Quotations

Surrender to the understanding that here is something that cannot be sought and found by the limited mind,

If you think of the thought process, you will realize when one thought is gone there is a gap before the next one

When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them away, go deep within

When Patanjali defines yoga in the yoga sutras, he defines it as ‘yogas chitta vritti nirodha’ which means yoga is

Life moves. The problem is we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while

Any pleasures of the senses will always have some pain attached to it. The greatest pain is to lose

Love is the essence of religion; for it’s religion that teaches ethics, concern

When I am clear, when I have no single thought touching my mind, when I can control what thought I want, that is not fantasizing.

The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening.

‘Gyana’ means knowledge. ‘Vignana’, according to Bhagwad Gita, is that knowledge which when understood

Consciousness is that from which thought arises but normally, it is haphazard. When you have the discipline to practice

We all know we are the body, we think and then we begin to realise slowly that “I cannot be the body because the body belongs to me

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.

As you sit and watch the thoughts, as in thought watching thought, one thought comes up which then becomes a chain. Here, use your

Vedanta says: when the mind understands its inability to reach out and find it, it finally rests or lets go; it surrenders, becomes still and quiet naturally, not forcibly. Then, when the mind and the senses have ceased their function, in that tranquility and absolute stillness, there is what is actually there.