Monday, January 27, 2014

Hunt the Ego & Be free!


Listen my friend! You forgot your true story!
Like the prodigal son, you sold your inheritance for a bowl of stew...fell headlong into this mirage-world and gave away your treasure of infinite eternal bliss.
Now you desperately pursue the imaginary gold at the end of the rainbow ignoring the real pearl beyond all price that is right here inside you.
Wake up! It's all just a dream.
You never got lost - you were always right here and right now.
You who are the shining star, the son of suns...you fell into this den of lotus-eaters,drugged by time and thought and the cunning illusion of individuality.
It's a terrible demon, this ghost...clings to your back like a limpet, dragging you through endless movies of lives and longings....all just hocus-pocus, abracadabra, sleight of mind!
You are blinded by a gossamer mist of illusion spun by this phantom ..is it not strange?
You, the king of kings, will stay a beggar only because you are afraid to let go of this pernicious ghost...mistakenly believing it is you! From where did this false identity arise? Where does it emerge from when you awake from your deep sleep every day?
Trace this impostor to its source...hunt the origin of this I thought.
Turn your attention inwards and see where it springs from
When you find that source , the ego will dissolve in the true Self that you always are.
All it takes is to stop. And to see.
You are already infinity.
Breathe deep into your Heart, lift up your head and be free



Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Coming Home to Peace.


After experiencing all the wonderful sensations, floating on bliss, heavenly music, tingling in the chakras, and other such trips, its very easy to get carried away into some dream of enlightenment.
I must stay alert to dispassionately observe my true state of being.
So, in a sober state of mind, I ask myself these questions:

Are you free of all desires?
Are you truly indifferent to praise or blame?
Can you honestly say you have no more attachments?
Are you empty as a cloudless sky and silent as space?
Are you truly dead...no more ego-self?

If - when -these questions are Self answered.....dissolved in the ocean of Brahman...then I have truly come home!

Friday, January 10, 2014

A Prayer for the New Year


May I wake up each morning filled with joy and peace and love.
May I look upon each day as a precious gift bestowed upon me.
May I be graced with alert awareness and presence in every moment.
May I dwell in the infinite space beyond the mind....the Heart.
May I be grateful for all the blessings that are continuously showered upon me by a divine universe.
May my eye be single and see only the Divine Light pervading everything.
May I look upon all living beings as Divine, greeting them all with great love and respect.
May I laugh and sing and dance in the bliss of sat-chit-ananda!
May I feel the magic everywhere around me and be awed with the wonder, the perfection , the infinite serenity at the centre of it all!

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Happy New Year to the Timeless!


The vastness of empty space is home to infinite galaxies.
And yet, the smallest atom contains the entire creation!
Silence is the grandmother of speech...and says more than all the words can say.
But you cannot hear it- only BE it.
My friend, is this the great secret?
That every leaf and drop and grain of dust, every cell and every atom, are filled with That
Sat-chit-ananda Brahman?
And that is  who you really are.

Happy New Year!