“Language is the opium of the intellectuals.”
“People do not understand what I mean when I say, ‘This world does not exist’. Then I tell them, ‘This world does not exist just like a pot does not exist’, but they still don’t get it. Then I ask myself, ‘If the world does not exist, who am I trying to convince?'”
“No one can escape the Kurukshetra. It is a war ever going on.”
“Love transforms you and transforms the other.”
“Even a little love goes a long way.”
“Only s/he who does not mind dying any moment has understood the secret of life.”
“When love enters the heart, fear enters the mind.”
“Love makes cowards of us all in the right way.”
“God is the perfect soulmate.”
“Just as the foot has no choice but to move away from fire, the heart has no choice but to move towards its object of love.”
“My friend Sushila Tiwari has made me understand that there is a huge paradigmatic difference between saying, ‘Intellectually I know and understand the Truth’, and saying, ‘I Am the Truth’. God bless her.”
“The shadow of Yesterday keeps falling on Today.”
Look at God’s love; for our sake, He takes the trouble of creating this world though thereby He gets nothing.”
“Most often ‘love’ is only a desire for this and that.”
“Real love must be the state where we love others where neither they can give us anything nor do we expect anything from them. Any other kind of love is perhaps only self-serving and self-regarding.”
“The only illusion one has is that one is ignorant now and one has to get enlightened.”
“Love is inversely proportional to ego.”
“What is taken to be love cannot be love if at some point it turns into hatred.”
“If marriages were really based on love, why would society need to register them?”
“We come into being through other beings.”
“Most relationships are a clash of egos.”
“Many relationships flounder because our identity is not upheld in them.”
“There are hardly any relationships in our lives where the dynamics of power is not at play.”
“Each person we encounter in life understands us slightly differently, not only based on the dynamic that exists between us, but also because others judge us from their own vantage point.”
“When we are too wrapped up in ourselves, we cannot understand the Other properly.”
“Sometimes it saddens me that I cannot get through to some people intellectually and emotionally.”
“I am tired of all relationships. I am a wannabe Robinson Crusoe; except, I don’t want even Man Friday. So, Hasta la Vista, till delusion gets the better of me.”
“Everyone in this world is concerned mostly with his or her own happiness, even if it means making others unhappy.”
“A four-letter word ‘Love’ suffices. Yet we have to keep thinking and writing.”
“No one in this world is innocent. All our hands are bloodied, including those of Jesus.”
“However much we stand on guard against the revolutionary, before long we as a class or caste or race or gender will be called to justice. Such are the ways of God who has spun an infallible moral web of logic and inevitability into our everyday affairs.”
“The question is not so much ‘Can the Subaltern speak?’ as it is one of ‘Will the Elites listen?’ After all, doing so will upset their applecart.”
“You begin to understand the Truth when you realize that the tentacles of ego spread into philosophical and religious enquiries also.”
“You become spiritual when you realize religion is a sociocultural phenomenon and at times a political one, too.”
“Not all those we love will love us, nor will we love all those who love us.”
“Are we merely a bundle of memories and a bundle of desires?”
“The boundary between ‘I’ and ‘You’ is unstable.”
“When I say ‘I’, what do I mean?”
“No atom defines me, and yet I am determined by atoms.”
“You, too, deserve your love.”
“Wanting to be loved by someone is also a kind of slavery.”
“The single most important thing to understand is whether happiness is within us or it is outside, out there in the world in relationships, objects, circumstances, etc.”
“As long as you keep thoughts and emotions siloed from each other, you are not on the right trajectory.”
“To those people who go round asking ‘What’s the proof that there is God?” I would like to say, ‘What else do you think is a Mother?’.”
“To have understood the Truth intellectually and yet seeking something from the world is the contradiction that needs to be solved, and it cannot be devolved into an issue of ‘practising’ the Truth.”
Know Thyself 