Yoga is a big misnomer in the west, people don’t know what this yoga is. Yoga means union with the divine. When you become one with the divine, the divine starts flowing through you and you become part and parcel of the whole. 1984 – Sept 5, Radio Interview, Vienna …
If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit. 1992 – July 24 – Public Talk, Paris Gaveau, France
I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot think about it, we cannot conceptualize it. Unfortunately at this human level we cannot feel it, we cannot know it. We have to be the spirit …
The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself. 2000 – March 21, Sahaja Yoga Advanced Talk, Delhi, India
The truth is, first one, that you are not this body, this mind, these conditionings or ego but you are pure spirit. And the second truth is that there is a all-pervading power of divine love which works out all the living work. July 24, 1992 – Public Talk, Paris …
So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit. Oct. 11 1983, Public Program, Boston, USA
What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart. 2001 – Feb 25, Advanced Program Pune, India
The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us. 1982 – July 11, Public Program Derby, UK
When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself. 1990 – October 17, Press Interview Bucharest, Romania
