Aditya Shah

Onion

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

Nothing is Unique:
You can be unique only when you are nothing. If you are something, you are comparable.

If you are somebody you can be compared with others, and that which can be compared cannot be unique. Unique means incomparable.…[Read more]

Dukh Mein Simran Sab Kare,
Sukh Mein Kare Na Koye.
Jo Sukh Mein Simran Kare,
Tau Dukh Kahe Ko Hoye.

According to Kabir – What is Happiness?
It depends. It depends on you, on your state of consciousness or unconsciousness, whether you are asleep or awake. Happiness will depend on where you are in your consciousness. If you are asleep, then…[Read more]

Cards

Life consists not in holding good Cards but in playing those you hold well.

Cards tell us – Wait for the Right time.

We all are in a hurry to accomplish things. We all want to accomplish everything at this moment. Sometimes it becomes impossible to wait in life. The art of patience is a talent that we need to cultivate…[Read more]

Pothi Padh Padh Kar Jag Mua,
Pandit Bhayo Na Koye.
Dhai Aakhar Prem Ke,
Jo Padhe so Pandit Hoye.

All the mystics all over the world have always felt impotent as far as communication is concerned. “Communion” is possible, but communication, no. This has to be understood from the very beginning. A communion is a totally different dim…[Read more]

Files

A folder or box for holding loose papers together and in order for easy reference.

If you organize your paper systematically, it will be very easy for you to get any information. In the process you will be quick.

Hurry is a rushed action “Hurry up before we get late.” in that there is no preparation.

Quick is if something or som…[Read more]

Kabir Man Nirmal Bhaya,
Jaise Ganga Neer.
Pache Pache Har Phire,
Kahat Kabir Kabir.

Kabir says – whatsoever is happening around you is rooted in the mind. Mind is always the cause. It is the projector, and outside there are only screens – you project yourself. If you feel it is ugly then change the mind. If you feel whatsoever comes from t…[Read more]

Coconut

The seeker must courageously know it to be separate from the body, like the kernel of a Coconut shell. He must know it to be the elixir of deathlessness, the immortal essence.

All who realize this science of the soul will also become free of desire and of death. They too will know the ultimate reality.

To acquire the art of…[Read more]

Kabira Khara Bazaar Mein,
Mange Sabki Khair.
Na Kahu Se Dosti,
Na Kahu Se Bair.

Kabir says – PRAYER IS AN EXPERIENCE OF RESURRECTION, A REBIRTH, the birth of a new vision, a new dimension, a new way of looking at things, and a new way of being. Prayer is not something that you do: prayer is something that you become. It is a state of being.…[Read more]

Pebble

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a Pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you…[Read more]

Maya Mari Na Mun Mara,
Mar Mar Gaye Shareer.
Asha Trishna Na Mari,
Keh Gaye Das Kabir

Kabir says – Man exists as if in sleep. Man is asleep. Whatsoever is known as waking is also a sleep. Initiation means to be intimate contact with one who is awakened. Unless you are in intimate contact with one who is awakened, it is impossible to come out…[Read more]

Tilak

The Tilak – the vermillion mark – was first devised as an indication and symbol of that unknown world. It cannot be applied just anywhere, and only a person who can place his hand on the forehead and find the spot can tell you where to apply the tilak. There is no use in putting the tilak just anywhere, because the spot is not in exa…[Read more]

Mangan Maran Saman Hai,
Mat Koi Mange Beekh.
Mangan Se Marna Bhala,
Yeh Satguru Ki Seekh

Kabir says – There is only one thing that can make you emperor, and that is your own being. Just find it.

The beauty of your own being is the beauty of existence.

The silence of your own being is the language that existence understands. And just…[Read more]

Valve

A Valve is a device that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.

Valve directs and controls the flow. We need to learn how to direct our energy for self-discipline.

Self-discipline is an intensely specified…[Read more]

Jaise Til Mein Tel Hai,
Jyon Chakmak Mein Aag.
Tera Sayeen Tujh Mein Hai,
Tu Jaag Sake To Jaag

Kabir says – In the search for godliness, the difficulty is that it is not at the end of the journey – it is present within the seeker from the very beginning. It is not a goal to be reached, it is the innermost core of the traveler. If you are s…[Read more]

Farmer

Farmers live in trust and know how to wait.

Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.

Remaining centered, in face of uncertainty
It happened that a Zen master was invited as a guest. A few friends had gathered and they were eating and talking when…[Read more]

Bada Hua To Kya Hua,
Jaise Ped Khajoor.
Panthi Ko Chaya Nahin,
Phal Laage Atidoor.

Kabir says – People live accidentally. They don’t have any sense of direction, they don’t have an inner discipline for growing, they don’t have a certain target. They simply go on, not knowing why. Maybe just because they are restless they go on doing this and…[Read more]

Triphala

Triphala is ayurvedic herbal formulation containing the three fruits (also known as three myrobalans) in equal proportion.

Three is the first number to which the meaning “all” was given. It is The Triad, being the number of the whole as it contains the beginning, a middle and an end. The power of three is universal and is the tri…[Read more]

Sayeen Itna Deejiye,
Ja Mein Kutumb Samaye.
Main Bhi Bhookha Na Rahun,
Sadhu Na Bhookha Jaye.

Kabir is saying God is a hunger, a thirst within us. It cannot be satisfied by theories. No scriptures can quench this thirst….

The divine is a hunger, a thirst within us. It cannot be satisfied by theories. No scriptures can quench this t…[Read more]

Flame

Don’t fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

Allow the Fear
Fear has a beauty of its own, a delicacy and a sensitivity of its own. In fact it is a very subtle aliveness. The word is negative, but the feeling itself is very positive. Only alive processes can be afraid; a dead thing has no fear. Fear is p…[Read more]

Dheere Dheere Re Mana,
Dheere Sub Kutch Hoye.
Mali Seenche So Ghara,
Ritu Aaye Phal Hoye.

Kabir says – Patience is the greatest religious quality.

The disciple who can wait will find all his questions answered at the right moment. But waiting is a great quality: it is deep patience, it is great trust. The mind cannot wait, it is always in…[Read more]