7 Divine Laws to Awaken Your Best Self Quotes

“Ramana Maharshi’s message was clear—we must first seek to understand ourselves. Without knowledge of our superior spiritual nature, we will remain tied to the trivial and mundane. In our present bodily consciousness, our situation is like the eagle in the story below. An eagle’s egg was placed amid a brood of chickens. Thinking it to be one of their own, the hens lovingly hatched it along with their own eggs. Consequently, the baby eagle which emerged from it grew up in the company of little chicks. The result was ‘monkey see, monkey do’. The chicks would say, ‘Cluck, cluck, cluck’, and the baby eagle would also cackle along. The chicks would flutter their wings and hop clumsily on the ground. The eagle would do the same, unaware of its God-given ability to fly at altitudes of 10,000 feet above the ground. One day, an adult eagle flew by. The baby eagle looked at it with amazement, and exclaimed, ‘Wow, what a majestic bird! How is it flying at such a glorious height with so much elegance?’ ‘That is an eagle’, replied the chickens. ‘It is the king of birds; naturally, its abilities are far greater. We cannot do what it can do.’ The baby eagle believed the chickens’ sermon, and it continued its pathetic life, fluttering and cackling like them. What a pity! It was born to rule the skies but had become conditioned to flutter on the ground. Like the eagle, we too were fashioned to sparkle in the magnificence of our spirit but became illusioned to wallow in the mediocrity of bodily conceptions. As a poet said: phūla chunane āye the bāge-hayāt meṅ, khāra jhāra meṅ dāmana ulaphā kara raha gaye ‘We had come to pluck flowers from the garden of life, but in the ensuing hustle and bustle of human existence, we ended up entangled in thorns.’ On realizing our soul nature, what becomes our potential? The next section provides the answer. The”
― Mukundananda, 7 Divine Laws to Awaken Your Best Self

“The Mistake We Make Like Victor Serebriakoff, we too are held back by our false beliefs. Our mistake is to think of the material body as the self. But the body is merely a bag of flesh and bones; identification with it cripples the belief in our potential. Instead, if we could realize our nature as divine souls, our consciousness would become unfettered from matter. We would then come in touch with”
― Mukundananda, 7 Divine Laws to Awaken Your Best Self

“It was Mark Twain who observed: ‘The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”
― Mukundananda, 7 Divine Laws to Awaken Your Best Self

“Similarly, one does not transform from a sinner to a saint overnight, but by making the proper choices, again and again, repeatedly over time.”
― Mukundananda, 7 Divine Laws to Awaken Your Best Self