Game of Life

ROOPA: My mother asked that this question be asked. So, for her I’m asking the question‑‑for Nirmala. It’s a typical… never mind. If life was supposed to be the play of the Gods, why are so many people so miserable? When I am compassionate I can feel sorry for everyone, king or commoner, old or […]

The things I teach

The subtle body is the repository of all the experiences you have gained until the moment of parting. Until the moment of shedding this body, the subtle body has gained and retained within itself all the experiences, not only of this lifetime, but of all the lives that a person might have lived since the […]

Evaluation and Evolution (life and death)

In the subtle state of death, you remain static. You function within yourself and within evaluation, but there is no evolution or progression. For any entity to progress he needs all three aspects of himself: physical, mental and spiritual. That is why our bodies are necessary. That is why theology can say, “Your body is […]

Your journey begins..

When the spiritual Self, the true identity of man and his true eternity, can shine in its fullest glory, then the glass (the mental body) will also become unnecessary. The glass too will melt away in that beautiful divine light that is radiated in all its purity. When you leave this body and your whole […]

Until you know what life is you are dead

Everything from the grossest to the subtlest has to emanate a force, like fire emanating heat or a flower emanating fragrance. All these emanations put together form the emanation of the universal mind. All minds are interconnected. Even in a stone there is life; it is not dead. There is no death. Everything is vibrating […]

The process of refinement

If you become familiar, through your spiritual and meditational practices, with the subtler layers of the mind, then when you pass over you will be familiar with those regions because you will have experienced them here and now in the physical. When you pass over you will say, “Did I really pass over?—it is all […]

Past life?

Why do you want to know about your past life? How is it going to help you in this life? Someone might say that, “Oh, by knowing of the mistakes of the past life, I will avoid making them again.” That is not the way. Where the spiritual Self is concerned, you do not analyze […]

Fear of Death

Death is very beautiful and a pleasent experience MURRAY: Why am I so afraid to die? GURURAJ: Death is the thing that should be least feared. The reason why people fear death primarily, there are secondary reasons as well, primarily is this that they do not want to lose their individuality. They would prefer the […]