‘Lay treasures in your heart where thieves do not break in and steal’ is a great statement which says, inside your heart is all the treasure that you seek. Therefore have faith that one day you will open this treasure and see the beautiful things that are hidden inside.

Understanding the writing in the scriptures is to get a blueprint of what we are seeking.

It’s only when there is pain and sorrow that human beings begin to think there may be a Divine Being somewhere. Guru Nanak Sahib said, ‘Dukh me sumiran sab kare, sukh me kare na Koi.’

On this path, we may think that we are denying ourselves many things, but we are actually celebrating. Leaving aside the little trinkets, we find the big treasure.

Aql ke madrase se uth, ishq ke maikade mein aa, Jaam-e-fana-o-bekhudi, ab to piya jo ho so ho Get up from the school of the intellect, come to the tavern of joy, intoxication. Now that you have drunk the wine of annihilation of the ego, whatever happens, let us enjoy.

Kriya is not done to develop supra-mental powers, to walk on water or levitate in the air. That is not the aim of yoga.

Sadhana is not to find the Truth, but to prepare oneself to keep the windows open so that when the breeze blows, the windows are not closed.

There is no technique to find the Truth. It is not an engineering feat. You can, however, prepare the ground from where it is possible to take off.

If spiritual development is your priority, no distraction is going to take away anything from you. You are one-pointedly there. So therefore, fix your priorities.

A person who is a real meditator, who has stepped at least beyond a certain boundary can never be cruel, can never intentionally cause harm to anybody or glorify himself.

The more you meditate, whatever be the mode of meditation and deeper you go into your inner self, you become a better human being. If this is not happening, then something is not okay.

Different modes of philosophies in India, different darshanas have looked at Truth in different ways. But like the Rig Veda said 2000 years ago : ‘Ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti’- There is only one truth, the wise have called it by different names.