Our Quotes of the Day:
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all in manifold forms of him. There is no other God to seek for! He alone is worshipping God, who serves all beings!
Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.
Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
Your mind is the natural environment for spiritual progress.
I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
By reflection, reasoning and instructions of teachers, the truth is known. Not by ablutions, not by making donations, nor by performing hundreds of breath control exercises.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.
A man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something.
If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj
When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more? They would say: Hast Thou not brightened our faces? Hast Thou not made us enter Paradise and saved us from Fire? He would lift the veil, and of things given to them nothing would be dearer to them than the sight of their Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious.
Our own life has to be our message.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
There are countless asanas and mudras. Yet the ancient teachers have given predominance to only ten. They are: mulabandha, uddiyanabandha, jalandharbandha, mahamudra, mahavedha, mahabandha, viparitakarani, vajroli, shakticalana and khechari. These ten mudras are the immortal experiences of kriya yoga. A true yogi will certainly realize them through proper yoga sadhana.
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world.
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
