Our Quotes of the Day:
The ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel.
God is constantly abiding within. Search for Him.
Self-analysis and self-observation are the keys to progress on the spiritual path. If you do not practice self-observation your decisions will not be the right ones, your conclusions will not be true. You cannot come to accurate self-observation and analysis immediately. It is a gradual process. Peace of mind, complete honesty, and objectivity are essential. When you are able to observe everything that happens in your life with keen awareness and draw inspiration from each action, then you will really be able to grow.
If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to the consciousness of the mortal form again. By this process, he experiences the body as merely the material dwelling place of the soul. He can remain therein as long as he wants; and after that body has fulfilled its usefulness, he can quit it at will without suffering physical pain or mental pain due to attachment, and enter his omnipresent home in God.
She is more Mother than Queen.
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us.
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.
In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.
A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.
The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
The moment we use the term 'help', a kind of egocentric idea enters into us. If we help someone, that means we are in a superior position. When we help, we feel that we are one step ahead or one step higher than the ones that we are helping. But if we serve someone, then we offer our capacity with humility, on the strength of our loving concern and oneness. So let us use the proper term, 'service'.
Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.
Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.
The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
