People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.

All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same.

When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.

Your tonal will enable you to deal with the world well, to do well in a career and interact with others.

There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.

Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.