Quotations

A neighbour came to borrow Mullah Nasiruddin’s clothesline. Mullah said: ”I am sorry, I can’t give it to you because I am drying flour on it.”

People have this feeling that, if you have to be enlightened, it has to be exotic. Something has to be different. It cannot be the same.

The neighbour was watching Mullah Nasiruddin down on his knees. The neighbour asked, ”What have you lost Mullah?’’ ”My key”, said Nasiruddin.

False perceptions can be easily read by someone who has seen originals.

One day, Ramana Maharishi, discovered who he was with a stroke of inspiration. How does one discover that by simply sitting and sayin

Many ‘schools’ continue to operate long after their actual dynamics is exhausted.

Internal experience cannot be transmitted through repetitiousness. It has to be constantly refreshed from the source.

The sun shines on all of us. Since it is the truth, you don’t have to go into a dark room to figure that out.

An average person thinks in certain set patterns and he cannot break that pattern. If a man is sitting here and talking,

There are many other things you have to figure out. One is the water. The other is the boat.

“Urdhva-moolam adhah-sakham, asvathaam prahur avyayam, chandamsi yasya parnani, yas tam veda sa veda-vit”.

Superficially, most of the Nasiruddin stories are seen as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in teahouses, in caravans,

I quote another Sufi teacher called Hakim of Sinai, from a book called ‘The Walled Garden of Truth’: “When you arrive at the sea,

When the heart unconditionally, without any worry of the consequences, surrenders itself at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord

The Sufis also sang about love. In fact, there is a beautiful Sufi poem. It’s about love; it’s about losing oneself