When it is said: “The world is unreal,” it is not suggested that we are seeing the world where nothing exists.
As you think so you become. Think that you are great, and you are great. Think that you are hopeless, and certainly you will be hopeless.
This running after things we want and away from things we don’t want is in itself stressful and agitating for the mind.
By the proper practice of pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) the senses become fully under your control. They become obedient horses, taking you wherever you want. You become a complete master over them.
We are afraid of death; not because of the unknown,but rather some part of our psyche remembers the experience, shortly after leaving the body, of having to review the life we just lived.
The best way to clean your system is to use sound. Simply choose any holy name you like, and keep repeating it.
What is needed most is for the person to be allowed to express their fears and feelings and to have those fears and feelings received by another—simply received.
All the wars are in the human mind. A little peace can change the mind, and it doesn’t take that much time. The mind is like that. Hatred is just in the mind. A little switching over this way means we fall in love
It is translated as surrender to the Supreme Being, but I feel it can be understood also as surrender to the Truth.
Surrender here means surrender to the higher will. It’s not that you give up. You give it to God. “God, I tried my best. I couldn’t do it anymore. I give it to You.