- Asanas and Pranayama
Asanas and pranayama are aids, like spectacles are an aid for sight.
If you have no eyes, not even the most powerful spectacles will enable you to see.
If the heart is not pure, what will prapayama do?
- One-pointedness
We should have one-pointedness of mind, pouring all our energy into what is being done now.
Our minds should not become diversified, trying to put our attention on half a dozen things at the same time and doing nothing properly.
If you are really interested in what you are doing, your whole attention will be on the present moment, until
that action has been completed.
- Guru
Guru is the ladder and the roof. If you ignore the ladder - you won't get to the roof. When you get to the roof, you will Him there already!
- Meditation
Through meditation I discover that it is some ego-sense that entertains hopes - and it is these hopes that suffer distress, it is these hopes that suffer frustration. When these connections are seen, I realise that "I" am not there at all, that "I" have nothing to do with these. That realisation is both peace and supreme happiness.
- Socrates
Socrates believed that nothing bad can come to a good man.