Each clings to his own different interpretation

 

If a lecturer speaks today before a gathering of five hundred, and the same subject is repeated by the five hundred listeners to […]

A story of a succession of surrenders

 

Spiritual advancement is a story of a succession of surrenders one after another, until the goal of the final surrender of the separate […]

The futility of false values in life

Later that day, January 6th, Baba remarked about the [Second world] war and India:

The greatest lesson that this war has taught to all […]

“It is her good fortune that she has still stuck to me.”

On Saturday, 11 May 1963, a woman came with a garland for Baba. Baba commented to those gathered near him, “She was once very […]

No repression but transformation

 

“I don’t want any repression, but I do want transformation. I never for one moment say that you must not get angry. Don’t […]

“Spiritual life is not a matter of quantity but of inherent quality of living”

A thing need not be unusual or particularly striking in order to be spiritually significant. The unusual and the striking exist relative to the […]

The three types of disciples

There are three types of disciples: those who help, those who are a burden, and those who are a hindrance.

Those who lift me […]

Bitter experiences of the past often open new vistas

The same day, Baba also dictated this reply to a friend of Nadine Tolstoy’s, Grand Duchess Marie, a Russian aristocrat:

Many bitter experiences of […]

Surrender is better than love

 

Love and self-surrender both lead one to the Goal. But generally in the path of love, one drops his body after reaching the […]

Maya is the illusion that everything in this world is real

 

On Saturday, 21 March, when Mehendarge received news of his brother’s demise, he wept. Baba consoled him and said: