“Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.”

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.

Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.

Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.

If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won’t let us down.

If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.

If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.

Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.

The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.

Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

My skin will continue to carry your memories, even if my mind wants to forget.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That’s not an issue. But I think that is the same for most athletes. If you don’t believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can’t do it.

I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.