Our Quotes of the Day:
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.
Work is worship.
Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.
There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.
Truth is not private property.
The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
Silence does good to the soul.
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
My message, my key, my golden key to transform your energies, is creativity. Be more and more creative, and slowly slowly you will see a transformation happening of its own accord. Your mind will disappear, your body will have a totally different feel to it, and constantly you will remain aware that you are separate, that you are a pure witness.
The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits.
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Children, set aside at least half an hour in the morning and in the evening for spiritual practices. After bathing in the morning, a family should sit together and worship. Archana may be performed by chanting the 108 or 1000 Names of Devi or our chosen deity. We can also chant our mantra, meditate or sing hymns at this time.
There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.
Swamiji, please come forward. He said, Sir, I want to ask you a question privately. So I asked the others present to please wait outside. He said, I want to know the secret of your success. I said, I am not aware that I am successful. In what way do you think I am successful? He said, Without asking for money, you get money. This cottage is at your disposal. Drivers come for you. Many people come and sit with you. Why? I replied, You know, when I wanted such things, they never came to me. But the day I determined I didn’t want them, I began getting them.
Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
Women are higher than yogis if they are loyal to their husbands.
