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Paramahamsa: Bhaktananda! Have you finished with the accounts that we were discussing yesterday?

Bhaktananda: I will finish it tonight.

Paramahamsa: What happened to the editing of the book that you received last week?

Bhaktananda: I am halfway through it.

Paramahamsa: I want the book to be at least 400 pages. Write down... I want you to put 4 to 5 people on the job and get 10 books ready. Come up with titles like Bliss Breeze, Stand up! and so on...

Bhaktananda: When should they be ready?

Paramahamsa: Yesterday!

A devotee saw that Paramahamsa would do the same mundane things as himself everyday. He would eat, drink, take a bath and so on, just like him.

With his own assumptions he asked, "Master, is the difference between you and me?"

Paramahamsa replied, "Nothing... Nothing is the difference between you and me. You are something; I am Nothing. You are something because you have something called ego. But I have nothing. That is the difference."

Paramahamsa at an informal discourse: Enlightenment is the ultimate...

Nithya Gnana: What happens in enlightenment?

Paramahamsa: Man dies.

Nithya Gnana (shocked): But you are alive!

Paramahamsa: In enlightenment, man dies and God is born.

Vignesh, after hearing Paramahamsa's Bhagavad Gita discourses:

Vignesh: Are you here to prove that you are God?

Paramahamsa: No, I am not.

Vignesh: Then what is the purpose of your mission?

Paramahamsa: To prove that you are God.

Judy: Teach me how to know the Self. I asked many different people this, but I still don't think I have got a convincing reply.

Paramahamsa: If you know that you don't know, at least you know that you don't know. If you don't know that you don't know, you don't even know that you don't know! Now, you know that you don't know, that is enough! You will come to know.

Vishal (a teenager): How does one completely satisfy a girl, Swami?

Paramahamsa: If I knew the answer, why would I become a sannyasi?!

Vishal, laughing: Tell me please...!

Paramahamsa: Satisfying the partner fully is not possible because the mind as such cannot be satisfied fully.

Paramahamsa at the end of a satsang: Satsangs will be held every month. It would do you good to attend them.

Nirmalananda: Why do we hold satsangs?

Paramahamsa: To answer your questions and question your answers, until questions dissolve and only humble doubts remain!

A lady asked, "What is meditation?"

Paramahamsa replied, "Meditation is nothing but doing nothing and Being comfortable!"

Shiv: Who am I?

Paramahamsa: You are neither the body nor the mind...

Shiv: Then am I the spirit?

Paramahamsa: No, not even the spirit.

Shiv: Then?

Paramahamsa: You are the witness that witnesses the three. The awareness!

Rudrananda: How will we know when we are enlightened?

Paramahamsa: When this doubt is no more, you are enlightened.

Rudrananda: But how will we know?

Paramahamsa: Enlightenment is so clear... there will be no doubt!

A man asked, "How do we know that we have dropped our ego?"

Paramahamsa replied, "If you have this question, be sure that you have not dropped."

Sally (frustrated): Teach me how to be free from this cycle of birth and death.

Paramahamsa: Where did you hear this idea?

Sally: Everywhere... books, other ashrams.

Paramahamsa: Well, I say freedom from the idea of freedom is real freedom.

Nithya Meda watches while Master scolds a few ashramites.

Nithya Meda: Master, what is anger?

Paramahamsa: Anger is an energy.

Nithya Meda: But many people say it is negative.

Paramahamsa: Only if you don't know how to handle it.