Quotations

In Vedanta, what the Vedantist does, is to examine the world around him and find out that it is impermanent.

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

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

We think, that with our rational brain, we can solve everything! This is one of the problems faced by man when he reads the scriptures.

Suppose, you have examined and found that there are a lot of things to be improved in yourself. The first step is to try moving

One thing to remember is that the Gita is the first—the most ancient of the scriptures to have examined the question of how to approach the truth.

‘Dharana, dhyana, samadhi’—these are interlinked. Normally, when we say meditation we mean all the three.

There is nothing to fear, and to live with this understanding is called holistic living. Holistic living is to live with the understanding the blissful Supreme Being pervades

There’s another faculty that opens, the one that can help to understand things and that’s called the opening of the ‘Heart’.

How many people search for the Truth? Very few. Actually, in the Bhagvad Gita, there is a beautiful statement.

It is interesting to note that the ‘bramharandra’— meaning the gateway to Brahman, the Supreme Being

Your opinions, your perceptions, your ideas, your images, they are all relative.

The state where you remain alone in your true self, enjoying the bliss of your inner being, is called ‘severance of connection with pain’

How much ever we may try, the brain is a very limited organism with limited inputs. All that the brain can think of, decide and conclude

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