Quotations

Can the Truth be found through the mind? Vedanta says ‘Well! All that the mind can do is conceive of it

Vedanta says ‘yes the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe

Suppose our instrument of perception, in this case the eye, is made like a telescope or a microscope,

Look carefully, observantly, at the outside world, the physical world, the substance, setting aside all other preconceived ideas

The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something which is very self-evident.

So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because most other people are thinking about something else.

‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’ – reasoning and trying to understand, what is permanent, and what is not permanent.

The Mahanirvana Tantra says, ‘Anantam Anandam Brahma’, which means ‘that Anandam which has no Antah,

In Vedanta, what the Vedantist does, is to examine the world around him and find out that it is impermanent.

Have you opened your window and by accident, suddenly noticed a full moon – a beautiful night –

Sometimes, what you think is misfortune is ‘fortune’ which comes in the garb of misfortune. Only then, you begin to think seriously,

So, all this fear of what will happen if I let go of my petty little self with its petty little world

When I’m enjoying something, even then there is a hidden element of unhappiness there, because I’m afraid

To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question

So you see by giving up the miserable little self, one is not lost. On the other hand, the Greater self is gained.