Disciple: Master, what do I do about disturbing thoughts in meditation? The harder I try to make them stop, the more they come.

Thakar Singh: When we sit in meditation, the impressions that we have collected from the world are very strong. It is good that we feel [...]]]> http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-control-the-mind-in-meditation/feed 0 http://www.thakar-singh.org/thakar-singh-on-death-and-soul http://www.thakar-singh.org/thakar-singh-on-death-and-soul#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:54:08 +0000 Sant Thakar Singh http://www.thakar-singh.org/?p=90 April 7, 1979, Kensington, California

Disciple: Should we think very much about death? Is there anything we can do to prepare ourselves?

Thakar Singh: Scientists may have some control over birth, but they have no real control of death. Death is always certain. So we must be vigilant and wind everything up before sunset. We [...]]]> http://www.thakar-singh.org/thakar-singh-on-death-and-soul/feed 0 http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-develop-love-and-humility http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-develop-love-and-humility#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:45:34 +0000 Sant Thakar Singh http://www.thakar-singh.org/?p=79 July 18, 1981, Vancouver, Canada

Disciple: What is the best way to develop love and humility?

Thakar Singh: Love and humility are aspects of God and soul. Mind is ego because it is receptive to negativities; only soul and God are free from negativity because they are unchangeable. God is unchangeable permanence and soul is [...]]]> http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-develop-love-and-humility/feed 0 http://www.thakar-singh.org/there-exist-three-kinds-of-karma http://www.thakar-singh.org/there-exist-three-kinds-of-karma#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:57:51 +0000 Sant Thakar Singh http://www.thakar-singh.org/?p=63 July 30, 1982, London, England

Disciple: Can you please say something about karma?

Thakar Singh: Yes, there are two kinds of karmas here now, otherwise there are three kinds. One is the big stock, which is still lying to our credit, as payment of good or bad karmas, that is lying in store, that is [...]]]> http://www.thakar-singh.org/there-exist-three-kinds-of-karma/feed 0 http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-mitigate-karma http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-mitigate-karma#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:00:47 +0000 Sant Thakar Singh http://www.thakar-singh.org/?p=66 June 15, 1977, Mannheim, Germany

Disciple: What can a disciple do when the karma is so heavy that he can’t help himself or he doesn’t know what to do?

Thakar Singh: When we are diseased, we go to the doctor and he prescribes medicines, for us and after treatment we feel released of the disease. [...]]]> http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-mitigate-karma/feed 0 http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-deal-with-ones-own-anger-ego-attachment http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-deal-with-ones-own-anger-ego-attachment#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:32:14 +0000 Sant Thakar Singh http://www.thakar-singh.org/?p=57 Morning talk, April 30, 1983, Yuma, Arizona

Disciple: I sometimes have problems with feeling angry or egotistical or attached, or something like that. Can you speak about this, please?

Thakar Singh: We are not to fight with these negativities but rather to diagnose them in order to find the source; then they must be eradicated [...]]]> http://www.thakar-singh.org/how-to-deal-with-ones-own-anger-ego-attachment/feed 0 http://www.thakar-singh.org/thakar-singh-on-vegetarian-diet http://www.thakar-singh.org/thakar-singh-on-vegetarian-diet#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:29:30 +0000 Sant Thakar Singh http://www.thakar-singh.org/?p=38 Disciple: Master, we all know that it is very crucial to abstain from the eating of meat because we know this increases our karmas, but can you explain to those who are newly interested in this path what the real reason is for becoming a vegetarian?

Thakar Singh: You [...]]]> http://www.thakar-singh.org/thakar-singh-on-vegetarian-diet/feed 0 http://www.thakar-singh.org/thakar-singh-what-is-meditation http://www.thakar-singh.org/thakar-singh-what-is-meditation#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:41:43 +0000 Sant Thakar Singh http://www.thakar-singh.org/?p=32 Disciple: What does an aspirant find when he comes to a Master? What exactly is the meditation?

Thakar Singh: Meditation is a very simple thing to understand. That when we are attending any object concentratedly, single-minded attention, that becomes meditation. As I am meditating upon you, you are meditating [...]]]> http://www.thakar-singh.org/thakar-singh-what-is-meditation/feed 0