“What is bondage and what is freedom? I don’t think there can be any difference. Both are concepts. Where do these concepts rise from? Let us go to that place. It is the thought, it is the mind, which is concealing the freedom. Underneath is something we do not know. Any thought that rises from […]
“You need not give up anything. There were kings who got free, who got freedom, holding onto their kingdoms, sitting on the thrones, commanding the armies. It doesn’t mean that you have to give up everything. You need all these things to run your life. Only ego, attachment towards them, you have to give up. […]
“When a man is hitchhiking, he has no home, he is not yet satisfied. If you are wise, you will smell the place and find out if it will give you peace and bliss. Yet, many people are going but let them go, everybody is not fit to have peace of mind. So, since you […]
“This whole samsara is the garbage and the pigs are living there. I promise you honey, milk, then why don’t you leave? I told you, one second. You leave this gutter, leave the sewage. This is the quality of the pigs. They will remain pigs. 35 million years they have remained in the garbage, and […]
This clip is from the 2nd of August 1993. A devotee called Martin tells Papaji, “When I am quiet I am not disturbed by thought that comes and goes. When my body and emotions become noisy, I become disturbed again.” Papaji replies, “Satsang apprise you of the fact that there is no coming and no going. […]
This interview by Jeff Greenwald from 31st of January 1993 was used as one of the narration threads in the documentary ‘Call off the Search” and is one of all time’s favourite interviews with Papaji. Jeff Greenwald’s spontaneous outpouring of gratitude at the end of the video eloquently captures the feeling of people who were […]
This compilation starts with a discourse from 17 December 1992 where Papaji speaks about emptiness by using the analogy of gold. “The inherent nature of gold is to be carved into shape. In the same way, consciousness, emptiness can take any shape. Whatever it thinks so does it become. Kalpas, Yugas will come, stay, dissolve […]
Papaji explains how through enquiry we return to our own source, which can never be lost. This discourse is from the 20th of August 1992.
In this video from 29th December 1992, Papaji addresses a question about being in a space without a sense of awareness of thoughts. Is this sleeping while awake or spacing out? Papaji explains, “You can call it sleeping while awake but to whom? Sleeping to the world and awake to the Self. Mind, samsara, arise […]