In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

Application of humility is service.

If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.

Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.

Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.