In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.

To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly.