SAI HUMOR
And Words
of Wisdom from Swami
Puttaparthi: When visiting
the ashram to see Baba, He tells us that if we
leave our ego's behind and come with open
hearts, He can fill them with love He has come
to give. So when visiting Puttaparthi we
should PUT APART THE I.
Properties: are not Proper
Ties.
Parents: are given that
name, because it is through them that we have
the wonderful chance of life on earth. For the
sacrifices that they have made for us, we must
PAY RENTS to them.
Peace: People clamor "I
want Peace", But they do not let go of I(ego)
or Want(desire). I and Want deal with the
outside world. Peace is inside, pieces are
outside.
Patience: Doctors need more
patience, not patients.
Interview: Don't clamor for
an interview. Instead search for the INNER
VIEW.
Diamond: Why do you seek a
diamond to give you joy? Seek instead the
state of DIE MIND, which will give you pure
and lasting joy.
Skill: Knowledge must
develop by balance into skill or else it
degenerates into KILL.
Hello: Do not greet anybody
when the heart is filled with anger distrust
etc. Have, instead, a pure hollow from which a
whole hearted Hello emanates.
Television: is TELE-VISHAM
(POISON).
Study: to be STEADY.
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Quotes from Swami
Love as Thought is Truth.
Love as Action is Right Conduct.
Love as Understanding is Peace.
Love as Feeling is Non-violence.
Start the Day with Love;
Spend the Day with Love;
Fill the Day with Love;
End the Day with Love;
This is the way to God.
I have come to light the
lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it
shines day by day with added luster.
Your heart must be
transparent, like glass, with spiritual light
within illuminating the whole world.
I shall be with you, where
ever you are, guarding you and guiding you.
March on, have no fear.
Duty is God; Work is
worship. Even the tiniest work is a flower
placed at the Feet of God.
Cultivate a nearness with
Me in the heart and it will be rewarded. Then
you too will acquire a fraction of that
Supreme Love.
Duty without love is
deplorable.
Duty with love is desirable.
Love without duty is Divine.
Peace can only be won the
hard way, by eliminating violence and greed
from the hearts of individual.
The secret of happiness is
not doing what one likes to do but in liking
what one has to do.
The end of wisdom is
freedom.
The end of culture is perfection.
The end of knowledge is love.
The end of education is character.
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First you must grapple with
the fact that duty is God and start doing your
duty.
I have come not to disturb
or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in
his own faith - so that Christian becomes a
better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim,
and the Hindu, a better Hindu.
Transmuting "man" into
"God" and experiencing that Ananda or Bliss is
the one and only achievement for which life is
to be devoted.
The minimum qualifications
for Grace is surrender of ego.
The treasure that is
precious is the quality of even mindedness in
all situations.
The joy of being the master
of senses is far greater than being their
slave.
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.
Sathya is what I teach;
Dharma is the way I live;
Shanti is the mark of My personality;
Prema is my very Nature.
Peace is shoreless ocean -
it is the light that illuminates the world.
Virtue is the sign of the
educated person. This is what makes education
worthwhile.
God can be felt and
experienced only in the deepest depths of
silence.
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Education must remove
hatred between the pilgrims on the various
roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal,
one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one
Reason.
To help the helpless is the
only way to please, follow and reach Him.
Mind, word and act; all
three must be filled with the belief that all
is His play; that is the genuine path.
You are in the Light, then
the Light is in you, You are the Light.
Desire is storm, greed is
whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is
avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and
you are liberated.
Devotion has to be
unintermittent, uninterrupted, like the flow
of oil from one vessel to another.
Human society minus God is
equal to a forest of brutes.
Bear all and do nothing;
Hear all and say nothing;
Give all and take nothing;
Serve all and be nothing.
Man minus immorality is
Immortality.
God is for those, who are
not for themselves.
So long as the sugar is on
the tongue, you feel the sweetness in taste.
Similarly, so long as the heart has love,
peace and devotion, you feel the bliss.
If you will not rise above
the things of the world, they will rise above
you.
Praying is your task; what
happens to the prayer is dependent on the
Grace of God.
Seek out your faults and
others' merits. Seeking others' faults is dire
sin.
Your duty is to pray for
the welfare of the world and to work for it as
far as it lies in your power.
Earning money cannot be the
purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities
can be the only purpose of education.
True devotion must not get
dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with
lesser gains; it must fight against failure,
loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against
egoism and pride, impatience and cowardice.
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Follow the Master;
Face the devil;
Fight to the end;
Finish the goal.
If animal feelings are
washed out, Divine feelings begin to overflow
instead.
A man who has no love in
him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture,
a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no
milk; he is ever far from God and can never
earn His Grace.
Life is a bridge over the
sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.
In the innermost recess of
your heart there is a reservoir of peace where
you must take refuge.
Employ yourself usefully.
Be like a trustee, holding on trust, on behalf
of God, for the purpose which He likes and
approves.
Hear good things, see good,
do good, think good, then you get the Grace of
God, as all the evil tendencies will be
uprooted.
All are expressions of the
same God, as bulbs lit by the same current
through manifold colors and wattage.
Have faith in His Grace and
lead a virtuos life, a life devoted to the
service of the weak; a life spent in the
thought about the might and glory of God.
The refinement of an
individual is measured by the yard stick of
sense control.
Prayer must emanate from
the heart, where God resides, and not from the
head where doctrines and doubts clash.
You have come from God, you
are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of
that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only
when you again merge in Him.
See God in every one you
meet; see God in every thing you handle. Live
together, revere each other, let not the seeds
of envy and hate grow and choke the clear
stream of Love.
Make your life a rose, that
speaks silently in the language of fragrance.
Be in the world, but let
not the world be in you.
Be like the lions in the
spiritual field, rule over the forest of the
senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in
victory.
The heart with compassion
is the temple of God.
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Start early, Drive slowly,
Reach safely.
Watch your Words, Action,
Thoughts, Character and Heart.
Education softens the
heart. If the heart is hard, one cannot claim
to be educated.
Faith in ourselves and
faith in God: this is the secret of Greatness,
for God is Love.
Good ideas, good conduct
and adherence to Truth should result from our
education. Only those who acquire these
qualities can be called truly educated.
Devotion to the Divine will
give you Bliss, Prosperity and Peace. It
cannot inflict pain, perturbation or personal
anxiety. It fosters love and brings all
together as one band of brothers.
Every action of yours at
the present time is bound to have a reaction,
resound and reflection in the future.
Reach the point where
churches, temples, mosques do not matter,
where all roads end, from where all roads run.
Doing one's duty, however
small, in an unattached manner gives rise to
the awakening of self awareness.
Bend the body, mend the
senses and end the mind - this is the way to
Immortality.
Why fear when I am here?
Put all your faith in Me. I shall guide you
and guard you.
Try within your means to
satisfy the needs of the poor.
If you place complete faith
in the Lord at all times, you will receive His
Grace. Grace takes away the pain of Karma. The
Lord can save man completely from Karma.
God has no preferences and
prejudices; His is but reaction, reflection
and resound.
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Where there is Faith, there
is Love;
Where there is Love, there is Peace;
Where there is Peace, there is Truth;
Where there is Truth, there is God;
Where there is God, there is Bliss.
Life is Love, enjoy it;
Life is Challenge, meet it;
Life is a Song, sing it;
Life is a Dream, realize it;
Life is a Game, play it;
Life is a Goal. achieve it.
Ego lives by getting and
forgetting;
Love lives by giving and forgiving;
Love is expansion; Self is contraction;
Self is lovelessness; Love is selflessness.
There is only one religion,
the religion of Love;
There is only one language, the language of
the Heart;
There is only one caste, the caste of
Humanity;
There is only one law, the law of Karma;
There is only one God, He is Omnipresent.
Haste makes waste;
Waste makes worry;
So do not be in a hurry.
You are not one person, but
three:
The one think you are;
The one others others think you are;
The one you really are.
Money comes and goes;
morality comes and grows.
Nations are many, but Earth
is one;
Beings are many, but Breath is one;
Stars are many, but Sky is one;
Oceans are many, but Water is one;
Religions are many, but God is one;
Jewels are many, but Gold is one;
Appearances are many, but Reality is One.
Come just one step forward,
I shall take a hundred towards you. Shed one
tear, I shall wipe a hundred from your eyes.
The proof of rain is in the
wetness of the ground; the proof of devotion
is in the peace the aspirant has attained.
Every experience is a
lesson, every loss is a gain.
You should completely
forget the help rendered by you to others and
the harm done to you by others.
If wealth is lost, nothing
is lost.
If health is lost, something is lost.
If character is lost, all is lost.
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The body has to be utilized
for service to others. More bliss can be got
from serving others than from merely serving
oneself.
You should consider every
individual as God. This is true worship.
You are not doing service
for others. You are doing it always for
yourselves, to the God in you, the God who is
equally present in others.
If it is good and will harm
no one, go ahead. If it is not good, put it
aside. If not sure, do nothing until sure.
What is needed today is
that we should lead a life of good quality.
The fostering of sterling character and good
conduct is the need of the world. Once we have
greater numbers of such people of good
quality, the country and the world will become
prosperous and peaceful.
You must act ever in the
consciousness of your divinity and recognize
in each being, a brother, a child of God. The
whole world is one family.
The only permanent change
is slow, steady change.
God, if you think, God you
are.
Dust if you think, dust you are.
As you think, so you become.
Think God, be God.
Those who seek to acquire
steadiness of faith must first acquire the
strength to bear grief and pain, insult and
injury. The succession of joy and grief must
help confirm the faith and make it immovable.
That alone can evidence true devotion.
Failures are stepping
stones to success.
Individual spiritual
practice is the negative pole and service is
the positive pole. The conjunction of both
poles can alone bring success. The mind
carries the divine principle (the light of
love) and conveys it to all who contact it.
We can be successful
leaders only if we are disciplined followers,
who do not issue commands to others but rather
set an example of service in our actions.
If you have the inclination
to do good work, God will give you the time to
do good things.
Man falsely imagines "I am
doing this", "I am planning this". It is the
supreme, all pervasive consciousness that
motivates, unfolds the skills and operates the
intellect.
Let God work through you
and there will be no more duty. Let God shine
forth. Let God show Himself. Live God, Eat
God. Drink God. Breath God. Realize the Truth
and the other things will take care of
themselves.
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Treat all as your own self.
Do not have a double standard.
What you would desire
others to do for you, you should do for
others. You should respect others as you want
to be respected by them.
Love all men without
distinction, Know that mankind is a single
community.
Is the intention pure,
selfless, born out of love? Is it based on
truth? Does it result in peace? If so, it is a
right action.
True humanness consists of
a continuous series of tiny acts executed with
absolute sincerity and largeness of heart.
The quality of one's
feelings determines one's future.
Think before speaking.
Think before acting.
Then go ahead
If you feel good about it.
See good
Hear good
Speak good
Do good
Be good
If you strive to find your
Self by using your mind, you will strive and
strive in vain, because the mind cannot give
you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is
illusion of the mind's creation.
Every being in the universe
has the potentiality of transcending the
senses. Even the little worm will one day
transcend the senses and reach God. No life
will be a failure. There is no such thing as
failure in the universe.
More than listening to a
hundred lectures or delivering them to others,
offering one act as genuine service attracts
the Grace of God.
We should not aspire for
acclaim and praise from those around us, but
do service only to secure the Grace of God and
not for any other reward from any one.
Bury bad thoughts under
good ones. Then the bad ones will just fade
away and be forgotten.
Living is not enough; it
has no value by itself. It is the motives, the
feelings, the thoughts, the attitudes that
prompt the day to day life that matters.
Secure spiritual bliss
first and then try to convey it to those who
thirst. When the tank is dry, how can the taps
give water?
Always try to put yourself
in the position of the other and judge your
action against the background. Then you will
not be wrong.
Honor all religions. Each
is a pathway to God.
Make the mind, the voice
and the actions agree in harmony. That is the
right way of life.
Impurity is a mere
superimposition under which the real nature of
man has been hidden.
Where divinity is sought
after, one ought always to behave in the
spirit of Love, devoid of the slightest trace
of hate, envy and anger. When one cultivates
the inner look, one attains the conviction of
the basic equality of all.
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What is heard has to be
pondered over. What is pondered over has to be
put into practice. It is only when all three
are accomplished that the realization of Bliss
can be attained.
The secret of perfect
health lies in keeping the mind always
cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never
borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.
The pure heart is the best
mirror for the reflection of Truth. So all
these disciplines are for the purification of
the heart. As soon as it is pure, all truths
flash upon it in a minute.
O Lord, take my love and
let it flow in fullness of devotion to Thee.
O Lord, take my hands and let them work
incessantly for Thee.
O Lord, take my soul and let it be merged in
oneness with Thee.
O Lord, take my mind and thoughts and let them
be in tune with Thee.
O Lord, take my everything and let me be an
instrument for thy work.
Religion is three-fourths
character. Only those who preserve character
can be pronounced truly religious.
Desire destroys devotion,
anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work -
hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed.
With good and sweet words, keeping desires
under check and control (for ultimate
removal), one should start on the path of
sacrifice.
Man derives all the joy and
peace that he needs from within himself and
not from sources outside himself. So the best
spiritual discipline is: strengthen the inward
vision.
Anything that helps you
maintain unruffled equanimity is right action.
True love expands the self;
attachment contracts it.
Moderation in temper is
virtue.
Moderation in principle is a vice.
The harder the
circumstances, the more trying the
environment, the stronger are those who come
out of those circumstances.
That which happens
physically on the outside in terms of actions
is not of major importance. What is important
is that which comes from inside.
This body is the residence
of God. The food you take is the offering you
make to him. Your act of bathing is the
ceremonial bathing of Him who is in You. The
ground you walk on is His domain. The joy you
gain is His gift. The grief you experience is
His lesson. Remember Him ever, in sun and
rain, day and night, asleep and awake.
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Offer service and receive
love. This is the recipe for experiencing
Divinity. Our love should not be confined to
our kith and kin. It must extend beyond the
family to society as a whole, then to the
nation at large and finally embrace the whole
world.
Whatever books you may
read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by
intellectual effort. One must put it into
practice. That sense of oneness can only be
promoted by the practice of love and not by
any other means.
It is not what you have
achieved that is important. It is the
broadness of heart that has motivated you to
do work that counts. Being broad minded with a
selfless attitude, humility and obedience, you
should try to share the difficulties of others
around you. It is the purity of heart that is
more important than the magnitude of the work
itself.
Our relationships are heart
to heart relationships. Ours is a business of
love, not a business of money or materials.
For the progress of
humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the
work should be associated with love,
compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and
sympathy. Without the above qualities,
selfless service cannot be performed.
God will not ask you when
and where you did service? He will ask, with
what motive did you do it? What was the
intention that prompted you? You may weigh the
service and boast of its quantity. But God
seeks quality - the quality of heart, the
purity of mind, the holiness of motive.
Living with God is
education
Living for God is Service
Living in God is Realization
Unity is Divinity. Purity
is Enlightenment.
Reform the body,
reconstruct the mind, regulate the way of
living, then, the country will become
automatically strong and prosperous.
Before you speak, Think -Is
it necessary?
Is it true?
Is it kind?
Will it hurt anyone?
Will it improve on the silence?
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The first step in the
Sadhana is the cleansing of the speech. Talk
sweet without anger. Do not boast of your
scholarship or attainments. be humble, eager
to serve; conserve your speech. Practice
silence. That will save you from squabbles,
frittering thoughts and faction.
Spend a few minutes every
morning and evening in the Silence of your own
shrine or home; spend them with the highest of
all the Powers that you know of. Be in His
elevating and Inspiring company; worship Him
mentally; offer unto Him all the work you do;
you will come out of the silence nobler and
more heroic than when you went in.
Forget the harm that anyone
has done to you, and forget the good that you
have done to others.
There is only one royal
road for the spiritual journey...Love
Be Silent yourself, that
will induce Silence in others. Do not fall
into the habit of shouting, talking long and
loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry
with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation,
wherever you happen to be.
Learn the value of Silence,
of Namasmarana, of Bhajan, of Japa, of Dhyana,
of single minded remembrance of the Lord, of
the association with spiritually kin. These
will stand you in good stead, when distress
assails you.
The less you talk, the more
will become your mental power. With the
increase in your mental capacity, there will
be increase in your power of discrimination
too. Consequently, you will give up
"individual discrimination". Because of this,
you will begin to consider the good of the
world at large rather than your own individual
welfare. You must cultivate such broad
feelings from this young age itself.
The voice of God can be
heard in the region of your heart when the
tongue is stilled and the storm is tilled and
the waves are calm. There will be no
temptations for others to shout when you talk
to them in whispers. Set the level of the tone
yourself; as low as possible, as high as
necessary to reach the outermost boundary of
the circle you are addressing. Conserve sound,
since it is the treasure of the element akasa,
an emanation from God Himself. Reason can
prevail only when arguments are advanced
without the whipping up of sound. Silence is
the speech of the spiritual seeker. Soft sweet
speech is the expression of genuine love. Hate
screeches, fear squeals, conceit trumpets. But
love sings lullabies. It soothes. It applies
balm. Practice the vocabulary of love; unlearn
the language of hate and contempt.
Silence is the only
language of the realized. Practice moderation
in speech. That will help you in many ways. It
will develop Prema, for most misunderstandings
and factions arise out of carelessly spoken
words. When the foot slips, the wound can be
healed; but when the tongue slips, the wound
it causes in the heart of another will fester
for life. The tongue is liable to four big
errors: uttering falsehood, scandalizing,
finding fault with others, and excessive
speech. All these have to be avoided if there
is to be Santhi for the individual as well as
for society.
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Good works never languish
for want of funds; the Lord will come to their
rescue. Only it may take some time; do not
lose heart... You should not collect money in
devious ways. Help should come from pious
hearts, from well earned money, from persons
who know and appreciate the purpose for which
they give. That is why I oppose all benefit
shows, where you tempt people with a dance or
a drama or a film and collect money for your
pet plan.
In all effort, if you trust
in a Higher Power which is ready to come to
your help, work is made easy. This comes out
of Bhakthi, reliance on the Lord, the source
of all Power. When you travel by train, you
have only to purchase the ticket, enter the
proper train and take a seat, leaving the rest
to the engine. Why should you carry the bed
and trunk on your head? So too put your trust
in the Lord and carry on to the best of your
ability.
You have been born because
you did not pass in certain subjects; there is
some balance of experience which you must
acquire to complete the course. If you get
convinced that your true nature is the Atma,
then you have finished the course and
'passed'.
You should see that no dirt
settles upon the mind; that is to say, you
should move about in such company that dirt is
avoided. Falsehood, injustice, indiscipline,
cruelty, hate -- these form the dirt; Sathya,
Dharma, Shanthi, Prema -- these form the clean
elements. If you inhale the pure air of these
latter, your mind will be free from evil
bacilli and you will be mentally sturdy and
physically strong.
The year becomes new, the
day becomes holy, when you sanctify it by
spiritual discipline, not otherwise.
All life is one, my dear
son, be alike to every one.
Do not crave for
recognition and respect from others; crave
rather for winning grace from the Lord.
God is love, live in love.
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The Lord will be watching
with a thousand eyes the least activity of man
to discover any slight trace of selfless love
sweetening it.
A sound mind ensures a
sound body; a sound body ensures a sound mind.
The body will shine if the
character is fine; service of man and worship
of God will preserve its charm.
The peace that pervades the
heart can never be shaken for any reason; only
peace of this kind is worthy of the name.
Love all beings; that is
enough.
The grace of God is like
insurance. It will help you in your time of
need without any limit.
The service of man is the
only means by which you can serve God.
God is in you
God is in every word of yours,
Every deed and thought.
Speak, do and think as befits Him.
Do not seek to discover or
discuss the evil in others, for the attempt
will tarnish your own minds.
Life is:
Loving
Listening
Lifting
Learning
Living
Thinking, discriminating
and practice - all three constitute the basic
human characteristics.
Education should build
character.
Its is Truth and Truth
alone, that is one's real friend, relative.
Faith is like our life
breath. It is impossible to live even for a
minute in this world without faith.
Resolve to carry on the
quest of your own Reality.
Hatred sprouts;
Envy raises its hood.
Love sprouts;
Peace descends like dew.
Life is the car, your heart
is the key, God is the chauffeur.
Expand yourselves; do not
contract into your own tiny individuality.
Foster Love
Live in Love
Spread Love
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Have the name and form of
God as your companion, guide and guardian
throughout the toils of the waking hours.
When you retire for the
night offer grateful homage to God for being
with you all day long.
The present is a product of
the past, but it is also the seed for the
future.
Experience that is drawn
through any of the senses has an effect on
one's health.
The mind sees separateness,
Love sees unity.
Head in the forest; Hands
in society
Today's man is pursuing
unrestrained sense cravings. These pursuits
drag man's mind into the gutter.
A man's well-being depends
upon his degree of contentment.
Every living being in this
world is knowingly or unknowingly on a
spiritual pilgrimage.
Every one is the embodiment
of God.
Character is the most
precious gift of education.
Life is a challenge, meet
it !
Life is a dream, realize it !
Life is a game, play it !
Life is Love, enjoy it !
You are all members of the
same family, bound by the Religion of Love.
True education is not for a
mere living, but for a fuller and meaningful
life.
Devotion is not a uniform
to be worn on certain days and then to be put
aside.
If the mind of man is not
reformed and purified then all the plans to
reform the world will be futile.
What God gives is never
exhausted.
What man gives never lasts.
Love must express itself as
Service.
Man has to recognize the
indebtedness to society and his duty towards
it.
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You must make the mind the
servant of God, not the slave of the senses.
Good company is important,
it helps to cultivate good qualities.
As close as you are to God,
so close is God to you.
The synthesis of pure,
calming food is breathing pure air, listening
to good sounds, looking at good sights, and
touching pure objects.
We must control our
desires.
Don't waste money
Don't waste time
Don't waste food
Don't waste energy
I - Want - Peace
"I" is ego.
"Want" is desire.
Remove ego and desire and you have peace.
The gift of food to the
hungry is the noblest of all gifts.
When we sit for the meal,
we feel light and effortless. When we are
done, we should rise with the same feeling of
lightness and effortlessness.
Love sees all as one Divine
family.
Love...doesn't allow any
room for pettiness or narrow outlook.
We should realize that man
has not only a mind which conceives thoughts,
but also a heart which can put them into
practice.
The teachers of tomorrow
are the students of today.
Renunciation is the power
of battling against evil forces and holding
the mind in check.
The heart of man, which is
now allowed to lie fallow, has to be plowed by
spiritual exercises like repetition of God's
name.
Teachers must be examples
of Love and Truth.
Being example is the best
form of Service.
Desire makes man forget his
real nature and reduces him to be status of a
beast.
Let the different faiths
exist, let them flourish and the glory of God
be sung in all the languages and in a variety
of tunes.
Dedicate all your thoughts,
words, and deeds to Him.
Man will realize his
mission on earth when he knows himself as
Divine and reveres others as Divine.
God gave you the time,
space, cause, material, idea, skill, chance,
and fortune. Why should you feel as if your
are the doer?
If you give up and
surrender to the lord, He will guide you and
guard you.
Ignorance is the most
important cause of sorrow.
Once we surrender our mind
to God completely, He will take care of us in
every way.
Learn to speak what you
feel, and act what you speak.
Small minds select narrow
roads; expand your mental vision and take to
the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and
service.
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Politics without
principles,
Education without character,
Science without humanity, and
Commerce without morality
Are not only useless, but positively
dangerous.
Try to conduct yourself in
such a way as not to injure others.
A nation that has no bridle
on its sensuality can never thrive or survive.
God is all Names and all
Forms
Have constructive thoughts;
consoling words; compassionate acts.
The first thing you have to
do, to impress upon your mind the reality, is
to recite the name of God and dwell on His
Glory in the mind.
Character is to be sought
more than intellect.
The attitude today is the
root on which the future grows.
If there is righteousness
in the heart,
There will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character,
There will be harmony in the home.
When there is harmony in the home,
There will be order in the nation.
When there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.
Friendship is the
expression of unshakable Love. Love that is
noble, pure, free from desire or egoism.
Meditation is nothing else
but rising above desires.
When you take one step
towards God, God takes ten towards you.
Service should not be
exhibitionistic, you must seek no reward, not
even gratitude or thanks from the recipient.
You cannot see Me, but I am
the Light you see by.
You cannot hear Me, but I am the Sound you
hear by.
You cannot know Me, but I am the Truth by
which you live.
The food we consume should
be tasty, sustaining and pleasant; It should
not be too hot or too salty; there must be a
balance and an equlibrium maintained.
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Real happiness lies within
you.
Detachment is sacrifice.
Example, not precept, is
the best teaching aid.
Base all educational
efforts on building up of the character of the
students, and then you can confidently think
of raising on in the super-structure of
curricula.
The mother is the pillar of
the home, of society, of the nation, and so of
humanity itself.
You are all separate beads
strung together on that one thread, God.
Nourish your aged parents;
revere them.
Your thoughts, words and
deeds will shape others and theirs will shape
you.
Love of the country is the
basis on which you can build love for world
community.
Always respect other's
opinion and other's point of view.
Spirituality is an
activity. It is an activity of the Divinity
within.
If you honor your mother,
the Mother of the universe will guard you
against harm.
If you honor your father,
the Father of all Beings will guard you.
Love expands; it does not
limit itself to boundaries.
If you honor your parents,
your children will honor you.
A language is as sweet as
the tongues of the speakers.
The whole world is One
Single Tree;
The different countries are it's branches;
It's root is God;
Human beings are the flowers;
Happiness is the fruit;
Self-realization is the sweet juice therein.
The beauty of life depends
upon our good habits.
To reform: First weed out
the evil thoughts and bad habits. Second
cultivate good habits.
When the road ends, and the
goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has
travelled from himself to himself.
Do not preach; practice.
Man loves because he is
Love.
He seeks Joy, for he is Joy.
He thirsts for God; for he is composed of
God and he cannot exist without Him.
By peace, western countries
mean the interval between two wars. That is no
peace ! When man thinks, speaks, and does good
- peace will ensue.
Where there is Love, there
God is evident.
God is the Life-breath of
every soul.
One single act of service
offered to God whom you visualize in another
is worth all the years of yearning for God.
Wealth has to be earned
through Righteousness. Desire has to be for
Liberation.
Your duty is to serve, not
search for faults.
There is no living being
without the spark of love; even a mad man
loves something or somebody.
Make the home a seat of
harmony.
The greatest fear man can
have, is the fear of losing God's Love.
God is the mother and
father of the world. Our parents are the
mother and father of this body.
God is one; there are not
many Gods, one for each tribe among men.
Love is one; it transcends
caste, color and creed, if it has to be
genuine.
Truth is one; there cannot
be two. For, two can only be One, occuring
twice.
The goal is one; for all
roads must lead to the One God.
God is to be recognized in
all that exists, all that is charming,
suffering, blooming or drooping.
When heart speaks to heart,
it is love that is transmitted.
A limit should be placed on
the food that we take.
If you know the road and
the goal, then you can discover whether you
are progressing or not
Make the fullest of your
talents and march as long as you can, and
pitch the tent nearer the goal, when darkness
falls.
Truth is the basis of
Righteousness.
Be ever watchful to see
that you strive to take in more and more of
God into you.
Implant in your Heart:
1. Do not forget God.
2. Do not put faith in the world you see
around you.
3. Do not be afraid.
The wise are those who know
the self.
Truth has no fear; Untruth
shivers at every shadow.
Sensory pleasures are
trinkets, trivialities.
God is the doer; You are
but the instrument.
Cultivate that attitude of
Oneness between men of all creeds, all
countries and all continents.
Not through wealth can
Immortality be won; it can be won only through
renunciation.
Give up; do not grasp in
clenched fists.
Release; do not bind and get bound.
Eat, when you are hungry -
not before or after.
Do not waste a single
moment, in idling or loose living.
Love of the country is the
basis on which you can build love for the
world community.
If you safeguard
Righteousness, it will , in its turn,
safeguard us.
Do not get attached to
worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world,
but do not let the world be in you.
Have no desire to place
before God. Whatever He does with you, however
He treats you, is the gift that He likes best,
to give you!
Work disinterestedly.
Content to do one's duty as best as one can.
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Aspire now
Adore now
Achieve now.
Blood has to circulate from
head to foot;
Love has to circulate from high to low.
Campaign against the
temptations of the senses;
Conquer inner foes;
Triumph over your ego.
Practice alone makes man
perfect.
Have the Love of God
filling and thrilling your heart; then, you
cannot hate anyone.
God is not to be spoken of
as coming down or going up, since He is
everywhere.
The fulfillment of human
life consists in the service that man renders,
without any thought of return, in an attitude
of selflessness.
Spiritual discipline grows
only in a field fertilized by Love.
Be steady, have faith, and
reach the Goal safe.
To rectify the world and
put it on the proper path, we have to first
rectify ourselves and our conduct.
Teachers are reservoirs
from which, through the process of education,
students draw the water of life.
Knowledge that is not put
into practice is like food that is not
digested.
Man can realize his mission
on the earth only when he knows himself as
Divine and when he reveres all others as
Divine.
Real Peace of mind has no
ups and downs; it cannot be partial in
adversity and whole in prosperity.
Instead of making the
senses which are at best very poor guides and
informants his servants, man has made them his
masters.
There may be differences
among men, in physical strength, financial
status, intellectual acumen - but, all are
equal in the eye of God.
Discipline trains you to
put up with disappointments, every rose has a
thorn.
You say, "enjoy"; but it is
when you "end joy", that you can really enjoy.
The day when passion is
accepted as a mark of womanhood, it will mark
the beginning of the end of femininity>
If you feel you are a
hundred percent dependent on God, He will look
after you and save you from harm and injury.
Love with no expectation of
return.
Activity must be dedicated
to God, the Highest Good. Then, it will
provide health to body and mind.
God is omnipotent. All powerful
God is Omnipresent. Present everywhere.
God is Omniscient. All knowing.
God, first; the world next;
myself last!
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Live on your own earnings,
your own resources.
Man seeks to change the
foods available in nature to suit his tastes,
thereby putting an end to the very essence of
life contained in them.
Each man carries his own
destiny in his own hands.
Dreams relating to God are
real.
The easiest way to control
sensuous desires is to practice altruistic
love.
Our good conduct is our
true wealth.
If some people say there is
no God, it only means that they are at too
great a distance to be aware of Him.
Men are born with a
helpless lamenting cry; they should die with a
smile of happy joy.
Do not belittle any
religion or give predominance to any religion.
Love knows no fear and so
love needs no falsehood to support it.
Do not use poisonous words
against anyone, for, words wound more fatally
than even arrows.
You must be a lotus
unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the
sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born
or even the water which sustains it!
Be loving, begin to
perceive your inner voice and follow it.
The root is education and
the fruit is virtue.
Of all the insanities that
harass man, God-madness is the least harmful,
and the most beneficial.
You may be able to pay back
any debt; but the debt you owe your mother,
you never can repay.
Love is the light that
guides the feet of man in the wilderness.
Every experience that is
drawn through any of the senses has an effect
on one's health.
Mine, not thine, this sense
of greed is the root of all evil. This
distinction is applied even to God! -- my God,
not yours! Your God, not mine!
Discipline is the mark of
intelligent living.
No one can judge another,
for, when another is judged you are yourself
condemned.
Love seeks no reward; Love
is its own reward.
One without power does not
mean lack of physical or mental strength.
Speak soft and sweet;
sympathise with suffering and loss and
ignorance: try your best to apply the salve of
soothing words and timely succor.
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The Lord is but a witness;
He is above all hate and anger, of attachment
derived from "mine" and "thine".
Nothing is to be used as
itself, for itself.
"Seeing is believing: I
will believe in God only if I see Him;" but
are all things seen or heard or touched or
tasted, as real as they seem?
Either the Government must
have the capacity to educate and reform the
people or the people must have the capacity to
educate the Government.
Peace - It can come only
from the Fountain of Peace within.
It is best to live with
honor for just a day than with dishonor for
many decades; better a short lived celestial
swan than a century-lived crow.
Every sense is an outlet
for the energy of man in a direction that
binds him to the objective world.
Spiritual progress is right
living, good conduct, moral behaviour.
Do all acts as offerings to
God; do not classify some as `my work' and
some as `His work'.
The reasoning faculty must
be employed to distinguish between the limited
and the unlimited, the Temporary and the
Eternal.
Life is a mirage;
It comes from no visible rain;
It falls into no recognizable sea.
When the magnet does not
attract the needle, the fault lies in the dirt
that covers up the needle.
Food should not be too
salty, too hot, too bitter, too sweet, too
sour.
There should not be any
trace of dislike or distrust on the score of
nationality, language, caste, economic status,
scholarship, age or sex.
The end of knowledge is
love.
The end of education is character.
Each country is but a room
in the mansion of God.
The very joy derived from
service reacts on the body and makes you free
from disease.
The age period 16 - 30 is a
crucial stage, when man achieves best and
struggles hardest to achieve.
Man is a spark of the
Divine.
All things in creation are
subject to the law of change and man too is
subject to this law.
Service is spiritual
discipline, not a pastime of the rich and
well-placed.
Too much food results in
dullness of mind.
God alone is the giver of
life, the guardian of life, and the goal of
life.
All spiritual practice must
be directed to the removal of the husk and the
revelation of the kernel.
The same current activates
all.
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Man is now able to soar
into outer space and reach up to the moon; but
he is not moral enough to live at peace with
his neighbor!
The food that one eats has
to be pure, free from the subtle evils
radiated by the persons who collect the
materials, who cook the dishes, and who serve
them.
Whatever is to our
advantage will appear right to us; We do not
usually look upon a matter from the other
fellow's standpoint.
However high a bird may
soar, it has sooner or later to perch on a
tree top, to enjoy quiet.
The purpose of living is to
achieve the `living in God'
When you feel you cannot do
good, at least desist from doing evil.
Condemn the wrong and extol
the right as soon as you notice either in your
children; that will settle them on the
straight path.
Awake, Arise and Stop not
until the goal is reached.
Limiting birth by
artificial means is an absurdly wrong step.
The consequences of this act is irresponsible
fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.
The mind fixed in the
awareness of the One is like a rock,
unaffected by doubt, stable, secure.
Instead of making the
senses which are at best very poor guides and
informants his servants, man has made them his
masters.
Jesus said:
First - He is a messenger of God.
Second - He is the son of God.
Third - He and His Father are one.
Women have equal chances
and equal rights to attain Godhead
Let the wave of memory, the
storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass
through without affecting your equanimity.
Silence is the speech of
the spiritual seeker
All men are cells in the
same divine organism, in the divine body. That
should be your faith, your fortune, your fort,
your fullness.
Hate screeches
Fear squeals
Conceit trumpets
But love sings lullabies.
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Food cooked in water should
not be used the next day; it becomes harmful.
No society can find its
fulfillment, no social ideal can fructify,
without the blossoming of the spirit of man.
Patience is all the
strength that man needs.
The earlier years of life
are the most crucial, and so the mother and
the father have to share the responsibility
for the upbringing.
Through the media of films,
books, music and the behavior of elders, young
minds are excited and aroused into
indulgences.
The God of death does not
give notice of His arrival to take hold of
you. He is not like the photographer who says,
"I am clicking, are you ready?"
Whenever you get a little
leisure, do not spend it in talking about
sundries, but utilize it in meditating on God
or in doing service to others.
Greed yields only sorrow;
contentment is best.
Whatever acts a good or bad
man may do, the fruits thereof follow him and
will never stop pursuing him.
It is not the standard of
living that is important, but the manner of
living.
You must render service out
of spontaneous urge from within, with a heart
filled with love.
A chance conglomeration of
humans does not become a society.
A society has to be welded
into a unit by the consciousness of kinship in
God.
Unity is divinity; Purity
us enlightenment.
Reform the body,
reconstruct the mind, regulate the way of
living, then, the country will become
automatically strong and prosperous.
Forget the harm that anyone
has done to you, and forget the good that you
have done to others.
There is only one royal
road for the spiritual journey...Love.
If one student is bad, only
that student is affected. But if one teacher
is bad, hundreds of students get spoiled.
Your thoughts play a vital
role in shaping your life.
Religion is three-fourths
character.
The present is a product of
the past, but it is also the seed for the
future.
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Open the gates of wisdom,
tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of
Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
Form a Satsang, where you
meet and exchange truths and virtuos talk;
where you study holy books and discourses on
the glory of God.
All work is God's. He
inspires, He helps, He executes, He enjoys, He
is pleased, He reaps, He sowed.
Have faith in yourself.
When you have no faith in the wave, how can
you get faith in the ocean?
Do not contemplate on
death; it is just an incident in life;
contemplate on God, who is the master of all
life.
You must welcome tests
because it gives you confidence and it ensures
promotion.
So long as you say 'I am'
there is bound to be fear, but once you say
and feel 'I am God' you get unconquerable
strength.
By eating flesh one
develops violent tendencies and animal
diseases.
Do not get swelled up when
people praise you and do not feel dejected
when people blame you.
Serve man until you see God
in all men.
Knowledge without devotion
to God produces hatred.
What is the unmistakable
mark of a wise man? It is love, love for all
humanity.
Service springs out of love
and it scatters love in profusion.
Soft sweet speech is the
expression of genuine love.
Mankind can find happiness
only in unity, not in diversity.
Philosophy that cannot be
understood, scriptures that are not practised
- it is a waste of time to talk of them.
Anger is the harvest of the
bewitching mind; it enslaves man and fogs his
understanding.
People are born for
different tasks, but in order to survive every
one requires the same nourishment; inner
peace.
Whatever the trouble,
however great the sorrow, persist and win by
recollecting the Lord.
Those who have gone through
pain and suffering can understand and
sympathise with those who are in pain
The basic Truth in all
religions, irrespective of country or race is
one and the same.
Whenever and wherever you
put yourself in touch with God, that is the
state of meditation.
The mind is a bundle of
desires - remove the threads of attachment one
by one; at the end the 'cloth' disappears and
the mind is clear and pure.
Practice silence - for the
voice of God can be heard in the region of
your heart only when the tongue is stilled and
storm is stilled and the waves are calm.
Practice the vocabulary of
love - unlearn the language of hate and
contempt.
God is in you, around you,
behind you, above you, beside you.
Of all the righteous acts,
help rendered to those needing it, is the most
righteous.
Surrendering the fruit of
action to the Lord is real sacrifice.
My birthday is the date
when divinity blossoms in your heart.
God is neither distant nor
distinct from you.
What is offered to God is
totally free from all defects and
imperfections.
The joy that we cause in
the heart of God is the only worthwhile
achievement.
The acid test by which an
activity can be confirmed as holy or sacred is
to examine whether it promotes attachment or
avoids bondage.
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Body is like a flashlight.
Eye is like the bulb
Mind is the battery cell
Intelligence is the switch
Only when the four work together do you get
the light.
Any happiness that you can
give to others will result in happiness for
yourself in the end. Man must realize that he
cannot get anything without sharing it with
humanity around him. So, you must believe that
happiness of the people around you will lead
to your own happiness in due course.
Illnesses are caused more
by malnutrition of the mind than of the body.
I will recommend the repetition of the Name of
God. That is Vitamin G. That is the medicine;
regulated life and habits are 2/3 of the
treatment, while the medicine is just 1/3
only.
It is only when you have
both divine grace and human endeavor that you
can experience bliss, just as you can enjoy
the breeze of a fan only when you have both a
fan and the electrical energy to operate it.
Do not think that only
those who worship a picture or image with
pompous paraphernalia are devotees. Whoever
walks straight along the moral path, whoever
acts as he speaks and speaks as he has seen,
whoever melts at another's woe and exults at
another's joy .... is a devotee, perhaps a
greater devotee.
This is bad; this is good -
can such judgements be ever made about
anything in God's creation when all are
manifestations of His will?.
Love is one without a
second. When this love is directed towards the
world, it is called attachment (anuraga), and
when directed towards God, it is called prema
(devotional love).
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The play is His
The role is His gift
The lines are written by Him
He directs, He decides the dress and
decoration,
The gesture and the tone,
The entrance and the exit.
You have to act well to receive His
approbation
When the curtain falls
Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm
The right to play higher and higher roles
That is the meaning and purpose of life
Living with God is the true
education
Living for God is the true devotion
Living in God is the true spirituality.
A bubble of water is born
out of water. It is made up of water. It
ultimately mixes with water and disappears. As
in this analogy, man is like a bubble and
Narayana is like the source, "water". Man is
born out of Narayana, is made up of Him and
ultimately merges with Him.
A pure thought from a pure
heart is better than a Manthra.
A zero will get its value
only if it is placed after an integer. So also
a "Jeeva" will get some value only if it is
placed in conjunction with divinity.
Accomodate all forms of God
in your heart. Do not exclude some and welcome
others. Accept all achievements and failures
as proofs of the grace of God.
Adoration, affection and
attachment are the flowers. Devotion and
dedication are the fruits. When they ripen
they fill themselves with the sweet sustaining
juice called wisdom.
Ambition to earn fame in
the world, to gain some position of authority
over men, to lead a luxurious life can never
ensure mental peace.
An expansive mind is more
laudable than an expert brain. One person
shedding love is more desirable than a hundred
hard hearted companions.
An iron box is essential to
keep safe the precious stones. So too the body
is essential to keep safe the precious gifts
of virtue, love and discrimination.
Anger, ego, jealousy are
the biggest diseases. Keep yourself aloof from
these three diseases.
Anger cannot be destroyed
by anger and cruelty by cruelty. Anger can be
subdued only by forbearance and cruelty can be
overcome only by nonviolence.
Anger is like an
intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to
the level of an animal.
As long as the sugar is on
the tongue, you feel the sweetness in taste.
Similarly, so long as the heart has love,
peace and devotion, you feel bliss.
As the food, so the mind.
As the mind, so the thought. As the thought,
so the act.
At all times, engage
yourself in serving others. There is no
greater Sadhana than this.
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Be a servant; a servant of
God. Feel that you are an instrument in His
hand. Let Him shape you and use you as He
knows best.
Be clear and content
Be moderate and wise
Be vigilant and steady.
Be earnest and sweet.
Be good, Do good, See good
- this is the way to God.
Be guarded against the
'evil of the tongue', 'evil of the mind' and
'evil of the hand'.
Be like a star which never
wavers from the crescent, but is fixed in
steady faith. Be like a lotus which is not
affected by the water in which it is born.
Be what you profess to be.
Speak what you intend to do. Utter what you
have experienced. No more. No less.
Believe that God is one,
though he is addressed and prayed to by
different groups of people in different names.
Believe that there is no
morality higher than truth, there is no prayer
more fruitful than seva.
Believe that there is
nothing greater than truth; nothing sweeter,
nothing more precious and nothing more
lasting.
Bend before the lowly, the
humbly, the Godly, the good. Do not bend
before the proud; the promoters of hate and
greed.
Bhajan cleanses and
purifies the atmosphere by its vital
vibrations. It inspires, instructs, it calls
and comforts.
Bhakti (devotion) is as
essential for experiencing Atmic Bliss as
blood is essential for the body.
Be like the ant. When the
ant gets a mixture of sand and sugar, it
selects only sugar; it neglects sand. See only
good in others. Pay no attention to the bad.
Body is a house given to
you for rent. Live there so long as He wills,
thanking him and paying Him the rent of faith
and devotion.
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By chanting the name of the
Lord sanctify your time. By singing His glory,
sanctify your life. Always continously develop
a pure heart for the welfare of the world.
Calamity, danger, death
cannot be avoided for all time. They are
inevitable factors of life and you have to
learn to live bravely with them.
Chanting the name of the
Lord must be considered as the highest form of
Sadhana. You can travel anywhere in the light
of this name. In this age of Kali Yuga, the
easiest way to reach the Lord, is this
chanting of the Lord's name. There is nothing
more sacred than this name.
Character is the most
precious gift of education. Without character,
wealth, education and social status are of no
avail.
Close your eyes to the
faults of others, but keep them open to
discover your own.
Consider the entire society
as your home, only then you will realize
genuine unity with all.
Constant dwelling with the
name of the Lord gives that unshakeable peace
unaffected by the ups and downs of life.
Command the mind, regulate
your conduct, keep your heart straight and
clear, then you will get the grace of God.
Concentration is a
conscious activity and meditation is a super
conscious experience.
Contentment is the most
precious treasure. Contentment alone can lead
man to the goal of life, the attainment of
divinity.
Cows may be of different
breeds or colors or sizes, but milk they yield
is the same, the world over. So too, all
religions, what ever their origin or extent of
influence, are means to teach man this
process.
Creation is divine;
imitation is human.
Dedicate all your physical
possession and mental skills and intellectual
attainments to the service of the Lord.
Desire is storm, greed is
whirl-pool, pride is precipice, attachment is
avalanche and ego is volcano. Discard these
and you will be liberated.
Dedicate your hands to the
service of mankind, never deviate from that
attitude.
Dedication ensures success;
purifies inner vision, gives lasting joy.
Desires, disappointments
and despair cause diseases. Filling the mind
with the thought of God is the curative drug.
Develop the quality of love
that asks for no return, develop divine
knowledge and develop the inner vision.
Devotion is the sustenance
of the heart, just as food is the sustenance
for the body; devotion to duty is the highest
form of worship to God.
Devotion is not a uniform
to be worn on certain days when you gather for
worship and then to be laid aside when the
service is over.
Devotion to God does not
mean merely offering worship in a shrine or
taking part in Bhajan or Sankirtan. One must
recognize the form of Divine in the images one
worships or human being one serves.
Devotion truly means
worshipping the Lord, not caring for the
fruits of one's actions.
Discipline is the mark of
intelligent living; it is more essential for
success in spiritual effort.
Dive and declare the depth,
eat and judge the taste.
Divine bliss cannot be
gained by accumulation of impediments like
cars and houses, land and gold, stocks and
stores.
Divine is not manufactured
by any company nor available in any shop. It
is not something that can be earned from
outside, it has to sprout and grow from within
and treasured within.
Divine is the inner core of
all beings, near and far, big or small. Expand
your consciousness to its utmost limits.
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Do and dedicate,
Work and worship,
Plan and protect,
But do not worry about the fruit,
That is the secret of spiritual success.
Do good deeds, you get good
in return. Do bad deeds, you reap bad results;
do not blame God, thank yourself, blame
yourself.
Doing one's duty, however
small, in an unattached manner gives rise to
the awakening of self awareness.
Do not be affected when the
results you anticipate are not produced; do
not anticipate at all, but leave it to God.
Do not depend on others to
serve your needs, become your own servant
before proceeding to serve others.
Do not get puffed up when
you succeed. Do not get punctured when you
fail.
Do not give room for
differences based on language, religion, caste
or nationality. Develop the feeling that all
are children of God. You may worship God in
any form of your choice, but always bear in
mind that God is one. Cultivate love and
promote unity and harmony among all.
Do not give up wordly
duties, but do them with the Name of God on
your lips inviting the Grace of God on your
heads.
Do not lay claim to long
life but to divine life; do not pine for more
years on earth, but for more virtues in the
heart.
Each has has his particular
duty, task, role as an individual; do that
duty, carry on that task. Play that role as
best as you can; that is how one can fulfill
himself.
Earning money cannot be the
purpose of education; acquiring good qualities
can be the only purpose of education.
Education does not mean
only giving meaning to the words. Whatever is
learnt in schools and colleges has to be
practised and has to be used for the welfare
of the society. That is true education.
Education is a wasteful
process unless knowledge is transformed into
wisdom and wisdom is expressed in character.
Education is to be valued
not as a means of earning one's livelihood,
but as the essential requisite for a happy,
peaceful and progressive life.
Education must ultimately
mean:
"E" for Enlightment
"D" for Duty and Devotion
"U" for Understanding
"C" for Character
"A" for Action
"T" for Thanking
"I" for Integrity
"O" for Oneness
"N" for Nobility
Education should be
divorced from job hunting. Its primary purpose
should be to enable the educated to lead an
honorable and meaningful life in society.
Education without
character, politics without principles and
commerce without morality are not only
useless, but positively dangerous.
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Ego lives by getting and
forgetting. Love lives by giving and
forgiving.
Engage always in good
deeds, beneficial activities, speak the truth,
do not inflict pain by word or deed or even
thought. That is the highest gain which you
can earn in this life.
Every action of yours at
the present time is bound to have a reaction,
resound and reflection in the future.
Every human being is has a
body which is like a chariot and has a
charioteer, which is the Atma. This is
universally true and this is the basis of the
unity and diversity of in all mankind.
Every human being has four
birthdays: the first is when he emerges from
his mother's womb; the second is when he
begins his spiritual study to lead him from
darkness to light; third is when he has gained
wisdom for achieving self realization; the
fourth and last is when he realizes his true
identity and merges with Brahman.
Every passing minute is a
precious gift from God which you have to use
for the best and most lasting benefit.
Every rise will be followed
by a fall, every elation will be followed by
depression.
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Feel that you are a hundred
percent dependent on God, He will look after
you and save you from harm and injury.
Feel that your family, your
house, your fields, your cars are all the
Lord's property and that you are only the
trustee.
Feel the presence of God
when silence reigns; in the excitement and
confusion, you cannot hear His 'Foot Fall'.
For the disease of
'Bhavaroga' (birth death cycle), Bhagavan is
the medicine; for the disease of desire, Jnana
is the prescription; for the disease of doubt,
the most effective remedy is paropakara
(service); for the major infection of asanthi
(anxiety), the course of treatment is Bhajan.
Friendship should not be
based on consideration of fear and favor,
sacred friendship is that which enables one to
help others at all times and in all
circumstances.
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Get the doctor who would
assure 'hereafter you will not fall ill' and
not the doctor who gives some relief to the
present attacks.
'Gift' is a meritorious
act, if it is rendered to the needy at the
time of need, in a manner that fulfills the
need, it must be made without pride and
publicity.
Give up in order to gain;
restrain in order to receive; become blind in
order to see more clearly.
Giving is gaining. Gaining
is grieving.
Giving up one's evil
thoughts constitutes sacrifice and yoga -
leaving one's wife, giving up one's material
possessions and repairing to the forest will
be of no avail.
Goal of human life is not
just eating, drinking, sleeping, tasting a
little joy and grief and finally dying like
any bird or beast; the goal is the realization
of the eternal absolute.
God acts as creator,
protector and destroyer. You must show your
gratitude to God by your actions, not your
words.
God can be addressed by any
name that tastes sweet to your tongue or
pictured in any form that appeals to your
sense of wonder and awe.
God cannot be won by tricks
or through short cuts, He can be won only by
the hard way of struggle, detachment and tough
discipline.
God does not appreciate
external pomps and exhibitionistic behaviour.
God does not take revenge if you do not
recognize Him or revere Him.
God does not calculate the
cost of all which you surrender at His feet;
He examines the spirit in which it is
surrendered.
God does not draw you near
or keep you far; God does not deny anyone, it
is only you who deny God.
God does not live in
structures of stone or brick, He lives in soft
hearts, warm with sympathy and fragrant with
universal love.
God grants you what you
need and desire; there is no reason to ask, no
reason to grumble.
God has given you the heart
to use in life, return it to Him as clean and
as pure.
God has no desire to bless
nor anger to induce Him to punish. You get
blessed and punished as a result of your own
feelings and acts.
God has no preference and
prejudices. He is but reaction and resound.
God has not made any one
wholly bad or wholly good; your likes and
dislikes are inducing you to label them such.
God is all mercy, adore Him
so long as you have breath, so long as you are
conscious.
God is all names and all
forms, He cannot be identified with one name
and one form; the whole universe is inhabited
by God.
God is always ready to give
you all that you want but you do not seem to
know what is good for you and what you really
want, so it is better and easier to surrender
yourself completely to God and simply ask for
His Grace.
God is nameless, but He
responds when His name, in any one of the
many, is taken by the seeker.
God is not attracted by
your appearance, He will look at the
cleanliness of the inner self.
God is not involved in
either rewards or punishment. He only
reflects, resounds and reacts; He is the
eternal unaffected witness.
God is not somewhere away
from you, someone distinct from you, He is in
you, before you, behind you.
God is the sugar that can
make the tasteless drink of life into a sweet
potion.
God sees your devotion and
not power; God cares for your quality and not
your caste; God looks at your heart and not at
your wealth.
God will respond only when
you call Him from the depth of feeling. He
will be deaf even if you call him a million
times automatically and artificially with the
tongue and not with the heart.
Grace of God is equal on
all, but it leaks through the holes of anger,
ego, lust, greed and desires. Fill the holes
with trust, kindness, love, patience and
gratefulness.
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Hands are given to us so
that we may perform good acts and offer the
flower of service to the Lord.
Hands that help are holier
than lips that pray.
However you are, you are
mine. I will never give you up. Wherever you
are, you are near me. You cannot go beyond my
reach.
I do not need your garlands
and fruits, they are not genuinely yours, give
me something that is yours, something which is
clean and fragrant with the perfume of virtue
and innocence and washed in the tears of
repentance.
I do not reveal or refuse,
it is for you to discover and decide.
I do not take anything from
anyone except their love and devotion.
I have come not to disturb
or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in
his own faith, so that the Christian becomes a
better Christian, the Muslim a better Muslim
and the Hindu a better Hindu.
If God is a flower, you
should feel yourself a bee that sucks its
honey, if he is tree, be a creeper that clings
to it, if he is the sky, be a tiny star that
twinkles in it. Above all, be conscious of the
truth that you and He are bound by supreme
love.
If there is righteousness
in the heart, there will be beauty in the
character.
If there is beauty in character, there will be
harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be
order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be
peace in the world.
If thought and activities
of the mind are sound, healthy, non-violent,
filled with love and morally harmonious, then
peace is near at hand.
In all the deeds that you
perform, in all the individuals that you meet
and in all the thoughts that you entertain,
you must see the divine and act accordingly.
In an office if you work
full time, you get full pay; if you work part
time, you get half pay. In the same manner, if
you give only part of your mind and ask for
full return of the grace of God, it is asking
for full pay for half work.
In order to gain the
benefit that education can confer, it must be
directed towards the cleansing of the inner
instruments of thought and feeling. It has to
promote and protect the pleasure of spiritual
learning.
In the garden of your
heart, plant and foster the rose of divinity,
the jasmine of purity and humility, the
champak of generosity.
In the medicine chest of
every member of our Seva Dal, one must keep in
readiness tablets of discrimination, drops of
self control, the powers of faith, devotion
and patience. Only then one can be freed of
the illness of ignorance.
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In the path of Bhakthi
there are no hurdles young, high or low, man
or women, all are equally entitled to tread
it.
In the Sathya there is no
mithya, but in the mithya (jagath) you have to
search for Sathya and experience it. You can
do it, if you rid your mind of all
modifications and modulations. Let it be
transformed from its present complex confusion
into some thing like the sky, which does not
bear any mark, though millions of birds fly
through it and thousands of planes move across
it. Be unaffected, untouched, unattached. That
is the Sadhana which will reveal the reality.
Influence of divinity is
such that while you are contemplating it all
trace of envy and greed will disappear from
the mind.
Install the Lord in your
heart and offer Him the fruits of your actions
and the flowers of your inner thoughts and
feelings. That is the worship I like most, the
devotion I appreciate most.
Instead of indulging in
vain prattle, glorify God and walk in His path
and pray to Him. Spend the allotted span of
years in the contemplation and the adoration
of the Almighty, not in servile praise of the
feeble, the futile and the weak. Life is an
opportunity afforded to each, not to eat and
drink, but to achieve something nobler and
grandeur, to master oneself and merge in the
reality.
It is an act of merit to be
of service to others, it is a sin to harm
others.
Its is more sacred and
sanctifying to fill our hearts with love than
to fill our hearts with all kinds of books on
spiritual matters.
It is of no use if you
simply utter the name of the God and if you do
not follow the good things, it is just like
uttering the name of penicillin when you are
running a high temperature.
It is only by means of
purity of mind, can you come close to the
Lord.
Just as sugar cane does not
yield sugar juice unless it is crushed, as
sandal wood does not give the fragrant paste
unless it is rubbed on the stone, so the
goodness of people does not come out unless
they go through difficulties.
Karma Yoga is the earthern
lamp, Bhakthi Yoga is the oil in it, Raja Yoga
is the wick, Jnana Yoga is the light.
Karma cleanses the mind if
it is done as a dedicatory act, the
consequence being left to the will of the
Lord. Repentance saves even sinners from
perdition. No ceremony of expiation is as
effective as sincere repentance.
Keep away from impure
listening, impure acts, impure words, impure
thoughts.
Keep the name of the Lord
always radiant on your tongue and mind, that
will keep the antics of the mind under
control.
Knowing the way is not
enough. The path must be traversed to reach
the destination. That journey is service to
society.
Knowledge without integrity
is dangerous and dreadful, knowledge without
character is a powerful evil. Knowledge
without action is useless; action without
knowledge is foolishness.
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Learn to adopt, adjust and
accomodate. Learn to give, not to take, learn
to serve, not to rule.
Less luggage, more comfort
is a slogan for a journey of life; reduce
desires, loosen attachment, you will win
freedom.
Let the name of the Lord
come from the core of your heart. It should
not come merely from the lips. It should be
chanted with love and faith.
Let your boat be on the
waters, but do not allow the waters to enter
the boat. Be in the world, but not of it. That
is the secret of a truly happy life.
Life can be peaceful only
when you can control excitement of your body
and mind, life is undoubtedly incomplete
without thought about God.
Life is a journey from "I"
to "WE".
Life is enveloped in the
bitter skin of lust, anger, greed, attachment
and jealousy; remove the skin and throw it
away so that the sweetness can be tasted.
Love in thought is truth.
Love in action is right conduct.
Love in understanding is peace.
Love in feeling is non-violence.
Love lives by giving and
forgiving; self lives by getting and
forgetting.
Love saturates all
activities with joy and peace.
Love ennobles the least and the lowest.
Love yourself for the God that it embodies.
Love others for the God that is enshrined in
them.
Love the Lord's creation as
much as the Lord Himself. Then the tree of
life will yield the sweet fruit of Madhura
Bhakthi.
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Measure the height you have
reached with the yard stick of virtue,
serenity, fortitude and equanimity.
Mind, word and act, all
three must be filled with the belief that all
is His play, that is the genuine path.
Name of the God is the
rifle which guards you against the beasts of
prey in the jungle of life. Name of God is the
most effective tonic, it will keep off all
illness.
Not by wealth or progeny,
neither by reading or listening but only by
sacrifice can you get the vision of the
divine. Sacrifice of ego is the highest
sadhana.
Objective possessions and
subjective passions are handicaps in the race
of realization.
Offer God real flower grown
in the garden of your heart; fragrant,
beautiful and delighting.
Offering all the deeds of
man at the feet of the Lord is the real yajna.
Every action performed by man must be
considered as an offering to the Lord and as
the Lord's work itself.
Only in fear of sin can you
experience peace and nonviolence. Only in love
of God can you foster truth and love. In
social morality you can experience
righteousness.
Only through renunciation
can immortality (oneness with God) be
attained.
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Peace of mind cannot be
gained by wealth or fame or skill. It can be
achieved only through sacrifice.
Peace or distraction, calm
or anxiety, it is the product of one's
thoughts and deeds.
Prayer alone makes life
happy, harmonious and worth living in this
universe. Prayer brings man and God together
and with every sigh nearer and nearer.
Prayer is the yearning one
experiences to awaken the divinity latent in
the heart. Prayer is not pronouncing of words.
Prayer reveals the real
secret of life, prayer will succeed when
thoughts are pure.
Properties are not proper
ties.
Pursuit of material
pleasures will be like nectar at first, but
like poison at the end.
Religions are many, but the
road is the same. Flowers are many, but
worship is the same, professions are many but
living is the same.
Remember that God is not
someone else, but one's own inner self.
Remember that if there is
anything sweeter than all sweet things, more
auspicious than all auspicious things, holier
than all holy objects, verily it is the name
of the Lord.
Remember there is no
morality higher than truth. There is no prayer
more fruitful than seva.
Remove from the garden of
your heart, the thorny bushes of greed, anger,
jealousy and selfishness.
Reverence for all life in
thought, word and deed is nonviolence.
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Sadhana leads to Truth
Satkarma leads to Dharma
Bhakti leads to Peace
Upasana leads to Love.
Science is below the mind,
spirituality is beyond the mind.
Science without religion is
lame. Religion without science is blind.
Service is the ship by
which one can cross the ocean of samsara
(life)
Service to man is the
highest form of worship. Do not offend or harm
anyone.
Seva (service) taken up as
Sadhana (discipline) teaches Sahana
(patience).
So long as man is not able
to push away the clouds of selfishness, he
cannot look at the sun of wisdom.
Success or failure is your
own making. You decide your destiny. The Lord
has no share in deciding it.
Suffering entitles you more
to the Grace of the Lord. When suffering comes
in waves, one behind the other, be glad that
the shore is near, bear them bravely. Like
cowards, do not throw the blame on some
outside power or develop dislike for the Lord.
The bird with you - the
wings with me.
The foot with you - the way with me.
The eye with you - the form with me.
The thing with you - the dream with me.
The world with you - so we are bound.
So we begin - and so we end.
You in me - and I in you.
The day when we understand
that every thing belongs to God, that will be
the dawn of knowledge.
The essence of all the
Puranas and Vedas is "Do good to others and
keep away from doing harm to others".
The good hearted man who
professes no religion is the truly religious
man.
There is nothing in the
universe higher than God; different from God;
distinct from God.
Those who walk with God
always reach their destination.
Through reading you gather
information but through service you get
transformation.
Truth is the sustaining
factor behind all, it is the very core and
essence of divine life.
Unless God's Grace and
human effort come together the result cannot
be achieved.
Use the body as a boat to
cross the ocean of life with devotion and
detachment.
Water flows from a higher
level to the lower. God's Grace too flows down
to those who are bent with humility.
We do no get what we
desire, we get what we deserve.
Wealth that you hoard is
not yours, wealth that you have given is
really yours.
Yesterday has deceived you
and gone, tomorrow is a doubtful visitor.
Today is a fast friend, hold fast to it.
You cannot always oblige
but you can be obliging.
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You cannot claim to be
educated or grown up unless you have mastered
the science of self control and destroyed the
root cause of delusion.
You must give up the
luggage of your desires and wishes and thus
make life less burdensome.
You must surrender your
judgement to the Lord, then Lord will assume
full responsibility.
You need offer only two
things to God - pure love and selfless
service.
Your life can be peaceful
only when you can control your excitement of
the body and mind.
Your virtue is your shield,
your vice is the weapon that inflicts wounds
on you.
Destroying pride man
becomes endearing;
Destroying anger man gets rid of sorrow
Destroying desire man acquires peace;
Destroying greed man achieves happiness.
Bear in mind the three P's:
Purity, Patience and Perseverance. With these
three, you are bound to acquire good health
and bliss
Action with Love is Right
Conduct.
Speak with Love and it becomes Truth.
Thinking with Love results in Peace.
Understanding with Love leads to non-violence
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What is devotion? It is not
merely offering several types of worship or
going on pilgrimage. Unalloyed and true love
for love's sake alone constitutes devotion.
True devotion is the love flowing from a pure
heart unpolluted by selfish motives.
Humanness can be promoted
only through spirituality and not by any other
means. Just as a seed can sprout only when it
is planted in the soil and watered, human
values can grow only in a spiritual soil. If a
man wants to cultivate human values, he has to
apply the manure of spirituality to his heart,
water it with love so that human values will
grow
While taking food, you
should not discuss dreadful incidents. No room
should be given to subjects which excite the
mind. Silence should prevail during eating.
Even sound waves enter into us and affect our
minds. Hence people should avoid seeing
television while taking food.
Spirituality does not mean
leading a lonely ascetic life. Spirituality
means getting rid of attachment and hatred and
looking upon the whole humanity as one.
I know your name, your
degrees, your profession, your status and your
history. I know your past, present and future.
But you do not know me. That is why sometimes
in order to reveal who I am, I myself show my
visiting card, something which you call a
miracle.
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It is not enough to praise
God. You have to love Him. You have to become
Love itself so that you can love the entire
universe. When you become embodiments of Love,
you can love all.
To earn the Grace of the
Divine, the easy way is surrendering at the
Feet of the Lord. There is so much power in
the feet of the Lord which you cannot
understand. The feet form the basis for not
only the physical frame of the body, but also
for spiritual and ethical purposes.
There is no greater penance
than contentment for securing happiness.
There is no worse disease than insatiable
desire.
There is no greater virtue than compassion.
Peace is the highest spiritual discipline.
Hold all your property and
wealth in trust for the Lord, who gave them to
you. Even you and your family, you must take
as a sacred trust, as persons given to you by
the Lord to love, foster and guide. Thus you
must elevate your attachment into worship and
make it an instrument of spiritual progress.
Be like the ant: When the
ant gets a mixture of sand and sugar it
selects only the sugar. It neglects the sand.
See only the good in others; pay no attention
to the bad.
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Devotion to God does not
mean merely offering worship in a shrine or
taking part in Bhajan or Sankirtan; one must
recognize the form of the Divine in the images
one worships or the human beings one serves
The only hold that man has
in this dreadful darkness is the name of God.
That is the raft which will take Him across
this stormy sea darkened by hate and fear,
churned by anxiety and terror.
The affection between a
mother and a child or between a husband and
wife is incidental to a certain temporary
relationship and is not real love at all. True
Love has neither a beginning nor an end. It
exists in all three categories of time - past,
present and future. That alone is true Love
which can fill man with enduring Bliss.
Discipline grows out of
devotion. Devotion stems out of duty. Observe
the three D's - Discipline, Devotion and Duty.
This is true spirituality. In the performance
of every duty there should be devotion. There
should be devotion and not diversion.
Fulfillment in life is not
attained by physical health and strength
alone. Even when the stomach is full, the mind
must get the satisfaction. Hence, effort
should be made to promote mental health also.
Only when both the mind and the body are hale
and well, can one experience happiness.
/ alone bestows the supreme good
/ alone is the destroyer of the cycle of existence
Devotion
\ alone is the means of recognizing divinity
\ alone is the means of liberation.
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Welcome good company.
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Eschew all association
with the evil minded.
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Perform meritorious acts
ceaselessly.
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Always discriminate
between the transient and the ever lasting
Truth is the mother
Wisdom is the father
Right conduct is the brother
Compassion is the friend
Peace is the spouse
Forgiveness is the son
These six alone are the real relations for
every one.
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