Quotations

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,

To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question, “Who am I?”

As one advances in ‘sadhana’, the primary thing one develops is compassion. There are people who do not even believe in God

Blankness is very frightful for us. This is so because the mind thinks it will lose its hold,

Moksha means to be totally free. To be completely happy, without depending on anything in the outside world.

The central message is that, there is only One Supreme Being and that Supreme Being resides in the hearts of all.

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

Upanishad is made up of ‘Upa’, ‘Ni’ and ‘Shad’. ‘Upa’ means to move closer, it also means to sit close and listen

The limbic system is what takes care of our feelings. If the limbic system didn’t work, we would have no emotions.

The path that has been described by all the important teachers, unfortunately, happens to be narrow,

When the mind is absolutely still, when it is no longer engaged in what we call ‘worship’

Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can study all the scriptures and know them by heart.

Even the greatest iconoclastic religions worship something. They do not have an image of God but they do have a symbol.

There is this great Buddhist Mahayana chant that says, “At some point or the other, in our endless cycle of rebirths,