Our Quotes of the Day:
Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.
Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.
Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you enjoy or suffer - it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness.
Paravastha is the state of the real “I.” Beyond all pleasure and pain, it is the state of supreme bliss.
If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. — Matthew 12:50
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One.
Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.
Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.
The present moment is all you ever have.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Perfect love means putting up with other people's shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
Sit in meditation! But do not think! Look only at your mind! You will see thoughts coming into it! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
