“Anyone can know the Truth. But we are more interested in pleasure.”
“Unhappiness is not due to the lack of the desired object but due to the desire itself.”
“To want is misery.”
“You will find happiness in the stillness of a desireless mind.”
“No one is wise, no one is a fool. Actually, no one exists. Only Brahman exists.”
“Ignorance leads to desire and the world appears.”
“The sum total of all desires of all souls waiting to manifest constrains God in the kind of world he can project into being.”
“The more you talk about the Truth, the farther away you go from it. Truth is beyond any and every description that you can think of.”
“All the souls, worlds and gods are mere superimpositions on the one and only reality called Brahman.”
“Silence is more beautiful and instructive than Nature.”
“Temples, mosques, and churches are for the ignorant and foolish.”
“All nouns and pronouns, except God, refer to non-entities.”
“He who can get on with life with the least action is rare.”
“More important than the right book is the right mind. More important than the right guru is the right disciple.”
“If you keep asking how and why, after a while you’ll arrive at the Truth because the final answer can only be silence.”
“At a deeper level, one understands that the mind and body are concomitant and inseparable.”
“Thought springs up at the slightest hint of desire.”
“In the non-doing lies the key to freedom and Truth.”
“To me, freedom is more important than discipline.”
“The heart goes lub-dub. The mind goes I-Me-Mine.”
“Are you the thinker of your thoughts?”
“Even when you think you are seeing the wave you are seeing only water.”
“People keep talking about pots while I see that there is only clay.”
“Language is Maya.”
“No Brahmin. Only Brahman.”
“No one is Brahmin. Everyone is Brahman.”
“Always do what you think is right. That’s all we can do. Later on, we may find that what we once thought was right is actually wrong. Such is how things are, and try as we might, we cannot get beyond ourselves.”
“Everything is an Act of God.”
“History is the clash of egos.”
“Most of India is gripped by the fear psychosis that one day Muslims will take over, and we will come under Sharia law.”
“With God being in-charge at all times and under all circumstances, we get the laws we deserve at least for the time being.”
“We are all beggars when it comes to love.”
“To far too many people, I seem like a fool. But those few who understand me keep me sane.”
“It takes immense faith and courage to bring a child into this world.”
“This whole world is a black hole.”
“Understanding others allows one to get by in the world. Understanding oneself takes one beyond the world.”
“The problem is in ourselves. But we are busy rectifying the world.”
“Without solving the problem of how we relate to others, the other technical solutions, though necessary, seem less significant.”
“Love is perhaps only to be experienced and not understood.”
“Love is not all that it is cranked up to be. Else, so many divorces would not be happening.”
“Love is when the other’s needs and wants become more important to you than your own.”
“Mostly, men think. Mostly, women feel.”
“Complete solutions to one’s problems will not be found at the level of the ego.”
“What mistake did you make today? Or, in the last year?”
“These days we are more concerned about religion than about the Truth.”
“The broader the identity we have about ourselves, the more loving we will be.”
“There is no separation between the pot and the clay. They are one.”
“Being still is the one and only true sadhana.”
“Trapped in thoughts, we fail to appreciate the Truth.”
“No ocean, no waves. No God, no us.”
“The want to be loved is a kind of sickness.”
“Love is sexier than sex itself.”
“The only thing worth praying to God for is Truth.”
“Humility and wisdom is just the understanding that God alone is the doer.”
“God’s will is supreme and prevails at all times and under all circumstances, no matter what we try to do or do not do.”
“As long as you hold on to desire, you’ve to suffer the illusion of this world.”
“This world is a mirage – nothing is what it seems to be.”
“Everyone is selfish, including yours truly.”
“Those who have dreams and ambitions cannot live in the present moment.”
“This world is staged.”
“Every thought is a parasite on our Being.”
“Our native place is Emptiness. Our mother tongue is silence.”
“Blessed are those who want nothing and want to be nothing.”
“This world is coloured by our inner restlessness.”
“The Brahmin is a rarity these days.”
“The worldly are mistaken about happiness.”
“Most Reddys I know are after paisa, power, pleasure and partying, and are not at all philosophical.”
“Everyman finds a different answer to the question ‘What makes life meaningful?’ and so few, so very few ask that question at all.”
“I want to know who I am aside from what my thoughts and feelings tell me I am.”
“…and sometimes I remember her.”
Know Thyself 