Our Quotes of the Day:
Your absence is the presence of godliness.
Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.
Adore God, abhor sin.
If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.
It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve—and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team.
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
All of you preach the message of Rupa Goswami and Raghunatha Dasa Goswami with great enthusiasm. Our supreme desire is to become the dust at the lotus feet of the followers of Sri Rupa Goswami.
Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.
Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
An absolute pure soul carries with it a great redemptive spiritual and moral power.
Even though the gopis had obeyed, they still had much doubt. How did the river part if what they were saying was not the truth? Indeed, the answer is that it was all a matter of “doership.” If your mind says, “I have done it,” you must receive the result of your action. But remember, it is crucial to understand that “doership” comes from the inside, not by saying it with the mouth. If one has the state of knowledge that all work is being done by the body and the senses, one is free from the consequences.
Water the root to enjoy the fruit.
Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.
Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.
What you are seeking is also seeking you.
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.
