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lady from the first batch of healers asked, "Why do animals and plants get healed comparatively quicker than humans?"

Paramahamsa replies, "Because they don't resist."

She counters, "But we also don't resist!"

Paramahamsa says, "You resist not knowing that you resist. That is the play of your mind. They don't have a mind to stop my energy."

A man told Master, "I once read a quote that said: you cannot step into the same river twice."

Paramahamsa replies, "Wrong. According to me, you cannot even step into the same river once. By the time you step in and your feet touches the river bed, the water has already flowed, the river has already changed!"

A man asked Master to pass a comment on Vivekananda's statement: Give me 100 intelligent, brave youngsters. I will change the world and show you.

Paramahamsa said, "During that time, Vivekananda wanted 100 youngsters. I tell you now: if I get just 10 intelligent and courageous youngsters, I can change the whole world!"

A college student said, "I am not able to let go of my worries. I don't know what to do."

Paramahamsa told her, "If you stop worrying about your worries, your worries will no longer worry you!"

A seeker was complaining to Master, "I am not able to progress spiritually. Please instruct me on what to do."

Paramahamsa told him, "The basic condition for spiritual progress is to know very clearly that you don't know."

Aman asked, "What is the difference between happiness and bliss?"

Paramahamsa replied, "Happiness is relative but bliss is absolute. There is no duality in bliss."

Pooja: Are thoughts a part of the mind or are they an expression of the mind?

Paramahamsa: Neither.

Pooja: Then what are they?

Paramahamsa: Your thoughts and your mind are one and the same. Mind is Thought and Thought is Mind.

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A meditator asked, "How can I experience inner silence? Do I need to decrease my thoughts?"

Paramahamsa said, "The thought that you have to stop thinking is just another thought which is keeping you from that silence!"

A woman's whole belief system about herself and her life was completely shaken by Paramahamsa's powerful discourse.

She wanted to solidify her old ideology before leaving and asked in the question/answer session, "Are you really enlightened, or are you an extraordinary businessman?"

Paramahamsa replied, "Yes! I am an extraordinary businessman. I give bliss, which no other businessman can give. The price which I ask from you is your dhukka, your worries which no other businessman will and can take."

A brahmacharini was in a deep struggle with the ashram structure.

Paramahamsa patiently looked at her and said, "Ma...there are only two types of mental setup. One... whatever happens around you, you find a negative side and fall into depression. Two... whatever happens around you, you find a positive side and be blissful always. The choice is yours. Choose one and enjoy it!"

At this, one of the brahmacharis laughed indifferently.

Paramahamsa told him, "Fool! Why do you laugh? I am a Paramahamsa (blissful no matter what), you are a Parama Himsa (sorrowful no matter what)!"

Now this brahmachari asks, "What do you mean by this, Master?"

Paramahamsa replied, "Even with you I am blissful. Even with me you are depressed! Change your mental setup. Then you can laugh."

O ne lady was complaining to Master about her dishonest husband.

Paramahamsa told her, "You never believe that others speak the truth because you never speak the truth."

A man was telling Master about how his relationships were getting better after attending some of the meditation camps.

Paramahamsa told him, "If I ask you who your good friend is, you will remember many names, But you won't remember your own."

While starting to comment on the Bhagavad Gita,

Paramahamsa said, "I am not here to comment on the Bhagavad Gita. I am here to repeat it. You are the Arjunas who did not hear properly the first time!"

Soon after coming to the ashram, an ashramite asked, "Why do I struggle even after coming here?"

Paramahamsa quoted from the Vedas... "Give your life to the Master and your respect to society. You are doing the opposite. That is why you struggle."

A lady devotee who had been with Master for a long time told him, "All my beliefs are getting strengthened after I met you! I find so much confidence because of that.."

Paramahamsa told her, "I am not here to support your unconscious. I am here to shake your very being!"

Nischay: I don't do meditation.

Paramahamsa: Why not?

Nischay: Because you said in your discourse on Quantum Enlightenment that no intelligent person can do the same meditation for more that 21 days.

Paramahamsa: Are you intelligent?

Swaroopananda: Today when you walked into the hall, I felt Shiva's presence.

Paramahamsa: The divine works in many ways. Even you can be a presence.

Swaroopananda: How can I achieve that state?

Paramahamsa: Just be in the present moment. When you are in the present, you become a presence.

A devotee once asked, "If you are a sannyasi, how then do you allow ladies to be around you?"

Paramahamsa replied, "I have faith in them. They have faith in me. What is your problem?"

Dayananda: For meditation to be effective, isn't your presence needed?

Paramahamsa: No, it is not needed.

Dayananda: Then how...

Paramahamsa: For meditation to happen, only your presence is needed.

A Catholic asked, “Are you the Saviour?”

Paramahamsa replied, “I am not here to save you, I am here to shake you!”

A bby: Master, what is depression?

Paramahamsa: The depression that you feel is actually the call of your being.

Abby: What is the cause of it?

Paramahamsa: When you are at dis-ease with your own being, it is depression. It is expressed physically as disease, and mentally as depression.

A lecturer asked a question after Master's discourse, "Will my headache go away just by doing your meditation?"

Paramahamsa answers, "As long as you have a head you will have a headache. Your headache is due to your head weight! Relax yourself from the head. Once the head weight is gone, your question itself will be gone."

A man asked, “Will attentiveness bring success?”

Paramahamsa replied, "When you are in attention, you are at tension. Just be aware. That is enough.”

A workingman said, “Master, I wanted to come to your Life Bliss Program but I had to go to work.”

Paramahamsa says, “You sell 30 days to get 1 salary day. You sell your brain to get certificates. You sell your life and get depression. I say to you: sell your depression for meditation to get bliss.

A college girl once asked, "Did you become a sannyasi because of failure in love?"

Paramahamsa replied, "No, I became a sannyasi because of my success in love! Failure in love creates a Devdas. Success in love creates a sannyasi."

The girl continued, "Success in love with whom?"

He smiled and replied, "With me!"

There was a lady devotee in a public meeting who thought of herself as very great, beautiful and so on.

Paramahamsa said to her, "Ma, you are so unique!"

Her face brightened.

After a pause, Paramahamsa said, "Like everybody else ma..."

Her face dulled.

In the same meeting, a few seconds later, a boy who thought of himself as very spiritual asked, "Am I also unique?"

Paramahamsa asked, "Unique or Eunuch?"

The boy put his head down and giggled. His growth for that moment had happened!

Just before delivering a discourse in a Catholic church, in a discussion with the priest,

Paramahamsa said, "If Krishna and Christ meet, they will hug each other, but Krishna's cows and Christ's goats Will constantly fight each other!"

Sreedhar: Are you my Guru?

Paramahamsa: That depends on you.

Sreedhar: Then should I remember you when I meditate?

Paramahamsa: Forget about remembering me... if I am your Guru, you will not be able to forget me!

A lady asked, "So what are we supposed to do after enlightenment?"

Paramahamsa replied, "Please understand... Enlightenment is the ultimate but not the final. Don't think that you are going to do something new. You will do whatever you were doing earlier, but in a different dimension altogether!"