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Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.
You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.
There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.
On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.
You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.
The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.
Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.
Generally, I don't need any music to dance. For me, dance is not because of the music. It is simply because I've found the rhythm of life.
Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.
If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.
Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.
If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.
Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.
In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.
If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.
The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.
India's rivers are undergoing a drastic change. Our perennial rivers are becoming seasonal. Many of the smaller rivers have already vanished.
Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.
Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.
The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.
In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.
For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.
What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.
A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.
Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.
You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.
You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.
The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.
Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.
When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.
The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.
If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.
Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.
A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.
If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.
Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.
On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.
There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.
The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.
If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.
If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.
In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.
Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.
The process of wanting to clean India is not an overnight job. At the same time, if we can inspire all citizens, it would happen much more quickly.
Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.
If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.