PN Prasad Posted June 30, 2003 Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 "A devotee is not there even for wisdom. He simply is in love. He has fallen in deep love with the master, with the infinity, with God. He doesn’t care whether he gets enlightened or not." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted June 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 "Devotion is very beautiful. A student comes to a master, a teacher, a guru, with tears in his eyes, there is so much problems. And when he leaves he carries the same tears, but the quality of the tear is different; it’s of gratitude. Still tears flow, but they are of gratitude, of love." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted June 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 "A devotee will never fall. He cannot fall. There is no chance for it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted June 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 "Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit. The mind keeps crying and crying until it finds the spirit! When the mind unites with the spirit then real celebration happens." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted June 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 "Life is the process of "churning." Your mind is being churned by so many things, events happening. Your mind is churned and churned and churned, and finally, the "butter" comes---it's the sainthood, the saintliness in you." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted June 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 "As long as there is ego, there is no Divine Love; and when there is Divine Love, the ego---there is no sign of it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted June 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 "If you want to grow in Divine Love, you have got to drop the pride and all of the artificial wall we build between ourselves and others. In the "wall" we keep judging others, and we think others are judging us." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted June 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 "The path of love is not a tedious path. It's a path of joy. It's a path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted June 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 "Devotion (Love) is the ultimate flowering, and you cannot force it to happen. It is a gift to you, again, it's a gift to you. It's a happening, a spontaneous phenomenon." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingentity Posted June 30, 2003 Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 I have collected these quotes from various devotees from all the Sampradayas. Many of the quotes can be found indirectly in the hymns of the Alvars. Some of them are from great devotees like Sri Lakshmi Thathachar (Melkote - Sri Sampradaya), Sri Bannanje Govindacharya (Udupi - Sri Madhva Sampradaya) and Sri Sri RaviShankar (Advaita philosopher). I have many other quotes about devotion to the Supreme Lord by various teachers from the Advaita, Dvaita and Vishistadvaita Vidya peethas (study centres). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingentity Posted July 1, 2003 Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 You build a world in your mind only through your intentions, your own thought processes. You go on building a castle: what the other person is thinking about you---they may not even think about you anything. You may simply not exist in other person's consciousness, for they are worried about themselves. But you build a big castle about what they are thinking about you in your mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 I'm happy that you liked these quotes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 You have just been overshadowed by the events in your mind---that is all that has happened. A cloud has covered the sun. What can any cloud do to the sun? Can it destroy it? Remember your nature. You are the only Soul, only Being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 Move through this world like a white cloud, unstained, untouched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 "When there is love without respect, you don't take anything very serious. When there is only respect without love, then the nearness is lost. Something wonderful is lost; something beautiful is lost. But a devotee, a disciple, is a thorough combination of both these, respect and love. That is Divine Love." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 "If you are established in non-violence, in your very presence violence will be dropped by other creatures. Someone comes to attack you, and as soon as they come near you, because your vibration is totally non-violent, they drop down. They stop being violent." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 "The mind has promised you heaven, but it is taking you to hell. You have been chasing the mind; you’re trodding behind it. It increases the hunger and thirst in you by giving a little glimpse of joy here and there." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 "There are only two relationships in which the mind can mind can burn, vanish, and dissolve---that is, surrender. And these two types of relationships: one is of servant, being a servant; as a servant, one can burn, vanish, dissolve. Another, as beloved; as beloved, one can burn, vanish and dissolve." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 In the company of one who is living Love (a devotee), you also can’t but spring into that Love (Devotion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 Nammalvar pleads with his heart to speak of God always even if it were in mockery: --------------------------- There is not a moment to rest, my heart. You could speak of Him in dispraise, Laughing if you like At the Lord of Mystery, He of the sweet tulasi wreath, At how he was beaten By a woman of the cowherds. You hang back even from that. That is your curse. --------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 'The world of man is sweet,’ says the Alvar, `but far sweeter the world of God’: --------------------- Sweet are the days of friendship, Sweet one’s family branching wide, Sweet is the love of kinsmen, Sweet are the uses of noble birth. Yet, my good heart, Do taste the limitless sweet of His praise, He whose divine bow is ever bent To protect those who love Him. --------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PN Prasad Posted July 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 'He has come into my heart,’ the Alvar cries, `There is nothing more to wish for’: --------------------------- He the divine cowherd So distant from us, He who changes his form so, That no one can near Him, He the infinite mystery Who on that distant day Measured the worlds with His feet, Has today come to me. How, I do not know, And life is Passing sweet. --------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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