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.
All our sentiments – religious, romantic or any other – are born in the neurons.
No American is UnAmerican.
If you have faith in all the trinities and apostles in the world, and still have no faith in yourself, there is no salvation for you.
Love that doesn’t turn you stupid, is no love.
In parenting patience is the greatest virtue.
Darkness prevails only in the absence of light. Light a candle and the darkness disappears.
In the beginning of our love lives, it is the beastly instinct of sexual attraction that drives us all. The butterflies in your stomach simply signal your mind that the person in front of you would make a fantastic mate to make babies with. Without this primeval drive, you won’t ever fall for anyone in your entire lifetime. The very attraction you feel towards a person in a romantic way, is a mental manifestation of a subconscious desire to mate with that person.
Stagnant water gets polluted over time, and so does stagnant mind, but if the mind is in flow, all pollutants within and without, get washed away with its ever-evolving and rejuvenating torrents, quite like water.
What America needs is character – a character, bright enough to shine over a whole community – a character burning with love, passion and purity – a character free from all sorts of sectarianism, be it religious, political or atheistic.
I prefer to be seen as a know-nothing idiot, than a know-it-all bigot.
Martial arts is not about fighting, it is about being fit and healthy, both physiologically and psychologically.
Burn so bright that the world comes to life.
The world is mine, its problems are mine.
Teach your children, “love your neighbor like your family”, but “not because it is a Christian thing to do, rather because it is a human thing to do.
Without revolution, civilization comes to halt, because with complacency arrives indifference, and with indifference comes the fall of civilization.
From the perspective of a general human being – a non-scientist, the most valuable element of the human mental life, is Emotion – a tiny portion of our conscious mental world. We humans as a species crave for emotional stimulation. And in many cases, as it happens, we are actually slaves to our emotions.
When the individual consciousness and social consciousness become one, the slightest trace of human act can trigger a tsunami of change in the world. When the illusory separation between the self and the society is demolished by the ambition-less will of the self, all that there remains is peace, piety and progress.
When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.
Genes come together to construct a magnificent life-form, while neurons come together to form our Illusion of Consciousness.