Our Quotes of the Day:
If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the expressions of her culture. In fact, they have grown out of her inborn spiritual tendency of which her religion is a natural out flowering. The Indian mind has always realized that the Supreme is the Infinite and perceived that to the soul in Nature the Infinite must always present itself in an infinite variety of aspects.
This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
The best methods are those which help the life energy to resume its inner work of healing.
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
To serve a saint is sacred and brings great spiritual gain.
The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.
Death fosters life that life may suckle death.
You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.
Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.
A man is bound by karma (action) and freed by Knowledge; therefore the far-seeing sannyasins do not engage in karma.
Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.
