Our Quotes of the Day:

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart.

Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Kriya practice opens the Eye of Wisdom.

Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.

Devote yourself sincerely to spiritual practice. You must enter into the inner life.

There is no origin of this universe—no cessation, no creation, nor destruction of this universe. There is nobody who is in bondage. There is nobody who is a spiritual seeker who is doing spiritual practices. There is nobody who is seeking liberation, and indeed nobody who is liberated. This is the ultimate truth.

Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas its nightmares. Most of the paintings of the great painters like Paul Gaugin or Picasso are almost like vomit. They could not contain their agony and suffering - it was so much they threw it on the canvas to get relief. The real objective art is not a relief; it is not a sickness that you want to get rid of. It is a blissfulness that you want to share. And by sharing, it grows; you have more of it, the more it is shared.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment

Be the change you seek.

The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a conscious separate center. But reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical. You cannot speak about it, you can only lose yourself in it.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.