Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.
When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.
I do hot yoga. I try to keep one hour a day where I have space to reflect and meditate and take care of me and what is going on inside. This way, I can be a better person to be around.
I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga.
I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.
India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.
I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.
Saintly people not only are responsible for themselves, but for everyone.
Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.
Truth is one, single, and it can never be misinterpreted. To know the truth it is essential that whatever human awareness we have got, it has to be expanded. There is something still lacking in that awareness by which we cannot know God, we cannot know the truth.
The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.
Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.
We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.
As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must be connected to God individually so that you all are connected among yourselves. I have been saying this again and again and again because at the Sahasrara you are being blessed with this collective spirit.
And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.
So in Sahasrara, you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened. If you can understand that, then you will understand what is the use of having ego because you have such a lot of powers within you, which you have not utilized. We should use, but because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage and you can do a lot.
If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.
You have to establish your love. You should feel a hankering for others. Now the competition has to change, the style of competition among Sahaja Yogis. The competition should be how much you love. Who loves more ? Let there be a competition who obliges more, who shares more ? Who loves others more ?
Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.
The wisdom is your glory. By wisdom you will be fair to yourself and fair to others.
And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through inner transformation. This has to be the last breakthrough of our evolution, which is a living process.
The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.
What is important is that you should know reality. You should know exactly what is right and what is wrong. For that, as I told you, there is this great power of Kundalini within you. She's the one, she passes through all these centres, enlightens them first of all - so your awareness gets enlightened - and when she pierces through Sahasrara, she joins you to this all-pervading power, which is knowledge, which is love, which is truth.
Without holiness you cannot talk of God.
