PREMODAYA BLOG

You are a traveller, a cosmic astronaut. But to understand rightly, you must realize that your life—the living of your life—is actually not the goal or the destination or even the base of things. It’s the launching pad. You are meant to ascend from it. Most people...

The addiction to comfort (and its kind of subtle aspect, which is having things easy)—having a belief in the idea of security... Simply, in this existence, in this universe, there’s no such thing as safety or security. It doesn’t exist. And I’ve been saying it since...

When you come to Satsang or a spiritual meeting, you think of it as you are coming to learn something, realize something, find something. But interestingly enough (no matter how true that is or is not) you are bringing love, because you are coming with the attitude...

There are really only two important facts of life, in the following order of priority: First, you’re going to die. Second, here you are. That’s the whole story in a nutshell. If you think about it, anything that happens to you, any thought you have, any feeling you...

What is the key to happiness? A million different things, any of which can take you to the truth in you that’s already there. It just has to be accessed with totality. Everybody has it, in a different flavor … it may have the flavor of beauty. For somebody else, it...

What is true is: “I'm alive here now.” Nothing else can be said that’s true, because everything else is a passing moment. But here-now is the actuality, it’s not passing. Because when we say now, we're not talking about time. And when we're talking about here, we're...

It seems like most Westerners who are educated, who are intelligent, kind of buy into the word “karma.” It has different meanings, obviously, in different people's minds, but certainly one gets the impression that the general notion is people look at the idea of karma...

Thank you for this Satsang today, and getting together in this special way—a nice way of being with each other in this time of isolation and medical separation, and cultural perversity. I love you all very much. I appreciate your sincerity, open-heartedness,...

You Are Already What You Seek JewelTree Center for Spiritual Growth & Guidance methods are never intended to “fix” or “change” anyone. Rather, the Advaita position that ‘you are perfect just as you are,’ fully represents our actual experience and true point of...

When Swami Premodaya founded JewelTree Center for Spiritual Growth & Guidance, he delivered these 12 spiritual insights - which continue to awaken wisdom and understanding to this day. These insights were the first ever written text Swami Premodaya gave to...

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ME (I AM ISRAEL, I AM FIJI, I AM INDIA) by Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya ISRAEL IS MY BODY. FIJI IS MY HEART. INDIA IS MY SOUL. ISRAEL IS MY BODY. If you want to know my body, go to Israel. There you can experience the nature of my body— my...

On 1 November of last year, Swami Premodaya received an invitation from the Osho Viha Information Center and Book Distributors. The invitation was from the "Viha Connection", an Osho magazine they publish, to write an article for them. Directly below is the article...

Does anything about being alive make any sense? Making sense is the need of the mind. Your mind is only a ‘one little tiny part of’ what's going on. So why would that rule everything? That's like if your little toe needed something, you gear your whole life, you gear...

Almost everything we do that we experience as negative, that we tend to think of, maybe a little later, as, “that was wrong, or that was negative, or that was stupid of me, or that was a bad decision,” is usually, quite simply, us not going along with what we somehow...

Imagine that you don’t know what the next moment is going to be. When I’m sitting here talking, I have no clue what I’m going to say. I don’t know what the next word is going to be. Imagine not knowing what the next moment is going to be for you. If that’s easy to...

There’s really no such thing as “your question,” “his question,” “her question,” “my dilemma,” “your problem.” These are all shared. There’s only a pool of so many problems, so many circumstances, so many dilemmas, so many things to be worked out and understood, and...

JUST FOR FUN... by Swami Premodaya There was a hit TV show western aired throughout the 1960's, titled "The Virginian". It starred James Drury, Clu Gulager and Doug McClure (the only one still alive is Gulager). Below are some related pics, from the internet. The pic...

Spiritual practices are 100% necessary.

And to enter into a true way of spiritual life, is a requirement of a human life (that’s not going to end up wasted). Anything less, and it does end up essentially wasted. This is the Buddhist view, that it’s a waste of a human life to not use it for a higher way— to reach the Divine, to reach that which is beyond this life.

So spiritual practices are absolutely unavoidable and must be entered into, whether one wants to or not. And the spiritual way itself has to be adopted, whether the call to it is weak or strong. And every spiritual aspirant is in the same exact position of inherent difficulty.

All power, all forces, all aspects of what actually goes on in reality, are simply emanations of energy. At the core, they're absolutely neutral. Existence does not deal in ‘good’ or ’bad’. That’s an entirely human interpretation, a mental calculation; it’s an add-on....