Quotes About Swami

India's passivity over time, and its dislike of clash, offends the Swami. Though admitting that Gandhi broke with that tradition—recognizing that Gandhi was neither passive nor afraid of a clash

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love

You know, he was very honest about it. He said, 'What you do not use, you lose. These computers have so much potential, but they will ruin people's brains.' He said, 'Swami, you will live to see it in the next century. I will not be here.

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.

His accelerated path to yogihood hit a dead end when his kundalini exploded in a crowded department store. No one else was injured, but Swami caught an inflection which left him with a permanent East Indian accent.

find that even this idea of duty undergoes change, and that the greatest

there rose this man Krishna, and in the Gita he tries to reconcile the ceremony and the philosophy of the priests and the people.

The orthodox Hindu [the Mimâmsaka] does not believe in gods, the unorthodox believe in them.

His eyes opened wide. "Are we living in this material age, or are we dreaming? I never expected to witness such a miracle in my life! I thought this swami was just an ordinary man, and now I find he can materialize an extra body and work through it!

In 1980, Osho left India for America. I, like many other sannyasins, moved to Oregon where work had begun on the 'new commune'. Osho named it Rajneeshpuram.

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.