Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual.

Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.

The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.

It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.

You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.