Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

In pain you can be more meditative than in pleasure.”

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally.

I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a world which is one, a humanity which is one, a humanity which shares everything -- outer and inner -- a deep spiritual brotherhood.

I am not interested at all to convert anybody to my ideology - I don't have any.