Purity, love, and service

Not by seeking individual happiness or safety, but by again and again offering one’s life in the service of […]

Dealing with failures: Should be taken as stepping stones

[In a letter to western lovers, Baba wrote:]

…For love never dies. It lives and enables all to live forever, in spite of all […]

Dealing with failings: Faith in Master

Faith in a Perfect Master becomes all-important because it nourishes and sustains faith in oneself and faith in life in the very teeth of […]

Dealing with failings: Once established on the path failings will be swiftly washed away

The Sadguru takes infinite pains to contact and win over the disciple for spiritual life. Since the progress of the disciple is secured only […]

Dealing with failings: Directive effort toward the established ideal

What really matters is not aimless discontent with existing limitations but directive effort toward the established ideal. As long as the person is turned […]

Dealing with failings: Penance should not result in habitual gloomy pondering over failings

The unwinding of many other sanskaras can be brought about through penance. This consists in augmenting and expressing the feeling of remorse an individual […]

Living faith

Faith must be carefully distinguished from mere intellectual belief or opinion. When a person has a good opinion about someone, he is said to […]

The endless New Life

“This New Life is endless, and even after my physical death will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation […]

“You have no idea of my love and compassion”

One of you has said, Baba, I am doing my duty honestly, yet I am not happy.

Who is to be blamed for this? […]

“You have done more for yourself than you can ever imagine”

Being in charge of the housekeeping and food, Ruano had been kept in the kitchen constantly, away from Baba. She became sad and jealous, […]