Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
Contemplating upon divine qualities, performing good deeds and chanting are all ways of destroying delusion through satsang.
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
Things that are real are given and received in silence. God has been everlastingly working in silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His infinite silence.
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.
A man’s value depends upon his courage and resolution, his veracity depends upon his traits of nobility and self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible
Worldly entanglements will always remain. Get over them with the help of strong will power and right attitude.
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…
The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.
