“The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.”

Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts.

Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.

A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one’s relationship with the spiritual master.

I just didn’t know where I fit in – I didn’t seem to fit in my parent’s generation. I didn’t seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

If we are truly humble , we will co-operate.

Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

You can not understand “Scripture” without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.

If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

The challenge of co-operation in today’s age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

To measure whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.

When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna’s arrangement the He never reveals Himself.

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it’s great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

If your organization’s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul, people will respond. They will connect. They will like you. They will talk. They will buy.

Love is easier to carry than hate. So I untangle from my past and realize my fate. Transcend the pain to forgiveness, to nurture my scars. We are what we witness, and we are also stars.

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.

It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.