If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.

Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.

You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate. In a monastery you lead a relatively simply life. You don't need a lot of possessions.

We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The subtle physical body is made up of energy, of light that vibrates at a very high rate so the human physical eyes can't see it.

How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

We hide from ourselves by being with others.