“When mind controls man, it’s … Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s…Yoga”

Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.

The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love.

What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions – being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.

When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you – remember me.

Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

When you move with this thought that ‘I want’, then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that ‘I have received’, then you are content.

Don’t focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

I die for those who love me and live for those who love me.

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

A single rose can be my garden – a single friend, my world.

We never lose the people we love, even to death.

Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.