Quotations

‘Atman’ or the real self – this center of our consciousness can’t be exclusive to anybody. All human beings have it deep down

There is a beautiful word in Sanskrit for completeness – ‘Poorna’. Upanishads mentions ‘Poorna’ – which means fulfillment, fullness, completeness.

Every little thing is full of joy. The dew drop you find on the grass in the morning, the breeze that blows in quietly bringing in the

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