True intimacy is one-sided and non-judgmental. It starts from inside. The test for truth is to kick it. What is true will come back to you. If it comes back to you, it is yours. What goes away with a kick was never yours.

Have you observed that all great religious movements sprang only from meditation and contemplation? All the great spiritual masters used to meditate, have revelations and from there originated the spiritual teachings.

The word chaitanya means "living force," carita means "character," and amrta means "immortal." As living entities we can move, but a table cannot because it does not possess living force. Movement and activity may be considered signs or symptoms of the living force.

An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.

Kindness is very good. There is, how-ever, a great difference between daya (kindness) and maya. Kindness is good, maya is not good. Maya is love for one's own near and dear ones wife, son, brother, sister, brother's son, sister's son, father and mother love for these.

I am tempted to repeat a story about a great disciple going to God and demanding to be taught truth. This poor God says, "My friend, it is such a hot day, please get me a glass of water." So the disciple goes out and knocks on the door of the first house he comes to and a beautiful young lady opens the door.

Karma is the accumulated impression of past activity, either of thought, emotion or physical action. The quality of the karma that you gather is not necessarily in terms of action alone; it is also in terms of the volition with which action is performed.

You do not learn anything without effort on your part. Experience does not teach unless you actively learn from it. People often say that experience teaches. I wish it did. People are what they are, not for want of experiences. There is experience enough in everyone's life.

Ravidas (Raidas) was born in the village of Sear Goverdhanpur, close to the holy city of Kashi or Varanasi, in the cobbler community. From early childhood, Ravidas developed spiritual tendencies while attending to his family vocation of repairing shoes.

Gandhi and Ranade would make strange bedfellows. Prof Dr RD Ranade, a former Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad University, was a philosopher and a mystic who often lost consciousness of his surroundings, both in time and space. Gandhi was a man of action who spent each minute of his life in the service of fellow human beings.