Quotations

Plato has said it brilliantly. He says ‘there are two eternal things in this universe– one ‘Is’ and is never becoming and the other ‘is not’ but is ever becoming’. That ‘becoming’ is what is known as ‘jagat‘. That movement – it is physical as well as psychological

You must have heard the famous statement that many people think is a modern English saying – ‘blind leading the blind’.

As long as you have a physical body, nobody can know everything. We need to learn. At any time, one should be prepared to learn.

The avadhoot Dattatreya had twenty-four teachers in his life, and one of them was the honey–bee. The Avadhoot says, I learnt the lesson from the honeybee, collecting and storing for a rainy day;

The meaning that Adi Shankaracharya has given for ‘shad’ in the word ‘Upanishad’ is ‘to shake up’ – shake the mind out of its delusion that happiness is outside and not inside.

When all the ‘maya‘ or delusion has been cleared and when all the agitations of the mind are cleared, then only the true essence is left behind.

Shruti means shrotrasya – ‘that which is heard’, not ‘that which is read’. So ‘hearing’ meaning ‘listening’ is an important part of the Upanishad.

When I eat a fruit – it’s only when the sense organ comes into contact with the fruit, that I enjoy the taste of it. But that enjoyment is not in the fruit – it is in me. I am the one who is enjoying it.

The rishis–seeing how people are constantly unhappy; seeking all the time and not getting the ultimate fulfillment – discovered that there is happiness, a complete fulfillment available to every human being.

The most important thing for a human being, I believe, is not to cause pain to other human beings.

‘Shakti’ or Energy operates within seven centers in the human psyche. It starts with the lowest one at the end of the spine called the Muladhara Chakra, and goes up through to the other six centers, with the last one in the cerebrum

In a Chakra, the Cosmic Energy operates in ‘circles’ or ‘whirls’ at certain points of the human organism.

Most traditions talk about the ‘Energy’ being raised – it has to be raised from the lower Chakras to the higher. Chakra means a ‘Centre’ – a field of Force.

Mula’ means root and ‘adhara’ means foundation or support, the basic support. So, a rough translation would mean ‘root support’ or ‘root foundation’.