From ‘A Disciple's Journal. In the Company of Swami Ashokananda’ by Sister Gargi (Marie Louise Burke)

Swami: …………..Never eat in restaurants, unless you can’t help it. If you want to keep your mind subtle and sensitive, you should eat at home. There are two kinds of people whom food in restaurants won’t hurt: those who are worldly, whose minds are gross to begin with, and those who have realized that all is Brahman – nothing can affect them…………………If you had psychic perception, you would see that food touched by an impure person changes color. It poisons your whole system; your mind becomes clouded



Swami: …………..You must learn to regulate your life. Keep regular hours. That is very important. It doesn’t matter if the work you do is good or bad, but do it regularly……..A regular life, building up of good habits, is the foundation of spirituality.



Swami: …………..They say there are one hundred nerves that converge upon the heart. One of these nerves leads to Brahman. One must find that nerve and travel along it…….A friend of mine……..told me that every time he sat for meditation, his mind would at once go deep, within thirty seconds. It was as though he were entering a tunnel of light…….He would travel along that tunnel that led to Brahman. You must find that tunnel, that nerve. One cannot force the experience; it just happens.