Quotations

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.

Blankness is very frightful for us. This is so because the mind thinks it will lose its hold, that we will soon be free of it.

‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’; the reasoning and effort to understand what is permanent and what is not. And ‘Vichara’ is

Have you opened your window and, by accident, suddenly noticed a full moon, a beautiful night, and for a few seconds,

Imagination or visualization is a divine capacity given to the human mind by which it can visualize and create reality out of its visualizations.

When you churn your mind in meditation, which means, when you delve deeper and deeper into the layers of your mind, the first thing that comes out

No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception like the five senses, nor even the mind with its vast imagination

Look carefully and observantly at the outside world—the physical world, the substance as we know it—setting aside all other preconceived ideas