Quotations

The Upanishads and the Vedas suggest that there is a way to find lasting happiness within, which is independent of all external things.

I am not saying that we should not enjoy the little joys that we find in life day-to-day. Please do it. We should because that’s the
greatest,

We don’t find real happiness because we are not satisfied ever with anything that we have. Maybe there is satisfaction for a short time but,

What is love really, in that sense of the term? It is separation. When your beloved is with you, then what is love? When your beloved

Everybody says, ‘I have surrendered.’ Nobody has truly surrendered. To surrender, really, is not easy. If I surrender, it means to firstly consider

First, I must say, ‘I cannot understand’. Then, what happens here is the same thing comes into the picture – that ‘stillness’, that ‘emptiness’

All the knowledge I have gathered is confined to my mind and my brain, which can conk off at any time. You know it. One part of the brain

When we go to a temple, we see the image there. I go down there, and I worship. I bow my head down and I fall flat worshipping

When Jesus said, ‘Empty yourself’, I think what he meant was that we are mentally constipated. It is all the stuff that is ingested

For most of us, when we sit down and try to meditate, the mind wanders mainly because we are attracted to something or we are repulsed by

The ‘emptiness’ that I mean is the stillness which comes when the mind is not distracted, when there is no distraction of running up

‘Emptying myself’ means to meet people, to see people, to react to situations every day in life situations without the heavy load of prejudices.

As I meet and interact with people, can I meet and interact without my prejudices? Without all that notions I have filled about people,

To ‘empty yourself’ is not a conscious process and it is not even an unconscious process. ‘Empty yourself’ simply means to understand that concept.

When we say ‘empty yourself,’ it could also mean ‘empty yourself of your prejudices.’ Empty yourself of all the ideas that have been put into your brain;