"Let my love be measured by giving and not by gain"
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 […]
SHAMIYA: Will you explain the gap technique? I was taught that it was the space between the in‑breath and the out‑breath. There seems to be a confusion that it is also is the space between the out‑breath and the in‑breath. GURURAJ: Yes, that is very true, that there definitely is a space between the in‑breath […]
When I embarked upon the spiritual path, my journey became crystallized when I learned the ancient art of meditation. Thirty five years later, I am still practicing meditation and have been teaching for over 30 years. In my role as the senior academic advisor for medical students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College […]
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I have been a wife, mother and special education teacher, and now I enjoy being a retired grandmother. I began using AMS’s practices in 1979 and teaching meditation in 1980, experiencing Gururaj’s teachings directly. Meditation has been the key to coping with all of life’s challenges as well as to unlocking life’s joy. It has […]
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Jasuti Goss has taught meditation for 30 years. When asked about her way of teaching, she simply explains that her students come with one deep and sincere question, “Who am I?” She then gives them the tools: meditation techniques and new understandings, so they can start their own journey of self-discovery. Contact 765-642-2652 Jasuti@comcast.net […]
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As a long-time meditator, I am more and more convinced that meditation is the medicine for what ails us. It quiets and organizes our roiling minds, increases our focus, relieves depression and negative emotions, gives deep rest and grounds our bodies, and gives hope through the experience of joy. Not all at once, of course, but steady practice […]
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If the service is done as an offering then praise or blame will not affect you at all because you find the inner joy of serving.
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Good intentions to relieve the suffering of others can turn out badly
Question of the motivation behind what you want to do – good deeds can be valueless
Work for the sake of doing it and not for the reward, for the recognition
Helping should not be as a duty – done without force or compulsion, not for a return
There is nothing on earth that can give you happiness: it can only give you temporary pleasure. Anything which is complete can never be dual. Completeness itself is oneness. All existence is composed of that oneness and that oneness can be called Divinity. It is only one. All the differences we see are just name […]
Continue reading...Gururaj was born and raised Parsotam Narshi Bhana in India. He lived most of his life beyond age 20 in Cape Town, South Africa. A brief synopsis of Gururaj's life up to age 44 is given below under chronology. Most pertinent, to this profile, is the
Nevertheless, we in our individual capacities can recognize and realize that all nature is but one, for the Manifestor has not manifested two. The entire manifestation is one. But when through evolutionary processes man started thinking, then he started compartmentalizing that I and you. I and you. Now if there is one, there could be […]
Questioner: Guruji, this question arises from the difficulty I have with the concept of the Personal God, God with form and I ask myself what is that form? And then I understand from the things that you have said in the past that the Personal God, Ishvara, continues to exist during the present cycle of […]
Do I exist or do I live? The question would start, «Do I exist or do I live?» Ninety‑ nine point nine nine nine percent of the world’s population, which is about 4000 million today, they do not live, they just exist. So live life with the realization that life is the aim and the […]
Everything is just the reflected glory of God in relative existence. The vehicle of the Absolute is relativity. Initially we start off with the dualistic attitude that material is separate from spiritual. We think that the would is here and God is there. When the mind comes to realization, we realize that God is not […]
Gururaj was born and raised Parsotam Narshi Bhana in India. He lived most of his life beyond age 20 in Cape Town, South Africa. From age 44 until his demise, which he predicted, at age 56, he devoted himself to teaching groups of people, amounting to tens of thousands of students, the art of personalised […]
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 […]
