This is India. This is our heredity and legacy. We have always stood for propriety, ethics and righteousness. We cannot behave in any manner we like. There should be dignity and elegance in whatever we do.
Read MoreFor gaining courage in increasing and resourceful measures, you have to look, however, to your own within. Break through the mortal sheaths of your body. Rise above the mind-sheath. Penetrate the intellectual one also.
Read MoreWhile feeding the child, have the thought that the feed should instill in him good and sustainable health and inner stimulations. Whichever sense-organ of the child responds, through that provide the most sublime and elevating sensation.
Read MoreLet your focus be on these: Expansion of the mind; elevation of your attitude; and excellence in action. When all these three are blended together, it becomes a truly transformed personality – a new personality. This is the true purpose of religion and spirituality.
Read MoreYou should develop an austere temper as a result of which, even under physical sickness – of course, you should give proper medical attention to it – your mind is not subdued by it. Let not any physical sickness paralyse or weaken your spiritual mind. If the body suffers from ill-health attend to the physical condition medically, but for most part rely on the virtue of your mind – its strength and inspiration.
Read MoreAny obstinate note is a killing factor! It takes away peace; it takes away the blessedness; it takes away health; it destroys inner wealth; it destroys the person.
Read MoreMoksha is a clarity, a freedom that you need from whatever troubles you have now. If there is no trouble, you don’t need moksha.
Read MoreMind can also be said to be something alien to the Soul, which veils the latter in a mysterious manner. It is all a question of which description suits your taste and becomes comprehensible for you
Read MoreIt is only to inculcate purity that all the religious and spiritual practices and disciplines have been evolved. Through all these practices, once purity is attained, meditational absorption will become easy and spontaneous.
Read MoreIf you are able to sublimate desire, intolerance and fear, the mind becomes most flexible, most refined and delightful. It is a very, very simple process.
Read MoreBirth and rebirth are tentative propositions, one visible and the other invisible, to help man think about continuity of existence. When his sense of enquiry grows and deepens, this continuity will be probed, dissected as it were, to take him to the nonobject, the Subject entity,
Read MoreEverything is the effect of guṇas. Work, cessation, dream, sleep, wakefulness — all. But within these, the guṇas alone make you think, enquire, seek etc. See all as guṇas and flow with them. Do when you feel like doing. Stop and leave when you feel so. Be natural.
Read MoreWhatever you do, wherever you are, you can pursue constant introspectional sadhana of refinement and purification. In fact it should be so.
Read MoreFulfillment will be had when the mind is properly treated to become pure and the hindrances to fulfillment are removed. And, when the mind is properly developed to have fulfillment, will it need any of these external objects, situations or possessions?
Read MoreAll sorrow, confusion and difficulties about death will vanish when the mind and intelligence reflect upon the supreme Truth of immortality of the Soul
Read MoreMany of you get confused about what in us gets liberated. My reply is, whichever part in you now feels bound, will start feeling the absence of bondage.
Read MoreFor Jnana, meditation is a necessary step. But, for getting the Knowledge established, to become a Jnanin, the seeker has to outlive meditation and practise a continuous and wholesome sadhana.
Read MoreDo not then look at thoughts or memories as disturbances, unfriendly or alien. Let them come or not, mind remains as Consciousness alone. Legs are legs whether they walk or run or sit. Think of this truth and allow all the mind-work to be on
Read MoreSo, do not lose heart or make any room for disappointment. Be strengthened and enlightened more and more, through everything that comes. With that gain, go forward. You have my blessings for right growth and fulfilment. The world is wide and extensive. You will have what you rightly deserve and in the hands of which you will find elevation and fulfilment. Be sure.
Read MoreIf the insight or ambition fostered earlier does not fit in with the present situation, all that is called for is a patient re-examination of your own mind and its outlook, and then a timely correction and re-orientation, by which your mind will survive with what is the best and outstanding in it.
Read MoreCan you forestall your own death, and the resultant loss to your children? Why then construe unnecessary misery in what, through your father's death, has befallen your lot? Better wisdom lies in assimilating the event, understanding it in its own place, and developing a larger, deeper and higher mind and emotions.
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