Our Quotes of the Day:
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
Work for this world as if you will live forever and work for the hereafter as if you will die tomorrow.
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.
Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
He who knows this Brahman, hidden in the cave of the heart, cuts asunder even here the knot of ignorance.
When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.
I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.
The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflections of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit.
Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
Beauty is a gift of God.
A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware of all that is. In this choicelessness you will be in the middle. The moment you choose, you choose some extreme. The moment you choose, you choose against something; otherwise there is no question of choice. Being in a choiceless awareness is another meaning of being in the middle.
Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.
