panilenivadu – permanent Self-abidance

To the question, “What does one have to do, what efforts must one to stop conceptualizing?”

Maharaj’s answer is: Nothing, no efforts.

Who is to make the effort? What effort did you make to grow from a tiny sperm cell to a full grown bay in your mother’s womb? And thereafter for several months, when you grew from . . . → Read More: Enlightenment cannot be attained or forced

Jnaneshwar goes into poetic flight when he describes the attainment of peace consequent on communion with God: “As I approached God, my intellect stood motionless, and as I saw Him I became Himself….” [Abhanga 79]. Then again: “Throughout all my experience I have been over whelmed by silence. What shall I do if I cannot speak . . . → Read More: Attainment of peace

Visitor: I remember reading somewhere that it is the combination of space and time which is the cause of one’s bondage. I have since been wondering how space and time could possibly result in bondage.

Maharaj: Let us be clear what we are talking about. What do you mean by “bondage”, and bondage for whom? If you . . . → Read More: Bondage of Space and Time

Maharaj often comes out with the statment that consciousness is the only “Capital” that a sentient being is born with. This, he says, is the apparent position. The real situation, however, is that what is born is consciousness, which needs an organism to manifest itself in, and that organism is the physical body.

What is it that . . . → Read More: Consciousness, the only Capital