The Jnana Sankalini Tantra teaches us that the vast magnitude of the entire universe resides within the relatively small human body.

You may not know what you have done yesterday. But you will get result today.

In Hinduism, the beauty and power of creation are represented through the dance of Shiva and Shakti, Consciousness and Energy.

A realized being knows he or she is not the doer; therefore, a realized person is free.

We rarely think and act consciously. Animals have no choice and simply live by instinct. On the contrary, human beings should be conscious of whatever they are doing, because they do have a choice, discrimination, intelligence, and rationality. How to carry out all activities in consciousness? Spiritual life is a conscious lifestyle and it begins with conscious breathing. If you watch your breath and you are conscious of each inhalation and exhalation, you will be conscious of each thought and activity. Breath is constantly going in and out in the background of all your activities. If you are conscious of your breath, and if you constantly watch your breath, you will succeed in being conscious of all your thoughts and all your activities.

If a wound exists and we repeatedly scratch it, the wound will become larger, as will our suffering.

Remember, if you are not self-motivated, others' persuasion or pressure will not work.

We live in a body that is like a house we can live in during one life. Some love the body and become attached to it. Some consider the body everything, and some even think “I am the body.” Some people may not like or love their body. Undoubtedly, we may wonder why so many people dislike their bodies since they chose them. Their suffering is the result of their own ignorance. Indeed, all suffering is due to ignorance. “I do not like this body; I want to change it. I do not look nice; I am ugly.”

If the fruit will be detached from the tree, it will not ripen. If we are the fruit, the guru is the tree, then we should through breath attach to the guru.

Throughout our lives, intentionally or unintentionally, our human actions have been good or bad. Many things that we did or said during our childhood we have forgotten; however, the results of these actions are nonetheless deposited in our karmic backpacks.

You attained this rare human birth. You have the desire for evolution. You have accepted the path of Yoga. Practise purity. Let all your perceptions be pure. Let all your thoughts be pure. Let all your activities be pure. Then you are close to the goal – self-realization is at hand.

If we are prisoners, how do we free ourselves? How long must we remain in prison? With steadfast determination we must achieve the true spirit of freedom through proper contemplation, proper thinking, and right action and living. Otherwise, lifetime after lifetime we will remain bound by our karma.

The Vedas declare that whatever is seen in the Cosmos can also be seen inside the human body.

This is the state of a wise one: seeing but not looking; eating but not tasting; touching but not feeling. The senses are working, but there is no attachment to them.

Spellbound and motionless, the advocate could scarcely believe what he was seeing, because the man he was looking at actually had the head of a snake. Although we may look like human beings, we may not be human beings.

The truth is, every individual is imprisoned in a body. A body is a prison, a family is a prison, the world is a prison, and we are the prisoners of our own minds.

What is the value of the word if that word is not leading us to God? What is the value of the talk?

How do we preplan our bodies and our lives? Through our own karma. Every moment we do something, then the impression of that karma remains within us. The sum total of these karmic impressions directs us where to go and what to do. For example, going to a spiritual retreat was an aggregation of karma. First, the thought appeared; perhaps someone told you about it. Then the desire to go was manifest. Next you planned how to have a holiday from work, how to arrange money, how to travel, and what clothes you needed. You had to perform many karmas for just one desire, and the sum total of that karma and the aggregation of the planning is called prakalpita, pre-thought or previously planned.

“This body is pre-thought, pre-planned.” Before we are born into this world we plan our bodies. We decide what kind of body we want. But we do not remember this; we have forgotten. We also decide where to be born; it is our plan, nobody else’s. The same holds true for the kind of life we want to live. When we travel, we decide where to go. When we go on a trip, we arrange many things. Similarly, when we travel to earth we arrange and prepare our bodies, our families, what kind of life we will have; it was all our doing. That is why it is said, ittham prakalpite dehe: “In this body that was preplanned by you.” Thus, we need not be unhappy with our bodies. Why? We receive what we wanted. We receive the body we desired. If we want to experience freedom we have to cherish this desire in us. Ittham prakalpite dehe: “This body is our thought, our creation.”

One day, during a conversation, he said, “I have ordered a book, and it should be arriving soon. It is a book about how to become taller.” I then told him that I knew about the book. He wanted to know if I had purchased it. I told him that I had not purchased it; however, I knew its contents.

Through our karma we made some plans and acquired a body. We arrived in this world decorated with beautiful ornaments. What are the ornaments? It is said, anadi vasana malah: “You have a garland, a necklace, made of desires without beginning.” Vasana means “desires” and anadi means “without beginning”; thus, we have a beautiful necklace of desires without beginning as well as endless ambition. But this garland is not new. Anadimeans that from time immemorial we have been carrying the vasanas, the desires, life after life.

This means if I am to pass through all these experiences, let it be. But let me never forget You; let my mind be always in You. With every breath, in every moment, try to be conscious of who You truly are.

This creation is a thought. Our life is also a thought.