“All meditations essentially boil down to how to make the mind free of distractions, how to make it settle down, and finally how to remain in the eye of the storm, be completely free and not be dist...”
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“What we cannot explain, we call a miracle. Usually, miracles happen due to laws of nature that most people don’t know of. All the Yogi does is to tap these laws, so that he/she can operate it.”
“One of the biggest problems we face when we sit down to meditate is distraction. If we don’t fix a daily schedule, success is not possible. The mind, out of habit, runs in various directions; you s...”
“Moderation in all areas - eating, drinking, sleeping, and also entertainment. It takes your mind off it’s constant work. But don’t make entertainment your sole aim in life.”
“Yoga is not a passive state. It is a super-active state wherein there's action in the tranquility of mind, without agitation.”
“The idea of looking within is to close one's eyes, look into the mind, and see how it's functioning. There are hundreds of thoughts in there. Can I keep observing them with the belief that, one day...”
“Questions never end. When you figure out that questions are part of the movement of the mind, and everything is still, there is nothing left to ask. This is something that has to happen on its own;...”
“The study of the mind is a very scientific one. It’s not something which is mumbo-jumbo. We have the instrument to do that and that is the ancient science of Yoga and the ancient science of Vedanta...”
“The Bhagawat Gita, in my view is a classic text on not only in some way on managing the human mind but also on how to study the mind.”
“Management is nothing to do with material, it is do with your minds. If you can do that, you can manage the world. If you can manage your mind, you can mind the other person’s mind provided there a...”
“Having gone through this for many years, having seen my mind and its layers and different potentialities for many years, I would say that the mind has infinite potential, it is not finite. For that...”
“Mindfulness is to watch your mind, be mindful of your mind while you are in the outside world, relating to others, reacting to what others say. It is to understand your mind as it is, not what you ...”
“If we think of a state of mind which is so quiet where there is no conflict, no distraction which is the aim of yoga, then you see there is something which is beyond the ordinary mind.”
“Who is managing the mind? The mind itself is managing the mind. There’s no external entity managing it over there.”
“What is the mind? The mind is made up of the movement of thought waves. You cannot conceive a mind without thought.”