Familiarity with books is not knowledge. One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning.
When a man honours his father and mother, God says, “I regard it as though I had dwelt among them and they had honoured me."
That which gives pleasure to one man gives pain to another. That sage who identifies himself with the imperishable Self and stands as a spectator of the mental modifications enjoys supreme peace and infinite bliss.
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
The sun, symbolising wisdom, divine knowledge and spiritual light, which receded from you when you revelled in the darkness of ignorance, delusion and sensuality, now joyously turns on its northward course and moves towards you to shed its light and warmth in greater abundance, and to infuse into you more life and energy.
