If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says that he has not achieved. Once you have some inner experiences of your own you become very playful, you become very innocent, childlike.

Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.

Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Grace is a feminine quality.

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.