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Quotes by Indian Authors
"The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires."
"Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we scold someone for what they do. If you scold him, he will do it even more. (Instead) You should explain to him with love. All diseases will disappear with love. You will get pure love either from the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] or his followers!"
"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."
"Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully."
"Make good art. It doesn't matter what you do so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it."
"Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ."
"True love is 20 percent care and 80 percent understanding."
"In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest."
"To know worldly relations as being 'relation' (temporary) will resolve everything. However, if they are believed to be true (real) relations, there will be insistence. In relative relations, one is not to prove 'I am correct'. One has to bring about a closure by saying, 'you are correct'."
"Knowledge shall set the mind free."
"Discover the God in Life itself. And one who does, becomes a better version of himself or herself. If the entrepreneur thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better entrepreneur. If the student thinks he or she is the God, he or she will be a better student. If the Scientist thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better Scientist, and so on."
"In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine."
"If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is 'relative'. And "All these relatives are temporary adjustments."
"A healthy brain leads to a healthy you."
"Sow the seeds of weakness and inferiority in the kids and they'll grow up to be inferior, crawling, insignificant insects. Sow the seeds of courage and they'll become brave-heart leaders who will one day change the course of human history."
"If you remain in the mind, you remain in misery. Transcend it."
"A Gnani [the enlightened one] does not have to turn beads of a rosary, He turns the beads of own's own Self (the Soul)."
"Although profanity is part of our language that we speak everyday, it can simultaneity be used as a weapon to demoralize other people if it is offensive within its meaning."
"In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self."
"History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past."
"There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment)."
"Unfortunately for the university, none of that information could make the slightest place for itself inside the circuits of my brain. I was looking for education, but all I found was heartless indoctrination. And indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind."
"In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive."
"Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation."
"Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes."
"Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That's how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy."
"Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."
"Where our own mind doesn't listen to us, how can other's minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all."
"God lives in and through the human mind, and not in any church, synagogue, temple or mosque."
"In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption."
"Love can literally transform a human being. It can make us do either heroic or evil deeds. It is the best inspiration ever."
"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."
"Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines."
"I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance."
"The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors."
"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."
"Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves."
"I am an advocate of godliness, not of god."
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