Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine.
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also the goal of all. The method is chosen according to one's own fitness. The goal for all is the same. Yet different names are given to the goal only to suit the process preliminary to reaching the goal. Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana are all the same.