Top 14 Quotes by Satish Kumar

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.