To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.
Burnt offerings, sacred feasts, intense meditations, puja and taking millions of cleansing baths at sacred shrines of pilgrimage: the merits of all these can be obtained by enshrining Lord within your heart for a fraction of a second.
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
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."
