The inward battle – against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past – is more terrible than outward battle.
Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.
Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn’t have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb – it is bound to explode.
It is Maya that makes you feel, “This man is inferior and the other man is superior.
Thoughts are giant-powers. They are more powerful than electricity. They control your life, mould your character, and shape your destiny.
Isavasyamidam Sarvam: every content of the universe is throbbing with the Life of the Lord. Smile with the flowers and the green grass. Smile with the shrubs, ferns and twigs. Develop friendship with all neighbours, dogs, cats, cows, human beings, trees, in fact, with all nature’s creations. You will have a perfect and rich life.
Blessed is he who keeps daily diary and compares the work of this week with that of the last, for he will realize God quickly!
Man is not a creature of circumstances. His thoughts are the architects of his circumstances.
Fewer the thoughts, greater the peace.
That man who is regular and punctual will get sure success in all walks of life.
You create your future by your thoughts now; if you think nobly, you will be noble in conduct. If you think basely no environment will make you different. Thus, thoughts and actions are interdependent. Be vigilant and allow only good thoughts in your mental field.
Give up all sorts of fears, worries, anxieties and cares. Do not be disheartened by failures and setbacks. Draw strength and courage from God dwelling in the chamber of your heart. Pain is the best thing in the world. It is an eye-opener. It awakens your dormant faculties. Never forget this.
The difficulty in weaning the mind from worldly thoughts, from external objects, and fixing it on God is the same as in making the Ganga flow towards Gangotri instead of its natural flow towards Ganga-Sagar. It is like rowing against the current of the Yamuna.
The secret of success in life is time rightly used.
The spiritual path is very, very easy for a man of determination, patience, endurance, self-sacrifice, dispassion and a strong will.
Mind, Prana and Veerya are one. By controlling the mind, you can control Prana and semen. By controlling Prana you can control the mind and semen. By controlling semen, you can control the mind and Prana.
Maranam Bindu Patanat, Jivanam Bindu Rakshanat.
Sattva brings non-attachment and infuses in the mind discrimination and renunciation. It is the Rajasic mind that causes the ideas ‘I’ and ‘mine’ and the difference of body, caste, creed, colour, order of life, etc.
O Man! Be ever prepared. Live this moment as though it is your last moment on this earth and acquire the maximum spiritual wealth here and now.