O Lord! I may have increased desire for the objective world like other people but with this difference that I shall look upon it as Thyself without any idea of duality.
-A Spiritual Leader "Utpaladeva"
O Lord! I may have increased desire for the objective world like other people but with this difference that I shall look upon it as Thyself without any idea of duality.
Just look at your poor "foresight" and you will realize; the things that you are so
keen to achieve, once accomplished, in a matter of few days begin to pinch you
like a thorn.
-Deep Trivedi
Rituals that are performed with the desire of attaining salvation also help a man to achieve growth and progress in this world.
For which of you desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Whatever we are doing, believing, thinking, desiring, understanding, feeling – if we are not aware of them while aware of ourselves in the present – we are asleep, and all are but embers of a dream.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn, out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.