The Wanderings of the Mind in Maya

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, […]

Maya is like rabid dog!

On 30 June, explaining to the mandali about maya, Baba expounded:

God as Ishwar uses maya and her attributes to conduct the […]

Mind is always attached something

The world is a drama. You weep, you laugh — to weep and laugh again. It is all a tamasha [a show]. When the […]

To have attraction for the world is like taking poison

Baba at the St. Marks Square, Venice

They then returned to the hotel for lunch and went again to St. Mark’s Square […]

Maya and Sanskaras

Baba then distinguished between Maya and sanskaras:

Suppose you are assailed by anger, lust and […]

To guard against maya’s tricks

… The only thing that maya cannot go against is my work, because maya itself is […]

The way to escape the cosmic illusion and attain the Supreme Reality

My message today to those who love me and believe in my Life is that, in order to escape this […]

Illusion and the soul’s apparent bondage

On Sunday, 18 September 1960, Baba explained how the world is a prison:

The whole world is a prison, for […]

On “Fears”—Vague and Real

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 […]

Pearls before Swine

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 […]