Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa used to say, “Forget all you have learned; become a child again. Then it will be easy to realize that wisdom.” Sometimes, learning becomes an obstacle if you don’t know what and how much to learn. So, limit your reading and put into practice what you read. Just select one or two books—anything that will remind you of

The great South Indian saint, Thirumular, said, “Where the mind goes, the prāṇa follows.”

The detachment of the mind from its personal desires and enjoyment is the ordinary vairāgya. The mind might want something; but, having control, you tell the mind, “No,” and it stays away.

“As the mind, so the person; bondage or liberation are in your own mind.” If you feel bound, you are bound. If you feel liberated, you are liberated. Things outside neither bind nor liberate you; only your attitude toward them does that.

Traditionally, the word Yoga by itself refers to Rāja Yoga, the mental science.

What are those four locks? Sukha, duḥkha, puṇya and apuṇya—the happy people, unhappy people, the virtuous and the wicked.

An image that arises on hearing mere words without any reality [as its basis] is verbal delusion.

Normally, the mind gets attached by seeing or hearing something. It is mainly through the eyes and ears that the mind goes out and gathers things to satisfy its desires.

This itself is Yoga practice—watching our own thoughts and analyzing them.