“Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.”

Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one’s thoughts and actions.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.

“Is God a Man or a Woman ?” The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.

Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.

A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.

Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.

We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree of vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.

Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.

Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.

The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun – the giver of light.

We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.

If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.