Our Quotes of the Day:
Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.
Two things are required to achieve Krishna’s mercy: the intervention of a devotee and our own sincerity.
Most carnivorous animals do not eat every day—definitely not three times a day! They know the food they eat moves very slowly through their tracts.
If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.
If one does everything with the attitude of seva (service), one will enjoy real peace.
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.
If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.
Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say.
There is only one caste, the caste of humanity.
In every moment you only have one real choice: to be aware of the Self or to identify with the body and the mind.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage. It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.
Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone’s heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar (Has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman (Supreme transcendental Consciousness) that is all pervading. Believe in this. This is Rudra Puja
God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.
What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.
Every moment of your life, you perform an action – physically, mentally, emotionally, and energy-wise. Each action creates a certain memory.” ‘That is Karma.’
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
