Rama Quotes

The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.

Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.

To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.

Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.

Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding!

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting.

I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .

La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

Devotion differs. Devotion exists for the total existence, without the counterpart, mm? There is nothing against devotion. There is hate against love; there is nothing against devotion. No-devotion is not against devotion, it is just absence. So when someone says, "I am devoted to Rama," really he is using a wrong word. If he loves Rama, then he cannot love Krishna. If someone says, "I am devoted to Krishna," then he cannot love Christ. He is using a wrong word. He is continuing the love phenomenon; it is not devotion.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems.

I found light in the darkness ... or it found me.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.

The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.

They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.

I do have a staff of what some people would consider to be very attractive, chic women. They are not on the staff because they are attractive and chic but because they care about the welfare of others.

In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.

I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.

I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.

I'm only here for a while, so I'd like to do what I can.

Their whole life will begin to shift, from their first physical contact with you.

School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.

When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.

I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure.

I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems.

Whenever I work with anyone, it is an opportunity for them to become more professional and do something for someone else.

To see them succeed, to see them improve, that is what matters.

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people.

You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.