Kimapi Nu Janaahaa Vadishyanti. Tadeva Kaaryam Janaanaam. People will talk nonsense. It is, after all, their job.
If you spend enough time with anything, you start liking it, even sadness.
Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti. Truth is one, though the sages know it as many.
If He is my God, if He picks my side over someone else’s, He is not the One God. The only true One God is the one who picks no sides, who belongs to everything, who doesn’t demand loyalty or fear; in fact, who doesn’t demand anything at all. Because the Ekam just exists; and His existence allows for the existence of all else.
Believe the theory that gives you peace and reject the one that causes you pain. Why believe in a theory if it causes you unhappiness?
Asuras are not bad people; they just have an understanding of dharma that is not valid for today’s world. Sometimes, the followers are good but the leaders let them down.
Running away is never the solution. Confront your problems. Manage them. That is the way of the warrior.
Just because you can’t imagine it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
A fool is worshipped in his home. A chief is worshipped in his village. A king is worshipped in his kingdom. A knowledgeable person is worshipped everywhere.
Yadyatkarma karomi tattadakhilam shambho tavaaraadhanam My Lord Shambo, My Lord Shiva, every act of mine is a prayer in your honour.
I’m not a fan of everything that our ancestors did. But some practices are worth reviving. One of them is looking upon marriage as a sacred partnership between two souls; not as a political alliance between two power centres.
I thank Lord Brahma that your preference doesn’t extend to a man being loyal to same woman for many lifetimes!
Every emotion in the universe exists for a purpose; nothing is superfluous in nature’s design.
Yunan-o-Misr-o-Roma sab mit gaye jahan se Ab tak magar hai baki naam-o-nishan hamara, Kuchh baat hai ke hasti mit’ti nahin hamari Sadiyon raha hai dushman daur-e-zaman hamara.
Flexibility in a society allows change, so that all its members have the space to discover their true selves and grow to their potential. And if every person in a society achieves his true potential, society as a whole also achieves its true potential.
Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand, may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.
Freedom of speech was curtailed so that verbal violence could also be controlled. Disagreement was discouraged. This is how the Bhaaratas felt that heaven could be created on earth; by making strength powerless, and weakness powerful.
You must use your heart to decide the destination, but use your head to plot the journey.
But karma should not be the centre of our lives. If we truly discover our Being, our Swatatva, and live in consonance with what we are meant to be, then everything becomes easy. We don’t have to try hard to carry out our karma. Because we will not do anything in the vain hope of something else. We will do it simply because it is in consonance with our Being. With what we were born to Be.
Smiling takes more effort than it’s worth, Your Highness.