Our Quotes of the Day:
Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.
All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various forces resolve into that Prana, and the vibration of the Prana ceases. In that state it remains until the beginning of the next cycle. Prana then begins to vibrate, and that vibration acts upon the Akasha, and all these forms are thrown out in regular succession.
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.
Fools are more healthy than the so-called wise. They live in the moment and they know that they are fools, so they are not worried about what others think about them.
Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God.
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.
Illusions are bound to be shattered.
My religion is to live - and die - without regret.
Worth says little; wisdom says plenty.
Protect yourself... from your own thoughts.
Meet your own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.
The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.
Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.
It is impossible to understand what exists through reasoning or intellectual debates. Absolute truth cannot be scientifically proven because it cannot be observed, verified, or demonstrated through sensory perceptions. (...) This is why scientists cannot come to any objective conclusion about the immortality of the soul and the afterlife, and in any case, nothing could convince them. (...) The objective world is only half of the universe. What we perceive through our senses is not the world in its entirety. The other half, which includes the mind, thoughts, and emotions, cannot be explained by sensory perceptions of external objects. (...) The soul has not been created. It is essentially consciousness and is perfect. After the dissolution of the gross body, everything remains latent. The soul survives.
If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too
Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.
The thing that gives you power also traps you.
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.