“Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.”

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

One can realize God through kirtan alone.

The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.

The goal of life is god realisation.

If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp god.

Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Happiness is egotistical.