Quotations

We all are actually ‘pashu’, although we think we are ‘manushya’. Deep down, we are all ‘pashu’

The ultimate ‘ananda’ which is pursued by the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ‘ananda’ of enjoying the body, which is full of bliss, that is also a sort of sensory but little subtle. As we proceed, we come to quietude which is greater than any of these.

When we speak of our thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to control them and make them disappear.

We are like the ocean and all our thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it.

If you think of the thought process, you will realize when one thought is gone there is a gap before the next one rises.

Now, the rishis and yogis who have gone into this subject have said that there is something called

Thinking itself is the mind. When there are thoughts, automatically there is the mind.

Best ‘satsang’ is to do meditation and ‘japa’, visit temples and holy places. But the mind still asks questions;

Based on what I have learnt from my experience, suddenly everything grinds to a halt and there is a blank;

Vedanta says: “Yes, the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe or a cone or a rectangle

Perception is always relative. It’s comparative. You can only compare.

It is, in that utter stillness, the Truth comes into being. One understands one’s true reality. It is as if all the impurities,

Suppose our instrument of perception, in this case the eye, is made like a telescope or a microscope, our view of the universe would be entirely different

The most important kind of meditation is when a human being, one day, realises that the whole circus that is going on around him

The entire teaching of the body of scriptures called ‘Upanishad’ is regarding the kind of knowledge communicated into a mind,