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December 24, 2023 - March 29, 2024
“Why be elated by material profit?” Father replied. “The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee.”
“God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.”
Struggles of the battlefield pale into insignificance here, when man first contends with inner enemies! No mortal foes these, to be overcome by a harrowing array of might!
Inner research soon exposes a unity of all human minds — the stalwart kinship of selfish motive. In one sense at least, the brotherhood of man stands revealed. An aghast humility follows this leveling discovery. It ripens into compassion for one’s fellows, blind to the healing potencies of the soul awaiting exploration.”
“Only the shallow man loses responsiveness to the woes of others’ lives, as he sinks into narrow suffering of his own.”
“To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to bestow freely what you have in your hand; and never to flinch from the blows of adversity!”
Mirabai knows that to find the Divine One The only indispensable is Love.
“The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly.
we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East,
Because the very nature of God is Bliss, the man in attunement with Him experiences a native boundless joy.
Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.
Thought is a force, even as electricity or gravitation. The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God. I could show you that whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely would instantly come to pass.’
Man has the natural privilege of roaming secretly among his thoughts.
“In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.”
a worthy leader has the desire to serve, not to dominate.”
“Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others!”
“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”25
What one does not trouble to find within will not be discovered by transporting the body hither and yon.
The city dweller finds the keen edge of hospitality blunted by a superabundance of strange faces.
Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not expect anything from others, so their actions cannot be in opposition to wishes of mine. I would not use you for my own ends; I am happy only in your own true happiness.”
Master, I knew, was teaching me the secret of balanced living. The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs its daily duties.
“Those who attain Self-realization on earth live a similar twofold existence. Conscientiously performing their work in the world, they are yet immersed in an inward beatitude.
Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.
Though the ego in most barbaric ways conspires to enslave him, man is not a body confined to a point in space but is essentially the omnipresent soul.
“You see how God feels for us,” Master replied after I had expressed my gratitude.
The balanced rhythm of the universe is rooted in reciprocity,”
“The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.”
faith in divine protection, and right use of man’s God-given will, are forces more formidable than are influences flowing from the heavens.
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Like the healing light of the sun, yoga is beneficial equally to men of the East and to men of the West. The thoughts of most persons are restless and capricious; a manifest need exists for yoga: the science of mind control.
One’s values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture; and that not in it, but beyond it, lies his own reality.
‘seek divine wealth, not the paltry tinsel of earth. After acquiring inward treasure, you will find that outward supply is always forthcoming.’
liberation is dependent on inner, rather than outer, renunciations.’
‘By serving wise and ignorant sadhus, I am learning the greatest of virtues, pleasing to God above all others — humility.’”
To humble the ego or false self is to discover one’s eternal identity.
“Be your true self, a child of God. Seek and incorporate into your being the best qualities of all your brothers, scattered over the earth in various races.”
The earth supplies me with everything I need, even as a mother provides her child with milk. I go wherever I please, unencumbered by material cares.
“Do not do what you want, and then you may do what you like.”
“Who am I?” — the Great Inquiry indeed. By stern rejection of all other thoughts the devotee soon finds himself going deeper and deeper into the true Self, and the sidetracking bewilderments of other thoughts cease to arise.
“Just as a long-caged bird hesitates to leave its accustomed home when the door is opened.”)
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all of man’s slavery.
I cannot possibly lower my standards to suit my circumstances.”
Where indeed may man go now, if not to his Source and Origin, the Spirit within him?
“Behold, now and always one with the Eternal, ‘I am ever the same.’”
It appears that misery, starvation, and disease are whips of our karma that ultimately drive us to seek the true meaning of life.”
Though the body of Sri Yukteswar never dwelt on any soil except India’s, he knew this brotherly truth: “The world is my homeland.”
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands
