80+ Quotes

“Only Silence is Nonduality. Everything else is duality.”

“Our cultures and civilizations today are built on man’s search for pleasure. Ah, if only we could have a culture and civilization built on man’s search for Love and Truth.”

“You cannot transcend something without understanding it.”

“When you follow Truth far enough you end up in Love. When you follow Love far enough you end up in Truth.”

“There’s more to loving another person than you can discover in a lifetime.”

“We get into trouble by failing to appreciate that this world is a dream.”

“Understand that not everyone will understand you, nor will you understand everyone else. Living in this corridor of ignorance is the lot of us humans.”

“The reason renunciation is extolled as being essential to realize the Truth (that is, get Moksha) is that any pursuit of Artha and Kama gets you so addicted to them that sooner or later you will start to flout Dharma in their pursuit.”

“The key to enjoying life is the realization that you are not the thoughts, feelings, and emotions coursing through the mind and body.”

“Until you discover the joy that transcends pleasure and pain, you’ll be stuck in the duality of pleasure and pain.”

“Love admixed with need is no love at all.”

“Ultimately everyone has to sing his or her own song, no matter how few understand the lyrics. All the struggles in life are meant to get you to that point.”

“Almost all lives are based on wrong convictions.”

“Some help us by criticizing or ridiculing us.”

“No one can cheat another. In cheating others, we cheat ourselves.”

“In trying to fulfil our desires, most often we also fulfil others’ desires.”

“Almost everyone wants love. Yet, funnily, almost everyone harbours hate. Let go.”

“If we keep quiet, we fear we will be dead before long, both socially and physically. Yet, there are some that say, keeping quiet is the doorway to Truth. I wonder if one feels lonely in the abode of Truth.”

“If the intellect serves its own purpose properly, there will come a point when it realizes its own limitations.”

“We rarely do something for its own sake.”

“God is merely an idea. So is everything else in this world.”

“If God is omnipresent, do you exist?”

“That love which can turn into hate is not true love.”

“What is that love worth where you have to ask ‘Do you love me?'”

“Love is an absorption.”

“We usually love that which we consider beautiful maybe because beauty is one of the attributes of Truth or God.”

“Truth is that which exists. But, do we know for sure what it is that exists?”

“If only we truly knew what we were truly seeking in life.”

“To discover the inner, you must let go of the outer.”

“Sometimes God comes in the form of troubles.”

“Many a today is wasted thinking about yesterday.”

“We think we sleep only at night. But, are we really awake during the day?”

“In my opinion, at least morally speaking, any sexual act with another person you do not love is adultery, whether that person is your spouse or not.”

“These days I sometimes talk about Love and people have started asking me why I am doing it. That is because people are tired of listening to me expatiating on Truth, so I am choosing to talk about its synonym.”

“The biggest mistake you can make in your life is in thinking that you are the one that is thinking. An even bigger mistake is to think that you are the one that is committing the mistake.”

“To think that there is an entity called ‘I’ that needs to get liberated from the Maya of samsara is the Maya.”

“To know that the desire and its satisfaction have nothing to do with you is enlightenment.”

“Any desire and longing, be it for wealth or woman, love or lust, power or pleasure, name or knowledge, propels you into the whirlpool of thought, speech and action, thereby preventing you from giving proper attention to what actually is the case when one is bereft of such desires and longings.”

“If the ego ‘I’ is a mere thought, then to whom do the desires and longings belong? No one?!!”

“All love, including that of mine for others, is so conditional that it exasperates and embarrasses me.”

“Life keeps teaching the same lesson over and over again, but we are bad students.”

“The only unconditional love is the one we have towards ourselves. Thank goodness at least for that.”

“Life makes you lose your innocence.”

“Even if the fourteen worlds go kaput, nothing is lost.”

“My being is filled with so much love for mankind that I see its salvation only in total extinction.”

“Now that I am realizing that all the suffering I experience in life is due to  inflicting such suffering on others in the past, I am suddenly distraught fearing all the bad karma I may have done in the past.”

“I smile realizing that suffering is easily overcome by accepting it.”

“Sometimes anger is a virtue.”

“Be humble and people will walk all over you. Yet, pride is no virtue.”

“Romantic love proceeds gingerly. True love throws all caution to the winds.”

“All of us are greedy for love. Else, a mother’s love would have sufficed.”

“Take away some organs and we will be left wondering what love is.”

“To love love is a rare thing.”

“Truth and love cannot be understood, only lived.”

“The only end to the search for truth and love is the sudden seeing that the huwoman is just a name-and-form without any reality.”

“Even the liar pines for the truth. Even those who hate seek love.”

“Definition of a Scientist: One who wants to find God in a test tube.”

“A message to those concerned about global warming: God is not just Brahma and Vishnu; God is also Shiva.”

“The best way to change anybody is to love them.”

“Those who understand correctly Indian philosophy, particularly Advaita Vedanta, cannot help being liberal in the truest sense of that word and not in the way that word is understood nowadays.”

“The sublime purpose of thinking is to reach and understand the limits of thinking.”

“My whole life and all my aspirations, dreams, hopes, desires, fears, and loves in it are based on my conviction now that I am just this body-mind called Samarender. What if this is a case of mistaken identity? What if I am something other than this body-mind? What if this body-mind called Samarender is just a dream character that I am identifying with? Who or what is this thing called “I”? Seeking answers to these questions is what makes life worth living and seems life’s only purpose, beg to differ as you may, and those answers might be just what the doctor ordered for all of life’s maladies.”

“If the whole of mankind had only one religion and belonged to one country, we will still not be short of reasons to hate and fight.”

“If you want to understand the Truth, listen to the silence between my words.”

“I am just singing my song. Don’t mistake it for the Truth. No song is.”

“When one clings to an ideology, an ‘ism’, how can there be love in one’s heart?”

“No man is free who is not self-sufficient at least as far as happiness is concerned.”

“All spiritual sadhanas, such as nishkama karma, mantra japa or meditation, are only to make your mind and intellect pure and fit enough to understand Jnana Yoga (Path of Wisdom). Jnana Yoga consists of only 3 stages – Hearing of the Truth (Sravana) from guru or scripture, reflection upon and understanding beyond any doubt of the Truth heard (Manana), and finally, upon completion of Manana, to constantly dwell on the Truth (Nididhyasana) in one’s heart under all circumstances whatever be the action you are engaged in to carry out your duties in this world.”

“Karma Yoga is…1. Excellence in action, 2. Action done without an eye on the fruits of action, 3. Offering the fruits of action to the divine, 4. Action done as a means of worshipping the divine, and 5. Action done without the ‘sense of doership’, with these five conceptions being almost in an ascending fashion.”

“Books do not contain the Truth. Only silence does.”

“There is no caravan to the Truth. You’ve to trek it alone.”

“Sex is only one of the branches of the tree of love.”

“If you think woman is God, you are on the wrong path. If you think woman also is God, then congrats, you are on the right path.”

“After a certain age, you have got to put paid to thoughts of Love, and start courting the Truth. And, if you succeed in your courtship, you will realize you have obtained the Love too.”

“What is outside of your thoughts is the Truth.”

“When women come to power in all spheres of life, will they start objectifying men?”

“Half of one’s life goes in learning how to live.”

“Like beasts of burden we are called upon to think and feel.”

“Love sans desire is the best possible state to be in.”

“In the sentence called life, we are verbs and the noun is God.”

“Tell me what makes you happy and I will predict your destiny.”

“If love leads to attachment, know that it was not love.”

“Romance and love are a different kind of mental illness.”

“To keep running this world of His, God tricks us into falling in Love.”