65 quotes found
“I won't explain why. If you're interested, you'll find out who I am. One clue, I'm a ghost.”
“When the jva, reflected consciousness, has its inert association with the body totally destroyed and ignited by the fire of jna, it burns in the huge and extensive cremation ground, the cidka. The ...”
“I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.”
“The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, ...”
“I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.”
“You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it's like you're looking at somebody else, and it's just so fucking clear ...”
“Whatever you are seeking is also seeking you.”
“What makes the self?Experiences. Acculturation.What else?I don't know.What's within you.She says, I don't know what was within me and what got put there by my life as it was lived.You can never kno...”
“Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.”
“Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, "This is my wife; this is my h...”
“Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna is manifested by physical representations.”
“Gnan is that which does not let kashays arise when one’s pocket is picked.”
“Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person’s quest to attain self-realization.”
“To be able to see one’s own faults”
“Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not.”
“When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.”
“We really can’t afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in.”
“People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: ‘i am not too concerned with what i’m going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.”
“For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.”
“My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My underst...”
