Our Quotes of the Day:

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Better than a long speech is a single word that brings peace.

Time is a flow. There is a proverb: 'Time and tide wait for no one.' One who respects time becomes respected and honored in the course of time. Wasting time is wasting life.

The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i.e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things.

Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

Life is one indivisible whole.

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Bhagavan said that we should apply these same tactics to the mind. How to go about doing this? Seal off the entrances and exits to the mind by not reacting to rising thoughts or sense impressions. Don't let new ideas, judgements, likes, dislikes, etc. enter the mind, and don't let rising thoughts flourish and escape your attention.

All things in moderation, including moderation.

If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don't act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.

We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

Inspire all to do sadhana.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Opportunities are always there for us to grow, opportunities are always there for us to come closer to each other & come closer to God – if we just look for them.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart.

May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.