Quotations

Self-realization means to understand first the connection between the body and the brain. It is not to say that you are the Supreme Brahman.

A clear understanding of anatomy and physiology is an important aspect of yoga. That is the first realization of yourself; first understanding of yourself.

One more thing, in your relationship with the spiritual teacher – I won’t even use the word spiritual – in your relationship with the teacher, please be frank,

Every day, when you get up in the morning or go to sleep at night, look at yourself and ask, “Where am I, what am I doing?

At least in spiritual matters, please don’t tell lies. Don’t say I meditated for six hours today and my lights were going up and down.

The insistence is on finding the Truth – going towards the Truth. That word – Truth – seems to be such an important word.

Sometimes, there may be a mad man – looking absolutely crazy,sitting in one corner in the bus stand or in the street somewhere

If both ‘Shraddha’ and ‘Saburi’ are there, then there is definitely no problem in Sadhana. What happens often is that, when there is ‘Shraddha’,

‘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.