“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, we could move forward and look to fresher avenues. A mind that...”
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“One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down, to become still and not get caught up in the confusion of this or that or thi...”
“To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question, “Who am I?” have found that as they begin to enquire into the origin of the ‘I’, the little...”
“As one advances in ‘sadhana’, the primary thing one develops is compassion. There are people who do not even believe in God but they feel for others so much that they are ready to sacrifice their l...”
“Blankness is very frightful for us. This is so because the mind thinks it will lose its hold, that we will soon be free of it. It is the tendency of the mind to bind and when we are shaking ourselv...”
“Moksha means to be totally free. To be completely happy, without depending on anything in the outside world. It is ‘moksha’—not being ensnared by any desire. Therefore, the natural corollary to it ...”
“The central message is that, there is only One Supreme Being and that Supreme Being resides in the hearts of all. He is the ‘Antaryami’ - residing in the heart of all beings. By living a righteous ...”
“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. He feels, that with his intellect, he can explain everything....”
“Upanishad is made up of ‘Upa’, ‘Ni’ and ‘Shad’. ‘Upa’ means to move closer, it also means to sit close and listen to what is being said, not just in the physical sense. It means the mind moves clos...”
“The limbic system is what takes care of our feelings. If the limbic system didn’t work, we would have no emotions. Therefore, in the process of raising or awakening of the ‘Kundalini’, emotion play...”
“The path that has been described by all the important teachers, unfortunately, happens to be narrow, not because of any narrowness in thinking but because the other paths are so wide and inviting t...”
“When the mind is absolutely still, when it is no longer engaged in what we call ‘worship’—where every worship has a worshipper and the worshipped, or the thinker and the thing thought of—when the o...”
“Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can study all the scriptures and know them by heart. But, unless the quality of mind improves, one cannot find the truth. And how does the quality improv...”
“Even the greatest iconoclastic religions worship something. They do not have an image of God but they do have a symbol. If they don’t have a symbol, they have a book. If they don’t have a book, the...”
“There is this great Buddhist Mahayana chant that says, “At some point or the other, in our endless cycle of rebirths, every individual on this earth must have been our mother! Therefore, I bow befo...”