“You have a slate and you write on it. Every time you write on it, if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off. Otherwise you can neither read it, nor is there space to write anything...”
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“The agni tattva, vis-a-vis the mind is actually the fire that burns within. Physically it is the digestive fire. It is the fire, the aspiration to transform oneself from crude to subtle. Agni ye sw...”
“Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. Speak the truth; More than speaking the truth, think the truth. That does not mean that when you speak the truth you have to be blunt. Ther...”
“Krishna says that if you would only fix your attention on ‘me’; He speaks not as a human being but as the manifestation of the Supreme Being. ‘If you fix your attention on me with complete faith an...”
“Let Go! The Upanishads have a beautiful saying “Tena tyaktena bhunjitha” – Let go and rejoice! Normally when you say rejoice, we have ideas of accumulating things. Here it is a completely reverse p...”
“The practice of yoga is the way of finding that happiness which is our true identity. We discover that we are not what we think we are, but something entirely different. Swami Vivekananda explained...”
“Remove all the conditions that are there and remain in that One essential state. This is the aim of the Vedantic teaching. One discovers that one is not this body nor the mind but the inner self, t...”
“Upanishad means that which is taught by the teacher to the student through which he moves closer to The Truth. Upanishad is not in the words, it is in what is transferred between the teacher and th...”
“When I enjoy something sweet, fresh jalebis for example, although the enjoyment wells up when my tongue touches the jalebi, it is not in the jalebi or the tongue, it’s in me; a certain enjoyment we...”
“One of the meanings of Upa is to move closer to the Truth, Ni means to sit at a lower level than a teacher and shad means to sit down. When I sit down to study with my teacher, I sit down with the ...”
“Krishna says - You should be able to control your senses. You should learn to cultivate tranquility and balance of mind in any situation, good or bad; and above all, have the welfare of all living ...”
“Babaji used to say, ‘The seeds have been planted, they have been sown but no seed will become a tree and bear fruit in three days, it takes its own time’. So sow the seed, keep the climate clear, w...”
“In self-defense in Kalaripayattu they say, ‘never do anything when you are angry’ because all your calculations may go wrong. So let your anger go, cool down, and then perform your action.”
“When you enter the meditation hall, leave your shoes outside along with your ego; don’t bring it in. Go inside like a new-born child who is free, you have no enemies, you don’t hate anybody, at lea...”
“My Master used to say. “When you sit down to meditate, if you have someone you don’t like, think of that person standing before you. Bow down to that person mentally and say that you are a spark of...”