Helpful Quotations:
- Commence a task, end it, and continue with the next one. I will take care
of the results. Maybe at the beginning you will not find it easy to give up
your expectations; you will have to instruct your intellect to go without
the results, placing your attention on something else and deliberately forgetting
about them.
- Every cell in your body contains the details of your whole being. In fact,
every cell in your body holds your whole form. There are billions of cells
in your body. While your form is immanent in each cell and in each limb in
the microcosm, your body is your macrocosmic form. In the same manner, each
one of you is the cosmic divine form. You must make efforts to fully appreciate
this reality.
- There is only one God and He is omnipresent. Do not hate other religions.
The one without love can neither be called a Muslim nor a Hindu nor a Christian
nor a Sikh. In fact, he is verily a demon on this earth.
- Tell me your company, I shall tell you what you are. As is your company,
so you become. How can one be good if one is in the company of bad people
always?
- The service to man is more valuable than what you call 'service to God'.
God has no need of your service. Please man, you please God!
- Reduce the luggage that you carry about when on the journey of life. Remember
that all that is not 'you' is luggage. The mind, the senses, the intelligence,
the imagination, the desires, the prejudices, the discontent, the stress,
- all these are items of luggage. Jettison them, soon, to make your travel
lighter, safer and more comfortable.
- If you do good, you get good from those around you and from the universal
entity, God. If you do bad, you get bad. Divinity but resounds, reflects,
reacts; God has no favourites, no prejudices.
- Every act in daily life can be sanctified by dedication it to God. By dedicating
all thoughts to God man can achieve peace. There is no need to wait for a
suitable time for embarking on this exercise. The time is at your beck and
call. Great people do not wait on time. They make time their servant.
- Hold fast to the God you believe in, despite the trials and tests, the ups
and downs of life. Win the grace of your own subconscious, so that it may
accept the grace of God, which is ever available. God does not deny anyone;
it is only you who deny God.
- You must not be a bit of blotting paper, absorbing all the passions and
emotions, all the joys and griefs that the actress nature demonstrates on
the stage of life. You must be a lotus unfolding its petals when the sun rises
in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is bron, or even the water which
sustains it!
- However high a bird may soar, it has sooner or later to perch on a tree
top, to enjoy quiet. So, too, a day will come when even the most haughty,
the most willful, the most unbelieving, even those who assert that there is
no joy or peace in the contemplation of the Higher Self, will have to pray:
'God grant me peace, grant me consolation, strength and joy'.
- Never be disheartened when you are faced with difficulties or sufferings
in life. Have firm faith in the power of the Atma (God within) will not suffer.
The panacea for all suffering is chanting of God's name. Have the firm conviction
that you are God. Never be under the mistaken notion that God
is the Master and you are His slave. You do not have a master, you are the
Master! Master the mind and be a mastermind. Never forget God's name.
- Difficulties are part and parcel of lives of great devotees. God subjects
His devotees to teste so that their faith in Him can be strengthened and their
hearts are purified. It needs a great effort on your part to cleanse a stained
vessel.
- When you offer all your love to God, He will look after all your needs.
There is nothing that He cannot do in this world. In city or hamlet, in forest
or in sky, on the high peak or in the deep ocean, God is everywhere. Space
and time are pervaded by Him. All beings are His forms. Realise this truth,
transform it into practice and enjoy the bliss.
- 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