When we are faced with major difficulties or calamities in life, it is inevitable that we turn to God. During such crisis we are able to do bhajan with great intensity and feeling such that we would never forget God. However, when these dire circumstances pass and we fall gradually back into the normal routine of life, we tend to

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We have been given many scriptures and spiritual teachings, but at this very moment in time we may ask what it is that we should do in terms of devotion? When Pujya Narenbhai Thakkrar once asked Param Pujya Pappaji what He wanted him to do, Pappaji simply said, “Stay happy” (anand ma raho). This was Pappaji’s constant blessing to us

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  The Akshar Purushottam sanstha that was formed in 1907 by Brahmswaroop Shastrjii Maharaj. The organisation was formed to propagate the method of God realisation as per Shreeji Maharaj’s philosophy of the individual becoming brahmroop and to join with parbrahm (God).  

To experience the bliss of God is to realise God. The trouble is that we are unable to experience unbroken communion with God. The thirteenth century German mystic, Meister Eckhart [1] once wrote:   We ought not to let ourselves be satisfied with the God we have thought of, for when the thought slips the mind, that God slips with

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Shreeji Maharaj once asked Muktanand Swami how many thoughts he had in his mind. Muktanand Swami picked a hand full of dirt and said that he had as many thoughts as the grains of dust slipping from his hand; that is the mind is full of thousands of thoughts that are difficult to control.  

For those who have the conviction of the manifest God, to have divine vision is to:   Realise that at this very moment we are living in Akshardham.   We are not in our place of dwelling or place of work, we are not in our town or city, we are not in England or India, we are not even

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Nirdosh buddhi is the divine acceptance that God is the all-inspirer and all-doer. It is not looking at the faults of others, criticising or gossiping.  

When we try to focus our minds on God we find that our minds are filled with thoughts of the day, activities that we need to do or problems that may be worrying us. We have to stretch our minds to stay in God whereas worldly thoughts flow freely. But we see that Guruhari Param Pujya Pappaji and the swaroopo

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