Many people say, 'When the student is ready, the Master appears.' I feel this was true in my case. However, this can be a tricky idea. How will he find you? Will he somehow knock on your door or send you an email when it's time to find you? Not likely. We also can’t sit back in our easy chair, thinking, “Oh, the Master will come when I am ready.” You have to stir the pot, kindle the flame, turn over a few stones. In this way, you are creating a ripple in the field, backed b

The answer is YES! Babuji’s own Master, Lalalji, confirmed that he was Patanjali. However, I don’t know if that was the intention for the...

Dear friends, Sorry, I disappeared unexpectedly. Many of you wrote to see if I was okay. YES! I am doing fine, thanks for asking. I was...

We try to make sense of life. Why? Because we are afraid of death. Seeing something dead and lifeless looks to us as the definitive end...

Spirituality is the word I use to say: I don’t have all the answers. It’s a wondrous mystery that I exist, am conscious, and can see,...

Thank you for sending me this question. It is an important one. Why are we human beings so hard on ourselves? We are good-hearted, loving...

Here is a very easy example that should help: Each night, we willingly let go of our awareness, our very existence, and go into the...

Well, the benefit is that we become less emotional. An emotion is a feeling gone out of our control, magnified by our mind, armed by our...

ARE ENLIGHTENMENT AND AWAKENING OUTDATED CONCEPTS? What if you were to ask, “Can you be enlightened and still not be awakened?” Is one...

Our quest for a lasting sense of happiness often has us looking for a change of some sort – a job, a change of routine, a change of...

Sure, whenever you watch TV or listen to music you are in effect meditating. In other words, you are using the motion of sound or light...

Even scientists of today are embracing the spiritual. Spirituality only means being open to our own potential, realizing that we don't...

What we call soul is the life behind life or the “life in life.” Now if someone is not open to that because there is no proof, well, that...

In order to grow, we have to be open to a continual modification of our current ideas. If we hold tight to today's knowledge we miss...

If we grow up not learning how to swim and are thrown into the water, we panic and thrash our arms and legs. However, it is interesting...

There are many stories of intense seekers who, on the verge of a mental and emotional meltdown, finally reach the moment when the...

It is a matter of where your awareness is abiding. If abiding on the body, you speak from the body, “Oh, my arm hurts today.” If...

This is a marvelous question, and, as usual, I will share from my personal experience. I am neither a saint nor a yogi, however, all such...

Ego manifests in many ways but the way I have been talking about it over the past year is that ego is the defender of our knowledge. This...

These days there are a lot of people placing themselves in the role of teacher and actually, I do enjoy this term “life coach.” The thing...