The Yogi And The Snake Quotes

“I ask you to accept the things you cannot change, only so you may grow to the point when you can change the things you cannot accept. Consider this”, said the Yogi, “what cannot be cured, must be endured, but then what can’t be endured must one day be cured. Be a boulder of endurance. Be a stonecutter of grit, to cure. Be both.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“Self-realisation, could not just mean realisation of the Self, it must have something to do with the utilization of the Self so realised.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“Crucify Jesus! This was man’s judgment upon Christ. Give man another chance. This was Christ’s judgment upon man”.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“In physics, thought the snake, even the electron has a dual character. Sometimes appearing as a particle, at other times as a wave. The great Swami Vivekananda wittily called it “wavicle”, he remembered.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“I met a man of Zen once”, said the snake, “and he gave a koan “Coal is black says the Englishman. I protest; coal is not black.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“Scores of ants, following one another in routine aimlessness. One lonely ant, lost on a mosaic floor, purposefully.”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake

“Does God aspire?” asked the snake. “I had asked you to meditate upon this”, said the Yogi. “They say God cannot desire. This calls for a high spiritual understanding. If God does not desire, there is no need for creation, life, and God itself. The God of no desire can only rest in a void, in the primordial state, why should He go for the dynamics of creation? The God of no desire would thus be a neutralized force. Such a state of God can last for longer than the age of the Universe itself”, the Yogi was becoming very still. “Then, there is a stir! and the God of desire begins to”
― Shailendra Gulhati, The Yogi And The Snake