Follow your cultural and religious customs in your own home, but do not attempt to impose them on society. Rather than this, love each person as your own brother or sister, not seeing him or her as belonging to another creed, religion, or country.
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No attention is paid to the blame or praise that others may give. It does not seek the admiration or the appreciation of the listeners.Ã?Â
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Be like the lions in the spiritual field, rule over the forest of the senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.
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Each man carries his destiny in his own hands.
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The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the Five Fundamental Elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space) were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning. If any person or thing has one of the three character-traits (balanced, passionate, dull) predominant in the makeup, we denote him as having that trait.
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Your progress is reflected back as Grace, your decline is reflected back as its absence. The mirror just reflects. It has no partiality or prejudice.
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People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.
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The same person has come to Me seeking success at the examination, then a job, then a father-in-law, then a child, then a rise in the salary, a transfer in a cheaper place and a seat in the Medical College for his son - a never ending series of wants, until at last he comes seeking My Grace for an end to worldly pursuits and for initiation into the path of spirituality.
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Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. Desire is the sole cause of sorrow and distress.
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Being bound to the world with attachment to worldly objects is negative approach.
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Death is but another stage of life. However long one suffers from illness or however severe the injury, death can happen only when Time signals the right moment.
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Anger is the harvest of the bewitching mind; it enslaves man and fogs his understanding.
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However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.
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It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.
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If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.
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It is difficult indeed to understand the ego in its depth and devious ways. It is an inert entity, that is to say, it cannot know itself not can it know others; It has no fear; it will not bend before others; it degrades man from the golden glory, which is his due, to the level of lowly dust.
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YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.
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He has created duties only to foster the consciousness of all living beings. He has no activity and no obligation. He brings about the result for every activity. Without Him, no activity can yield result! He decides which result should accrue from which act.
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They found that the Vedas contain the secrets of all the arts which confer progress on man.
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A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.
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Interview, Don't clamor for an interview. Instead search for the INNER VIEW.
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Sorrows and disasters are like the clouds that flit across the sky; they cannot injure the blue depths of space. Your duty is just to strive on from this very moment. Do not vacillate or postpone. Who knows when death knocks ? May be, he may knock this very night, this very moment; therefore, do not delay. Do you postpone for tomorrow the dinner of this day ! Feed the spirit as scrupulously as you now feed the body.
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A nation that has no bridle on its sensuality, can never thrive our survive.
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Be in the world like a maid servant in a rich man's house. The maid servant deals with all the objects and things always knowing that nothing belongs to her and that this is not her true home.
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Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love.
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Always try to put yourself in the position of the other and judge your action against the background. Then you will not be wrong.
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A bubble is on water and merges in water. Man is born in God and merges in God.
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Earning money cannot be the purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education.
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Everyone seeks to know what good he can derive from other individuals or from society.
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Faith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.
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