I went to the woods to have one last talk with GOD. “GOD”, I said “Can you give me one good reason not to quit?” His answer surprised me…

“Look around”, GOD said. “Do you see the fern and the bamboo?”

“Yes”, I replied.

“When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came
from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.” GOD said.

“In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit.

In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo see. I would not quit.” GOD said.

“Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant…But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five
years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle.” GOD said to me.

“Did you know, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots?”

“I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you.”

“Don’t compare yourself to others.” GOD said. “The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful.”

“Your time will come”, GOD said to me. “You will rise high”

“How high should I rise?” I asked.

“How high will the bamboo rise?” GOD asked in return.

“As high as it can?” I questioned

“Yes.” GOD said, “Give me glory by rising as high as you can.”

I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope these words can help you see that GOD will never give up on you.

GOD will never give up on you

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be enjoyed”

in anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

antoine de saint exupery

Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead he asked the young man “Tell me, if you buy a gift for someone, and that person does not take it, to whom does the gift belong?”

The man was surprised to be asked such a strange question and answered, “It would belong to me, because I bought the gift.”

The Buddha smiled and said, “That is correct. And it is exactly the same with your anger. If you become angry with me and I do not get insulted, then the anger falls back on you. You are then the only one who becomes unhappy, not me. All you have done is hurt yourself.”

“If you want to stop hurting yourself, you must get rid of your anger and become loving instead. When you hate others, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others, everyone is happy.”

The young man listened closely to these wise words of the Buddha. “You are right, o Enlightened One, “he said. “Please teach me the path of love. I wish to become your follower.”

The Buddha answered kindly, “Of course. I teach anyone who truly wants to learn. Come with me.”

Some like it hot, some like it cool, How will you tell who is the fool?

Sahaja Yoga is a unique method of meditation based on an experience called Self Realization (Kundalini awakening) that can occur within each human being.

Through this process an inner transformation takes place by which one becomes moral, united, integrated and balanced.

One can actually feel the all pervading divine power as a cool breeze, as described in all religions and spiritual traditions of the world.

This is the actualization of such transformation, which is taking place now, worldwide, and has been proved and experienced by hundreds of thousands in over 96 countries.


It is entirely free of charge, as one cannot pay for the experience of Divine Love.

Shri Mataji: It’s a fact, it’s a fact. He (man) came through a cell, evolved through a cell. How did he evolve? Why did he evolve? What is the purpose of his life? It is not all answered by science. What is the power that males you evolve? Also, that is not answered. So, in Sahaja Yoga you know all that. Not only you evolve but with the same power you go higher.

Interviewer: What is your theory about that then? Why are we here or, why are we so long in the process?

Shri Mataji: You see anything that you create, even human beings for example, you have created things. A beautiful lamp is to give us light, isn’t it, the power. So, that’s how God has created us, to give His power to us that we feel Him and know Him in our awareness and understand and we emit His powers and enjoy it; to say in the words of Christ ‘to enter into the kingdom of God’…

Interviewer: Is it what Self Realization means; that You mean as a Realized Soul?

Shri Mataji: Yes, Self Realization means when the Self, which is talked about in all the scriptures, starts emitting its manifestation in our conscious mind; means that time when we become aware of it. To this extent our central nervous system starts recording the power of our Spirit, of oneself and we start feeling the breeze-like vibrations of the Spirit which is called in the bible as the ‘Cool Breeze of the Holy Spirit’…

Interviewer: Two very interesting thoughts come to my head at this point. One, is it through being Realized that one gets to knowledge of what’s on the other side of death, as it were and two, whether one really through this Realization that one finds a little bit of God inside oneself?

Shri Mataji: That’s the point. Second point is correct. You find God within yourself then your priorities change about knowing about things. You don’t want to know what is beyond life because you come in the present. You are not worried about the past and the future but that also you know because gradually your vision improves… But the main thing that happens to you is that feeling, that universality; just start feeling in the sense that it becomes a part and parcel of your awareness. Just a part and parcel of your awareness. As a human being you have a special awareness for flowers, a special awareness for cleanliness. Animals don’t have. In the same way you go to the point where you just become aware of that you start feeling them around. You start feeling what is right and wrong. For example, if I start telling people, this is sin, then they will do it a hundred times. If I give them realization they will not just do it. They will see. In the night, I am sleeping in this room and there is this snake up here and someone will say there is a snake and I say, no it’s not there, I can’t see. But if you put on the light I’ll just know it’s a snake and I will run away from it…

Interviewer: What is achieved once this awakening happens? I mean, why are we better for it?

Shri Mataji: You see like I told you you are like a light. Now when you are enlightened what happens to you. You see the light. In the light you see yourself. All confusion is finished. You know the Truth, and you feel so blissful and happy because you know everything. There is no chaos, no nothing. You are so relaxed and the power starts flowing through you all the time. It is never lost and you see in this light whatever is good and what ever is bad and you understand everything so well. And when you become the light, what do you do? Is to give the light to others so that they should be enlightened also. But this dead light cannot give light to others in such a way as that light can give to others. But you can, once you are Realized you can make others enlightened. The whole confusion of disintegration, quarrels and political problems and these economic problems and religion, everything will subside absolutely when you are enlightened. Human beings have to be enlightened because they are in darkness. That’s why all these problems are there.

Interviewer: Will the world as we know it cease to exist if we all become enlightened in such a way?

Shri Mataji: It will be flowering then. It would take another shape of beauty and enjoyment, happiness.

Interviewer: The heaven that is so talked about in religious books?

Shri Mataji: Yes…

Interviewer: How long is it going to take to get us there?

Shri Mataji: You see it depends on human beings, how they work it out. That’s all. It’s for them to decide now. You see, they have to take a decision…

“Radio Interview, Hong Kong, 1992″

Mehndi (Hindi: मेहँदी, Urdu: مہندی) is the application of henna as a temporary form of skin decoration in India and Pakistan, as well as by expatriate communities from these areas. Mehndi decorations became fashionable in the West in the late 1990s, where they are sometimes called henna tattoos. Henna is typically applied during special occasions like weddings and festivals. It is usually drawn on the palms and feet, where the color will be darkest because the skin contains higher levels of keratin which binds temporarily to lawsone, the colorant of henna. Henna was originally used as a form of decoration mainly for brides.

“I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.
The disciple walked up to the lake.
When he reached it, he noticed that right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake.
As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid.
The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!”

So he came back and told Buddha,
“The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”
After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink.
The disciple obediently went back to the lake.
This time too he found that the lake was muddy.
He returned and informed Buddha about the same.
After sometime, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back.
The disciple reached the lake to find the lake absolutely clean and clear with pure water in it.
The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had.
So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said,

” See what you did to make the water clean.
You let it be…. and the mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water.
Your mind is also like that!
When it is disturbed, just let it be.
Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own.
You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down.
It will happen. Give some time to it. It is effortless.”

What did Buddha emphasize here?

He said, “It is effortless.”
Having ‘Peace of Mind’ is not a strenuous job; it is an effortless natural process! Do stay calm for a little while till your mind settles down. Do not react to anything in a hurry specially when the mind is disturbed and clouded by some thing unpleasant or when you are hurting. Just stay calm – all will be fine in due time…effortlessly!
Keep smiling not because of something, but in spite of everything….

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Of all the communities available to us,

there is not one I would want to devote myself to

except for the society of the true seekers, which has

very few living members at any one time.

I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.

In the last analysis everyone is a human being,

whether he is an American or a German,

a Jew or a Gentile. If it were possible to hold

only this worthy point of view,

I would be a happy man.

With fame I become more and more stupid,

which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Tagore and Einstein met through a common friend, Dr. Mendel. Tagore visited Einstein at his residence at Kaputh in the suburbs of Berlin on July 14, 1930, and Einstein returned the call and visited Tagore at the Mendel home. Both conversations were recorded and the above photograph was taken. The July 14 conversation is reproduced here, and was originally published in The Religion of Man (George, Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London), Appendix II, pp. 222-225.
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The most beautiful and most profound

experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is

the sower of all true science. He to whom this

emotion is a stranger, who can no longer

wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as

dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us

really exists, manifesting itself as the highest

wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our

dull faculties can comprehend only in their

primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling is

at the centre of true religiousness.

…………………..

Albert Einstein “The Merging of Spirit and Science”

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
All pray in their distress,
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.

For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is God our Father dear;
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is man, his child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart
Pity, a human face;
And Love, the human form divine;
And Peace, the human dress.

Then every man, of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine:
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And all must love the human form,
In heathen, Turk, or Jew.
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too.

poem and Illustration by William Blake.

Whoever was intimate with his heart, his love defined
And he who was not, in his doubt was left behind.

My heart from the first, unto this last, is in love
I know of none, who in this love, forever remained blind.

Found nothing more joyful than the sound of words of love
In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind.

poem from Persian Saint “Hafiz”, Miniator by “Ustad Farshchian”

I saw an unlit lamp behind a shop’s window in Vienna
“Ugly one” I thought and passed by not seeing the beauty

Few days after I saw the same lamp in the house of Diana
It was enlightened, so pretty and shining doing its duty

Can you remember of any miserable dark man you passed by
To make them enlightened, shining and beautiful is my job and thy

Original poem by “Axinia“

He who knows others is wise
He who knows himself is “enlightened”
‘Lao-Tse’

He who knows himself, knows his Lord
‘Prophet Mohammad’

Know thyself …
‘Jesus Christ’

My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if bereaved of light.
My mother taught me underneath a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointing to the East, began to say:

‘Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.

‘And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this sunburnt face
Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

‘For, when our souls have learned the heat to bear,
The cloud will vanish, we shall hear His voice,
Saying, “Come out from the grove, my love and care,
And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.” ’

Thus did my mother say, and kissed me,
And thus I say to little English boy.
When I from black, and he from white cloud free,
And round the tent of God like lambs we joy,

I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear
To lean in joy upon our Father’s knee;
And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair,
And be like him, and he will then love me

poem and illustration by Willaim Blake

Do not go to garden of flowers. O friend, go not there.
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousands petals of the
lotus and there gaze on the infinite beauty.

Poem by Kabir (1440-1518).

O Pilgrims, thou art where, thou art where?
The Beloved is neigh, come hither, come hither.

Thy beloved is thy neighbor, behind the wall
Lost in the desert, you are seeking and you fall;

If that lovely faceless face you once see
Pilgrim and shrine and house you know are all thee.

From house to house, you sought for proof
Yet never ascended up to the roof.

If it is the house of soul you seek
In the mirror see the face that’s meek.

If you’ve been to the garden, where is your bunch?
And where your soulful pearl if at sea you lunch.

With all this pain where is your gain?
The only veil, yourself, remain.

Hidden treasure chest, buried in soil
Why let dark clouds full moon spoil?

King of the World, to you will show
Magical shapes, in spirit you grow.

“Rumi”

And a man said, “Speak to us of Self-Knowledge.”
And he answered, saying:
Your hearts know in silence the secrets
of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound
of your heart’s knowledge.
You would know in words that which
you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers
the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must
needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths
would be revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh
your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge
with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Say not, “I have found the truth”,
but rather, “I have found a truth.”
Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.”
Say rather, “I have met the soul
walking upon my path.”
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line,
neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself,
like a lotus of countless petals.

from the book “prophet” by “Jibran Khali Jibram”

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I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
With angels bless’d; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind e’er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-being
Proclaims in organ tones,
To Him we shall return …

(picture from Rumi’s Tumb in Turkey)

You are angry with life

Like small children

Whose Mother is lost in Darkness

Your sulk expressing despair

At the fruitless end of your journey

You wear Ugliness to discover Beauty

You name everything false in the name of Truth

You drain out emotions to fill the cup of Love

My sweet children, my darling

How can you get peace by waging war

With yourself, with your being, with joy itself

Enough are your efforts of renunciation

The artificial mask of consolation

Now rest in the petals of the lotus flower

In the lap of your gracious Mother

I will adorn your life with beautiful blossoms

And fill your moments with joyful fragrance

I will anoint your head with Divine Love

For I cannot bear your torture anymore

Let me engulf you in the ocean of joy

So you lose your being in the Greater one

Who is smiling in your calyx of self

Secretly hidden to tease you all the while

Be aware and you will find Him

Vibrating your every fibre with blissful joy

Covering the whole Universe with light.

[Mother Nirmala]

In the life of Buddha, there was a man who was abusing Him without understanding and when he finished with his abuses and Buddha had left, people told him, “Do you know who you were abusing? It was Lord Buddha.” He got the fright of his life. He said, “Where is He gone?” “He has gone to another village.”

So he went to the other village and he said, “Sir, I am sorry for what I said. Please forgive me. It’s all wrong and I should not have done it. You can punish me the way you like.”
Lord Buddha said, “When did you do that?”

Buddha said, “I don’t know yesterday. I know only today.”