Our Quotes of the Day:
There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.
Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.
When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion.
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.
The Lord’s grace is a river that washes away the stains of worldly desires.
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.
What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
Pray sincerely from within, “O kind and compassionate Guru, please take me to the other shore.” There is nothing to fear.
Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.
Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind.
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.
Authority is no source for Truth.
He who slings mud loses ground.
The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it.
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
True change happens within not without.
There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination.
