Our Quotes of the Day:
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Temples are but piles of stones. Attachment holds you back.
Leading a God-centered life is simple and sublime, but because of our complicated minds, our tendency is to look for something more difficult because we feel that if it’s so easy, it must not work.
When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues
There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear.
As you may gather, love is my most favorite principle, and dedication is the core of love. Whoever commits himself to developing just one genuine life-building principle receives the benefit of the rest.
Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.
God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One - One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him.
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Having practiced Kriya, one should hold onto the After-effect-poise of Kriya.
Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life.
Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.
Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of the mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.
