Search for Good. And you shall find Evil as well. The greater the Good, the greater the Evil. Veerbhadra.
People have a tendency to do what they want to do rather than what they should be doing.
In the beginning of time, there was nothing except darkness and primordial flood. Then out of this darkness, desire was born. Desire was the primal seed, the germ of creation.
People respond to stress in much the same way. Those who are soft on the inside become harder with the right amount of stress, and those who are hard on the inside become softer. If you think about it this way, then the right amount of stress becomes necessary to balance your character. Too much stress is not good – it may break you. But no stress is not good either. You need the right amount of stress to balance your character and make you grow.
But the strange thing about anger is that it is like fire; the more you feed it, the more it grows. It takes a lot of wisdom to know when to let anger go.
There is always unity at the end, and it brings a new tranquility. But the meeting of two worlds causes a lot of temporary chaos.
Satyam Shivam Sundaram Shiva is truth. Shiva is beauty Shiva is the masculine. Shiva is the feminine Shiva is a Suryavanshi. Shiva is a Chandravanshi.
An honest heart is all that is needed for a prayer to reach the Lord.
Birth is completely unimportant. It is just a means of entry into this world of action, into this karmabhoomi. Karma is all that matters. And your karma is divine.
That is the purpose of desire. It is for creation and destruction. It is the beginning and the end of a journey. Without desire, there is nothing.
People are happy when their life changes for the better. But there are two situations in which change can lead to chaos. First, when people face a change imposed by others, in situations that they cannot understand. This scares them almost as much as the fear of death. When change happens too fast, they resist it.
When you fill a clogged drain with more water than it can hold, it’s bound to overflow and contaminate everything around it. When grief overwhelms someone, when they are enraged at what fate has done to them, their fury often overflows and is inflicted upon the world.
Ati sarvatra varjayet. Excess should be avoided; excess of anything is bad.
Not revealing the truth is lying, isn’t it, Guruji?’ ‘No, it isn’t. Sometimes, truth causes pain and suffering. At such times, silence is preferred. In fact, there may be times when a white lie, or even an outright lie, could actually lead to a good outcome.
How can the land belong to any of us? We belong to the land!
Often the poor have more nobility in them than the actual nobility.
A real leader doesn’t choose to lead only the deserving. He will, instead, inspire his people into becoming the best that they are capable of.
A king need be judged solely on the basis of what he achieves for his people. His personal life is of no consequence. His public life, though, has one singular purpose: to provide for his people and improve their lives.
It’s not easy being a witness when one has the power to rule.
If you want something from someone, you have to give that person something they want.