If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

But can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.