True wisdom is gained when you discard acquired knowledge. A person who has developed sensitivity because of spiritual evolution is extremely sensitive to everything that happens, even to a flicker of the eyelid. Seemingly negative events do not affect him adversely, because in all of those actions there is the hand of Divinity. Drugs cannot […]

Through using drugs no one has ever become enlightened. If people could become enlightened through using drugs, I would go and buy a few pounds now and give them to you all. This chemical has a reaction in the brain, numbing the brain. It can stir many samskaras that are deeply implanted in your minds, […]

We have been born to spread joy. That should be the ambition of life, and that is the spiritual ambition. All desires are binding. They take you on the wheel of birth and death all the time, over and over and over again. When a desire is refined and becomes desireless, where the desire is […]

Austerity, like brahmacharya, is a word so misinterpreted. Austerity doesn’t mean that you deprive yourself. If you have a comfortable bed at home, it is not necessary to sleep on the ground. Enjoy life—but enjoy it in the right way. Enjoying life in the right way is austerity. To do unto others as you would […]

I do not say, “believe.” Believe if you must, if you have a devotional temperament. If you have an intellectual temperament, inquire. And if you do not have either an intellectual temperament or a believing temperament, then just live . . . in the sense of, “Do good, be good.” There is no such thing […]