The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.

The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one’s real Self) does.

One who experiences prasantta [blissful happiness] within, he will have prasantta [blissful happiness] externally. The mind is a mirror (reflection) for the external.

The law of nature is such that everyone gets happiness according to their needs. The ‘tender’ that everyone (of us) fills out, is indeed fulfilled.

The ‘egoism’ that is used to hurt others will hurt one’s own self. The ‘egoism’ that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.

A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes ‘I am right’, causes a lot of pain to others.

Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.

Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.

Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

An interesting thing that I've learned is that "no" doesn't always really mean "no," it just simply means "not now."

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

The opposite of creativity is cynicism

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.