How strange that we run after physicians who are mortals themselves but forget Rama, the immortal, eternal and never-failing Physician!

Stranger still it is that, knowing that we, too, are mortal and that a doctor's treatment can at best but prolong our life for a few more days, we still run from pillar to post to seek it.

Thus, though we find the young and the old, the rich and the poor, all passing away before our very eyes, we do not want to sit in peace; rather for the sake of living a few days more, we try everything except Rama.

How nice it would be if having realized this truth, we relied on Rama, put up with whatever ailments came our way and made our lives peaceful.

We saw the corporeal Mahadev in his physical body and in his writingsﾗwhich was one and the same thing. The Mahadev, who transcends the body is, however, all-pervading. He can be recognized by his virtues which we can all share alike. No one can have a gr

Are not birth and death perhaps the two sides of the same coin? You find death on the one side and birth on the other. Why should this give rise to sorrow or joy?

If this be true of birth and death as it certainly is, then why should we fear death even in the slightest degree or sorrow over it and rejoice in a birth? Every man should ask himself this question.

The world is full of opposites. There is sorrow behind happiness, and happiness behind sorrow. Where there is sunshine, there is also shadow; where there is light, there is also darkness; where there is birth, there is also death. Non-attachment lies in r

The foregoing shows that the key to happiness lies in the worship of Truth, which is the giver of all things.

How, then, shall we worship truth? Who knows the truth? The reference here is to relative truth, that which appears to us as truth. Experience will show that truth, even in this limited sense, is very hard indeed to observe.