“Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.”

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self.

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.

The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration.