AttachmentThe opposite of attachment is not detachment. The opposite of attachment is non attachment.
"Let my love be measured by giving and not by gain"
A life dedicated to service
Biography
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
Teachings about Unconditional Love
Service is devotion in action.
When one accepts oneself at one’s true value, then service is performed for the sake of service; and that service is just another name for devotion. The service of mankind is the service of God. It is the internal God that is externalized in His varied names and forms.
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Teachings about Mind and Manifestation
Personal and Impersonal God
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 […]
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Teachings about Ego
Imagining what what we are not
They are always trying to imagine themselves in a different position. In other words, it means that they always try to imagine what they are not at that moment. A person has a job as a lobbyist in the Senate. Fine. Look at the wonderful, interesting people you are meeting, lobbying around with them. How […]
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The Seeker and the Path
Be alert!
On the spiritual path there is no laziness, there is no self-satisfaction. Self-satisfaction is called delusion. When a person is a true seeker, then the environment that is necessary for his growth comes to him; all circumstances lead him to it. What happens in practical life is this: if our attention is only on the […]
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Other posts from Gururaj and his disciples
Gururaj Ananda Yogi
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 […]
Discrimination (Viveka)
The power of discrimination, (viveka, as they call it in Sanskrit), is for one purpose: to be able to discriminate between the changing and the unchanging, to discriminate between the relative and the Absolute. The Absolute is our real essence, it is changeless. All change is but a manifestation of the changeless. When you combine […]