When you say you have will, you also have the mind and the brain to decide what is good and what is bad. According to my understanding, anything that is harmful to others is bad, and anything that is not harmful to others is good. Anything that leads me towards my spiritual goal is good, and anything that leads me away from it is bad.

All things that have come out of the void go back into the void. Anything here in this world is temporary; it will pass.

All knowledge is a memory, and if it is memory, it is always a thing of the past. It cannot be in the present. The present does not require memory, it’s there. So, the Truth is that something which cannot be slotted into a memory. A spiritual experience is always fresh and new.

Everything in the world comes to an end, even our happiness has an end. The great thing about spiritual realisation is that it is endless. Every day, there is unveiling and it happens in different ways. Every day is a new day.

There is one shortcut to finding the truth which most don’t attempt as it is very difficult. And that is to cut the ego into two. Let’s leave the shortcut for now and see if we can suspend our judgement and say Ñ let me explore and find out.

If you practice Kriya and if one’s foremost intention is not finding the Truth, then even Kriya is not going to work. The Supreme Being will not show himself if I sit down and breathe up and down ten times a day.

Thoughts can be constructive, but thoughts can also be damaging. When thoughts have subsided, infinite energy flows into you. A Yogi or Vedantin is one who deliberately works out techniques to tap the energy within.

Adi Shankaracharya said that ultimately there is only One reality, not two. All dissipation, all problems, all tensions happen when there is another. There is only One, and that reality happens to be you.

There is nothing impossible on this earth if one puts his or her mind to it. Why? Because, Inside us is the essence of that Purnata, our true essence.

From birth onwards, when we begin to learn, we are conditioned into believing that we are weak and incapable of doing certain things. But the great message of the Upanishads is ‘Uttishthata jagrata prapya varan nibodhata’, meaning Arise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is reached.

Why do we study Advaita, Brahma Sutras, Upanishads, and practice Kriya Yoga? Why do we do that? Because we feel inadequate, and we want to touch that completeness from which we have come, the Source.

Guru Purnima is for paying your respect to all Teachers and Gurus, both in the inner as well as the outer world. You should not imagine that we are paying respect to one Guru. It is actually to show our deep respects and love for the teacher who has brought us from darkness into light. 14 July 2022 While it’s true that a person who has advanced spiritually possesses certain extraordinary capacities, it is also true that a genuine spiritual teacher as far as possible does not exhibit his powers simply for the reason that a genuine seeker is not interested in his powers,miracles, protection or anything of this kind. 15 July 2022 I think to seek power from the spiritual teacher is merely a carryover, an extension of seeking power and luxuries from this world into the spiritual field. I would call it spiritual entertainment and I think no genuine spiritual Guru should be wasting his time and energy performing these wonders and diverting the genuine aspirant’s mind. 16 July 2022 The moment you are serious that nothing else is more important to you than finding the Truth; your Guru will come to you. One of the main functions of the Guru is to make you stand on your own feet. A true Guru does not want you to be dependent on anybody. He wants you ultimately to flower, become free and not to bind you even to himself.