Home > Author > Prabhavananda >

" If, at any given moment, we could take twenty human minds and inspect their workings, we should probably find one, or at most two, which were functioning rationally. The remaining eighteen or nineteen minds would look more like this: "Ink-bottle. That time I saw Roosevelt. In love with the night mysterious. Reds veto Pact. Jimmy's trying to get my job. Mary says I'm fat. Big toe hurts. Soup good...." etc., etc. Because we do nothing to control this reverie, it is largely conditioned by external circumstances. "

Prabhavananda , How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali


Image for Quotes

Prabhavananda quote : If, at any given moment, we could take twenty human minds and inspect their workings, we should probably find one, or at most two, which were functioning rationally. The remaining eighteen or nineteen minds would look more like this: