Quotations

When one has discovered one’s true freedom, is it irreversible?

Is there unbound freedom? That was the quest of the Upanishads. And the Upanishads said YES,

The theory of tantra is that the sexual energy which you know, for all human beings after food and shelter

According to the tantras, Shiva – the Supreme Being – resides on the Sahasraara Chakra, with his legs let down and touching the brumadhya

Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can stand on your head. You can study all the scriptures.

To discover that unconditional ever free self in all human beings was the aim of the spiritual teaching in ancient India.

The next chapter (after Karma Yoga) is called, Karma Sanyasa Yoga, where Krishna says that sanyasa is not giving up activity

Arjuna attempted to run away from it and hide. Krishna says, ‘Face it! There is no way you can get rid of it.

The salient feature of the last chapter (Bhagavat Gita) – the 18th Chapter – is after saying all this, and taking Arjuna through the whole course,

Therefore the importance of bhajans, kirtan , going to places where other people worship and going on pilgrimages,

Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise where you deep down want to come out of the circumstances which are limiting your progress.

So what I’m saying is that irrespective of whether you are an intellectual or what normally can be called a non-intellectual,

If the mind is made up of thoughts and thoughts are always vibrating, moving – sometimes up, sometimes down,

The first Chakra – the mooladhara – represents prakrithi, the solid earth or solidity.