Inspiring quotes from hinduism and other sources

Thank you for posting this CCP. This my favourite of Barack Obama's speaches. It fills me with such hope for our country.

 

In the deep there is a greater deep, in the heights a greater height. Sooner shall man arrive at the borders of infinity than at the fulness of his own being. For that being is infinity, is God- I aspire to infinite force, infinite knowledge, infinite bliss. Can I attain it? Yes, but the nature of infinity is that it has no end. Say not therefore that I attain it. I become it. Only so can man attain God by becoming God. But before attaining he can enter into relations with him. To enter into relations with God is Yoga, the highest rapture & the noblest utility. There are relations within the compass of the humanity we have developed. These are called prayer, worship, adoration, sacrifice, thought, faith, science, philosophy. There are other relations beyond our developed capacity, but within the compass of the humanity we have yet to develop. Those are the relations that are attained by the various practices we usually call Yoga. We may not know him as God, we may know him as Nature, our Higher Self, Infinity, some ineffable goal. It was so that Buddha approached Him; so approaches him the rigid Adwaitin. He is accessible even to the Atheist. To the materialist He disguises Himself in matter. For the Nihilist he waits ambushed in the bosom of Annihilation.



Sri Aurobindo.

 

Poison
in litle portion
is enough to kill you
Love
in litle portion
is enough to give you
Eternity.

-Anandmurti Gurumaa

 

Hold on to what is good,
Even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe,
Even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life,
Even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand,
Even if someday I'll be gone away from you.

 

Shanti mantra
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OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI ​

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SHALOM SATNAM SADHU ​

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TAO EM AUM​

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SPIRIT SWAMI KAMI​

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AMIN AMEN AUMEN​

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SELAH HUM... AUM... ​

 

Sweet Mother, what does "an exclusive self-opening to the divine power" mean?


Instead of self-opening , we could put receptivity, something that opens in order to receive. Now, instead of opening and receiving from all sides and from everyone, as is usually done, one opens only to the Divine to receive only the Divine force. It is the very opposite of what men usually do. They are always open on the surface, they receive all the influences from all sides. And this then produces inside them what we might call a pot-pouri (Mother laughs)of all kinds of contradictory movements which naturally create countless difficulties.
So here, you are advised to open only to the Divine and to receive the Divine force to the exclusion of everything else. This diminishes all difficulties almost entirely.

Sweet Mother of Pondicherry - 'The Sunlit Path'.

 

Sweet Mother, are religious exercises very important for those who have an ordinary consciousness?


Religious exercises? I don't know! What do you mean by religious exercises?

Japa etc...

Oh, those things! If it helps you, it's alright. If it doesn't help it is just....
This is one of those altogether relative things. It is altogether relative. Its value lies only in the effect it has on you and the extent to which you believe in it. If it helps you concentrate, it is good.
The ordinary consciousness always does it just through superstition, with the idea that "If I do this, or go to the temple or church once a week , if I offer prayers, something very fine will happen to me." This is superstition, spread all over the world, but it has no value at all from the spiritual point of view.

The Sunlit Path.

 

Divine Love is There.


Divine Love is there always in all its intensity, a formidable power. But most people - ninety nine percent of people - do not feel anything at all! What they feel of it is exclusively in proportion to what they are, to their capacity of receiving. Imagine for instance, that you are bathing in an atmosphere all vibrant with divine love - you are not at all aware of it. Sometimes, very rarely, for a few seconds there is suddenly the feeling of 'something'. Then you say " Oh - divine love came to me!'
What a joke! It is just that you were simply, for some reason or other, a wee bit open, so you felt it! But it is there always, like the divine consciousness. It is the same thing, it is there all the time, in its full intensity; but one is not even aware of it; or else in this way, spasmodically: suddenly one is in a good state, so one feels something and says 'Oh, the divine love, the divine consciousness have turned to me, have come to me!'
It's not like that at all. One has just a tiny little opening, very tiny, at times like a pin head, and naturally, that force rushes in. For it is like an active atmosphere; as soon as there is a possibility of being received, it is received. But this is so for all divine things. They are there, only one does not receive them for one is closed, blocked. One is busy with other things most of the time. Most of the time one is full of oneself, there is no place for anything else. One is very actively (laughing) busy with other things. One is filled with things, there is no place for the divine.
But He is there.

Sweet Mother - The Sunlit Path.

 

There once was a wicked Maharaja who could not bear to think that anyone was superior to him. So he summoned all the pandits of the realm, as was the practice on momentous occasions, and put to them this question: "Which of us two is greater, I or God?" The pandits began to tremble with fear. Being wise by profession, they asked for time; they were also concerned for their positions and their lives. Yet, they were worthy men who did not want to displease God. As they were lamenting their predicament, the oldest pandit reassured them: "Leave it to me. Tomorrow I shall speak to the Prince." The next day, the whole court was gathered in a solemn durbar when the old pandit quietly arrived, his hands humbly joined together, his forehead smeared with white ashes. He bowed low and spoke these words: "O Lord, undoubtedly thou art the greater." The Prince twirled his long moustache thrice and tossed his head high. "Thou art the greater, King, for thou canst banish us from thy kingdom, whilst God cannot; for verily, all is His kingdom and there is nowhere to go outside Him."​

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Satprem.​

 

Take My Heart, Dear Lord

Take my heart, dear Lord, and hold it in the palm of your hand. May it beat with the pulse of you.

Shine your light into the very depth of my heart, and may your light shine through the windows of my soul so that I may be used as a beacon of light to lead others to you!

- Beliefnet member swesthafer

 

gdKumar .. i really liked this bit quoted by svggrdnbeauty;

"Thakur ! I have come ! I have come to see you for half-an-hour and say 'Thank you'. For this half-an-hour I am all yours. Please accept me as I am. If my mind is restless, let it wander about where it will, but I sit here at your feet. I have come with all my impurities - all my flaws- all my difficulties. It would have been better if I could have controlled my mind, purified my being and sorted out the tangled threads of life before coming to you - but where is the time ? It will take me ages and even then I may fail. So, I have brought them all to you. If you think it necessary, remove them-destroy them. But, for this half-an-hour I am yours-unconditionally. I ask for nothing-make no bargain-register no complaint."

It reminds me of a line i read on a card in a church one day;
"Lord, take me as i am for i can come no other way."

... I don't remember a stitch of the rest of that poem or song. That one line says it all to me

 

Hare Krishna !

Thank you, dear Liquidlight. That's a wonderful quote from Nicole's post. If I remember well, it is from Ma Indira Devi (What she had said during Bhav-samadhi).

And as you remembered the line, it is very true that there is no other way but to pray, " Lord, take me as I am for I can come no other way. "

Love,

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna!

The little naughty boy is after me again. I wanted to post Gopal's photograph, see what has happened to that. I tried to edit but could not.

 

The words of Ma Indira Devi are wonderful

I know that despite the fact that She and Dadaji (Sri Dilip Kumar Roy) have left their bodies, still Love is descending to us through them.

 

Hare Krishna!


Thank you, BBB. It is so nice and wonderful to see Ma again with Dadaji. The photograph is so beautiful ! I don't remember having seen this one before.

Love,

Kumar.

 

There's a good collection of photos at http://www.harikrishnamandirindiraniloy.com/

 

Hare Krishna!

Thank you BBB. All these days I did not know about this website. I think it's a new one and I was not even aware of the e-mail address. In the board of Trustees I know all of them. Anil and Premal are Ma's two sons. Shankar Banerjee (Bandyopadhyay) , the Secretary is well known to me. Out of all of them, Mr. Somesh Dasgupta is a very highly elevated soul. Shankar and Somesh were the closest to Ma. In fact, Shankar Banerjee is Dadaji's disciple and Ma's Gurubhai (Brother). They all still live in the Mandir-Ashram. Ma did not give her seat (Asana) to anybody but predicted about the next Acharya who should be there in near future.

Love,

Kumar.

 

Being in Ma Indira's presence must have been a wonderful experience.

The very first time I saw a photo of Ma Indira and Dadaji, it was as though something just flashed in my consciousness - a warm wave of love and something very beautiful...and rare in this world.

I didn't know that Ma had predicted a new Acharya - that sounds very interesting.

 

Thank you for that picture... BBB ...Ma is so beautiful in it.

Liquidlight, if you can get your hands on a copy...def. read Pilgrims of the Stars by Dilip Kumar Roy and Ma Indira Devi...it is a most wonderful and beautiful book. I was def. blessed enough to find a copy through interlibrary loan through my university.