Our Quotes of the Day:

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Develop divine love. Divine love is completely selfless.

Breath is a barometer to measure one’s inner state. When you observe that your breath is serene, deep, and without any unnecessary pause, you will experience a sense of great comfort and joy.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.

Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance?

When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was God's wish.

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Advaita Vedanta makes a clear distinction between mind and consciousness on the basis that mind is something that appears to consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is just that which illumines all objects … First-person experience is what consciousness does … From Advaita’s perspective, the definition of experience is ‘consciousness plus object.'

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

We are sons of God And must be even as he.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.