Our Quotes of the Day:

Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

We should never display any kind of aversion towards sankirtana-yajna which is perfect sacrifice, complete with the seven forms of sacrifice. If we have gradually increasing love for that, then everything will be accomplished and we will attain ultimate perfection. Just preach the words of Rupa and Raghunatha with enthusiasm and courage, with complete dedication to the followers of Sri Rupa.

Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.

The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end.

It's not life that matters, it's the courage you bring to it.

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

Saints and birds don't collect. Saints give away what they have.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

The final Reality is silence.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

Those who don’t want to change, let them sleep.