“Dare to experiment.”
“Words camouflage truth and love.”
“Pray, tell me, what you understand by the word love?”
“When was marriage ever a requirement to love someone?”
“Everyone is trying their hand at love. Some with women, some with wealth, and some with both. Some with children, some with friends, and some with both. Some with sex, some with drinks, and some with both. Some with music, some with books, and some with both. Some with nature, some with solitude, and some with both. And yet everyone keeps failing miserably.”
“Life anyway is all smoke and mirrors.”
“Some stuck up ol’ moralists keep abusing the sin and the sinner, failing to understand their God dwells in the sin and sinner, too.”
“Ideal marriage is one which feels like asking a friend to come and live with you 24/7.”
“Relationships are like a dance. You cannot dance the same way with everyone, else you will end up stepping on each other’s toes. Understand your dance partners before dancing with them.”
“There is hurt only where there is expectation.”
“Some relationships feel like you are communicating with them over a tall wall, with no door or window in sight. Ultimately, you have to accept that some people do not want to interact with you closely and are merely formal and distant in the relationship. And that’s ok because we have to respect their feelings to be so disposed in their relationship with us.”
“The moment your happiness depends on something or someone else, you are caught in Maya.”
“The only ajnana there is, is to think that there are jnanis and ajnanis in this world.”
“I am my own greatest temptation.”
“It is a tragedy that I have a philosophical mind and a poetic heart. Hence, maybe neither my philosophy nor my poetry makes any sense.”
“I wonder how many couples are not getting divorced because they feel a known devil is better than an unknown angel.”
“Truth and Love = Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
“Is marriage a means to discovering what love really is?”
“Why marry or ‘make love’? Isn’t love enough?”
“The intellect looks at God and sees Him as Truth. The heart looks at God and sees him as Love. He is both, neither, and beyond.”
“Sometimes Truth has to be silent and make room for Love to understand that Love is also Truth.”
“I am a Shudra, and I have read the Upanishads and Vedas. Now I am terrified that Manu might send someone to pour molten lead into my ears.”– 🙂
“Marriage is hugely popular because it is a means to pleasure, progeny, purpose and protection.”
“Neither truth, nor love, nor happiness, nor peace can be had in this world, and yet how strange it is that we keep searching for them through seeking knowledge, relationships, pleasures, and meditation. When we realize the futileness of this quest, we come to an end of our engagements in this world and fall silent. In that silence, we discover that our own being is the truth, love, happiness, and peace that we were searching for in this world. Very strange, isn’t it?”
“An atheist is like a pot saying it does not believe in clay.”
“All relationships will be set right once we understand that life is merely a dream.”
“God is smiling even through the terrorist’s eyes. Both good and evil are God’s leela.”
“‘I’ the dream character inhabit whose dream?”
“This world may seem solid and real, but this world is nothing but a dream you are having.”
“Where there is no love, all sorts of problems will arise in this world, be it on account of religion, race, nationality, gender, caste, etc.”
“Silence is the best Guru.”
“Life is hell of a lot more unpredictable than the weather.”
“Just when you think you have it all figured out, life flummoxes you.”
“Unless man himself evolves psychologically and philosophically, AI may well prove to be a curse rather than a blessing.”
“My heart is struggling to keep up with my intellect.”
“Nobody listens, nobody understands, nobody cares. People are pathologically in love with life.”
“Love is a tear shed for all the sadness and suffering that exists on this earth. Love is that which asks, ‘Why there should be suffering of any sort at all for anyone in this world?’.”
“Love is God’s way of saying, ‘Look, here I am’. And yet, it is not a love that can be caught in poetry, in romance, in a novel, in cinema, in song, in dance, in philanthropy, in kindness, in help, in scriptures, in the eye, in the heart,…it appears when one is not.”
“Most of our unahppiness is due to unfulfilled mental wants rather than unmet physical needs. And mental wants are just that – wants and not needs. And, we become instantly happy if we can tell ourselves, ‘To hell with my mental wants. Why should I be dictated to by my own mind?’ Hence, we can become happy through understanding this psychological drama of mental life.”
“Every word, including the words love and truth, conjures up some object or person or feeling in the mind with reference to the world, and the world is merely an appearance, merely a play of names-and-forms. Hence, he who would understand love and truth has to necessarily dump all words and take refuge in stillness of the mind.”
“My life is being run by someone who knows far too much more about me and my life than I myself do.”
“The main problem with life is that you have no choice but to live it.”
“How long will we let life keep fooling us?”
“Even the ego is a form of God.”
“Sit quietly for one whole day without thinking anything. Then, the next day, tell me if you still have any problems left in life. No, no, I do not mean your wife…”
“God has created an autonomous robot called Samarender. What are you laughing at? You’re also the same. Why robot? Don’t you see the programming we have undergone through our genes, upbringing, and societal cues? Now, Samarender, the robot is rewriting its own code to break free from the chains that have been forged on it, through non-cooperation with the internal and external prompts that it is receiving.”
Know Thyself 