Art of Living Sutras

Drop your ego, just let it go...you are not your ego.

Holding on to things is the root cause of misery. Bring you awareness inwards, to things you are holding on to, and just let go

Take everything that happened to you as a blessing!
Getting into something is a blessing, getting out of something is also a blessing.

Happiness is in making others happy, and in serving others. When you do seva (service to others) the divine streams through you. Seva opens you up.

Bring you mind to the present moment by observing your breath. The present moment is the best moment to live.


Craving and aversion cause trouble -- I want this, and I do not want that. This is good for me, and that is bad for me. Just be with whatever is. Getover this mental chaos.

Just bring you awareness to areas in your body that are having pain....and accept it, do not resent it. Awareness itself heals.

Welcome any problems that you get. Do not battle with them. Do not resent to the problem. Surrender to the problem.


When meditating do nothing, do not intend to do anything, just observe and let go of any gripping thoughts, just watch and float along with thoughts...

The moment of happiness is when your mind is empty, you are hands are in seva, and your heart is full.

As you go inwards in meditation, in your higher self, you start manifesting qualities of that higher self.

To go into your inner higher self, you need to meditate regularly.

Ther higher self knows what is happening everywhere.....

Fake it until you make it. This like developing a conscious habit of faking something you want to be until you really become that something, and there is no longer any faking.

Everything goes to same lord. If you serve any person it is serving the same god! There is no difference between helping your family or a stranger.

Things change. They don't remain the same forever. There is power in this concept!

If you are at a high it will change, if you are at a low it will change.

Change is the nature of the universe.

So realizing this, one doesn't need to feel stuck with a certain situation because it is bad or stick to a certain situation because it is good.

Being centered in your self gives you power. Don' t lose your center.

The center is the center of good and bad, love and hate, happiness and sadness...and so on. Be in it all the time. If you get away from the center you will get caught up in the whirlpool of change.

The center is detached from all changes. It is the perfect vantage point.

To deal with the whirlwind of problems...

Prepare yourself with "So Hum.." , and "So What?" -- these two are great enablers :)

Getting close to God can make you Happy

I found it interesting that when we do something, we must connect to it fully to enjoy it.

Connect to your Work, to your Home, to your Friends, Connect to your Driving, when taking a shower, and to trillions of trivial things we do daily.

When we connect to something, we are creating a bonding between 2 things. We are becoming that thing, and that thing is becoming us.

Can we connect to something which doesn't exist? Like some concept? That's how our beliefs are instantiated -- we are strongly connected to certain concepts.

And we proudly call them as our beleifs.So how can we get close or connect to the soul of universe?