Guest guest Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 12.0pt"> auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4"> bold">SAI HUMOR AND GOLDEN WORDS OF WISDOM FROM SWAMI auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4"> bold">Puttaparthi: When visiting the ashram to see Baba, He tells us that if we leave our egos behind and come with open hearts, He can fill them with love He has come to give. So when visiting Puttaparthi we should PUT APART THE ‘I’. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Properties: are not Proper Ties. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:fuchsia;font-weight:bold">Parents: are given that name, because it is through them that we have the wonderful chance of life on earth. For the sacrifices that they have made for us, we must PAY RENTS to them. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Peace: People clamor "I want Peace", but they do not let go of I (ego) or Want (desire). I and Want deal with the outside world. Peace is inside, pieces are outside. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:fuchsia;font-weight:bold">Patience: Doctors need more patience, not patients. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Interview: Don't clamor for an interview. Instead search for the INNER VIEW. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:fuchsia;font-weight:bold">Diamond: Why do you seek a diamond to give you joy? Seek instead the state of DIE MIND, which will give you pure and lasting joy. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Skill: Knowledge must develop by balance into skill or else it degenerates into KILL. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:fuchsia;font-weight:bold">Hello: Do not greet anybody when the heart is filled with anger distrust etc. Have, instead, a pure hollow from which a whole hearted Hello emanates. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Television: is TELE-VISHAM (POISON). auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Study: to be STEADY. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:1;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:red;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;font-weight:bold">QUOTES FROM SWAMI font-weight:bold"> auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Start the Day with Love; Spend the Day with Love; Fill the Day with Love; End the Day with Love; This is the way to God. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Your heart must be transparent, like glass, with spiritual light within illuminating the whole world. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">I shall be with you, where ever you are, guarding you and guiding you. March on, have no fear. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Duty is God; Work is worship. Even the tiniest work is a flower placed at the Feet of God. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Cultivate nearness with Me in the heart and it will be rewarded. Then you too will acquire a fraction of that Supreme Love. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Peace can only be won the hard way, by eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individual. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do but in liking what one has to do. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The end of wisdom is freedom. The end of culture is perfection. The end of knowledge is love. The end of education is character. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">First you must grapple with the fact that duty is God and start doing your duty. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith - so that Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Transmuting "man" into "God" and experiencing that Ananda or Bliss is the one and only achievement for which life is to be devoted. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The minimum qualifications for Grace are surrender of ego. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The treasure that is precious is the quality of even mindedness in all situations. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The joy of being the master of senses is far greater than being their slave. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Your progress is reflected back as Grace, your decline is reflected back as its absence. The mirror just reflects. It has no partiality or prejudice. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Sathya is what I teach; Dharma is the way I live; Shanthi is the mark of My personality; Prema is my very Nature. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Peace is shoreless ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Virtue is the sign of the educated person. This is what makes education worthwhile. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">God can be felt and experienced only in the deepest depths of silence. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">To help the helpless is the only way to please, follow and reach Him. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">You are in the Light, and then the Light is in you, You are the Light. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, and ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Devotion has to be unintermittent, uninterrupted, like the flow of oil from one vessel to another. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Human society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Bear all and do nothing; Hear all and say nothing; Give all and take nothing; Serve all and be nothing. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Man minus immorality is Immortality. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">God is for those, who are not for themselves. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">So long as the sugar is on the tongue, you feel the sweetness in taste. Similarly, so long as the heart has love, peace and devotion, you feel the bliss. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">If you will not rise above the things of the world, they will rise above you. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Praying is your task; what happens to the prayer is dependent on the Grace of God. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Seek out your faults and others' merits. Seeking others' faults is dire sin. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Earning money cannot be the purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride, impatience and cowardice. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Follow the Master; Face the devil; Fight to the end; Finish the goal. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">If animal feelings are washed out, Divine feelings begin to overflow instead. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">In the innermost recess of your heart there is a reservoir of peace where you must take refuge. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Employ yourself usefully. Be like a trustee, holding on trust, on behalf of God, for the purpose which He likes and approves. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">All are expressions of the same God, as bulbs lit by the same current through manifold colors and wattage. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Have faith in His Grace and lead a virtuous life, a life devoted to the service of the weak; a life spent in the thought about the might and glory of God. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The refinement of an individual is measured by the yard stick of sense control. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">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. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">See God in every one you meet; see God in every thing you handle. Live together, revere each other, let not the seeds of envy and hate grow and choke the clear stream of Love. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of fragrance. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Be in the world, but let not the world be in you. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Be like the lions in the spiritual field, rule over the forest of the senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The heart with compassion is the temple of God. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4"> bold">Start early, auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4"> bold">Drive slowly, auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Reach safely. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Watch your Words, Action, Thoughts, Character and Heart. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Education softens the heart. If the heart is hard, one cannot claim to be educated. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Faith in ourselves and faith in God: this is the secret of Greatness, for God is Love. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Good ideas, good conduct and adherence to Truth should result from our education. Only those who acquire these qualities can be called truly educated. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Devotion to the Divine will give you Bliss, Prosperity and Peace. It cannot inflict pain, perturbation or personal anxiety. It fosters love and brings all together as one band of brothers. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Every action of yours at the present time is bound to have a reaction, resound and reflection in the future. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Reach the point where churches, temples, mosques do not matter, where all roads end, from where all roads run. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Doing one's duty, however small, in an unattached manner gives rise to the awakening of self awareness. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Bend the body, mend the senses and end the mind - this is the way to Immortality. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Why fear when I am here? Put all your faith in Me. I shall guide you and guard you. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Try within your means to satisfy the needs of the poor. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">If you place complete faith in the Lord at all times, you will receive His Grace. Grace takes away the pain of Karma. The Lord can save man completely from Karma. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">God has no preferences and prejudices; His is but reaction, reflection and resound. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Where there is Faith, there is Love; Where there is Love, there is Peace; Where there is Peace, there is Truth; Where there is Truth, there is God; Where there is God, there is Bliss. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Life is Love, enjoy it; Life is Challenge, meet it; Life is a Song, sing it; Life is a Dream, realize it; Life is a Game, play it; Life is a Goal. Achieve it. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Ego lives by getting and forgetting; Love lives by giving and forgiving; Love is expansion; Self is contraction; Self is lovelessness; Love is selflessness. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">There is only one religion, the religion of Love; There is only one language, the language of the Heart; There is only one caste, the caste of Humanity; There is only one law, the law of Karma; There is only one God, He is Omnipresent. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Haste makes waste; Waste makes worry; So do not be in a hurry. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">You are not one person, but three: The one think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Money comes and goes; morality comes and grows. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Nations are many, but Earth is one; Beings are many, but Breath is one; Stars are many, but Sky is one; Oceans are many, but Water is one; Religions are many, but God is one; Jewels are many, but Gold is one; Appearances are many, but Reality is One. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Come just one step forward, I shall take a hundred towards you. Shed one tear, I shall wipe a hundred from your eyes. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The proof of rain is in the wetness of the ground; the proof of devotion is in the peace the aspirant has attained. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Every experience is a lesson, every loss is a gain. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">You should completely forget the help rendered by you to others and the harm done to you by others. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">If wealth is lost, nothing is lost. If health is lost, something is lost. If character is lost, all is lost. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The body has to be utilized for service to others. More bliss can be got from serving others than from merely serving oneself. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">You should consider every individual as God. This is true worship. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">You are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves, to the God in you, the God who is equally present in others. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">If it is good and will harm no one, go ahead. If it is not good, put it aside. If not sure, do nothing until sure. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">What is needed today is that we should lead a life of good quality. The fostering of sterling character and good conduct is the need of the world. Once we have greater numbers of such people of good quality, the country and the world will become prosperous and peaceful. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">You must act ever in the consciousness of your divinity and recognize in each being, a brother, a child of God. The whole world is one family. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The only permanent change is slow, steady change. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain, insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Failures are stepping stones to success. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Individual spiritual practice is the negative pole and service is the positive pole. The conjunction of both poles can alone bring success. The mind carries the divine principle (the light of love) and conveys it to all who contact it. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">We can be successful leaders only if we are disciplined followers, who do not issue commands to others but rather set an example of service in our actions. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">If you have the inclination to do good work, God will give you the time to do good things. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Man falsely imagines "I am doing this", "I am planning this". It is the supreme, all pervasive consciousness that motivates, unfolds the skills and operates the intellect. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Let God work through you and there will be no more duty. Let God shine forth. Let God show Himself. Live God, Eat God. Drink God. Breathe God. Realize the Truth and the other things will take care of themselves. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">What you would desire others to do for you, you should do for others. You should respect others as you want to be respected by them. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Love all men without distinction; Know that mankind is a single community. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Is the intention pure, selfless, born out of love? Is it based on truth? Does it result in peace? If so, it is a right action. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">True humanness consists of a continuous series of tiny acts executed with absolute sincerity and largeness of heart. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The quality of one's feelings determines one's future. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Think before speaking, Think before acting. Then go ahead if you feel good about it. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">See good Hear good Speak good Do good Be good auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Every being in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses. Even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. No life will be a failure. There is no such thing as failure in the universe. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">More than listening to a hundred lectures or delivering them to others, offering one act as genuine service attracts the Grace of God. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">We should not aspire for acclaim and praise from those around us, but do service only to secure the Grace of God and not for any other reward from any one. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Bury bad thoughts under good ones. Then the bad ones will just fade away and be forgotten. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Living is not enough; it has no value by itself. It is the motives, the feelings, the thoughts, the attitudes that prompt the day to day life that matters. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Secure spiritual bliss first and then try to convey it to those who thirst. When the tank is dry, how can the taps give water? auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Always try to put yourself in the position of the other and judge your action against the background. Then you will not be wrong. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Honor all religions. Each is a pathway to God. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Impurity is a mere superimposition under which the real nature of man has been hidden. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Where divinity is sought after, one ought always to behave in the spirit of Love, devoid of the slightest trace of hate, envy and anger. When one cultivates the inner look, one attains the conviction of the basic equality of all. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">What is heard has to be pondered over. What is pondered over has to be put into practice. It is only when all three are accomplished that the realization of Bliss can be attained. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The pure heart is the best mirror for the reflection of Truth. So all these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. As soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">O Lord, take my love and let it flow in fullness of devotion to Thee. O Lord, take my hands and let them work incessantly for Thee. O Lord, take my soul and let it be merged in oneness with Thee. O Lord, take my mind and thoughts and let them be in tune with Thee. O Lord, take my everything and let me be an instrument for thy work. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Religion is three-fourths character. Only those who preserve character can be pronounced truly religious. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Desire destroys devotion, anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work - hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed. With good and sweet words, keeping desires under check and control (for ultimate removal), one should start on the path of sacrifice. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Man derives all the joy and peace that he needs from within himself and not from sources outside himself. So the best spiritual discipline is: strengthen the inward vision. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Anything that helps you maintain unruffled equanimity is right action. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">True love expands the self; attachment contracts it. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Moderation in temper is virtue. Moderation in principle is a vice. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The harder the circumstances, the more trying the environment, the stronger are those who come out of those circumstances. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">That which happens physically on the outside in terms of actions is not of major importance. What is important is that which comes from inside. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">This body is the residence of God. The food you take is the offering you make to him. Your act of bathing is the ceremonial bathing of Him who is in you. The ground you walk on is His domain. The joy you gain is His gift. The grief you experience is His lesson. Remember Him ever, in sun and rain, day and night, asleep and awake. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Offer service and receive love. This is the recipe for experiencing Divinity. Our love should not be confined to our kith and kin. It must extend beyond the family to society as a whole, then to the nation at large and finally embrace the whole world. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love and not by any other means. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">It is not what you have achieved that is important. It is the broadness of heart that has motivated you to do work that counts. Being broad minded with a selfless attitude, humility and obedience, you should try to share the difficulties of others around you. It is the purity of heart that is more important than the magnitude of the work itself. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities, selfless service cannot be performed. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">God will not ask you when and where you did service. He will ask, with what motive did you do it? What was the intention that prompted you? You may weigh the service and boast of its quantity. But God seeks quality - the quality of heart, the purity of mind, the holiness of motive. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Living with God is education Living for God is Service Living in God is Realization auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Unity is Divinity. Purity is Enlightenment. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Reform the body, reconstruct the mind, regulate the way of living, then, the country will become automatically strong and prosperous. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Before you speak, Think -Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Will it hurt anyone? Will it improve on the silence? auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The first step in the Sadhana is the cleansing of the speech. Talk sweet without anger. Do not boast of your scholarship or attainments. Be humble, eager to serve; conserve your speech. Practice silence. That will save you from squabbles, frittering thoughts and faction. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Spend a few minutes every morning and evening in the Silence of your own shrine or home; spend them with the highest of all the Powers that you know of. Be in His elevating and Inspiring company; worship Him mentally; offer unto Him all the work you do; you will come out of the silence nobler and more heroic than when you went in. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Forget the harm that anyone has done to you, and forget the good that you have done to others. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Be Silent yourself, that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting, talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation, wherever you happen to be. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Learn the value of Silence, of Namasmarana, of Bhajan, of Japa, of Dhyana, of single minded remembrance of the Lord, of the association with spiritually kin. These will stand you in good stead, when distress assails you. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The less you talk, the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity, there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently, you will give up "individual discrimination". Because of this, you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">The voice of God can be heard in the region of your heart when the tongue is stilled and the storm is tilled and the waves are calm. There will be no temptations for others to shout when you talk to them in whispers. Set the level of the tone yourself; as low as possible, as high as necessary to reach the outermost boundary of the circle you are addressing. Conserve sound, since it is the treasure of the element Akasha, an emanation from God Himself. Reason can prevail only when arguments are advanced without the whipping up of sound. Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine love. Hate screeches, fear squeals, conceit trumpets. But love sings lullabies. It soothes. It applies balm. Practice the vocabulary of love; unlearn the language of hate and contempt. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. That will help you in many ways. It will develop Prema, for most misunderstandings and factions arise out of carelessly spoken words. When the foot slips, the wound can be healed; but when the tongue slips, the wound it causes in the heart of another will fester for life. The tongue is liable to four big errors: uttering falsehood, scandalizing, finding fault with others, and excessive speech. All these have to be avoided if there is to be Shanthi for the individual as well as for society. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Good works never languish for want of funds; the Lord will come to their rescue. Only it may take some time; do not lose heart... You should not collect money in devious ways. Help should come from pious hearts, from well earned money, from persons who know and appreciate the purpose for which they give. That is why I oppose all benefit shows, where you tempt people with a dance or a drama or a film and collect money for your pet plan. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">In all effort, if you trust in a Higher Power which is ready to come to your help, work is made easy. This comes out of Bhakti, reliance on the Lord, the source of all Power. When you travel by train, you have only to purchase the ticket, enter the proper train and take a seat, leaving the rest to the engine. Why should you carry the bed and trunk on your head? So too put your trust in the Lord and carry on to the best of your ability. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">You have been born because you did not pass in certain subjects; there is some balance of experience which you must acquire to complete the course. If you get convinced that your true nature is the Atma, then you have finished the course and 'passed'. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">You should see that no dirt settles upon the mind; that is to say, you should move about in such company that dirt is avoided. Falsehood, injustice, indiscipline, cruelty, hate -- these form the dirt; Sathya, Dharma, Shanthi, Prema -- these form the clean elements. If you inhale the pure air of these latter, your mind will be free from evil bacilli and you will be mentally sturdy and physically strong. auto;text-align:center;mso-outline-level:4;xmargin-BOTTOM: 6pt"> color:blue;font-weight:bold">Courtesy: . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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