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Leave Your Desires and Lie Quiet – Part-2 of 2

But then the question arises: how are the people to be fed if they do as Hafez advises, leaving everything and lying idle (svastha […]

Leave the world and its connection, and abide in the company of Sages. Lie quiet (sthir padavu)! Do not think either about […]

The question arose: “Whom should you fear—God, the world, or Self?”

Baba replied:

Do not fear the world or its people; always do the […]

Question: But how are we to disbelieve all these hard facts that come into our experience? How are we to feel and know that […]

The same applies to that Christian philosophy propounded by the so-called ministers of the present day who preach that salvation can be won only […]

Then what is the “substance” and what is the “shadow”?

“Substance” signifies the means to God-realization, while “shadow” refers to the quarreling over philosophies […]

The more you think of Maya, the more is your anxiety, or your eagerness for its (Maya’s) enjoyment (upabhog), and the greater your anxiety, […]

A swine, a hog, always lives on refuse and excrement. You may throw before it the best of food-stuffs or invaluable treasures, even diamonds […]

Take another example. Imagine a man without any teeth. Now, if a fine stalk of sugar cane were brought to him, what would he […]

If you can only manage to give up subservience to the great attributes of Maya, which are kam, krodh, lobh-passion (lust), anger and greed-you […]