“We need love when we do not love the truth.”
“Every movement of the mind and heart takes you away from the truth.”
“The play of the mind and heart is but a play of the ego.”
“Until we understand the truth, all relationships will be a mess.”
“When the mind is still, where is the need for anything including love?”
“The ache of loneliness, the longing for love, etc., are all symptoms of ignorance.”
“The need for love arises due to the mistaken notion that happiness is outside and not inside.”
“True love is a noun.”
“We are born and exist dependent on others, hence we seek love.”
“Love cannot thrive where everyone is self-sufficient. The love that survives self-sufficiency is compassion.”
“I ask my mind and heart where does happiness lie? They point in a certain direction. Nay, they do more than that. They almost push me in that direction. Then I ask my intellect where does happiness lie? It points in a totally different direction. As if this confusion were not enough, I ask myself who is the ‘I’ that will determine which direction to take, and more importantly on what basis it will choose if it at all has a choice. And into this mix is thrown the claims that others have on you, where what you choose seems to affect their happiness. Now, now…this is what my good friend Suresh Boddapati, the bloke who made me understand acceptance and cured me of my mental illness, calls getting your knickers in a twist. Sigh!! And, perceptively enough, my friend Sachin Sankar, who is now a psychiatrist in the UK, renarked when we were in med school that I was like Hamlet – always asking, ‘To be or not to be’.”
“I am willing to die a thousand deaths for love. The only problem is I am unable to tell when it is love and when it is need. Can we ever have any certainty about anything in life? Are we as humans condemned to be forever dissatisfied with being human and ever have to strive to become the divine, perfect in every way?”
“Marx was not correct in saying the base is economic (modes of production, technology, and class relations) because the base is psychologic. As a man is, so will he bring about the rest of society, be it economic or Marx’s elements of the superstructure – culture, law, politics, and ideology.”
“The time has come to see if I really do love the Truth because the more I interact with this world, the more I love this world, the more I think about this world, the more I take this world to be real, the more I think think this world has something valuable to give me, the further I seem to recede from the Truth. Or, have I NOT understood what the Truth is?”
Know Thyself 