THE OTHER DAY WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING ABOUT COMING CLOSER TO YOU, I WAS AWARE THAT I STILL FEEL A THIN ARMOUR AROUND ME THAT KEEPS ME FROM COMING CLOSER. THIS ARMOR IS INCONGRUOUS WITH MY OPENNESS TO YOU. I DON’T KNOW WHERE IT IS COMING FROM. PLEASE HELP ME TO MELT IT AWAY. Everybody […]
Swami – A Man of Pure Intent. Some people walk into your life like a breeze—refreshing, effortless, and gone before you realize their profound presence. Swami was one such soul. The founder of IRIS Business Services, a relentless champion of MSMEs, a fearless critic, and above all, a friend in the truest sense of the
What is the difference between reaction and response? There is much, a lot of difference, not only in quantity but quality. A reaction is out of the past, a response is out of the present. You react out of the past old patterns. Somebody insults you: suddenly the old mechanism starts functioning. In the past people have insulted
REJOICE LIFE WITH SIMPLICITY OF THE HEART…. Life can be known only with a simple heart. Head is very complex, and life is very simple. It is difficult from a complex head to understand the simple life. Life is simply simple. You have also to be simple. A child understands more. He has a rapport
Once it happened that a man was very ill. The illness was that he continually felt that his eyes were popping out and his ears were ringing – continually. By and by, he became crazy because it went on twenty-four hours a day. He couldn’t sleep, he couldn’t do his work. So he consulted doctors.
Love should be pure. It should not be impure. You will be surprised to know that the English word `love’ comes from a very ugly root in Sanskrit. It comes from लोभ — LOBH. Lobh means greed. And as far as ordinary love is concerned, it is a kind of greed. That’s why there are
SHOULD WE BE SELFISH? There is no other way. Nobody can be unselfish– except hypocrites. The word ‘selfish’ has taken a very condemnatory association, because all the religions have condemned it. They want you to be unselfish. But why? To help others…. I am reminded: a small child was talking to his mother, and the
A man with three hairs on his otherwise bald head came into a hair saloon and asked to get his hair shampooed and braided. The hairdresser got on with his job but just as he was about to finish combing it, one of the hairs fell out. The hairdresser was very embarrassed but the man
A religion is to be sought. A religion has to be chosen consciously. Nobody should be made a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan or a Jain by birth. Birth has nothing to do with religion. Because of this association with birth, the whole world seems to be religious, and nobody is religious. Everybody
MASTER, PLEASE HELP ME. I cannot do that. I am not your enemy. I am not a do-gooder. I don’t “help,” because the help, the very desire to be helped, is a desire to continue as you are. You want some props, some supports. You want consolation, comfort. No, I am the last person to
