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Mysticism, Poor Mysticism! When It Is Oversimplified And Underestimated, It Comes Down From Its Original Sphere And Stands Beside Religion.

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I Compete Only With Myself, And I Try To Become A Better Human Being. This Is My Goal.

Try Not To Change The World. You Will Fail. Try To Love The World. Lo, The World Is Changed. Changed Forever.

By Hating That Person, You Have Lost Something Very Sweet In Yourself.

Complete And Total Perfection Will Come About Only When We Feel That Our Perfection Is No Perfections As Long As The Rest Of Humanity Remains Imperfect.

If You Are Already An Awakened Soul, Then You Must Realise That God Has Already Given You A Supreme Task To Perform: He Wants You To Work For His Vision's World-blossoms.

My Soul-bird Loves My Body-cage Only When It Is Kept Fit, Pure And Absolutely Immaculate.

What Do We Mean By The Word 'wisdom'? Usually We Mean Something Superior To Knowledge, Something Deeper. In The Spiritual World, The Word 'wisdom' Is Not Used In That Way. Here Wisdom Means Light, Illumining Light, Transforming Light. That Which Illumines Our Unlit Consciousness Is Wisdom. That Which Transforms The Finite Consciousness Into The Infinite Consciousness Is Called Wisdom.

He Who Loves, Never Grows Old. God It A Shining Example.

When Your Love Is Pure Or Spiritual, There Is No Demand, No Expectation. There Is Only The Sweetest Feeling Of Spontaneous Oneness With The Human Being Or Beings Concerned.

Responsibility Is The Possibility Of Opportunity Culminating In Inevitable Fulfillment.

Life And Sports Cannot Be Separated; They Are One.

No Mind, No Form, I Only Exist; Now Ceased All Will And Thought; The Final End Of [nature]]'s Dance, I Am It Whom I Have Sought.

Meditation Is Silence. Silence Is God In His Infinity's Smile.

My Life Is Only Half Full When I Receive. My Heart Is Completely Full Only When I Give.

Character Is The Colossal Hope Of Human Improvement Within And Without.

Never Worry About Things That You Are Unable To Change. Change Your Own Way Of Looking At Truth.

Unable To Change

Lf You Ever Dare To Fight Against Hatred, Then There Is But One Weapon: Love.

An Unaspiring Person Always Complaints. There Is No End To His Complaints. He Bitterly Complains Even When The Blessings Of Opportunity Knock At His Very Door.

To Be Rich Is To Give A Smile With No Expectation Of Return.

When You Really Have Something To Offer To The World, Then You Can Become Truly Humble. A Tree When It Has No Fruit To Offer, Remains Erect. But When The Tree Is Laden With Fruit, It Bends Down. If You Are All Pride And Ego, Then Nobody Will Be Able To Get Anything Worthwhile From You. When You Have Genuine Humility, It Is A Sign That You Have Something To Offer To Mankind.

It Is Only Through Meditation That We Can Get Lasting Peace, Divine Peace. If We Meditate Soulfully In The Morning And Receive Peace For Only One Minute, That One Minute Of Peace Will Permeate Our Whole Day. And When We Have A Meditation Of The Highest Order, Then We Really Get Abiding Peace, Light And Delight. We Need Meditation Because We Want To Grow In Light And Fulfill Ourselves In Light. If This Is Our Aspiration, If This Is Our Thirst, Then Meditation Is The Only Way.

Each Aspirant Has To Be A Divine Soldier. He Must Consciously And Constantly Use His Divine Energy To Drill Himself Into A Liberated Soul.

What Is Joy? It Is A Bird That We All Want To Catch. It Is The Same Bird That We All Love To See Flying.

Doubt Is An Old Disease. Faith Is An Old Medicine. Compassion Is An Old Doctor. Concern Is An Old Nurse.

Look At Your Heart-flower And Smile. You Will Be Able To Solve Your Most Pressing Problems.

Instead Of Creating A Reason Why You Cannot Love The World, Try To Create A Reason Why You Should And Must Love The World.

Hope Is Sweet. Hope Is Illumining. Hope Is Fulfilling. Hope Can Be Everlasting. Therefore, Do Not Give Up Hope, Even In The Sunset Of Your Life.

Surrender Is A Journey From The Outer Turmoil To The Inner Peace.

The Things That Most Deserve Our Gratitude We Just Take For Granted. Without Air We Cannot Live For More Than A Minute Or Two. Everyday We Are Breathing In And Breathing Out, But Do We Ever Feel Grateful To The Air? If We Do Not Drink Water, We Cannot Survive. Even Our Body Is Composed To A Large Extent Of Water.but Do We Give Any Value To Water? Every Morning When We Open Our Eyes, We See The Sun Blessingfully Offering Us Light And Life-energy, Which We Badly Need. But Are We Grateful To The Sun?

Man Thinks His Mind's Love For World Power And His Heart's Love For World Peace Can Live Together. Indeed, This Is The Height Of Man's Stupidity.

Do Not Cherish Suffering. Don't Act Like A Fool. Don't Think That Your Suffering Is Going To Accelerate Your Spiritual Progress.

When We Transcend Ourselves, We Do Not Compete With Others. We Do Not Compete With The Rest Of The World, But At Every Moment We Compete With Ourselves.

Silence Is Not Silent. Silence Speaks. It Speaks Most Eloquently. Silence Is Not Still. Silence Leads. It Leads Most Perfectly.

You And I Create The World By The Vibrations That We Offer To The World.

Love The World With Your Heart's Dreams. Serve The World With Your Life's Promises.

Man Invents War. Man Discovers Peace. He Invents War From Without. He Discovers Peace From Within. War Man Throws. Peace Man Sows. The Smile Of War Is The Flood Of Human Blood. The Smile Of Peace Is The Love, Below, Above.

Of All The Medicines In The Inner Life, A Smile Is By Far The Best Medecine.

Peace Is Something That We Become. Once We Become Peace, Then Only Can We Give Peace To The World And Receive Peace From The World.

In Between Your Failure-tree And Your Triumph-tree, The Tree That Is Growing Is Known As Your Patience-tree.

Arise, Awake! This Path Is Arduous. So We Learn From The Wise, And We Have To Follow In The Footsteps Of The Wise. The Path Of Spirituality Is Not A Bed Of Roses. But Neither Is It A Chimerical Mist. The Golden Shores Of The Beyond Are Not A Mere Promise. The Crown Of Human Aspiration Is Bound To Be Fulfilled On The Golden Shores Of The Beyond.

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Meditation Stops The Sound-loving Mind.

Meditation Simplifies Our Outer Life And Energizes Our Inner Life. Meditation Gives Us A Natural And Spontaneous Life, A Life That Becomes So Natural And Spontaneous That We Cannot Breathe Without Being Conscious Of Our Own Divinity.

A Sincere Seeker Knows What His Goal Is: The Highest Truth. He Will Not Delay His Journey. In Spiritual Life, We Aspire For The Highest Truth, For God, Nothing Else.

Love Of The Limited Self, The Very Limited Self, Is Another Name For Human Love. Love Of The Entire World Is Another Name For Divine Love.

Unless And Until We Have Peace Deep Within Us, We Can Never Hope To Have Peace In The Outer World. You And I Create The World By The Vibrations That We Offer To It. If We Can Invoke Peace And Then Offer It To Somebody Else, We Will See How Peace Expands From One To Two Persons, And Gradually To The World At Large. Peace Will Come About In The World From The Perfection Of Individuals. If You Have Peace, I Have Peace, He Has Peace, And She Has Peace, Then Automatically Universal Peace Will Dawn.

Every Day There Is Only One Thing To Learn: How To Be Honestly Happy.

Allow Everything Else To Vanish Save And Except Your Cherished Dreams, For Your Cherished Dreams Are Treasured Sleeplessly By God Himself.

This World Of Ours Has Everything Except One Thing: Peace. Everybody Wants And Needs Peace, Whether He Be A Child Or An Octogenarian.

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When We Pray And Meditate Sincerely And Soulfully, We Receive An Open-hearted Invitation From Heaven.

What Is Yoga? Yoga Is Self-conquest. Self-conquest Is God-realization. He Who Practices Yoga Does Two Things With One Stroke: He Simplifies His Whole Life And He Gets A Freee Access To The Divine.

Smile, My Friends, My Soulful Friends, Smile. Let Us Smile. True, This World Of Ours Is Full Of Suffering And Excruciating Pangs, But That Is No Reason Why We Should Not Smile.

Science Has The Capacity To Show Mankind The Full Development Of The Mental Life. Spirituality Has The Capacity To Show Mankind The Possibility And Inevitability Of The Life Beyond The Mind, The Supramental Life.

Do Not Try To Entrap Others With Your Haughty Knowledge. To Your Wide Surprise, They Will Entrap You With Their Lengthy Ignorance.

Character Is Blazing Sunshine In The Soul's Abode, The Body.

Hope Pulls The Heart Of Tomorrow Into The Body Of Today.

If We Have A Simple Existence, We Shall Feel How Happy And How Fortunate We Are. There Are Some People Who Are Of The Opinion That Simplicity Is Almost Tantamount To Stupidity. But Simplicity And Stupidity Are Like The North Pole And The South Pole. One Can Be As Simple As A Child And, At The Same Time, One Can Have Boundless Knowledge, Light And Wisdom.

The Entire World May Not Change. The Entire World Cannot Change. The Entire World Even Will Not Change. But Your Tiny World You Can And Will Change Forever At This Very Moment With The Help Of Your Confidence-heart. Yours Will Be The Unparalleled Victory.

The Problem With Fault-findingis That He Who Finds Fault With Othersis In No Way A Happy Person Even After He Has Successfully Accomplished His Task.

This Mind Is The Doubting Mind, And In The Doubting Mind We Can Never Feel The Presence Of Peace. We Can Feel The Presence Of Peace Only In The Loving Heart.

To Hope Is To See With The Eye Of The Heart. To Hope Is To Make The Heart Captain The Vital And The Body. To Hope Is To Send Darkness-night Into Exile.

When We Meditate We Expand, Spreading Our Wings Like A Bird, Trying To Enter Consciously Into Infinity, Eternity And Immortality, Welcoming Them Into Our Aspiring Consciousness. We See, Feel And Grow Into The Entire Universe Of Light-delight.

God's Foremost Treasure On Earth Is My Ever-blossoming Gratitude-heart.

Meditation Means Conscious Self-expansion. Meditation Means One's Conscious Awareness Of The Transcendental Reality. Meditation Means The Recognition Or The Discovery Of One's Own True Self. It Is Through Meditation That We Transcend Limitation, Bondage And Imperfection.

O Kindle The Fire Of Happiness ! Therein I Shall See The Door Of Friendliness, The Room Of Greatness And The Palace Of Godness. I Shall See, I Shall See.

Be In Love With Your Heart-life. There, Only There, Is The Flood Of Happiness.

Like Kindness, A Smile From The Heart Not Only Purifies The Human Mind But Also Illumines The Human Heart.

If We Feel Inwardly Strong, We Will Have No Need Or Desire To Speak Ill Of Others.

Our Goal Is Self-transcendence

To Hope Is To Feel The Presence Of The Inner Sun. The Inner Sun Is; The Outer Sun Becomes.

The Hope Or Climbing Aspiration Of A Divine Child Is To Receive And Achieve Peace, Light And Bliss In Infinite Measure.

Love And Liveand Live And Loveeach Momentto The Fullest.

Determination Can Change Your Mind. Determination Can Change Your Heart. Determination Can Change Your Life Altogether.

Not By Talking, But By Praying And Becoming Something Good, Can We Offer Peace To The World.

Love Is Not A Thing To Understand. Love Is Not A Thing To Feel. Love Is Not A Thing To Give And Receive. Love Is A Thing Only To Become And Eternally Be.

Giving And Receiving

Meditation Upon The Unknown Thought He Thought Was Real Meditation. No, Meditation Is Not And Cannot Be On Any Thought. Meditation Is A Conscious Withdrawal From The Thought-world. Meditation Is The Place Where Reality, Divinity And Immortality Can Each Claim Their Own Perennial Existence-light.

I Took A Closer Look. There Is No Such Thing As Ignorance. Ignorance Is Nothing But My Limited Knowledge. I Took A Closer Look. There Is No Such Thing As Defeat. Defeat Is Nothing But The Inspirer Of My Increasing Will. I Took A Closer Look. There Is No Such Thing As Death. Death Is Nothing But My Strengthening And Dreaming Rest.

Once You Have Established Your Inner Contact With Your Inner Pilot, Your Life's Transformation-victory Will Not Remain A Far Cry.

Who Is The Winner? Not He Who Wins But He Who Has Established His Cheerful Oneness With The Result, Which Is An Experience In The Form Of Failure Or Success, A Journey Forward Or A Journey Backward.

Let Us Serve The World Soulfully. The Pay We Will Receive For Our Service Will Be In The Currency Of Gratitude, God's Gratitude, God The Only Gratitude.

Spirituality Is Man's Conscious Longing For God. Spirituality Tells Us That God, Who Is Unknowable Today, Will Tomorrow Become Knowable And, The Day After, Will Become Totally Known.

Individual Self-transcendence Collectively Inspires Humanity At Large.

A Moment Of Self-giving Lifecan Conquer The Sorrowsof Many Long Years

Be Sincere In Your Thoughts, Be Pure In Your Feelings. You Will Not Have To Run After Happiness. Happiness Will Run After You.

Through Concentration We Become One-pointed And Through Meditation We Expand Our Consciousness Into The Vast. But In Contemplation We Grow Into The Vast Itself. We Have Seen The Truth. We Have Felt The Truth. But The Most Important Thing Is To Grow Into The Truth And Become Totally One With The Truth. If We Are Concentrating On God, We May Feel God Right In Front Of Us Or Besides Us. When We Are Meditating, We Are Bound To Feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality Within Us. But When We Are Contemplating, We Will See That We Ourselves Are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality.

Just Becausewe Cannot See,we Are Not Entitled To Doubt.

Allow Failure To Teach You A Supreme Lesson: Each Sunset Is The Beginning Of A Very, Very Bright And Powerful Sunrise.

Hatred Is A Disguised Form Of Love. You Can Only Hate Someone Whom You Really Wish To Love, Because If You Were Totally Indifferent To That Person, You Could Not Even Get Up Enough Energy To Hate Him.

Meditation Does Not Mean Just Sitting Quietly For Five Or Ten Minutes. It Requires Conscious Effort. The Mind Has To Be Made Calm And Quiet; At The Same Time, It Has To Be Vigilant So As Not To Allow Any Distracting Thoughts Or Desires To Enter.

Do You Want To Be Happy? Then Make Your Life As Soulfully Simple As Sleeplessly Breathing.

Judge Nothing, You Will Be Happy. Forgive Everything, You Will Be Happier. Love Everything, You Will Be Happiest.

Each Good Thought That You Have Encouraged And Nourished Is Your Life's True Work Of Art.

If You Are Bathed In God's Forgiveness-light, Then No Dust Of Earth Will Be Able To Cling To You.

Meditation Is The Language Of God. If We Want To Know What God's Will Is In Our Life, If We Want God To Guide Us, Mould Us And Fulfil Himself In And Through Us, Then Meditation Is The Language That We Must Use.

Love Is The Only Wealth That Man Absolutely Needs. Love Is The Only Wealth That God Precisely Is.

Our Mind Thinks Of Death. Our Heart Thinks Of Life. Our Soul Thinks Of Immortality.

My Heart Needs Only One Thing. It Needs To Be Guided Along The Age-old Path Of Life-blossoming Self-awareness.

We Must See That God Operates Not Only In Us But In Others As Well. God Also Operates In Our So-called Enemies. But These Are Not Our Real Enemies. Our Real Enemies Are Doubt, Fear, Anxiety And Worry. When We Do Not Cry To Perfect Others, But Only Try To Perfect Our Own Lives, Then We Will Have Joy.

Say I Have Set My Goal At 300 Pounds, And I Cannot Do It. The Very Fact That I Have Been Devotedly Practising And Practising Gives Me Joy, And The Tenacity Or Perseverance That I Am Showing Is Itself Progress. Anything That We Do Devotedly And Soulfully Helps Us Make Progress.

Sympathy Does Not Think. It Acts. It Acts To Remove. The Ceaseless Sufferings. Of The World

True Gratitude Can Never Come From The Mind. It Has To Flow From The Heart To The Mind, Vital And Body Until Everything That We Have And Are Is A Sea Of Gratitude.

An Unaspiring Person Believes According To What He Achieves. An Aspiring Person Achieves According To What He Believes.

May Peace-dreamers And Peace-lovers Occupy The Length And Breadth Of The World.

Daring Enthusiasm And Abiding Cheerfulness Can Accomplish Everything On Earth Without Fail.

A Spiritual Life Means: It Is Now Or Never.

You Must Direct Your Full, Intense Concentration On The Heart. You Must Feel That You Are Not The Mind. You Have To Feel That You Are Growing Into The Heart. You Are Only The Heart And Nothing Else.

Listen To The Inner Light; It Will Guide You. Listen To The Inner Peace; It Will Feed You. Listen To The Inner Love; It Will Transform You, It Will Divinise You, It Will Immortalise You.

How Can One Know Who His Spiritual Teacher Is?...his Heart Looks At The Spiritual Masters And Makes The Choice. When The Heart Sees A Spiritual Master, If It Is Overwhelmed With Joy, Then There Is Every Probability That That Spiritual Master Is The Right One For The Seeker.

My Lord Does Not Want To Know What I Have Done For Him. He Just Wants To Know How I Am. If He Hears From Me That I Am Happy, Then He Himself Becomes Exceedingly Happy. In Umistakable Terms He Tells Me That My Happiness Is His Real And Only Satisfaction.

Since Life Is But A Continuous Series Of Experiences, Everything Ultimately Helps Me Towards My Final Enlightenment.

There Is A Peace That Fruitfully Lives For Me Infinitely More Than I Can Live For Myself.

Meditation Speaks. It Speaks In Silence.

Next To Meditation Is Music, Soulful Music, The Music That Stirs And Elevates Our Aspiring Consciousness.

What You Do Not Use Yourself, Do Not Give To Others. For Example, Advice.

A Peaceful Worldis An Immediate, Utter And Absolutenecessity.

Is Not Falling Down. Failure Is Desiring To Live Where I Have Fallen.

God Has Blessed Me With The Capacity To Meditate Even While I Am Talking.

Lack Of Harmony Comes When I Feel That I Know How To Do Something Better Than You. Lack Of Harmony Is The Song And Dance Of Superiority. Because Everybody Feels Superior, Disharmony At Every Moment Is Entering Into Our Lives.

There Is No Fundamental Difference Between One Religion And Another, Because Each Religion Embodies The Ultimate Truth. Each Religion Is Right, Absolutely Right, Because Each Religion Conveys The Message Of Truth In Its Own Way.

When I Was An Animal I Evolved Through Selfishness. Now That I Am A Man My Evolution Can Be Achieved Only Through Self-sacrifice.

What I Wish To Show By These Feats Of Strength Is That Prayer And Meditation Can Definitely Increase One's Outer Capacities. I Hope That By Doing This I Will Be Able To Inspire Many People To Pray And Meditate Sincerely As Part Of Their Regular Daily Routine. My Message Is That If One Needs Strength, Then Uncovering One's Inner Strength Through Prayer And Meditation Is The Fastest And Most Effective Way To Get It.

Meditation Is Not An Escape. Meditation Is The Acceptance Of Life In Its Totality, With A View To Transforming It For The Highest Manifestation Of The Divine Truth Here On Earth

There Comes A Time In The Seeker's Life When He Discovers That He Is At Once The Lover And The Beloved. The Aspiring Soul Which He Embodies Is The Lover In Him. And The Transcendental Self Which He Reveals From Within Is His Beloved.

The Real In Me Longs For Peace. The Unreal In Me Longs For Power.

Miracles Do Happen In Every Human Life.

True Religion Has A Universal Quality. It Does Not Find Fault With Other Religions. False Religions Will Find Fault With Other Religions; They Will Say That Theirs Is The Only Valid Religion And Their Prophet Is The Only Saviour. But A True Religion Will Feel That All The Prophets Are Saviours Of Mankind.

Not One But Twenty-four Self-giving-hours Every Day I Have For My Use.

Some Seekers Will Do Anything For Their Self-realisation - Except Work For It.

Self Realisation

The Way To Become Happy Is To Think And To Feel That The Very Best Is Yet To Come.

Best Is Yet To Come

This Divine Compassion Is Spontaneous Delight. In It There Is No Feeling Of Separativity, No Feeling That One Is Superior And The Other Is Inferior. No! It Is A Feeling Of Oneness.

Your Heart Must Become A Sea Of Love. Your Mind Must Become A River Of Detachment.

The Inner Light Actually Comes From The Soul; It Is Already Inside Us. The Moment We Can Have Free Access To Our Soul, We Will See That This Light Is Coming To The Fore To Permeate Our Whole Outer Existence.

Patience, Increasing Patience

Love Is Hope. Hope Is Nectar.

Usually When I Draw, I Try To Be In A Contemplative Mood. I Try To Keep My Mind As Empty, Vacant And Tranquil As Possible. The Outer Mind Is Like The Surface Of The Sea. On The Surface, The Sea Is Full Of Waves And Surges; It Is All Restlessness. But When We Dive Deep Below, The Same Sea Is All Peace, Calmness And Quiet, And There We Find The Source Of Creativity.

To Deliberately Criticise Another Individual May Cause An Indelible Stain On The Critic.

God Loves Only One Philosophy, And That Is The Do-it-here-now Philosophy.

You Can Purify Your Existence By Feeling Deep Within Yourself A Beautiful Rose Or Lotus, Or Any Other Flower That You Like. A Flower Is All Purity. Try To Identify Yourself With The Consciousness Of The Flower Or With The Purity Of The Flower. Today It Is Imagination, But If You Continue Imagining For Five Days, Or Ten Days, Or A Month Or Two, Then You Are Bound To See And Feel The Flower Within You. First You May Feel It, Then You Are Bound To See The Existence Of The Flower, And Then Automatically The Fragrance And The Purity Of The Flower Will Enter Into You To Purify You.

Peace Is Our Inner Wealth. This Inner Wealth We Can Bring To The Fore Only When We Expect Nothing From The Outer World And Everything From The Supreme Pilot Within Us, At God's Choice Hour

A Simple Man Will Have Only What He Needs, And He Will Know The Difference Between What He Needs And What He Wants. We Feel That Whatever We Want, We Desperately Need. But Before We Possess The World, To Our Wide Surprise We See That The World Has Already Possessed Us.

True Humility Means Giving Joy To Others.

Smile, Smile , Smile At Your Mind As Often As Possible. Your Smiling Will Considerably Reduce Your Mind's Tearing Tension.

I Begin By Imagining The Impossible And End By Accomplishing The Impossible.

Cry Within. Meditate Within. Dive Within. Your Inner Achievements Will Far Outweigh Your Outer Imperfections.

It Is Only Through Inner Peace That We Can Have True Outer Freedom.

Each Human Being Can At Once Be A Fighter And Forgiver. When Self-doubt Tortures Him, He Most Play The Role Of A Fighter. And When His Own Ignorance Humiliates Him, He Must Play The Role Of A Forgiver.

Do Not Blame The World. Find A Solution.

Not By Blaming The World, Not By Shunning The World, But Only Be Loving The World Can I Have Peace Of Mind

True, This World Of Ours Is Full Of Hatred And Disbelief, But That Is No Reason Why We Should Not Love And Why We Should Not Believe. We Must Love And Believe In Order To Empty The Hatred-sea.

If You Want To Understand Yourself, Then Do Not Examine Yourself. Just Love Yourself More Sincerely, More Soulfully And More Self-givingly.

A Gratitude-heart Is To Discover On Earth A Heaven-delivered Rose

Each New Day Beckons You To Walk On The Road Of Self-transcendence. We Transcend Ourselves, We Do Not Compete With Others. We Compete Only With Our Previous Achievements, And We Get Joy. Life Is Nothing But A Perpetual Possibility.

Hope Is Not An Idle Term. Hope Is The Reality That Can And Does Reveal Itself To Us At God's Choice Hour. To Hope Is To Know The Secret Of Achievement.

When You Meditate, What You Actually Do Is To Enter Into A Calm Or Still, Silent Mind. We Have To Be Fully Aware Of The Arrival And Attack Of Thoughts. That Is To Say, We Shall Not Allow Any Thought, Divine Or Undivine, Good Or Bad, To Enter Into Our Mind. Our Mind Should Be Absolutely Silent. Then We Have To Go Deep Within; There We Have To Observe Our Real Existence.

Life Is Nothing But The Expansion Of Love.

Everybody Has God Inside, But Not Everybody Is Able To See God Within. One Can See God Only When One Cries For Him. Those Who Cry For God And Pray To God Can Realise God.

Every Second A Seeker Can Start Over, For His Life's Mistakes Are Initial Drafts And Not The Final Version.

My Heart's Gratitude Is My Life's Plenitude.

Instead Of Telling The World What It Is Supposed To Do, Why Don't You Immediately Do It Yourself? In This Way, I Assure You, Your Happiness Will Be Surprisingly Multiplied.

When Your Heart's Gratitude Comes To The Fore, When You Become All Gratitude, This Gratitude Is Like A Flow, A Flow Of Consciousness. When Your Consciousness Is Flowing, Feel That This Gratitude-flow Is Like A River That Is Watering The Root Of The Tree And The Tree Itself. It Is Always Through Gratitude That Your Consciousness-river Will Grow And Water The Perfection-tree Inside You.

I'm Not A Weight Lifter. I'm A Seeker. Weight Lifting Is So Insignificant In My Life.

I Do Not Compete With Anybody Else; I Compete Only With Myself. You Saw My Capacity A Few Minutes Ago. Now I Am Competing With Myself. When I Do Weightlifting, My Body Is My World. If I Can Improve Myself, If I Can Go Beyond My Previous Achievements, Then That Is My Goal. My Own Previous Record Is Always What I Am Competing With.

What Is Realisation? Realisation Is My Conscious And Constant Sailing With My Inner Pilot In His Golden Boat Towards The Uncharted Land, Where Sooner Than At Once Beauty, Divinity And Immortality Seeds Grow Into The Richest Harvest.

To Hope Is To Send Darkest Night Into Exile.

I Did Not Come Into The World To Prove Anything. I Came Into The World To Love Everyone And Everything.

No Price Is Too Great To Pay For Inner Peace.

Truth Is In All, But Love Is All.

And In Self-giving We Become Really Happy. Real Humility Is The Expansion Of Our Consciousness And Our Service.

When You Drive, You Are Doing Several Things At Once. You Are Using Your Eyes, Ears, Hands, Your Mind. If You Have Meditated For Many Years And Have Reached A Lofty Height In Your Meditation, As I Have, You Can Meditate While Running And Cycling And Painting.

When We Go Deep Within, Into The Deepest Recesses Of Our Hearts, We Commune With God Through Meditation. It Is Through Meditation That We Can Know That God Is Both With Form And Without Form, With Attributes And Without Attributes.

Wherever You Go, Go With Inspiration And Aspiration. Whatever You Do, Do With Love And Concern. Whomever You See, See With Purity's Beauty And Responsibility's Glory.

When We Meditate, What We Actually Do Is Enter Into A Vacant, Calm, Still, Silent Mind. We Go Deep Within And Approach Our True Existence, Which Is Our Soul. When We Live In The Soul, We Feel That We Are Actually Meditating Spontaneously

This World Of Ours Has Everything Save And Except One Thing: Peace. And This Peace Has To Start From Within. If I Have Peace Of Mind, Then Only Can I Be Of Help To You. If You Have Peace Of Mind, Then Only Can You Be Of Help To Me.

World Peace Can Blossom Throughout The Length And Breadth Of The World Only When The World-peace-dreamers, World-peace-lovers And World-peace-servers Desperately, Sleeplessly And Breathlessly Long For The Full Manifestation Of Peace Here On Earth.

Real Joy Means Immediate Expansion. If We Experience Pure Joy, Immediately Our Heart Expands. We Feel That We Are Flying In The Divine Freedom-sky. The Entire Length And Breadth Of The World Becomes Ours, Not For Us To Rule Over, But As An Expansion Of Our Consciousness. We Become Reality And Vastness.

The Power That Dominates Cannot Solve World Problems. The Power That Loves Can Solve World Problems.

My Mind's Cries Tell Me That Everything On Earth Is Tragic. My Heart's Smiles Tell Me That Everything On Earth Is Magic.

Of All The Gifts You Have Offered To God, Your Happiness-gift He Treasures Most.

Do Not Try To Approach God With Your Thinking Mind. It May Only Stimulate Your Intellectual Ideas, Activities, And Beliefs. Try To Approach God With Your Crying Heart. It Will Awaken Your Soulful, Spiritual Consciousness.

Lo, How To Conquer Evil Thoughts?easy! One Thing, Just Try -imagine You Are The Ocean Vast,you Are The Boundless Sky.

When You Meditate You Have To Try To Quiet And Calm The Mind. There Should Be No Thought Within The Mind. Right Now You Feel That If You Can Cherish Twenty Ideas At A Time, Then You Are The Wisest Man On Earth. The More Thoughts That Enter Into Our Minds, The More Clever We Feel We Are. But In The Spiritual Life It Is Not Like That. If Consciously We Can Make The Mind Calm And Quiet, We Feel That A New Creation Dawns Inside Us.

Never Give Up Hope! Hope Ultimately Succeeds.

Never Give Up Hope

If You Really Want To Love Humanity, Then You Have To Love Humanity As It Is Now.

The Vision Of Hinduism Is Unity In Diversity. First, Hinduism Lovingly Embraces All Alien Elements; Second, It Tries To Assimilate Them; Third, It Tries To Expand Itself As A Whole, With A View To Serving Humanity And Nature.

How To Overcome Destructive Criticism? Just Love A Little More. That's All.

What Does Peace Do? Peace Blossoms. What Else? Peace Spreads. What Else? Peace Illumines. What Else? Peace Fulfils.

There Comes A Time In The Seeker's Life When He Discovers That He Is At Once The Lover And The Beloved.

If You Play Divine Music, Spiritual Music, Then You Are Bound To Give And Get Satisfaction.

Those Who Run After Happiness Will Never Be Happy. Happiness Is Something That Has To Come To The Fore From Within.

Your Heart Will Be Shattered By Sorrow If You Force It To Live In Tomorrow's Ephemeral Imagination-world Instead Of In Today's Eternal Reality-now.

Meditation Gives Us Peace Of Mind Without A Tranquilizer. And Unlike A Tranquilizer, The Peace Of Mind That We Get From Meditation Does Not Fade Away. It Lasts For Good In Some Corner Of The Inmost Recesses Of Our Aspiring Heart.

Meditation Practice

Now Is The Time To Make Good Use Of Time. Today Is The Day To Begin A Perfect Day.

Today Is The Day

Never Give Up! Never Give Up! Physical Fitness Is Of Paramount Importance. There Is No Age Limit When We Live In The Heart And When We Try To Be Of Prayerful And Soulful Service To God In The Heart Of Humanity.

Even Now When I Am Answering A Question I Am At The Height Of My Own Meditation.

Silence Tells The Seeker In Us To Love, To Love Himself. It Tells Us It Is Wrong To Hate Ourselves Because Of Our Imperfections. When The Seeker Loves Himself, Loves The Divine Within Himself, He Eventually Realises The Ultimate Truth.

The Joy Of A Self-giving Life Can Neither Be Measured Nor Be Expounded.

No Matter How Fleeting Your Smile Is, Your Smile Is The Very Beginning Of Your Wisdom-light.

When I Think Good Thoughts, I Feel That Man Is Not, After All, So Bad.

Peace Is Something Spontaneous; It Is Something That Unites Us. Peace Is Something That We Have To Spread. But Unless And Until We Have Peace Deep Within Us, We Can Never Hope To Have Peace In The Outer World.

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