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April 6, 2019 - March 1, 2021
“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.”
explosive vibratory power in speech could be wisely directed to free one’s life from difficulties and thus operate without scar or rebuke.
The subtle unity of the phenomenal world is not hidden from true yogis.
“Even he with the worst of karma who ceaselessly meditates on Me quickly loses the effects of his past bad actions. Becoming a high-souled being, he soon attains perennial peace. Arjuna, know this for certain: the devotee who puts his trust in Me never perishes!”
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
“God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.”
“To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand; and never to flinch from the blows of adversity!”
“Mind is the wielder of muscles. The force of a hammer blow depends on the energy applied; the power expressed by a man’s bodily instrument depends on his aggressive will and courage. The body is literally manufactured and sustained by mind.
“If by bathing daily God could be realised Sooner would I be a whale in the deep; If by eating roots and fruits He could be known Gladly would I choose the form of a goat; If the counting of rosaries uncovered Him I would say my prayers on mammoth beads; If bowing before stone images unveiled Him A flinty mountain I would humbly worship; If by drinking milk the Lord could be imbibed Many calves and children would know Him; If abandoning one’s wife would summon God Would not thousands be eunuchs? Mirabai knows that to find the Divine One The only indispensable is Love.”
“I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything?
The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!”
“The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly.
As all things can be reflected in water, so the whole universe is mirrored in the lake of the Cosmic Mind.
“Faith in God can produce any miracle except one—passing an examination without study.”
“Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.”
A guru must be on intimate terms indeed with the Creator before he can obligate Him to appear!
Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.
He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
“Be comfortable within your purse,” he often said. “Extravagance will buy you discomfort.”
A yogi must be able to pass into, and continue in, the superconsciousness, regardless of multitudinous distractions never absent from this earth.
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.’
“My guru, awake in God, knew this world to be nothing but an objectivised dream of the Creator.
“A man of realisation does not perform any miracle until he receives an inward sanction,”
“In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds, the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.”
‘He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom,’
“Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognised visitor will flee!”
“So long as you breathe the free air of earth, you are under obligation to render grateful service. He alone who has fully mastered the breathless state is free from cosmic imperatives.
a worthy leader has the desire to serve and not to dominate.
Sense wiles are comparable to the evergreen oleander, fragrant with its multicoloured flowers: every part of the plant is poisonous.
“Just as a man, impersonating a woman, does not become one, so the soul, impersonating both man and woman, has no sex. The soul is the pure, changeless image of God.”
“Do not allow yourself to be thrashed by the provoking whip of a beautiful face,”
“How can sense slaves enjoy the world? Its subtle flavours escape them while they grovel in primal mud. All nice discriminations are lost to the man of elemental lusts.”
“Destroy wrong desires now; otherwise they will follow you after the astral body is torn from its physical casing.
