Q: How can I know myself?

Guha: Nobody can teach you that.
No matter how much I tell you,
it's not going to work.
It is a tremendous self-generated hunger, a hunger that nobody can give to another.

My interactions with UG
made me realize
that all my ideas and images
about the great saints and sages
were insignificant
compared to the effect
UG was having on me.

You are nothing
but a conglomeration
of fictitious thoughts and images.

I am a product of the body. I am not a separate entity. When I say the body,
it includes the brain.

The process through which our body creates memories, and the movement involved in recollecting them creates what we call “me”.
That's my simple understanding.

The system is not interested in the acceptance of any belief structure.

It becomes a burden.

The
unknown
can
never
be
a
part
of
the
knowledge,
but that is what the seeker is seeking.

One must discover
one’s own core well-being
and gravitate towards it,
one-pointedly.

Suppose there is a waterhole
in the jungle
where all animals come to drink.
Even though there are dangerous predators around,
the thirsty ones
must still devise a way to access it.

The movement that
seeks to establish
our idea of harmony
ultimately ends up disturbing
the equilibrium that already exists.

It is not freedom you are seeking.
You really don't want
freedom or God.

Basically, you want something
to overcome your problem.
You are not
honest enough to admit that.

Life is for itself and by itself.
It is complete.
That’s all there is.
This is not a matter of understanding.

Q: What is an individual's role?

Guha: There cannot be a
generalized teaching.
Every individual, every life
must take care of itself.
Period.

Anything we think or seek,
other than what we do,
is an escape.

It is the brain’s way of handling conflicts.

Knowing the nature of the mind
does not help us
to respond to living situations.

They are two different aspects
of our functioning.

How can you perceive something
that is beyond your perception?

That's why I call it the mysterious unknown.

Trying to
give shape to the unknown
is the most defective endeavour
of our intelligence.

How can you praise the unknown?
It's a paradox, isn't it?
Think about it.

You have no choice
but to play the survival game.
That is what your intellect is there for.

If the subject is true to itself,
if the drive is so
important and urgent
that it is aligning itself
with the movement
which is most congenial
to its flowering, then
everything that is necessary
is supplied by life itself.

Why should you be answerable to anybody on this planet?

The only way to exercise
your freedom is to
have enough money.

Oneness is a concept.
You are never
one with anybody.
As long as you are thinking,
you are separate.
No one can say
that he is in a state of Advaita.

Through continuous thinking
you are unnecessarily
wasting your energy.
No other form of life
wastes energy like that.

Our ability to think
gives us an opportunity
to understand ourselves
and the things around us.
In the process, we create a
massive functional reality
as well as a powerful thinker.

There is no such thing as a
fundamental reality or truth.

If you don't need
more than basic necessities,
your thoughts are
going to be balanced.
Who can brainwash you then?

Life is nothing but a movement.
It is the harmonious existence
with your surroundings
and with yourself.

There is nothing more than that.

There is a sense of freedom, stability
and the absence of conflict
when this rhythm of life
unfolds within oneself.

I feel the movement of life
is like that of a river
which starts from the mountains and goes to the ocean.
If there is an obstacle, in the process of overcoming it,
the river often ends up creating a new course for itself.
That is the flow of life.

If the conditioning
of the social dynamics
loses its ground in you,
you begin to function at your best.

Feeling bad about yourself is
not allowing you
to gather the energy
that is necessary for you
to live harmoniously.

Reflect and see.

Awareness is an important mechanism which creates the appropriate action.

Thinking of living from
moment to moment
is different from living itself.

What is the meaning of freedom?

The ability to do
what is most important for you.

There is no freedom other than that.

As long as you have devotion
or want devotees,
there will be no emancipation for you.
Devotion is the
most clever and sophisticated way
of controlling someone.

By becoming the devotee of a person
who demands devotion,
you are forced to act in a way
that maintains his idea of devotion.

This process enslaves both.

By claiming
there is a Paramatman
you imply that you know it.

In the process you are actually
reinforcing your own self-importance
and inadvertently conning people.

There is no such thing
as a Paramatman
that you can know or understand.