Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
Thoughts are the medium through which the ego, the limited self, appears and paves the way for all our likes and dislikes, pleasure and pain.
Mother, father and teacher are best guides of a person; that person is really lucky whose parents are virtuous as they will always guide him to the right way and always think good for him.
Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.
To exercise forgiveness is a great act. Forgiveness is equal to ablutions at all places of pilgrimage. Forgiveness ensures your salvation. There is no virtue equal to forgiveness.
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
Universal religion has no location in time or space. Its area is infinite, like the God it preaches. It is an experience. It is God-consciousness… All religions are challenged today by a common enemy: the rising tide of skepticism and secularism.
Do not take this material world so seriously because it is always changing. Something terrible that you take so seriously today is going to change tomorrow.
People do not know what the name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify your mind completely…
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves!
