Sri Mahaprabu’s native language is Tamil. His fluency and depth of the language is quite rare, given his rural upbringing. During Satsang when speaking in Tamil, he often delivers these poetic lines that communicate the most intricate concepts so easily. Even more amazing is his ability to deliver profound words of wisdom in such good English, given that English is a language he started learning only during college. Some day we hope to publish some of his quotes in Tamil, but until then let us enjoy these messages from Sri Mahaprabu, noted during Satsang and one-on-one conversations.
ENLIGHTENMENT
When all covers go, you will discover.
May 25, 2020
THE PROBLEM
The unreal wants to attain the Truth. Unreal itself is the Sikkal, the Problem. But we are trying to make the unreal have no problem. Our focus is on the problem, not on the unreal.
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March 27, 2020
SURRENDER
You have to go to the Ocean. The Ocean won’t come to the drop. The Drop has to yearn. Only then it can attain the higher. You have to be a receiver. Filled with knowledge, how can you receive it? You will only give!
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March 15, 2020
YOU CANNOT DIE
You can do anything in this world but there is one thing you cannot do:
You Cannot Die.
You Cannot Die.
December 8, 2019
SURRENDER
Surrender is the platform. Awareness is the vehicle. Love is the fuel.
September 7, 2019
EXISTENCE
To Exist is not a task to be accomplished
January 8, 2019
EGO
My eye is always on your “I”
August 8, 2020
BHAKTI vs. JNANA
Eyes open practice Bhakti. Eyes closed Dhyanam.
January 2, 2019
THE TASK
Remembering IT Consciously, while Forgetting yourself Unconsciously, is the task.
January 27, 2022
LOVE
You cannot move towards God without Love blossoming in you.
June 8, 2021
BHAKTI + JNANA
Bhakti and Jnana are inseparable.
May 31, 2022
SURRENDER
The easiest path is Surrender. In Surrender alone all seeking ends and so does the seeker.
May 11, 2021
GURU – DISCIPLE
Guru and Disciple are like two poles, electrodes. When there is no resistance in the material, then the current will flow. In that flow alone, you can experience the flow. Then what will you do? Be in the flow.
June 26, 2020
GURU
Right now I am seeing all of you as Ātma. And I can see you as the ego too, since I was there once. Otherwise we won’t be able to communicate.
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June 13, 2020
PEACE
When your expectations are not met, there will be a disturbance not to the Peace but to the enjoyment of Peace.
June 12, 2020
GURU – DISCIPLE
A Guru will not take on a disciple so easily. But once he takes him on, he will never leave him.
May 25, 2020
DIVINE WORDS
It is a free-flowing system, a Happening.
I and Mine were the obstacles to the flow.
I am Gone.
Now I am free with the flow.
I am giving my best due to love and gratitude.
Kindly accept it with Surrender.
Mahaprabu
I and Mine were the obstacles to the flow.
I am Gone.
Now I am free with the flow.
I am giving my best due to love and gratitude.
Kindly accept it with Surrender.
Mahaprabu
May 12, 2020
WHAT IS SATSANG
Satsang with Guru means sit near him, look at him peacefully, keeping your mind without thoughts, and enjoying the divine presence of the Guru. Slowly his sweetness will enter you. It will spread inside you. Thus the Master will come and stay in your heart.
April 15, 2020
EGO
You cannot lose yourself since you will want to be there to enjoy the result. The mind won’t let you go. Surrendering to the Master will make it happen.
April 9, 2020
DISAPPEAR
We all want to be the meditator! But instead you need to throw the meditator out. Disappear and it will happen.
January 26, 2020
EFFORT
Only if you put in continuous effort you will obtain the effortless state continuously.
December 26, 2019
TUNING
The Master is ever tuned to the Source station. If you are tuned to him, indirectly you are tuned to the Source.
December 26, 2019
SURRENDER
When you stay without any questions you will see that you are the answer.
December 20, 2019
GURU IS THE SITUATION
Guru is the situation for the disciple to mature.
November 7, 2019
LOSING THE EGO
You are trying with the ego, with skill, to attain that which is blocked by the ego! It is not possible at all (laughing) but you are sincerely trying. Only through Surrender it will happen.
August 16, 2019
EXISTENCE
Existence is instantaneous. You cannot contain it in routines. Doing meditation as a routine is like going with a gun to peace talks.
March 7, 2019
EXISTENCE
Being can know. But knowing cannot Be.
January 23, 2019
EXISTENCE
Not even meditation is needed for Unarvu (Feeling of Existence) to exist. Only IT exists.
December 14, 2018
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Spiritual development is NOT for the Spirit. It is a development towards the Spirit that happens as you move from the surface to the core. The Spirit is developing You. Remember.
November 14, 2019
GURU
A student cannot discover a Master. Only the Master can open himself up and reveal it to the student.
June 13, 2020
EGO
If the Master can kill the ego directly, one Buddha would have been enough. He establishes the mechanism inside you to kill the ego.
June 12, 2020
CONTINUOUS EFFORT
As your Surrender strengthens you will go from Belief (like a Bud) to Faith (like Flower) and finally to Trust (like a Fruit). Only then can you drink the nectar of the Fruit. This is a progressive journey. There are risks. Don’t many buds just fall off the plant? Don’t many flowers die? Keep up the Surrender at all costs. And hold on to the Truth.
June 3, 2020
STOPPING THINKING
When you become tired of thinking you will not think about stopping thinking.
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March 27, 2020
LOVE TAKES YOU TO GOD
God’s form is Love. For him to come you have to approach him with Love. If 2 people approach God, one with Love and other with Knowledge, TOP PRIORITY will be given to Love, by Him.
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March 15, 2020
LOVE
Everyone, by all means wants only one thing in the end. Happiness. If you Love God, Happiness will follow you automatically. But if you love happiness it will lead to expectation and quickly frustration and selfishness. So Love God.
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March 15, 2020
BHAGAVAN
Indian people were afraid of and fighting for freedom from British people. British people were coming to Bhagavan for their freedom.
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December 10, 2019
GURU AND DISCIPLE
Guru is a lamp that is a wick burning. Disciple is a wick that is ready to be lit.
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November 19, 2019
GURU ALONE CAN
Just like a mother alone can wean away her child from breast milk, Guru alone can make you forget yourself.
November 7, 2019
MIND AND EGO
Mind is a convenient scapegoat for the ego. Mind has been created just so the ego can say ‘I am good, but he is the cause.’
November 1, 2019
PAIN
Pain, even physical, is a mental record, not a true phenonmenon.
October 18, 2019
SURRENDER
Once you are in total Surrender, you will connect with Mahaprabu. At that point, moment by moment instructions will come to you at the exact time you need them. Once you connect, it is OVER!
August 21, 2019
SURRENDER
Make total use of every minute of Mahaprabu’s life and your life. Tell yourself, ‘If I die, I will die on this path.’ Total Surrender will turn into Total Jnana. They are both sides of the same coin. You can’t have one without the other.
August 18, 2019
SURRENDER
The ego likes challenges. It goes after various paths, but cleverly avoids surrender. What would it do once it has been surrendered! As Bhagavan said: they all want Moksha but won’t give themselves to me.
August 3, 2019
LOSING NOT FINDING
Forget trying to attain Atma. It is already attained. Try to lose yourself. And where can you do that? Only at the feet of the Master. That is why Surrender is strongly recommended.
May 31, 2019
OBSERVER NOT PARTICIPANT
In all situations be an Observer, not a Participant. Being a Participant leads to Partition, Partiality, which is the opposite of Union.
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May 24, 2019
ENLIGHTENMENT
There is only one task for you in this birth. Knowing who you are.
May 24, 2019
ANALYSIS
Atma is existing here and now irrespective of your analyses but Analysis exists only because of Atma.
May 17, 2019
SURRENDER
Take a strong decision to Surrender, and be strong in that decision.
April 26, 2019
JOY
You have an understanding that Joy is our true nature, but that Joy does not come through understanding!
March 15, 2019
GURU
Hold on to Mahaprabu tightly. He can’t hold you since he has no separation in him.
March 12, 2019
EXISTENCE
Understanding is not experience.
February 14, 2019
EXISTENCE
Silence is Existing and knows it is Existing Silently
February 14, 2019
THOUGHT
Thought is the one that is heavy. That is why lazy people are created.
February 6, 2019
SINCERITY
Guru sees only one thing in a disciple: Is he sincere in getting rid of ignorance.
February 6, 2019
NO THOUGHT
When you get to all feeling and no thought, then the illusion goes away permanently.
January 29, 2019
SRI MAHAPRABU’S RECOLLECTION
I am here. I can feel my body, feel the world, feel my own existence but I am unable to feel the existence of the mind. All this time I have been worrying about something that doesn’t exist. So I searched deeply, but could not find a trace of it. That was it. I lost total awareness of the surroundings, crowds, etc. I merged in the universe.
January 1, 2003
BEFORE MEDITATION
Before you sit for Meditation immerse yourself in devotion to God or Guru. Let that be the foundation. It will turn into Dhyanam.
November 14, 2019
LOVE
Love is the only bridge that will connect our present point to destiny. Give more importance to Love than knowledge.
December 27, 2019
THE FORMULA
A strong Yearning for knowing yourself; Total faith that you are IT; Doing exactly what the Satguru says. These 3 will lead you to Brahma Jnanam.
December 26, 2019
EGO
How will you the ego, drop the ego? Guru will create situations for that to happen. If you are in total Surrender, it will happen.
November 21, 2019
SURRENDER
Surrender is the Saadhana. That is the Tapas. The ego dies only there.
November 21, 2019
SLEEP
Sleep has become an addiction, a belief that it is normal. A seeker of Truth must conquer sleep.
November 19, 2019
ENLIGHTENMENT
All you know is Y. All you can do is take Y and merge it in X. You don’t know right now what X is. You will know only when Y melts in X. That too if you begin it consciously, go through it consciously and come out of it consciously. This is Jnana-awakening. It is an understanding of X, given by X to Y which is dissolving in X.
November 19, 2019
LIKES AND DISLIKES
As long as you fall for Aversion, you are going to fall for Affection.
November 19, 2019
WAKING STATE?
In the Waking state you are totally out of the Truth. It should be called the Total Unconscious state, not Waking state. So don’t believe the waking state at all!
November 9, 2019
TRYING TO MEDITATE
You are not interested in knowing what is Existing. You are interested in attaining. In Duality you are trying to attain Unity.
November 7, 2019
THE ONLY WORK
The only work is to delete the false thought that you are an individual.
November 2, 2019
SURRENDER
You are yourself a dream. All you have is dreams. It is harder for the master. Since he takes on full responsibility. Only He can take responsibility since only He is awake! You are asleep! All you are surrendering is your dream. The Master takes on responsibilities for all your sins, with compassion.
September 7, 2019
SURRENDER
Only when a student has totally surrendered to the Guru with love, can it be called Upa-ni-sad. The disciple has pushed away his ego, accepting the Guru totally, and all questions have disappeared. It is like walking in a garden full of flowers with a totally unblocked nose, with total presence and total love. Then the fragrance will enter you. Similarly the Guru’s presence enters you.
September 4, 2019
STRENGTH
Only he who has a strong conviction that the world is Mithya (made by mind) and Atma/Brahman alone is real, only he will attain self-realization. Let your decision be strong. Even if I have to die it is OK, but I will attain.
August 18, 2019
EXISTENCE
You will know it when you reach.
May 17, 2019
AWARENESS
In all actions, focus should be on the task, without forgetting that I exist.
May 10, 2019
SURRENDER
By being in constant connection with the Guru, always in Surrender, we can detach the “I”, the misery. The disciple will disappear. The accident will happen.
April 21, 2019
SURRENDER
Surrender implies the present moment.
Surrender = Egoless Present Moment
Surrender = Egoless Present Moment
March 26, 2019
AWARENESS
We have an awareness of our emotions, senses, etc. but not of awareness itself.
December 14, 2018