They pay for their conduct

“Kabira Teri Jhompri Gal Katiyan Ke Paas
Jo Karenge So Bharenge Tu Kyon Bhayo Udaas” ~ Kabir

O Kabir! Your hut is next to the butcher’s bay
Why do you feel down? For their conduct they only shall pay

Nirvana is right here

“At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.” ~ Hakuin

Right time

“Dheere Dheere Re Mana, Dheere Sub Kutch Hoye
Mali Seenche So Ghara, Ritu Aaye Phal Hoye” ~ Kabir

Slowly, slowly O mind, everything happens in own pace
Gardner may water a hundred buckets; fruit comes only in its season

Karma

What happens to you is not in your control. Accept it. However, how you are going to respond to what is happening to you is absolutely in your control. Take responsibility for it. Your present is created by your past karma. How are you respond to your present will cause the Karma from which your future will come.
Excerpted from ‘Frozen Thoughts’ Vol. 9: Issue 11 (May 2010)

Suffering

Suffering is caused when you mind wants life to go in a particular direction, but your life goes in a different one altogether. You try to define life, but life defines all definitions that you confine it to. Suffering is caused when you resist ‘What Is’.
Excerpted from ‘Frozen Thoughts’ Vol. 9: Issue 11 (May 2010)

A religious man

A religious man is an organic unity, in balance. His head, his hands, his feet, his body, his mind, his souls, all are in deep harmony, in a deep rhythm. He is an orchestra.
Excerpted from the books of Osho

You got to believe

Questioning

"One of the important things in life is not to stop questioning. The moment one stops questioning, search ceases." ~ Vaibhav

A journey within

Religion and Fear

Religion has survived up to now because of your fear and greed. Of course I mean false religion. True religion has nothing to do with fear and greed. In fact, true religion means transcending fear and greed.

We call religious persons “god-fearing”. Fear has nothing to do with religion at all; fear is anti-religious. Love is religion. Authentic religious person will make you unafraid, fearless; not a slave, not a puppet in the hands of some unknown god, some fiction.

Excerpted from books of Osho

Peace emanates from soul

"Peace emanates from the soul, and is the sacred inner environment in which true happiness unfolds." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Life...

There is no saturation in life…
only saturated minds.
There is no stagnation in life…
only stagnant people.

Life is a mere open parenthesis…
fill as much as you want…
there is no close parenthesis.

There us as much room
as your heart can conceive…
as much room
as your mind can believe…
as much room
as your attitude towards life.

The only word that can befit life is ‘More’.
Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Understanding comes with love

"Great understanding comes with great love. "
Wisdom and compassion are inseparable qualities of our true nature. To be wise is to love and to love is to be wise.
Wisdom is the quality of mind that sees beyond the limits of the ego-self and knows the ultimate connectedness of life. Love is the quality of heart that unites us with others and all of life, and frees us from our separateness.
The path to enlightenment is opening the mind to wisdom and the heart to compassion and love.

Author of health

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. ~ Buddha

Greater person

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." ~ Patanjali

Why do we lie?

We lie because it helps us to escape a
situation which may not be pleasant

The curse of lying is that
it develops in us the ‘attitude to escape’.
The blessing of honesty is that
it develops in us the ‘attitude to face’.

If you want to hit the top
you need the ‘attitude to face’
everything in life.

And, what will shape this attitude in you?
Honesty!

Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Idea

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." ~ Marie Curie

Solution

Even if we cannot be the solution,
let us at least be the solace.
Even if we cannot help, let us not harm.
Even if we cannot solve the problem,
let us not cause the problem.
Even if we cannot be the accelerant,
let us not be a retardant.

If you cannot be the pain balm
to the battered souls,
rather than being the cause of headache,
the world will come in search of you.

With compassion in words and actions,
help every man to find his solutions
and this world will belong to you.

Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

That's life

Success is in the big things;
Happiness is in the small things;
Meditation is in nothing;
God is in everything.
That’s life.

Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Always alone

All relationships are only on the surface.
Deep inside you are always alone.

A thousand people may surround you;
yet a part of you is always alone.
Even when you embrace your beloved,
a part of you is always alone.

You came into this world alone
and you will leave this world alone.

Liberation comes from knowing
‘Existential Aloneness’
is your true nature.

Relate from this space
and you will be dependable;
else, you will be dependant.

Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan