You’ve got to neutralize the mind. And how do we neutralize the mind? By spiritual practices. If a fearful thought comes into your mind, let it be there. You can become an observer of that thought and the thought loses its power. Now to become an observer, it’s a long process, it just does not come overnight. There must be some easy way. So what do you do?
"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
Sex and relationships
I do not advise celibacy for a householder. Celibacy practiced by a householder in the world as we know it, can become very dangerous. It can become repressive, and those inhibitions and repressions can translate themselves psychosomatically. When we marry there is at first a mutual attraction. One has to enhance this attraction if love […]
Other teachings about Ananda
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 […]
More teachings about mind and manifestation
Teachings about Ego
Friction
Even for the bread you eat, you need an external force: a knife to cut the slices. Everything requires an external force. Yet the realization that the external force and the internal force are the same, has to come. When that consciousness dawns, all friction will disappear, because the cause of all problems is duality. […]
More teachings about ego
The Seeker and the Path
Good Intentions and Divine Will
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
More about the seeker and path
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 […]
From Darkness to Light
A collection of talks given in the United States. A sharing of the living presence of truth. These talks deepen and accelerate growth of each individual on whatever spiritual path that person has chosen for himself.