Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.

According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!