Quotes About Understanding

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

Amor es despertar a una mujer y que no se indigne. (Love is when you wake up a woman and she is not mad at you.)

Indians are better speakers than listeners

Nehru had an unusual capacity – unusual among politicians, at any rate – to view both sides of the question

promoting concord in the place of discord

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence.

The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.

The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.

If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.

42. The colour of milk is one, the colours of the cows many, So is the nature of knowledge, observe the wise ones. Beings of various marks and attributes, Are like the cows, their realisation is the same; This is an example we should know.

If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.

Lady with fair countenance! Understand that one who is not able to realise the Truth in his Heart by this knowledge of spiritual wisdom known as Kala Jnana, can never attain it even by studying countless crores ofsastras (scriptures) spread out like the sky.

If you understand your own reality, then that of the rishis and Masters will be clear to you. There is only one Master and that is the Self […] The power is only one in all. (p. 110-111)

How can the intellect which can never reach the Self be competent to ascertain, and much less decide the nature of the final state of Realization? It is like trying to measure the sunlight at its source by the standard of the light given by a candle. The wax will melt down before the candle comes anywhere near

Did you know your kinsmen before their birth that you should seek to know them after their death?

Realization is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought 'I have not realised'.

The intricate maze of philosophy of the various schools is said to clarify matters and to reveal the Truth, but in fact it creates confusion where none need exist. To understand anything there must be the Self. The Self is obvious, so why not remain as the Self? What need to explain the non-self?

Questioner: Is intellectual knowledge enough? Maharshi: Unless intellectually known, how to practice it? Learn it intellectually first, then do not stop with that. Practise it.