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Invoke God with love
Do not give up the world and your kinsmen. Do not be weak in search of God in all directions. Do not lose yourself in search of peace. Take time with children. Have friendship with art and skills. Get involved in business. Whether you are well-to-do or penniless, king or a tramp God belongs to all. He is so much of the rich as of a hermit. He is so much of gopinis as of housewives, so much of the ancient saints as of people of material world. Invoke God with love, recall him through meditation. He will appear within yourself, you will see his loving divine light. The joyful stream of love-nectar flows in Sahasrar within you. Then you will experience that you are the idol of bliss. Not only this, you will experience total transformation. Then you will feel, ‘I am the Shiva, I am Muhammad, Jesus, and all Gods.’ You will sing this song with love. All miseries piled up throughout ages and previous births end. You will be godly for ever and for ever you will be God. |
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When you observe any goodness in yourself, develop it. When you observe any bad points in yourself, rectify them. Look at the positive aspects. It is not enough to just rely on meditation alone. |
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Why is there such pain and suffering in this world? It is because we need to appreciate the sufferings of others before we can expand our hearts. The bigger our hearts expand, the greater we will become and the closer we will be with Creation. If we still feel that we are separated and we still think for ourselves, then we cannot be at one with Creation. |
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All day long we look outwards at both good or bad. We are influenced by the outside and forget to focus our attention inwards. Therefore, we do not succeed in most of what we do. Concentration is the secret of success. The more we meditate and focus our attention, the more smoothly we can carry out whatever we do. |
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It's easier to forgive than to punish. It's easier because you don't have to think about it any more, and that person is happy and doesn't give you any more pressure. |
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Recollection of the God
If an elephant is set free after bathing it plays and makes itself dirty again but if it is tied it remains clean. Mind of a man is also like the elephant. It should not be freed after purifying through meditation, sadhana, and prayer. Purity and contamination both exist in the world. It is the nature of the mind that it tries to move towards dirt and never stops from making the body contaminated. So to save it from this it needs a rigid nail of discipline so that it would not go towards impurity.
Prayer to god, meditation, etc is the nail on which the mind should always be tied. Only then it can be saved from being contaminated which takes place through attachment with the world. Recalling the god time and again the mind can be saved from the attraction of transient happiness and sin and permanent goal of life is achieved by which he gets rid of impurity and filthiness. |
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When we gain self-respect, then no matter what level of spiritual practice we are in, we will feel contented, not lacking anything. We are very close to the essence of perfection. |
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Whenever the situation needs our love, we have to show it. And we have to show our actions, speech and thoughts always in loving kindness. That's the best for our spiritual growth and best for our fellow beings. |
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When you observe any goodness in yourself, develop it. When you observe any bad points in yourself, rectify them. Look at the positive aspects. It is not enough to just rely on meditation alone. |
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Actions, speeches and thoughts are different forms of the same element. Therefore, our thoughts are equivalent to our actions. This is why we must watch carefully our actions, speech and thoughts. |
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Happy Life
- We must always be open and accepting, then we will find our life is terrific, is completely in harmony and beautiful, and is a blessing everyday, twenty-four hours.
- Everything has been created by us. Everything we seek now or later is what we want, what we created.
- To live a happy life, we have to create a happy atmosphere for ourselves.
- Don't be defeated by obstacles and ordeals. Perhaps, we don't know how to react today, so we are frightened and defeated; try again tomorrow. We shall overcome someday.
- When things are going smoothly and easily, be particularly concentrated; don't take it for granted and lose your humility and penitence. Otherwise, you will become sluggish and slow down, and will not progress further.
- Be frank with yourself. Be careful, otherwise you will be cheated day after day. It is like the patients who don't know, and refuse to believe that they are ill.
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Joy
The joy is within us, which is incessant and eternal. We seek it in riches, honorary, position, consumption, comfort, luxury, and in relation, which is illusive. There is no true joy in any worldly situation. We always think that we will be blissful after we earn certain amount, or after we win particular position, or as we have babies, or as we win prestige. But all these are mere delusion.
The cause of sorrow we feel and the absence of joy we go through is not any situation. The root cause is we are unaware of the eternal joy, the bliss within, we do not feel the bliss formed God, we do not face inward and head towards the synagogue of joy within, we are ignorant of the reality of bliss formed God, we do not feel the incessant imminence of God. The moment our entire disposition heads inward, the moment we feel to be with God eternally and feel everlasting joy with in the union with him, nothing from outside can remove our joy. There will not be absence of joy in any situation like poverty, isolation, defamation.
We feel miseries so we are. The reason behind it is we feel dearth of something. There is feeling of adversity in dearth and adversity is misery. The situation of the world never becomes conformable to mind.
God is always there in every situation and every situation is auspicious in the auspicious law of auspicious God. Every situation is a part of the sport of the sportive God. All situations become favorable if with firm belief if we contemplate on God playing behind each situation and if we are able to feel his compassionate touch every moment because we will then see God everywhere and in everyone, there will not be nonexistence of God. |
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Be meticulous in your work; do not let other thoughts or other matters disturb you. Do your work sincerely for the sake of accomplishing it perfectly and of making others happy rather than yourself. Then you will not make mistakes, and you can do your work quickly and perfectly. This is the secret. |
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Habits
A man's personality is formed by his own habits and practices. One has both good and bad thoughts in his mind. They change in no time. But habits are long lasting as they are formed in long course of time and remain longer. They form a personality. What a man says is not important but important thing is how he has formed his habits and how he has transformed his words into his habits and practices.
Like a drunkard, who can not help going to a bar, it might also happen to someone by his practice that he is touched by other's fate. With the practice of feeling pity one forms a habit of pitying others. Violence creates the attitudes of violence. What system and action we follow by regular practice takes the form of habit. We can understand the state of a man by his habits.
Practice recurrently in action what you think would be very useful in progress of your personality. In few days the thing will be integrated in your practice and that will form a habit. Virtues like pity, kindness, love, feeling of services to others, restrain, sweetness in speaking do not come in men all of a sudden over a night. But as they are practiced in action they will form a part of our personality. |
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Sanskar
One has to give judgment on truth-untruth and vice-virtue relating to time and situations. Decisions given by others in your situation do not always work. Renunciation done in some compulsion is not a renunciation at all, and to tolerate is not always a virtue. Knowledge rises from experience and feelings. Inexperienced men choose their path according to the scriptures and go ahead, which keep them in delusion. Conscience is the foremost requirement. Those lacking it are strayed. Insane persons, babies and beasts are not disposed to work so they are not the consumer of the fruit of their Karma.
Only the gross consequences of what men do are visible in the material world but the subtle effect are carved in mind, which is called Sanskar and is carried over by mind even after death, by which their journey ahead is decided. All these dispositions (Sanskar) exist in subtle body, which is surfaced at any of its conducive situation again. |
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Whatever we do, we do for others. We don't think so much about ourselves. What we can do for others, we do promptly, without hesitation. That's a saintly quality. |
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We ought to be responsible for ourselves. Don't think that we can do whatever we want, just because Guru or other people do not see us. We have to train ourselves in the spirit of honesty, until we act in the same way whether we are observed by others or not. |
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The Subtle Body and Its Culture
An individual is not simply a puppet of a solid body but is a reflection of the spiritual astral body. A man takes himself to heaven or hell, he suffers or enjoys according to the good deeds or bad ones performed by means of this body. This makes him go round with the wheel of life. Astral body is the beam of every type of good and bad deeds. The predisposition he has made determines the birth he has to go into. Birth in particular life like terrestrial, aquatic, aerial etc, are determined by the predisposition, he/she has made by his/her good or bad deeds. The predisposition is named as luck or destiny by scriptures. Discarding the solid body, the astral body wanders in the subtle world of the universe, takes reincarnation and exists as ghost, spirit etc. As it is able to travel into the subtle world it is called 'astral body movement'. It is named as Linga Sarir, the venerated image of lord Shiva, aerial body, vital air body etc.
We should remember that the astral body works as long as we posses ego and ego exists as long as a person identifies 'I' with the body adorned with name, form, caste, profession etc. The moment the person, personality or his true form merges into the formless conscious soul, the ego naturally disappears like the rivers that disappears in the oceans and become ocean. To reach formlessness is to have self realization and to be stable in it is to experience the self and to have self-control. Until lust and disposition end, the astral body does not, realizing this fact we must strive to remove them. |
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It's important for us to have virtuous friends, those who are kind and good, and who can talk with us about something good everyday, persuading us to go in the right direction. Then we'll walk on the right path and become better and better. Our good qualities will emerge and grow, and become more apparent. We'll know better which direction is the right one |
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We should think more positively, optimistically, and courageously, and then it will become a habit, for everything is created by the mind. |
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Inner Glory
- If you truly believe in your goodness, in what you are doing, you will influence other people. So one person makes a lot of difference. But if you don't believe they will influence you. They'll try to make a strong person out of your personality.
- We don't learn so that other people will know. We learn so that we know and that we can bless the world silently through our inner glory and inner love.
- To be a noble being is only the choice; to walk forward, it doesn't matter how difficult; to fly upward, it doesn't matter how far, or how high. We just have to try again and again.
- Having argument or fighting with people is not considered to be courageous. Whereas, when we are filled with a cheerful outlook and have positive love within us, it beats the negative forces.
- Only service to others is of eternal worth and importance. That is the one thing worth doing. He who does it leads a worth-while life. Successfully he crosses the ocean of life carrying with him many more who needed help.
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Why should we be afraid of miseries?
Why should we be afraid of miseries? Miseries are for our welfare; do you believe it? Or you are surprised? Every pain or suffering is a result of our past actions. These past actions are our dues; in no way they can be avoided. Miseries are the dirt or rubbish in our lives; let us face them and be cleaned gradually.
Pain or misery, therefore, should be welcomed. When we face them, they gradually decrease in number and intensity. And our beings or we reach closer to purification. Therefore, every pain or suffering should be accepted as a gift of Great Designer of the cosmos. The root cause of our misery is that our necessities or desires are many. There is a bigger pleasure in renunciation than in fulfilling the desires. We are running after many things at a time that is the very key to our pain or restlessness. Once we realize that material desires are unlimited so cannot be fulfilled in the ways we like and we minimize our needs, it will lessen our problems. Then, we will not perceive shortage or deficiency so far. Fellows motivated by extreme lust or greed perceive deficiency or shortage at every stage of life, even if they are millionaires or billionaires. |
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When you work you are helping yourself, not only the public. When you work not for reward, but only for love, then everything will go very smoothly. We need not worry that this work will bring benefits to us or to someone else. We only do it because things need to be done at that moment. In this way, we will feel that out spiritual life is improving day by day. We will have more endurance; the more we work, and the more we offer, the faster we will improve. We don't need praise from anyone. We will know this ourselves. |
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Wisdom is not wisdom if it is not useful. We should apply the wisdom we have acquired through practice to our daily lives, so as to help improve ourselves and help purify the atmosphere of the world, thus upgrading its civilization. |
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Before you misunderstand someone, or are ready to debate about something, you should consider whether you have understood correctly what the other person really meant, of whether what you are about to do is what the Master would want you to do. Constantly reflect on your innerself in order to get in touch with your inner wisdom. Your wisdom will not misguide you. |
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Permanent and Everlasting Progress:
Sound health, well-trained brains, attractive personality, plenty of wealth along with the favourable situation and opportunity is needed for materialistic progress. Exotic success depends upon the availability of the aforesaid means in their corresponding quantities.
But the aspects of self progress its value and the pleasure from it is in fact incomparable with the worldly pleasures. For the real success and achievement of this sort of development only two means are needed – first the emotional praying and second spiritual discipline, the inward way or sadhana in daily life.
The most inevitable thing needed for this purpose is self-discipline with determined mind and utmost faith in the performance of the activities. Spiritual attainment along with the worldly progress and prosperity can be achieved through this method.
The real value of life and its success depends upon the prosperity of the spiritual aspect of the life; this aspect needs firm determination. The achievement of the worldly progress lasts so long it is gained. Once the stage is reached then gradually the thing of joy and inquisitiveness itself becomes perilous. Therefore the one who wants to make his life a worthy life, desires to achieve peace, and must always be alert and ready to focus oneself towards self-development. Praying and devotion are indeed the basic actives for reaping the benefits. |
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Heaven
- There are two aspects of spiritual progress. The first is the accomplishment of roles for the development of qualities. Another is performing the duties and discharging the liabilities according to the duty and capability. Because it is a well known fact that no one will grant anything valuable important assignments who are not qualified.
- If we change, the situation changes. If we have heaven within us, peace within us, then everywhere is heaven, everywhere is peace.
- Heaven is here and now. Anywhere you go, make it heaven. If you're happy, it's heaven. If you're not happy, even if the situation around you is very merry, very boisterous, you will still feel miserable.
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Nothing is truly difficult. It depends on whether we want to change ourselves, to recognize honestly which are the good qualities in us and which are deceiving and harmful to us. We have to be honest with ourselves because no one else can tell us. Even though we know, if we are too stubborn of too lazy to change, of too concerned about our image to admit and correct the fault, then it will bring a lot of trouble. |
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If, after having embarked on spiritual practice, we still expect words of praise, then we are finished. It would be impossible for us to realize the superior level of total freedom and calmness, where there is neither good nor bad, where one is not flattered when praised, or hurt when defamed. To attain that level, we have to cultivate spiritually and we need an Enlightened Master to edify our internal self. |
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All of our achievements, all of our success must come from inside first, from our strong mentality, strong personality, and strong will. If we want to make it better, we want to improve our life or our situation, we must have the will to wish, and with a hard-working spirit and sacrificing attitude, we can get what we want and appreciate it. |
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When you smile, your whole being smiles too, and your level of consciousness automatically rises up to some extent as well. So, smile a lot. Smile during times of happiness and sorrow. Cry when you must, but also smile when you cry. Let the tears fall but then smile in your heart. Try to smile whenever you can. |
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Good Wish is Essential
Wishes, which are hypothetical, rise and set. Imagination, which is repeated again and again, becomes thought. When thought repeats, it becomes vow / solemn promise. Similarly, good conduct comes out of serious vow and in this way daily work goes on. This chain justifies, if our wish is good, healthy / pure and benevolent. Our conduct and thought are also good and healthy. That's why purity of soul and thought is essential. |
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God's Law is Inviolable
God is Supreme. Nobody is greater than God. Nobody is as Vigorous as Him. Nobody is able to Violate his Discipline. Sun, Water, Air, Fire and Earth, these all have worked according to God's Inviolable Rules. Nobody can Change Nature's Law. So, everybody must worship almighty Supreme Being. Worshipping Him we can be graced with Divine Quality. |
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