106 Sayings of Mine

“Philosophy and spirituality are antipsychotics.”

“Respond to each moment with love. That is the only sane way to live.”

“True safety lies only in love.”

“A restless mind cannot know what love is.”

“The lust for pleasure, money, position, power, authority, name, and fame will drive away love from your heart.”

“From the dream-character point of view, the dream-world is real. From the dreamer point of view, the dream-world is only his imagination, and hence, has no existence apart from him, and in a way no different from him. Analogously, in the waking world, we or our egos are the dream characters, and God is the dreamer.”

The pot does not and cannot exist apart from and independent of clay. So, it cannot do anything of its own accord. Without the clay dancing, how can the pot dance? More accurately speaking, the pot does not even exist and only seems to exist, exists only as a name-and-form of clay, one which appears to the sense of sight, just like this world is nothing but names-and-forms of Consciousness as presented to or “seen” by our five senses. Whatever the pot is “seen” to be doing is actually only the clay doing it, right? Dvaita or duality or this world is pots and pans or names-and-forms, and Advaita or oneness or Truth or reality or Brahman or God is clay or Consciousness.

“We have no choice but to keep on living.”

“The reason we cannot stop thinking about the world is that we think all the avenues to happiness are in it. We fail to realize that happiness is nothing but a calm and content mind. Unable to appreciate this fact, we chase happiness by desiring objects and relationships in this world. And, once a desire springs up in the mind, the mind cannot be calm and content. Thus, desire covers up the inner happiness, and we go gallivanting in this world that is no better than a mirage.”

“As long as you think you are the doer, your mind will not be still. As long as your mind is not still, you cannot understand the Truth.”

“Give up thinking about the world if you want to understand the Truth.”

“Sam is the problem. Sam is the solution. No one else.”

“Unconditional love is always universal, and never for only one particular individual.”

“Don’t just question ‘how?’ Question also ‘why?’”

“Every child is a philosopher. Then, unfortunately, we become adults.”

“More than scientific temper we need philosophical temper for this world to become a better place. Scientific temper without philosophical temper leads to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

“Companionship can and often does mean for you that you want someone’s company and you want them to be there for you. But, companionship can also mean for you that you are there for someone offering them your company and your shoulder to lean or cry on.”

“Not to be hurt is a sign of unconditional love.”

“Evolution is advancing us into an ever widening circle of love.”

“People fall in love with each other without realizing that down the line each could become a source of sorrow for the other.”

“Whatever the pot does or does not do, it can never at any time be anything other than clay. Moreover, the pot can never do anything that the clay is not doing. Understand what the pot and clay are and you understand the Truth.”

“This world is a game God is playing with himself.”

“Sitting quietly doing nothing gives peace of mind, which is priceless, so every activity has that as its opportunity cost.”

“The only battle worth fighting in this world is against your own ignorance. Conquer ignorance and all the battles end.”

“The forces of good and evil are always at war with each other. That’s why the Bhagavad Gita’s message. So, don’t complain, just fight your battles…knowing that you are not the doer nor are they the doers…both the good and evil are instruments in God’s hands…the play goes on…”

“There are NO accidents in life. Everything is happening as it is meant to happen as per a divine plan.”

“A nation is doing really well if its doctors & lawyers are in the lower middle class.”

“People mostly wonder about who loves them and who doesn’t, and almost never about what love is.”

“In a nudists’ colony, a person with clothes will be considered crazy.”

“You will be closer to the Truth when you understand that thinking will not take you to the Truth.”

“As long as we think the boats are not empty, we will be lost in samsara.”

“The road less travelled? The road we take is not in our hands.”

“If you keep failing, the missing ingredient may be love.”

“A little more love is all that it takes.”

“Sprinkle a little love into everything you do.”

“What pisses me off about life is that we have to keep deciding and doing despite the uncertainty in which everything is shrouded, which veil our puny brains cannot ever hope to pierce. Hey Bhagavan, toone ye kaisi duniya rachi hain.”

“Suppose I do not cooperate with God in this play of his. What then?”

“The problem is not so much about how little others understand us as it is about how little we understand ourselves.”

“Don’t look for love. Be love.”

“All desires, including the desire to be loved, ultimately lead to suffering.”

“It takes a lifetime to understand what love is, and then you funnily realize you never had to set out in search of it because it was never away from you.”

“You are not the one rowing the boat. Understanding that is understanding life.”

“Life is tough for those who think deep and tougher for those who think less.”

“Flee from desires, not from society.”

“Time to give up on people. They understand neither my philosophy nor my silence.”

“I sometimes think that Sartre was perhaps right in saying, ‘Hell is other people’.”

“Life becomes insipid when one understands that oneself and everyone else are just empty boats.”

“Going to meet someone? Leave your mind behind. Carry just your heart along.”

“Step outside thought and be if you want happiness, peace, freedom and liberation. If all you want is just some excitement and enjoyment, be lost in the world of thoughts.”

“Does the heart ever catch up with the age of the body and mind?”

“Even a murderer is serving God’s purpose by making sure that the murdered person meets his karma that way.”

“Whatever the question, love is the answer.”

“Strictly speaking, it matters less what you think or do, and it matters more whether you feel/think that you as the ego are the thinker/doer. It matters little whether you are working at a job and are married or you are living in the Himalayas on alms and meditating, if you think you are the one as the ego doing the job and raising a family or meditating in the Himalayas. What counts, whether you are a householder or a sanyasi, is the realization that you as the ego are not the thinker/doer, but it is God himself who is playing your role, and indeed is playing all the other roles of all animate and inanimate beings in this universe. Once you understand you are not the thinker/doer or the karta, you escape from or are not affected by the fruits of those thoughts/actions or the karma phalas. Know that you are not the thinker/doer and liberation/freedom is yours for the taking.”

“In the silence of the mind and heart, everything disappears, including truth and love. Only you remain. Alone, without a second, and yet complete, knowing it was all a dream, … when mind and heart kick in, the dream begins again, but now you know it is a dream, and you begin anew to play your part, knowing fully well truth is no longer truth, love is no longer love, and more dazzlingly, no one and nothing is separate from you the dreamer…smile, laugh, dance, cry, what matters it what you do in a dream…”

“People want to enjoy life. I am content to merely exist.”

“The goal, purpose, and meaning of life is to arrive at that state of mind and heart where you love everyone.”

“Are we free to think what we want to think, or are thoughts formed spontaneously in our mind based on its own past and its interaction in the present with the environment it finds itself in?”

“Love does not judge. Love accepts unconditionally.”

“You swat the mosquito and move on. There is no other purpose or meaning to life.”

“A hundred dreams chain me to this body.”

“God is in charge. S/he is taking care of you and this world on a minute-by-minute basis down to the minutest detail. Don’t worry. Don’t think much. Relax.”

“It is not what you are but how you are that counts.”

“Samarender is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”

“Question everything, including the need for questioning.”

“Lucky are those who discover truth through love. Lucky are also those who discover love through truth.”

“If I lose all memory of my identity, say on account of Alzheimer’s dementia, what is the ‘I’ that remains over?”

“To the degree that the mind quietens down, only to that degree you start to understand the truth.”

“Without love in one’s heart, one always feels a sense of incompletion.”

“Love may be enough. Truth also may be enough.”

“Love is God’s way of showing you the direction. Don’t get lost.”

“Love keeps showing up in our lives constantly. Only we are too blind to recognize it.”

“Love is not a person. Love is a state of one’s own mind and heart.”

“Without love in one’s heart, it is hard to spot the truth.”

“Only 3 secrets to any relationship: Communication! Communication! Communication!”

“Strictly speaking, this world need not exist. Sub kuch yahaan bewajah hain.”

“Just live it. Think less.”

“One receives love not from another person but from within oneself when one gives up all seeking in this world, including the seeking of love from another person.”

“I am but one of the infinite ways in which the universe is expressing itself just for the heck of it with no rhyme or reason.”

“It is easier to fall in love than to fall out of love.”

“Life is nothing but a search for happiness.”

“Love is hidden by desire.”

“The constant search for novelty and variety in experiences of life ultimately becomes man’s undoing.”

“Love often shows up as the aversion toward hurting another person.”

“Love knows no hurt.”

“I wonder if love is at all possible between two people if each of them is self-sufficient unto themselves.”

“Is love a noun or a verb?”

“Roti, kapada, makaan and love seem to be one’s basic needs.”

“To love is to forget oneself.”

“There is not much to life, yet we are so much in love with it.”

“Despite our pretense of knowledge, we know not which way the wind will blow.”

“We are totally inessential because the world is not a jigsaw puzzle.”

“The world is so much ordered with the earth keeping to its orbit, so can our minds be without order beneath the seeming randomness.”

“We are a random event, yet we think there is some purpose to our existence.”

“People flail around because they know not what is really conducive to their happiness.”

“We keep seeking happiness in this world like the moth seeks the flame.”

“Only he is happy who wants nothing.”

“Not many have the ability to live alone.”

“Peace can be had at once if we care not much for money and pleasure.”

“The ‘I am’-sense when the mind is not thinking is one’s real-I.”

“Is knowledge the last barrier to truth?”

“Is there a journey to be undertaken or there is no destination?”

“Is there a bridge between love and truth, or is the bridge itself love?”

“We humans are not self-sufficient. Should we rely on the support of another, or can the truth be our crutch?”

“Everyone is seeking love in this world. Very few are seeking the truth. Fewer still know how the two are related.”

“If only I knew the relationship between happiness, love, and truth.”

“The advantage of interacting less with this world is that there will be less panchayati and peekulaata in one’s life.”