Good Wishes

“Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Reverence of mind and purity of intention

are the first steps towards tranquillity and harmony.

Be simple, natural, down-to-earth.
Purify all the senses, still the intellect and rest in the fulfillment of being.

With loving devotion, surrender to the Self in the Heart.
Rejoice in the blissful perfection of your true nature.

Be whole.
Be well.

Be at peace.

I wish you a Happy New Year.

" Abide in perfect stillness, with no movement of tongue or mind or body. Behold the effulgence of the Self within – the complete absence of fear, the vast ocean of bliss. Ha, so simple is Atma Vidya!” Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi, Atma Vidya Keertanam.

Merry Christmas Everyone

In humble surroundings, with no fanfare or fuss, innocence is born to redeem the world. 

Watched over by the liquid gaze of dumb beasts, the light of Life shines and thrives at his mother’s breast.

Three wise kings from the East kneel before the babe, for they know who he truly is- a pure spark of God.

Let that stable be re-created in your innermost heart. 

Let the star of revelation shine overhead as the light of your own Christ-nature is born within. 

Then you will see that this light of love is in everyone and in everything; indeed, it pervades the whole universe.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you and within all.

Love is the key: can you look upon all the world with love?

Understand the inner meaning of this Christmas and celebrate the birth of the Divine within.

Allow the Lord of Love to be born again in your own heart. 

Then you will truly experience that infinite joy and that deep oceanic peace that is beyond all understanding.

Merry Christmas! May you be truly blessed this festive season!

Being Indian

(As politics and media become more and more stridently divisive and discordant, its time to remember who we really are.)

“You are the Truth, the Life of life, the Light that shines as “ I AM” in each living heart!” Sri Ramana Maharishi

India is not just a country.
It is a magical kaleidoscope of paradox and contrast, of horrific ugliness and transcendent beauty in perfect coexistence, of outer poverty and inner wealth.
It is a power, a living energy field, a source of infinite blessings fuelled by gods and oceans and serpents, sages and rivers and tigers, saints and murshids and elephants, people and mountains and birds and trees, angels and genies and the spirits of trillions of living beings distilled together over a million years.
The divine spirit of this ancient land lives forever in the very cells and blood and marrow of its people.
Every Indian, in his DNA, inherits infinite wisdom and joy and strength.
To be Indian is to feel connected to the earth, the air, the water, the fire and the ether of this land.
To be Indian is to be truly universal, to be one with all that exists.
To be Indian is to love all beings and hate none.
To be Indian is to be India.

Pity the hatemongers, the ones who try to spread division and fear and discord among the people of India, for they shall experience the worst hells of their own creation.

Pity the lost souls who have succumbed to the fatal temptations of wealth and power and become rakshasas who take and take and take; their greed is a bottomless pit in which they sow the seeds of their own destruction.

Pity the robots, who got so caught up in the machines of existence that they became brainwashed zombies who are tools in the hands of evil: they pay a terrible price by wasting their precious lives.

We greet every fellow-Indian with great love and respect.

Regardless of our social status, our caste or colour or creed, our language or culture, we are ONE.

We remember :

We are Indian.

We are forever cherished and protected by the spirit of this ancient land.

And we are not afraid!

Rejoice!

Worry, fear, despair and sorrow are all born of the mind.

The rock and the blade of grass,

the leaf and the caterpillar,
the sunset and the breeze,

the birds flying in effortless harmony against the sky, 

the mountains and forests and seas….

everything is perfect, without judgement or comparison or analysis or interpretation.

What is, IS – here and now.

Drop the mind and just be,
like a little child awestruck by the wonder of it all.

When intellect sinks and dissolves
in the simple reality of existence-awareness,

Tranquility and bliss are revealed 

as divine grace that always is, was and will be.

Rejoice!

Nothing exists but infinite, joyful peace.

Know Thyself

                    (Deccan Delight...6ft x 3 ft, acrylic on canvas -kind courtesy, Meena Subramaniam)

“ When you have not understood yourself, what is the point of understanding other things?
When you have understood yourself, what else is there to understand?” Atma Vidya, Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharishi.

“ What is meant by moksha? Do the heavenly world and heavenly bliss exist somewhere in the sky? Are these to be experienced in some other body and in some other world after leaving this world and this body? The supreme world is only the Heart. Tranquillity in the form of supreme silence is divine bliss, the happiness of liberation. Cessation of worries is the attainment of the supreme state. Through this state of being-consciousness, the life of perfect bliss can be attained at all times and in all states in this very world and in this very body.” Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharishi.

The wise say that this human life is a precious gift.

Perhaps this is because, in this limited, mortal body, it is possible to experience the infinite, ecstatic perfection that is the divine essence of all things.

Since the dawn of time, there have been those among us who have borne witness to this wondrous experience, this pinnacle of human evolution that is the birth-right of every human being.

Everything will pass -do not waste your gift of life in trying to obtain the ephemeral; the blind pursuit of wealth or power or fame will merely rob you of your precious time.
Use your life wisely to obtain the greatest blessing, the one true treasure, the only eternal reality.

Shatter all the layers of mind-stuff and illusion – find your true nature, your divine core.

In the depths of being, discover lasting happiness, contentment, peace beyond all price.

Seek the blessing of the eternal present, the compassionate grace of the Self.

Be the magic – here and now.

Everything else is a waste of energy and time.

“ All words dissolve in voiceless stillness. All acts merge in the calm of awareness. All things rest in the plenum of peace.” Siva Yogaswami of Jaffna , on his meeting with Sri Ramana Maharishi.