Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you.” Yoga is about experiencing it.

Speech is of the society. Words are of the mind. Sounds are of nature. The soundless is of the beyond. Thus if one gets identified by one's own speech, that one will belong to the society. If one gets identified with one's words, that one will belong to the mind. If one gets identified with one's sounds, that one will belong to nature. If one dissolves in the soundless silence, then to that one alone the realms of the beyond will yield - to that one alone.

Joy is a natural phenomenon. Misery is your creation.

Just because you believe does not mean that you know.

This life for me is an endeavor to help people experience and express their ultimate nature.

Enlightenment is realization of truth that is already there.

You mind needs not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

These are the only four realities in your life: body, mind, emotion, and energy. Whatever you wish to do with yourself, it must be on these four levels. Whatever you wish to do, you can only do it with your body, your mind, your emotions or your energy. If you use your emotions and try to reach the ultimate, we call this bhakti yoga. That means the path of devotion. If you use your intelligence and try to reach the ultimate, we call this gnana yoga. That means the path of intelligence. If you use your body, or physical action to reach the ultimate, we call this karma yoga. That means the path of action. If you transform your energies and try to reach the ultimate, we call this kriya yoga. That means internal action. These are the only four ways you can work with yourself.

Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to pleasantness. Just see, people who have fallen in love do not care about what is happening in the world. The way they are, you think they are unrealistic. It is just that they have made their emotions pleasant, so their life is beautiful. That is the state of a devotee. Devotion is a multiplied and enhanced version of a love affair. A devotee is in an unfailing kind of love affair because if you fall in love with a man or a woman, they do not go the way you expect them to, and it eventually gets into some trouble. That is why people choose God. It is simply a love affair, and you are not expecting any response. Your life becomes utterly beautiful because your emotion has become so sweet. Through that sweetness, one grows. That is devotion.