Abandon attachment

In the womb, you take a vow not to get attached; but as soon as you come out, you get entangled. Abandon attachment! Your mind plays tricks on you! That is why you are after pleasures! All worldly things - including the desire for liberation - are obstacles to which you are attached. If you want divine peace, leave behind ignorant karma.

-Babaji

Misuse of non-violence

Humanity is making a grave mistake by misusing non-violence. Time and again I have said this to you. 

Work which I want to accomplish is to remove the misuse of non-violence. People have become lifeless and their blood has become like water. You should be brave and courageous--afraid of nothing. You should not be afraid of being burned by fire or drowned by water. If you are brave and courageous, nothing will harm you, not even the atomic bomb. You must be fearless for yourself and for all humanity.

-Babaji

June 21, 1982

The futile attempt to fill the black hole

You see the wheel of maya spinning round, so fast that those who do not want to touch the real fall off. They fall off because they are content to fill the black hole within. Fill it with money, power, relationships, scholarship. But you know that this empty hole cannot be filled because that is what the human is. An empty black hole. Misery and attachment to the lower self is the result of this futile attempt to fill the black hole. 

-Babaji

Higher Path or Ego?

If your motivation is based on wealth, control, manipulation, greed, etc. this is the Ego. If your motivation is based on Truth, Simplicity, Love and Service, this is your Higher Self.

-Babaji

Live in the center

You know the real. You can see the higher self. You don't need me to point out the truth. Do not attach to the unreal. Let go of that. Attach to the truth. Attach to simplicity. Attach to love. If something doesn't feel right to your heart then it isn't. Understand? Living on the higher path enables one to merely observe the folly of humans but concentrate upon what is real.

Do not be ruled by events which stimulate emotions. Events come and go and emotions come and go. This is the wheel of maya. Don't attach to the spoke. Live in the center. Let the wheel spin around you without your attachment to any part of it. Live in the center. That is the real. That is no-thing. That is where no-body resides.

-Babaji

Emotions constantly changing

Observe the flow of emotions. Up and down. There is constant movement, change. Don't attach to the emotions of the moment. Attach to the real behind the movement. Observe the movement, watch the emotion disappear. A new one takes its place. This is maya. That which is temporary, changes frequently, is maya. Don't attach to maya. This is all temporary. The body, emotions, relationships, wealth, power, knowledge...always changing, temporary. Understand?

This body I am in is temporary. It too has emotions constantly changing. I observe the movement of thought from its creation to its destruction.

Now listen carefully. The movement of thought is time. Learn to observe thought and time becomes what it is. Maya. Created by thought, divided by thought. When the higher self observes, there is no movement, no time. There is the eternal now where the ground of being exists. The place of no-thing. This is where I, who am no-body, come out of. Do what your heart advises and all will be well.

-Babaji

Attach to the unconditioned observer

"Blessings. From no-thing to no-thing. The movement of thought creates the maya of time and space. It creates the template for life housed in a body made out of food. It exists for a brief amount of time because thought is transient. The higher self, the unconditioned observer, is not created by thought. It has no movement, no template. It is not made out of food. It is not transient. It is not in time nor space. It is the spark of creation composed of Truth, Simplicity and Love. Attach to this and enjoy the destruction of desire. This is my message of a deeper nature. Are you ready for this?"

- Babaji

The Wise prefer the Good to the Pleasant

*We rush headlong in pursuit of "the pleasant", oblivious to the damage we are doing to ourselves, our societies and the world around us.

*The Wise prefer the Good to the Pleasant. The foolish, driven by fleshly desires, prefer the Pleasant to the Good.

*We are in a time when humankind chases after material things and fleeting sensual pleasures, forgetting the divine origin and aspect of the human race and of its earthly surroundings; a time when the darkness of Ignorance prevails. Babaji calls this 'The Dark Age'.

*Take only what we need; Do not waste anything!

*If we become more interested in serving others than in attaining things for ourselves we can attain a detachment that dilutes or erases the causes of sorrow and suffering in our lives.

*Real stability or security is an inner attainment; all that is exterior, material, is subject to change and loss.

*For decades the political and economic world has been sowing the seeds of competition, dominance, jealousy, hatred and disharmony and polluting and destroying the world around us. Our societies create higher aspirations for material things and the satisfaction of all human desires.

*The relentless search for 'more and better' leads inevitable to greed, jealousy, competition, hatred, aggression, and to pollution and destruction of the Earth and its atmosphere.

*There are far more enticements in modern life to leave the Path than there are to follow it.

-Babaji

Don't treat people like expendable throw away things

There is truth in our relationships when we are on the higher path. We are honest with our loved ones. We don't treat people like expendable throw away things. If you live in truth then much of the problems of this world would cease to exist. We would not go to war in the name of one God against another God when we really want to acquire the things of the enemy. And this leads to the second part of my message...Simplicity.

-Babaji

The fear of death

All this concentration upon disaster is nothing new. You see, when humans are consumed with the end of the world, this is merely symbolic of their true fear. Their fear of death. Understand? The body will become no-thing. No matter what we do or how we shall prepare, the final disaster can not be overcome. Understand this and you will understand most of human thought, emotion, and activity.

-Babaji

Worshipping the Fire

Worshipping the Fire means woshipping the Inner Light. Worshipping the Fire burns Karma. It is spiritual purification.

-Babaji