Quotations

The Vedanta asserts that this basic attitude, this basic instinct to unite, comes from the fact

Good and evil, famous and notorious, darkness and light, positive and negative, all are within the Supreme Being

We are saying that the next stage after aesthetics is spiritual evolution. In aesthetics, you have to put things in order;

When they (the images) fall like nine pins and when you no longer have an image of anything, or when you see that all the images

When a spiritual teacher puts his disciples to the test, even the most exalted amongst them can fail.

The Supreme Being is the connecting link between all beings, worlds, and galaxies and passes

Have patience in the face of criticism. Even when greatly agitated, try to be patient. Things will take care of themselves.

If it is difficult for you to do service and purify yourself to the state of attaining the capacity to meditate, simply surrender yourself to me.

When Kabir Das wove, everyone thought he is weaving cloth. Actually, he was weaving

The confluence—the sangam of the Varuna river and the Asi rivers — is known as the holy city of Varanasi.

You must remember, when you go into a cave, you can leave everything behind but you can’t leave your mind.

In fact, the very teaching of Buddha was freedom from sorrow for all mankind. Without having sorrow,

Swami Vivekananda explained it beautifully he said: “We are hypnotized by the false happiness

‘Let go’ does not mean you should throw everything away and go to the forest. It means,

Our entire life is ‘sadhana’—how we approach it, how we manage it, how we are moving towards our goal.