The Yoga of Max's Discontent Quotes

“I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“All mountain people are like that. No matter where you go, the mountains call you back.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“The whole world’s problems are caused by man’s inability to sit quietly by himself in a room.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“I see the faces that stop by my cart here. Their smiles are hollow, their eyes are hungry. The yogi's faces are different. Silent, complete. Like the mountains around them. Asking no questions, seeking no answers, just certain, as though they knew exactly who they were.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“man’s soul cries for the infinite in a finite world. That’s why nothing ever satisfies us.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“Breathing attentively is yoga. Complete absorption in your work is yoga. Thinking about others instead of yourself is yoga. Anything which makes you forget your small self and become one with the infinite is yoga.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“Yoga stilled the fluctuations of the individual mind’s helpless thought waves, allowing it to see the one unchanging energy, the unborn, un-aging, un-ailing, sorrow-less and deathless state within”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“They’ve just realized sooner than all of us that man’s soul cries for the infinite in a finite world. That’s why nothing ever satisfies us.” Omkara”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“His actions were neither good nor bad. They were like those of the rhododendron and the pine trees on the mountains that were his home, which flowered without thinking, then withered away without clinging, helpless to act as they were.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“The way out of the cycle was to sublimate the I principle, relinquish all individual desire, to restrain the naturally outgoing mind fueled by the senses and turn it inward. Once it focused within, the mind saw its real nature of pure consciousness and rejected the individual desires and thoughts surrounding it.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“It’s strange to see someone die. One moment they are breathing and moving, and the next moment their bodies are heavy and solid, like stone. Their spirit is gone. It feels random, not like any kind of master plan.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“Thought is energy, desire is energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form. So our thoughts and desires just find a new physical body when this one wastes away.” He”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“there is just one energy in the universe. Everything, everyone are just forms of it. When you get enlightened, you see that oneness everywhere, in everything. You realize that a human body, any body for that matter, is just a temporary vessel for that energy to express itself so the body’s birth or death is inconsequential.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“there is birth, age, suffering, sorrow, and death, then there must be something that is unborn, un-aging, un-ailing, sorrowless, and deathless—immortal, as it were. Max”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“The narrow need for comfort and companionship had to be burned in the fire of a broader, universal love”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“His old self that had sought happiness itself had dissolved, replaced by just a deep, expanding stillness that was completely empty yet strangely filled with life, energy, and bliss”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“Talking of past is like two birds sitting and knitting sweater. Fools’ daydreams. You think only of future,”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“He was breaking into pieces, falling, fluid, boundaryless, merging into Nani Maa, just one giant heart that felt her fear, her sadness, her goodness, her pride, her love, like his own.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“Even goodness shackled a person. Every concept bound. We all built houses on the sand, destined to fade away in dust.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“The instinctual desire to separate and hold on to individual identities was the root of suffering”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“So if there is birth, age, suffering, sorrow and death, then there must be something that is unborn, un-aging, un-ailing, sorrow-less and deathless, immortal as it were.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“All were made of the same substratum, each linked by the same vibrating, intelligent energy, separated by their sense of I”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“The energy fluctuated, helpless with its desire to experience itself, and out of the hundreds of possible outcomes, the universe we live in came to be”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“Liberate yourself from narrow individual bonds. See oneness everywhere.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“The sound that emerged in his spine was Om, the root in every sound, the word that had vibrated in the act of creation.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“If he wanted to become the universal, he had to transcend this narrow love, these binding attachments that fed one’s sense of self.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“All these ups and downs are just small waves in the yoga of your discontent.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“At its peak, man realizes that his mind is always vaguely discontented and is crying for something beyond the world of people, objects, and achievements. Only then begins the journey of involution, of seeking completion within.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“He wasn’t craving happiness. He was seeking something quite different … completeness”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent

“Lose identification with your thoughts, desires, the whole sense of I, and become the One”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent