Shailendra Gulhati > Quotes

“I ask you to accept the things you cannot change, only so you may grow to the point when you can change the things you cannot accept. Consider this”, said the Yogi, “what cannot be cured, must be endured, but then what can’t be endured must one day be cured. Be a boulder of endurance. Be a stonecutter of grit, to cure. Be both.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“At the personal level, the destruction of illusions, makes the meditator enlightened. This is the opening of Gyan Chakshu, this is the whole path of the yogis. The gaze of the discriminating mind destroys wrong previous concepts and illusions. Whatever scriptures such a man reads, he interprets rightly, whatever situation he encounters, he understands. The mind of spiritual discrimination destroys falsehood and delusion.
At the transpersonal or cosmic level, I am a paradox however. My capability is to destroy the whole cosmic play. But, if I use only half my power, to destroy the destructive processes themselves, verily, I become the course for expansion. So using half your power doubles your strength. It also takes double your strength to use half your power.”
― Shailendra Gulhati

“Self-realisation, could not just mean realisation of the Self, it must have something to do with the utilization of the Self so realised.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“wears a snake around His”
― Shailendra Gulhati, SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller

“In physics, thought the snake, even the electron has a dual character. Sometimes appearing as a particle, at other times as a wave. The great Swami Vivekananda wittily called it “wavicle”, he remembered.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“After the whole universe is directed by Shiva tattva, there is the entry of the director into His own play, as one of many actors in the act.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller

“Crucify Jesus! This was man’s judgment upon Christ. Give man another chance. This was Christ’s judgment upon man”.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“Scores of ants, following one another in routine aimlessness. One lonely ant, lost on a mosaic floor, purposefully.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“Does God aspire?” asked the snake. “I had asked you to meditate upon this”, said the Yogi. “They say God cannot desire. This calls for a high spiritual understanding. If God does not desire, there is no need for creation, life, and God itself. The God of no desire can only rest in a void, in the primordial state, why should He go for the dynamics of creation? The God of no desire would thus be a neutralized force. Such a state of God can last for longer than the age of the Universe itself”, the Yogi was becoming very still. “Then, there is a stir! and the God of desire begins to”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“I met a man of Zen once”, said the snake, “and he gave a koan “Coal is black says the Englishman. I protest; coal is not black.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake