Quotations

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

All the great Bhakti poets wrote about love. Kabir, Tulsi, and Meerabai were ready to give up their lives

What is Bhakti? A love that is completely surrendering, not for our sake but for the one we love.

When a person is on the spiritual journey, he should not cry over what he loses.

This one-pointed attention to the Supreme Lord, this all-consuming love for the Lord is expressed by the great Sufi,