God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same. It has always been so in the East, because much dust gathers as time passes. Now, the Upanishads were written in a totally different world. That man has disappeared, that mind has disappeared, that world no more exists.

I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.

Pray with your woman, sing with your woman, play with your woman, dance with your woman, with no idea of sex.

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.

You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness.