Legacy of Wisdom

CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY WITH RAMANA MAHARISHI Recorded by Paul Brunton and Munagala Venkataramiah Question: We grieve when a...

The crux of the problem that humanity faces today is the failure to distinguish the intellect from intelligence . Even the educated are ign...

The greatness and dignity of human beings is their ability to sacrifice their lives for others. - Swami Tejomayananda A question often asked...

Discover inner space by creating gaps in the stream of thinking. Without those gaps, your thinking becomes repetitive, uninspired, devoid of...

MEANING AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE INDIA is a land of festivals. Divali is the festival of lights, a festival of the Hindus traced back to ancien...

You may not want to know yourself because you are afraid of what you may find out. Many people have a secret fear that they are bad. But not...

EVERYONE INHABITS A REALITY OF NON-CHANGE LYING BEYOND ALL CHANGE. THE EXPERIENCE OF THIS REALITY BRINGS CHANGE UNDER OUR CONTROL. ...

Although our bodies, and the whole physical world, are a display of constant change, there is more to reality than process. The universe was...

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith...

It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each b...

You and your environment are one. Looking at yourself, you perceive that your body stops at a certain point; it is separated from the wall o...

Creating the body in new forms is necessary in order to meet the changing demands of life. A child’s view of reality, for example, contains ...

He, the One, is the flaming torch, He also is the tomb, And He the candle set on the tomb, But the delight of self-annihilation Fails only t...

He who abandons his worldly home Finds his true home. He who retains the home of his own ego Feels miserable in any home. If one gives up we...

There was a cage formed of mirrors, With a fresh rose hanging in the middle. The flower was one, but each reflection Was a separate object o...

The power of awareness would make no difference in our lives if Nature had outfitted us all with the same responses to experience. Clearly, ...

“Neither increasing nor decreasing” We worry because we think that after we die we will not be a human being any more. We will go back to b...

“After this penetration, he overcame all pain.” Penetration means to enter something, not just to stand outside of it. When we want to unde...

My own Self in the form of ladies and gentlemen, At a certain meeting in India wise men were there, very wise men were present and sacred te...