Quotations

Great literature, sublime poetry, and exquisite works of art—they have been inspired by love and compassion.

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

So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because other people are thinking about something else in the vicinity.

The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening.

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

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

Arjuna attempted to run away from sorrow and hide. Krishna said, “Face it !

Again, in the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive.

In sleep, you are not even aware of your own existence. If you are not aware of your own existence, then where is your problem?

We have not changed. You see, the way of doing things has been polished and perfected.

Those who have transcended the external rites of religion should begin to look within to find the true essence.

In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge is mentioned as ‘vidya’ and has been divided into ‘Para-vidya’ and ‘Apara-vidya’.

We are either full of our own thoughts or our own prejudices. We are full of what others have taught us

Most of the time, we spend all our energies on worrying about the failure. If we could only just brush it out and retain our energies,

One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down,