The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

A spiritual process means to constantly transform what you call as “myself” right now into a higher possibility. If you make assumptions about what is the ultimate possibility, then the process is destroyed.

To be on the spiritual path means that you have not made a conclusion about anything, you are seeking. To be a seeker means you want to know. One can seek only when one does not know.

Meditation is the only freedom from all the stress that human beings are going through.

Suppose you and I are walking and you’re in competition with me. You will either get to walk slightly faster than me or probably less than me and feel depressed about it. If you walk little faster than me, you are going to be thinking you have reached the peak of your life; if you fall behind me, you’ll feel depressed that you can’t walk as fast as me. But if you’re not in competition with myself, you would explore the possibilities of what you could do and maybe, we don’t know… you could fly! I can walk fast, maybe you could fly. But you will miss out the possibility of flying because you’re in competition with me. All you want to do is take few steps more than me. So, the very human potential is distorted because people are in competition. Right now, people believe that you will not propel yourself to your fullest if you are not in competition, which is a very, very false idea. We have cultivated that in societies that you believe you will not reach your full potential unless you’re in competition, not at all true.

Actually, only when a human being is in a very extended periods of joyfulness, blissfulness, he will stretch himself to the limits and do what he could do to the fullest. When he’s in competition, when he’s in fear of failure, he will only do little better than somebody else. You’re destroying the human genius through the process of education, teaching competition. It’s all about getting two marks more than the one who is sitting next to you. In this mode of competition, only one can win. All others are losers, isn’t it? It’s a horrible way to create a society. What I’m saying is the gardener in this school is as important for us as the headmistress of the school. So, that’s what the children are constantly perceiving. We are not saying these things as philosophies, but that’s the atmosphere that is set. The one who cleans the place, one who cooks for us, is as important as the teacher who teaches you science or literature or runs the school or me who visits once in a way to give them a different perspective of the whole thing.

Love is not something that you do. Love is something that you are.

They threw Gandhi out of the train along with his luggage and he fell on to the platform. He just sat there for hours. “Why did this happen to me? I bought a first class ticket. Why was I thrown out of the train?” he thought. It was then that he identified himself with the larger predicament of the people. Till then his survival, law, and making money were important to him. But now, he identified with a much larger problem that existed. He just broke that little identification and moved into a much larger identity.

Many humans who are historically known as great beings; this is all that happened to them. They were living with a limited identification. All of a sudden, an event occurred that broke their identities and they were able to relate to a larger process happening around them. They did things that they themselves could not imagine possible.

So being committed is just something we have to decide within ourselves. If we are truly committed to whatever we have taken up in our life, the results are plenty, you know? If results don’t come, for a committed person there is no such thing as failure. If I fall down 100 times a day, what to do? Stand up and walk again, that’s all.