“The Dhyana sloka in the Bhagvad Gita, says: Sarvo Upanishado gaavo: All the Upanishads are the cows: Dugdha Gopala Nandana: The one milks them is Krishna the cowherd boy: Partho Vatsaha: Partha or ...”
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“Moksha means to be totally free. To be completely happy. Without any depending on anything in the outside world. It is moksha. Not being caught by any desire. Therefore, naturally the corollary to ...”
“Consciousness is that from which thought arises but normally it is haphazard. But we are saying that when you have the discipline to practice and go deep within and find the consciousness from whic...”
“The ultimate ananda which is aimed at by the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ananda of enjoying the body, full of bliss, that is also sort of sensory but little subtle. As we proceed,...”
“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? The world may go upside down but you don’t care – that’s why everybod...”
“Vedanta says, ‘when the mind understands, its inability to reach out and find it, finally rests or lets go; surrenders; becomes still and quiet naturally, not forcibly – then, when the mind and the...”
“My suggestion is that, this is what I have learnt from my experience, suddenly everything grinds to halt and there is a blank, don’t try to escape or run away from it. That is our primordial state ...”
“As you sit and watch the thoughts, that is thought watching thought, as you watch, one thought comes up, before it becomes a chain, stream, use your thought again as a weapon, think that you with y...”
“Love is a many-splendoured entity. Physical love or spiritual love has the same source, although it manifests at different degrees. You cut across all barriers. Who cares for personal consequences?...”
“Vedanta says, ‘when the mind understands, its inability to reach out and find it, finally rests or lets go; surrenders; becomes still and quiet naturally, not forcibly – then, when the mind and the...”
“‘What is!’, nobody knows or nobody can know because the senses, the sensory organs or the sensory instruments which are used to know an object are themselves imperfect and relative and, therefore, ...”
“Can the Truth be found through the mind? Vedanta says ‘Well! All that the mind can do is conceive of it or try to conceive it. It can have an idea, a faint idea of it. Beyond that, even the mind fa...”
“Vedanta says ‘yes the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe or a cone or a rectangle or what you think it is because whatever you think, it is always the result of your rela...”
“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 cube that you see before you will be ...”
“Look carefully, observantly, at the outside world, the physical world, the substance, setting aside all other preconceived ideas about it that we have, at what we think is substance, according to t...”