Guru Quotes

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

Even if a person hurts you, give him love.

The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either.

People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The real question is not whether life exists after death.

The real question is whether you are alive before death.

If you want to see God, kill desires.

Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody ... The same blood flows through us all, the arms, the legs, the heart, all are the same. See no difference. See all the same.

The true India resides in its villages.

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold.

What matters is that you are flowering.

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.

The freedom from something is not true freedom.

The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you.

The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.

The ego is your enemy, not your friend.

It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.

Nobody else can destroy you except you;

nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current. They can be changed; they can be rearranged. They can be given a new shape, form. Two lovers can be transformed so deeply that all their seven centers can start meeting.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.

You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator.

He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.

I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.

Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

The less the head, the more the wound will heal.

No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.

Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, then use it as a drowning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself, totally.

Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.

The whole universe is our home and all residing in it belong to our family.

.. instead of trying to see God in a particular appearance, it is better to see him in everything.

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom.

Move as a total being, and accept things.

Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don't react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.

You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.

There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.

This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual.

It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual. It tries in every possible way to destroy you for its own purposes. It needs clerks, it needs stationmasters, deputy-collectors, policemen, magistrates, it needs soldiers. It does not need human beings.

To be creative means to be in love with life.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.