enlightenment!
What… read_more
Real transformation does not occur with an end in sight. It does not say, “I am on the second floor and I have to go to the tenth floor.” It says, “I don’t have to be on the second floor, that’s all. I don’t have to be here. Doesn’t matter… read_more
“To do as I want to do”—is that not what freedom means to us? The ones who have better sense, they say this is nothing but the freedom to remain a slave. “So, I will be a slave of my choice.” Everybody is free. In the country of slaves, everybody… read_more
Strength is your nature. If you have managed to remain so weak, so fragile, so brittle for so long, it is only because you have been defending your weaknesses. You have been arguing in favor of your weaknesses; you have been reasoning out your weaknesses. You have simply not been… read_more
We talk of the mother-child relationship as a classic case of love, at least that is the convention. But see what happens when the child doesn’t live up to the parents’ expectations or, worse still, actively breaches what the parents want. There can be murders.
When the mind is such… read_more
I am saying this as a friend of the woman. I am asking her, why is the male sight or the male gaze so important to you? If you want attention from people, if you want respect from people, why can’t it be for higher reasons? Why do you want… read_more
