“To help mankind, first find the remedy for your own suffering.”
“We have solved the problem of mosquitos but not the problem of fellow humans.”
“Silence is Truth. Thinking is falsehood.”
“Words and language are infidels when it comes to Truth.”
“Let go to realize. Let go of the dream to wake up.”
“How did God allow the scandal called the world to happen?”
“We humans are pathetic.”
“Life is not precious. Does it matter and to whom if the whole universe becomes extinct?
“It is selfishness to think about God and pay little heed to the suffering of fellowmen.”
“Ego and Truth are inversely related.”
“Instead of trying to speak the truth, let Truth speak through you.”
“A great many of our troubles can be traced to our lack of love for each other.”
“Love has very little to do with sex and gender.”
“Yama will be thrown off balance by my smiling away to glory on my deathbed.”
“The mind cannot understand a child at play; only the heart can.”
“We do not live. We are lived.”
“It is hard to understand that we do not understand life at all.”
“To love and laugh one needs a little bit of self-deception.”
“To really love someone else, one must understand oneself thoroughly.”
“The ‘I’ that thinks of itself as a “Brahmin” or any other Varna (Caste) actually does not exist and is an illusory ego, because all that exists is God who is playing ALL the roles of all the names-and-forms that comprise this world. We are not the doers because we as the ego-I are merely an imaginary entity imagining that we are the doers and belong to such and such a Varna (Caste).”
“Let the world classify one as a Brahmin or Shudra by its own criteria, but the truth of the matter is ONLY those who have realized the Self and are established in Brahman are Brahmins, and the rest of mankind are Shudras. Paradoxically, those ‘real’ Brahmins see no such distinctions and teach us that we Shudras are also Brahman, only we are imagining we are not. Thus, everyone is Brahman, and we are imagining we are not yet Brahmins.”
“I imagine I am the mind, and the mind imagines it is the body.”
“Once the mind experiences the bliss of a still mind in meditation, then it can turn its back on worldly pleasures.”
“Even after you experience all the comforts and pleasures of this world, at the fag end of your life you will still be thirsting for more. Ponder that.”
“As long as you are interested in the dream you will not know about yourself the dreamer.”
“Forget Modi. The best way to help yourself and the world is for your mind to be still at all times and under all circumstances.”
“Buddha declared long back that ‘Desire is the cause of suffering’. Yet we continue to desire this and that. Such is the lack of understanding of that Truth.”
“Buddha: Desire is the cause of suffering. You and I: The lack of the desired object is the cause of suffering.”
“The body-mind complex which I now take to be myself was created by God or fashioned in the crucible of Nature’s womb. So, whether one talks of God or Nature, it is the case that the body-mind was made with some inherent capacities, abilities, and talents in which the body-mind (or I) had no role to play. Hence, how can I take credit or blame for whatever the mind thinks or the body does as dictated by its program as designed by God or Nature? How can I be the doer? Just like the computer functions exactly as conceived and designed by us and has no independent functioning apart from our own programming of it, how can the body-mind conceived and designed by God or Nature have independent functioning or doership apart from its programming by God or Nature?”
“When you look at the world with the eyes of love, you see a different world.”
“Even a doctor who practices medicine with the main aim of earning money is a businessman because he is seeking a return on his investment in education.”
“The initial diminution and ultimate dissolution of ego is love.”
“By Jove, the Truth at any cost.”
“Every unfulfilled dream and desire is an opportunity to become wise.”
“Life itself teaches you renunciation because you do not always get all that you want.”
“Just like a mirage continues to appear so from a distance even after knowing it to be a mirage, but one is no longer fooled by it, this world, too, appears attractive even after knowing that it cannot quench one’s thirst, but one is no longer fooled by it.”
“True spiritual sadhana is to understand oneself and the world.”
“We are all victims of our own desires.”
“It is the individual who should be a socialist, not the government.”
“Love is the answer, my friend.”
“The only way to resist the pull of relationships and objects is to realize that the happiness coming from them is actually not from them but from the calm mind upon contact with them. But then why make the mind restless by desiring them in the first place?”
“Sex without love is crass.”
“Understanding that life is a dream is half the job done.”
“Trust only that happiness and joy which has no cause.”
“Distrust the joy seeming to come from relationships and objects. It carries the seeds of sorrow.”
“What gives joy now could become the cause of sorrow later on.”
“When you do not pursue pleasure, pain will not pursue you.”
“The purpose of life is to lose the desire to live again.”
“It ain’t necessary to enjoy and experience many things to understand the Truth.”
“The difference between bondage and liberation is the thirst for sense pleasure.”
“All issues from and ends in God’s Will.”
“Methinks love is ego massage.”
“With the blindfold of ignorance we play this sport called life.”
“Sometimes all you will find in the arms of a woman are smelly armpits.”
“Joys and sorrows are related to the presence or absence of wants in the mind.”
“All sorrow is self-inflicted.”
“The point is not one of understanding the dream but one of merely waking up from it.”
Know Thyself 