Hemant Parikh

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Attachments Attachments cause feverish breath and feverish breath takes away peace of mind. Then you are in pieces and fall prey to misery. Before you get scattered too much, gather yourself and rid your breath of the feverishness through surrender and sadhana. Unfortunately most people do not notice this until it is too late. When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team. Without fighting the attachments, observe the feverish breath and go to the cool place of silence within. Your first step in this direction is directing your attachment to the Knowledge, to the Divine. Your non-attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the Divine is your beauty.

Being happy is a practice. Being unconditionally happy is a practice: Come whatBeing happy is a practice. Being unconditionally happy is a practice: Come whatmay, today I'm going to smile. Anyway, everything is going to die! Everythingis going to vanish and disappear---so what! Who cares! Let me at least behappy, smile this moment, enjoy my very breath Selling Your Happiness You sell you happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world is not worth your smile. Even if you are made the king or the emperor of the world, it's not worth giving away your smile.

Seva / Service If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you.Seva brings merit; merit allows you to go deep in meditation; meditation brings back your smile. When you make service the sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind, and gives you meaning Be grateful for any opportunity to do seva. Love Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence. Here are the signs of love. When you love someone, you see nothing wrong with them. When you love someone, you want to see them always happy and you want them to have the best. Love is the highest strength, yet it makes you absolutely weak Love cannot tolerate distance, and hatred cannot tolerate nearness. You can experience love, but you cannot describe it or express it totally. Love is beyond sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound. When ther...

Just be! There is no expectation of qualification to attain the Divine. No need for any effort. Just be. Akinchan I am no body Aprayatna I do nothing Achaha I want nothing from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar