Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the real you sleeping in your heart.
All religions exhort us to cleanse the heart of malice, greed, hate and anger. All religions hold out the gift of Grace as the prize for success in this cleaning process.
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.
When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has travelled only from himself to himself.
The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
Now you worship His Form, you repeat His name; ignoring His orders. Without practicing the discipline laid down by Rama to purify the mind, all else is mere show, empty rituals.
Familiarity with books is not knowledge. One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning.
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
Service without ideal of self…trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realise that the human community is one and indivisible.
