The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
A person whose mind is unattached to sensual pleasures, who discovers the joy of the Self, and whose mind is in union with Brahmn through meditation, enjoys eternal bliss.
Whenever there is a decline of righteousness, O Arjuna, and the rise of unrighteousness, then I manifest myself.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
Come behold this world, which is like unto an ornamented royal chariot, wherein fools flounder, but for the wise there is no attachment.