Mind creates innumerable worlds of worries by imagining divisions

One afternoon Baba permitted the mayor of Poona to come with his two predecessors. Baba explained to them about maya:

God alone exists as […]

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 Your Desires and Lie Quiet – Part-1 of 2

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

Nothingness

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

Maya compared to ringworm

Afterwards the discussion drifted to the workings of maya. At one point, Baba explained,

“Maya can be compared to ringworm on one’s skin. The more […]

Maya: “All false values and false beliefs are due to the grip of Maya”

[Continued from previous post]

If we stretch the above simile further and imagine that a miracle happens by which the unenlightened man […]

Maya : The apparent endless differences in the experiences are due to the varying degrees of consciousness

The following is the discourse on Maya that Baba dictated by hand signs for Irene Conybeare’s book, In Quest Of Truth:

Everything, from the […]

To escape from maya, hold on to His feet tightly

People say that God created Maya, but that is not so. For example, take the hair on the […]

The Universal Work of Baba – Part 1: “My duty is to take you out of the clutches of maya”

Baba at Mysore with the Mandali

 

On 14 April, Baba discussed matters with the mandali and stated, “I am […]

The temporary effect is illusion – Part 2 (Final)

 

When one has experience of eternity, one knows that God is. To say that God was, is, and will be, is wrong. All […]