These are elderly people and the savings really means a lot to them. They are very happy and relieved that they can save money.

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

There’s not much fresh capacity addition happening and demand has always grown 1.3 times the real gross domestic product. So prices should remain firm or go up.

My mother, for example, made a list of 50 items which she could eat in her life, and she would not eat anything outside that list.

I was a restless child. I did not go to school. My mother used to go to the monks of the Jain religion, and I would go with her.

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer...

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

Within the moment of now, there is presence of ever there, As It is;, Invisible; Nothingness; of Still and silent awareness; in substratum; witnessing itself which U in real R…It has nothing to do with...

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

So it is with the mind, Nandini. Allow it to be in balance. Avoid extremes: the middle way is better. Neither force the mind too hard into concentration nor let it wander aimlessly. Meditation is...

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

That was my real education in the world – I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

Remaining aware of awareness, witnessing it thru every experience within without one, is the way and the goal both…Be Happy and keep smiling…

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

They have only handwritten manuscripts, because you can write very small and then you can carry the most basic manuscripts with you.

Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come...

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others...

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart,...

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.