Quotations

‘Shraddha’ means absolute one-pointed attention. It has been translated as ‘Faith’ also. It actually means absolute,

Amongst the Sufis, there is a saying, which they attribute to Prophet Mohammed: ‘man arafa nafsahu faqad arafa rabbahu’

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

The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as mentioned in the Viveka Chudamani and other ancient texts like the Upanishads and Gita,

Vedanta also says that the real substance of the universe is the same everywhere—within you and outside you. And that substance cannot even be

Vedanta says: “Yes, the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe or a cone or a rectangle or what you think it is because

We have not changed. You see, the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. This is what intellectual life has taken us to.

For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular sect. It is an individual and personal effort. There is no need to be affiliated

We are like the ocean and all our thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it. This is our primordial state.

Since ‘It’ is infinite, whatever you seek cannot be confined to anything finite; and therefore, you cannot worship

In sleep, you are not even aware of your own existence. If you are not aware of your own existence, then where is your problem?

Don’t presume that the spiritual teacher should be like this or that—that ‘If he’s not like this, then he is not a spiritual teacher’.

The movement of life, the ever-expanding quality of life is Brahman. The Supreme Reality, which, if you break your illusions and look at freely,

All of us are deities. There is not one who is not, whether we realize it or not. This is why when you have touched

The ultimate ‘ananda’ which is pursued by the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ‘ananda’ of enjoying the body,