Whether it is your body, your mind, or the world – the idea of keeping a distance from it is to have a better perspective of everything.
If you stand on the garbage heap of your mind, your feet will never touch the ground.
Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It’s the miseries that stick in you like thorns – until you realize that it’s all your doing.
Success need not always be measured in economic terms. It has to be measured in quality of life.
Essentially, meditation means to experientally realize that you are not an individual bubble – you are a universe.
A world full of Love, Light & Laughter. Its time has come. Let’s make it happen.
You are not suffering yesterday or tomorrow. You are only suffering your memory and your imagination.
The experience of life should mature you. It is your choice to transform a memory into a wound or wisdom.
The more exclusive you make yourself in thought and emotion, the more excluded from life you become.
If you become full-blown consciousness, everything that can be known will be known to you.
Enlightenment is not like a Big Bang – it is an ongoing process.
People who logically examine their relationships cannot sustain them. Two bodies, two minds, two emotions can never fit perfectly.
Youth is a time of tremendous energy. You should look at the possibilities, not the problems.
There is nothing romantic about childhood. Children can enjoy their childhood only if the adults create the necessary atmosphere.
Any philosophy is a sacrilege against creation. It just gives people the kinds of explanations that they want to hear.
Your life and how you experience it is entirely your making. Only if this absolutely sinks in, will you make the necessary changes.
Leaders should not stand in front of people. They should stand behind the people.
When you go to an Indian temple, it is just to behold an energy form. You want to take an imprint of the Divine within yourself.
We don’t have to seek new economic systems. We have to transform the people who run them.
I am neither modern nor ancient – just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?
Only when you explore the ecstasy of simply being, where even to breathe is a distraction, can you call yourself complete.
The only way to experience true wellbeing is to turn inward. This is what yoga means – not up, not out, but in. The only way out is in.
On the occasion of yoga day, I want to offer you the simplest form of yoga: Namaskar – Yoga for all.
The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to establish a body that is less susceptible to outside influences – a stable platform to build on.