In terms of the quality of food entering you, vegetarian food is definitely far better for the system than non vegetarian.
Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.
Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.
In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.
A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.
If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or other places of worship - but also continue doing things that make them feel guilty.
When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.
When there is a choice, it is best to eat live vegetarian food. 'Live' means in its uncooked condition, because a live cell has everything in itself to sustain life. The idea is to take life into you. When we cook food, it destroys the life in it.
Yoga is not a belief system - it is not a new religion, philosophy or a teaching but a technology. I call it a technology because you don't have to believe it; you just have to learn to use it. It does not matter what your religion is, what your colour is, what your race is, or where you come from. If you learn to use yoga, it works for you.
Yoga is not Indian; it does not belong to India.
If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.
Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.
Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.
If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone's compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.
Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.
There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.
There is no good leader. First of all, if you think you are a leader, you are just messed up in your head. People should think you are a leader. If you think you are a big success, again, you are messed up. Other people should think you are a success.
If you don't take yourself seriously, you will die joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a lot of misery.
I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.
