Thinking, discriminating and practice - all three constitute the basic human characteristics. |
This attachment is not God's gift. Bliss is God's gift. God's gift is Peace. God's gift is Truth. That is the God's gift. All the rest are passing clouds. |
This body is just my house. My guru has long ago taken me away from it. |
This body is the residence of God. The food you take is the offering you make to him. Your act of bathing is the ceremonial bathing of Him who is in You. The ground you walk on is His domain. The joy you gain is His gift. The grief you experience is His lesson. Remember Him ever, in sun and rain, day and night, asleep and awake. |
This day, the Government has no authority to reform the people; and the people have no authority the reform the Government. |
This is a human form in which every Divine Entity, every Divine Principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest. |
This is bad; this is good - can such judgments be ever made about anything in God's creation when all are manifestations of His will? |
This is the very first time that a world conference is held of the persons devoted, while the Incarnation is present before every one, with the Body assumed for the purpose, bearing the Name that is chosen for it by itself. |
This World is keeping you in bondage; it is a prison from which you must get released; and you should not plan to return to it again and again. |
Those who aspire to become devotees of God must give up meat, liquor and smoking. |
THOSE who deny God, the Supreme Will or the First Cause, can give no real satisfactory justification for their stand; nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely on their own experience. After all, how can sweetness be denied by one who refuses to taste sugar? How can one be convinced that sugar is sweet until one tastes it? We have to feel the great marvel of energy, manipulating both, the minutest atom and cell and the vastest, most distant star. How else can we understand the Omnipresence and Omnipotence, except by accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos? |
Those who have faith in the Veda and its authority can personally experience this. |
Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain, insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion. |
Those who seek to know God must steel themselves to bear insult, injury and torture, with a smile. |
Though earth is one, the plants vary depending on the seeds sown. The womb of mother symbolizes mother earth. As is the seed of thought sown in it, so is the fruit it yields. |