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    Monday, November 25, 2019

    Abaya Hastha Swayambu Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, Agaram Village, Hosur Rayakotta Road

    Monday, November 25, 2019 0
    Abaya Hastha Swayambu Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, Agaram Village, Hosur Rayakotta Road

    Abaya Hastha Swayambu Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple


    Abaya Hastha Swayambu Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple is a holy Hindu religious site in the village of Agaram Agraharam in Hosur taluk of Krishnagiri district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located 15 km from Hosur on Rayakotta Road and 65 km from Bangalore.


    Hosur is a rapidly growing industrial hub as well as a famous pilgrimage centre, and is also known as Dakshina Kashi ("Southern Kashi"), since the town is surrounded by the three hills of Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma, which are not seen anywhere else in India. 


    Abaya Hastha Swayambu Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, Agaram Village, Hosur

    As per Hindu legend, a demon king named Hiranyakasipu was troubling the Devas (celestial deities). He obtained limitless powers from Brahma, that no human could kill him, nor could he be killed in morning, noon or night, nor in air, water or ground. Contrastingly, his son Prahlada was an ardent devotee of Vishnu, whom his father hated. Hiranyakasipu tried to kill Prahalada numerous times, just for him to be saved by the divine grace of Vishnu.


    During the last heated argument between the father and the son, Hiranyakasipu asked if Vishnu was present everywhere and went on to break a pillar with his weapon seeking to see Vishnu in it. Vishnu, pleased by the devotion of Prahalada, took the avatar of Narasimha and came out of the opening in the pillar. Narasimha's avatar was a lion-faced human and slayed Hiranyakasipu on an evening time in a doorway, which was neither land nor air. Ages passed by, when the sages were praying Narasimha to seek his blessings. They were guided by the pretext of Vishwamitra gaining the Rajarishi title with his prayers to Narasimha.

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    Tuesday, July 28, 2015

    UNDER STANDING HINDUISM: DEATH AND LIFE BEYOND DEATH

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    UNDER STANDING HINDUISM: DEATH AND LIFE BEYOND DEATH

    UNDER STANDING HINDUISM: DEATH AND LIFE BEYOND DEATH

     "I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence."

    UNDER STANDING HINDUISM: DEATH AND LIFE BEYOND DEATH

    Death is the most fateful experience of each of our lives. But no Hindu really fears death, nor does he look forward to it. Death for the Hindu is merely transition, simultaneously an end and a new beginning. Over two thousand years ago Saint Tiruvalluvar wrote that "Death is like falling asleep, and birth is like awakening from that sleep." In one of the ancient languages of our religion, the physical body had a name which literally meant "that which is always dropping off." When key truths are understood and accepted about the nature of the soul and the cycles of birth, life, dying, death, afterlife and rebirth, all sense of foreboding and fear of death perish. Here we explore those realities.

    What is the Eastern perspective on Death?


    For Hindus, death is nobly referred to as mahaprasthana, the "great journey." When the lessons of this life have been learned and karmas reach a point of intensity, the soul leaves the physical body, which then returns its elements to the earth. The awareness, will, memory and intelligence which we think of as ourselves continue to exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick transition from the physical world to the astral plane, like walking through a door, leaving one room and entering another. Knowing this, we approach death as a sadhana, as a spiritual opportunity, bringing a level of detachment which is difficult to achieve in the tumult of life and an urgency to strive more than ever in our search for the Divine Self. At death we drop off the physical body and continue evolving in the inner worlds in our subtle bodies, until we again enter into birth. We are not the body in which we live but the immortal soul which inhabits many bodies in its evolutionary journey.

    What is this "soul" which never dies?


    Our individual soul is the immortal and spiritual body of light that animates life and reincarnates again and again until all necessary karmas are created and resolved and its essential unity with God is fully realized. Our soul is God's emanational creation, the source of all our higher functions, including knowledge, will and love. Our soul is neither male nor female. It is that which never dies, even when its four outer sheaths change form and perish as they naturally do. The soul body has a form just as the astral body has a form, but it is more refined and is of a more permanent nature. It is this body which reincarnates, creating around itself new physical and astral bodies, life after life after life. This process matures and develops the body of the soul. The body of the soul is pure light, made of quantums. It is indestructible. It cannot be hurt or damaged in any way. It is a pure being, created by God, maturing its way to Him in final merger. The body of the soul is constant radiance. Its mind is superconsciousness, containing all intelligence, and is constantly aware, does not sleep and is expanding awareness as the soul body matures. The body of the soul lives in the eternity of the moment, simultaneously conscious of past and future as a one cycle. The true nature, everlasting secure personal identity, is realizing oneself as the soul body. This is truly finding our roots, our source, our indestructible, ever-maturing soul.

    What are the five bodies?


    In Sanskrit, the bodies of our being are called kosa, which means "sheath, vessel, container or layer." They are the sheaths through which the soul functions simultaneously in the various planes of existence. The kosas, in order of increasing subtlety, are as follows: --annamaya kosa: "Sheath composed of food." The physical body, coarsest of sheaths. --pranamaya kosa: "sheath composed of prana (vital force)." Also known as the etheric or health body, it coexists within the physical body as its source of life, breath and vitality, and is its connection with the astral body. --manomaya kosa: "Mind-formed sheath." The lower astral body. The instinctive-intellectual sheath of ordinary thought, desire and emotion. --vijnanamaya kosa: "Sheath of cognition." The mental or cognitive-intuitive sheath. It is the vehicle of higher thought, understanding, knowing, direct cognition, wisdom, intuition and creativity. --anandamaya kosa: "Body of bliss." The intuitive-superconscious sheath, the ultimate foundation of all life, intelligence and higher faculties. Anandamaya kosa is not a sheath in the same sense as the outer kosas. It is the soul itself.


    The term "astral body" names the subtle, nonphysical body in which the soul functions in the astral plane. The astral body includes the pranamaya kosa, the manomaya kosa and the vijnanamaya kosa.

    What happens at the point of death?


    As the physical forces wane, all the gross and subtle energy goes into the mental and emotional astral body. If the person was prepared for death, sudden or otherwise, his mental and emotional astral body would have already been well schooled in readiness. Sudden death to such a soul is a boon and a blessing. At death, the soul slowly becomes totally aware in its astral/mental bodies, and it predominantly lives through those bodies in the astral dimension. The soul functions with complete continuity in its astral/mental bodies. It is with these sensitive vehicles that we experience dream or "astral" worlds during sleep every night.

    When the physical body dies, this automatically severs the subtle silver cord that connects the astral and physical bodies. This cord is an astral-pranic thread that connects the astral body through the navel to the physical body. It is a little like an umbilical cord. During out-of-the-body experiences, this silver cord is often seen as a cord of light connecting the physical, astral and spiritual bodies. When the cord is cut at the death of the physical body, the process of reincarnation and rebirth begins. The Vedas say, "When a person comes to weakness, be it through old age or disease, he frees himself from these limbs just as a mango, a fig or a berry releases itself from its stalk."

    It is painful to the astral body to have the physical body cut or disturbed seriously within seventy-two hours after death. The soul can see and feel this, and it detains him from going on. As soon as you tamper with his physical body, he gets attached, becomes aware that he has two bodies, and this becomes a problem. Ideally when you die, your physical body goes up in flames, and immediately you know it's gone. You now know that the astral body is your body, and you can effortlessly release the physical body. But if you keep the old body around, then you keep the person around, and he is aware that he has two bodies. He becomes earthbound, tied into the Pretaloka, and confused.

    What are the inner worlds?

    The Sanskrit, loka, means "world, habitat, realm or plane of existence." Hinduism describes three primary lokas, as follows. --Bhuloka: "Earth world." The world perceived through the five senses, also called the gross plane, as it is the most dense of the worlds. --Antarloka: "Inner or in-between world." Known in English as the subtle or astral plane, the intermediate dimension between the physical and causal worlds, where souls in their astral bodies sojourn between incarnations and when they sleep. --Karanaloka: "World of God," and of the Gods and highly evolved souls, existing deep within the Antarloka at a higher level of vibration. It is a world of superconsciousness and extremely refined energy, the quantum level of the universe.

    Subdivisions of the Antarloka are: --Devaloka: "Place of radiant beings." The higher astral plane, or mental plane, the realm of "angels." --Pretaloka: "World of the departed." The realm of earth-bound souls, or ghosts. It is an astral duplicate of the physical world and closest to it. --Narakaloka: Abode of darkness. The lower worlds, realm of "demons." Equivalent to the Western term "hell," a gross region of the Antarloka. A congested, distressful area where beings suffer the consequences of their own misdeeds in previous lives. Described as a place of torment, pain, darkness, confusion and disease. Narakaloka is not a place where souls reside forever. Hinduism has no eternal hell.

    What determines where one goes after death?


    Where the soul goes in the astral plane at sleep or death is dependent upon his earthly pursuits and the quality of his mind. If the soul body itself is evolved, it will occupy the astral/mental bodies in the Devaloka. If somebody dies in the states of anger and fear, he goes into the lower worlds of those states of consciousness. And in that realm there would be hundreds of thousands of people in that same state of consciousness. The thoughts at death are the next samskaras of the astral body. Even if you have the thought, "When you're dead you're dead," your astral body might just float over your physical body and be "dead." A lot of people who are about to die do not believe in life after death, so they remain hovering over their physical body when it is lifeless. Astral-plane helpers have to come and "wake them up" and tell them that their physical body is dead and explain that they are all right and are alive in their astral body. It is often not easy getting them readjusted.

    At death you leave through a nerve ganglia of consciousness, a chakra. Each one is a window, and at death it becomes a portal, a doorway. The tunnel of light that is experienced by so many people at the point of death is the portal they are going through, the window, the chakra. Passing through the tunnel is leaving this world and going into another. So, it is the state of mind at death that gets you into one loka or another. At the moment of death, you have the opportunity to stabilize yourself in the highest chakra you have experienced in this life. The dying should always remember that the place where one will reincarnate is the place that he is thinking about prior to death. So, choose your desires wisely. The last thoughts just before death are the most powerful thoughts in creating the next life. Secret questionings and doubt of Hindu belief, and associations with other belief systems will automatically place him among like-minded people whose beliefs are alien to Hinduism. A nominal Hindu on Earth could be a selfish materialist in the astral world. The Hindu also knows that death must come naturally, in its own course, and that suicide only accelerates the intensity of one's karma, placing one in a lengthy earth-bound limbo state in the astral plane, bringing a series of immediate lesser births and requiring several lives for the soul to return to the exact evolutionary point that existed at the moment of suicide, at which time the still-existing karmic entanglements must again be faced and resolved.

    What should one do to prepare for death?


    Everyone is prepared to die, and whether it happens suddenly or slowly, intuitively each individual knows exactly what he is experiencing and about to experience. You don't need any counseling. It is a blessing to know when you are going to die, because then you can prepare for it, make a decision whether you are going to be reborn, do intense sadhanas, make preparations. When one knows he is going to depart the physical body, he should not hesitate to tell his relatives he is going to die, and that is a wonderful blessing for them, as they can prepare for his great departure. In turn, family and friends should release him, be happy. Don't cry; you will make him unhappy. The sadness at death comes from Western attitudes. Western thought has to be reversed. He should consciously go over his wealth, his properties, be the executor of his own will, taking care of everybody, not leaving these things to others to deal with after his passing. After everything is settled, all personal possessions disposed of, then he begins meditation and awaits the fruitful hour, trying to exit through the highest chakra of the attainment of this life.

    The ideal is to leave through the top of the head, through the door of Brahman, to get into the highest heaven and not have to come back. The dying person should, at the time of transition, concentrate awareness at the top of his head and willfully draw up into it all the energies from the left and right legs and arms, one after another, then the energy within the entire torso, and all the energies within the spine, from the muladhara chakra, up into the third eye and crown chakras. With all the energies gathered at the top of his head, he will leave through the highest chakra he experienced this lifetime. This would put him in a great place in the inner world.

    Prolonging the life of the individual body must be done by the individual himself. Medical assistance is needed to cauterize wounds and provide the numerous helpful things that are available, but to prolong life in the debilitated physical body past the point that the natural will of the person has sustained is to incarcerate, to jail, to place that person in prison. Ayurvedic medicine seeks to keep a person healthy and strong, but not to interfere with the process of death.

    Should I fear death?


    Our soul never dies; only the physical body dies. We are not the physical body, mind or emotions. We are the immortal soul, atman. We neither fear death nor look forward to it, but revere it as a most exalted experience. Life, death and the afterlife are all part of our path to perfect oneness with God. People wonder whether death is a painful process, such as in the case of cancer victims. Cancer, which produces a lot of pain, is a process of life which results in death, but death itself is not painful. Death itself is blissful. Death is like a meditation, a samadhi. That's why it is called maha (great) samadhi. A Hindu is prepared from childhood for that mahasamadhi. Remember, pain is not part of the process of death. That is the process of life, which results in death. Death takes place in a short period, but is a foreboding affair to those who have never meditated. But dying is not such a dramatic experience really. Every night you "die" and leave your physical body. It is very similar.

    The fear of death is a natural instinctive reflex. We encounter it sometimes daily, once a month, or at least once a year when we come face to face with the possibility of obliteration of our personality and of leaving the conscious mind. The fear of change or fear of the unknown is an ominous element in the destiny of a human being. The study and comprehension of the laws of reincarnation can alleviate this fear and bring an enlightened vision of the cosmic rhythms of life and death. It is a simple process, no more fantastic than other growth problems we experience daily. Death, like birth, has been repeated so many times that it is no mystery to the soul. The only problem comes with conflicting beliefs, which produce fear and anxiety about death. This temporary ignorance soon subsides when the failing forces of the physical body reach a certain level. At this point, the superconscious intelligence, the soul itself, is there.

    Why must we return to a physical body?


    Certain karmas can be resolved only in the physical world. This is due to the fact that on the refined inner planes only three or four of the higher chakras are activated; the others are dormant. For nirvikalpa samadhi, all seven chakras, as well as the three major energy currents, have to be functioning to sustain enough kundalini force to burst through to the Self. At the right time, the soul is reborn into a flesh body that will best fulfill its karmic pattern. In this process, the current astral body--which is a duplicate of the last physical form--is sloughed off as a lifeless shell that in due course disintegrates, and a new astral body develops as the new physical body grows. This entering into another body is called reincarnation, "re-occupying the flesh." Generally, the soul, at the time of conception, chooses the body he will inhabit but does not actually enter the womb until the infant body takes life and begins to move and kick.

    During our numerous Earth lives, a remarkable variety of life patterns is experienced. We exist as male and female, often switching back and forth from life to life as the nature becomes more harmonized into a person exhibiting both feminine nurturing and masculine intrepidness. Therefore, the Hindu knows that the belief in a single life on Earth, followed by eternal joy or pain is utterly wrong and causes great anxiety, confusion and fear. Hindus know that all souls reincarnate, take one body and then another, evolving through experience over long periods of time. Like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into the butterfly, death doesn't end our existence but frees us to pursue an even greater development. Reincarnation ceases when dharma has been well performed, earthly karma is resolved, God is fully realized and moksha, liberation, is attained.
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    Sunday, July 26, 2015

    Sai Baba of Shirdi/Quotes

    Sunday, July 26, 2015 0
    Sai Baba of Shirdi/Quotes

    Sai Baba of Shirdi/Quotes

     Sai Baba of Shirdi, also known as Shirdi Sai Baba, was an Indian spiritual master who is regarded by his devotees as a saint and a fakir. He is revered by both his Hindu and Muslim devotees during, as well as after his lifetime.

    Quotes from Shirdi Sai Baba

    •  Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

    • The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

    • You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

    • 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.

    • Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

    • I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster.

    • I shall be with you, wherever 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.


    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.


    • Cultivate nearness with Me in the heart and it will be rewarded. Then you too will acquire a fraction of that Supreme Love.


    Love as Thought is Truth.

    Love as Action is Right Conduct.

    Love as Understanding is Peace.

    Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

    Duty without love is deplorable.

    Duty with love is desirable.

    Love without duty is Divine.

    • Your heart must be transparent, like glass, with spiritual light within illuminating the whole world.

    • 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.

    • 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 are 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;

    Shanthi is the mark of My personality;

    Prema is my very Nature.

    Peace is shore less 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.

    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.

    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 virtuous 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 yardstick 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.

    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.

    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 you think you are;

    The one 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.

    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.

    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. Breathe God. Realize the Truth and the other things will take care of themselves.

    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, and 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.

    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.

    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.

    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

    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?

    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. 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.

    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 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 Shanthi for the individual as well as for society.

    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 Bhakti, 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.

    Do not crave for recognition and respect from others; crave rather for winning grace from the Lord.

    God is love, live in love.

    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.

    When hatred sprouts, Envy raises its hood.

    When Love sprouts, Peace descends like dew.

    Life is the car, your heart is the key and God is the chauffeur.

    Expand yourselves; do not contract into your own tiny individuality.

    Foster Love

    Live in Love

    Spread Love

    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.

    Meaning of WATCH

        W [your] Words

        A  [your] Action

        T [your] Thoughts

        C [your] Character

        H [your] Heart

    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...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.

    Politics without principles,

    Education without character,

    Science without humanity, and

    Commerce without morality

    Are not only useless, but also 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 equilibrium maintained.

    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 rising 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;

    Its 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 traveled 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, occurring 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.

    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.

    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 our conduct and ourselves.

    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, and 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!

    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!

    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; sympathize with suffering and loss and ignorance: try your best to apply the salve of soothing words and timely succor.

    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 behavior.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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 treetop, 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 are 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.

    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.

    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 virtuous talk; where you study holy books and discourses on the glory of God.

    All works are God's. He inspires, He helps, He executes, He enjoys, He is pleased, He reaps and 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 practiced - 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 sympathize 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.

    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 judgments 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).

    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


    Source :  Quotes from Shirdi Sai Baba
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