The word avyakta implies that our only purpose in life is to reveal the divine personality that is concealed in all of us. The

In meditation, even though we meditate regularly in the morning, if we do not take care to pull out the weeds that are rampant in the garden of the mind, spiritual seeds are not likely to thrive.

the guru, the spiritual teacher, is in every one of us. All that another person can do is to make us aware of the teacher within ourselves.

The mystic says, “I have stopped thinking; therefore I am.”

We can throw away the ugly ego mask at last if we will turn our face to the Lord, take to meditation, and do everything possible to bring peace and security to our world.

Just as we purify the physical body, called sthulasharira in Sanskrit, with vigilant care of the senses, healthy physical exercise, and repetition of the mantram, we purify the subtle body, sukshmasharira, by cultivating healthy thoughts.

Yoga is the practice of meditation and the allied spiritual disciplines. When the senses are stilled, when the mind is stilled, when the intellect is stilled, when the ego is stilled, then the state of perfect yoga is reached.

The language of battle is often found in the scriptures, for it conveys the strenuous, long-drawn-out campaign we must wage to free ourselves from the tyranny of the ego, the cause of all our suffering and sorrow.

Having made yourself alike in pain and pleasure, profit and loss, victory and defeat, engage in this great war and you will be freed from sin.