Quotations

If the desire or intense desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind,

In the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it.

If one understands that one is not the body but rather the inner-self that is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow.

The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn.

From the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth.

The ‘sadhak’ has to be very careful. I’m not trying to frighten anybody away from the spiritual path.

The spiritual path nearly always, except in cases of certain gifted individuals who have been born with spiritual faculties,

The deity is the media through which you reach the Absolute.

To understand, while we are OK that we still have to go beyond; that we have to find lasting peace;

From the unreal feeling, the unreal understanding, the unreal imagination that I am the body,

‘Govinda’ is the Supreme Being; Krishna is also called ‘Govinda’ because he had complete control

The Dhyana sloka in the Bhagvad Gita says: “Sarvo Upanishado Gaavo—all the Upanishads are cows;

In the deeper sense of the term, the consciousness, which is the ground from which all the thoughts arise,

To get the mind free of the material world’s trappings, I would say the only way is to live in the midst of it.

When I am clear, when I have no single thought touching my mind,