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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.

My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.

I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

I can throw a great party, but I don't know how to go to one. I can throw a party because when you throw a party you just work all the time. But I could never go to a party because I wouldn't know what to do ... I'd immediately find the kitchen and start to serve food.

Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.

I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer.

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.

A part of them has grown very attached to a certain way of life.

I was very fortunate, and have always been, that the women I met and fell in love with were exceptional, from my first girlfriend to the woman I married when I was 21, to all the remarkable women I have known as either friends or lovers.

I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

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.