Inspiring quotes from hinduism and other sources

This one is especially for Nicole, as well as everyone else.......

"All is the Divine, but some things are more Divine than others"

Sri Aurobindo, letter to DK Roy, 17th april 1933.

 

Thank you.
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The body trembles,
The tongue falters,
The mind is weary.

Forsaking them all,
I pursue my purpose happily.

Knowing I do nothing,
I do whatever comes my way,
And I am happy.

-Ashtavakra Gita 13:2-3

 

Hare Krishna!

" To concentrate most on one's own spiritual growth and experience is the first necessity of the sadhak - to be eager to help others draws away from the inner work. To grow in the spirit is the greatest help one can give to others, for then something flows out naturally to those around that helps them. "

........Rishi Sri Aurobindo from page 151,Letters on Yoga, vol -1


Initially it is difficult to accept and agree but with higher spiritual knowledge and realization we know how true it is. Debate .... we can do on some other page.

Love,

Kumar.

 

Yes - in the words of Jesus "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven".

 

People shed a whole jug of tears for wife and children. They swim in tears for money. But who weeps for God? Cry to Him with a real cry.

-Sri Ramakrishna

 

Hare Krishna !

"How often," he said, "does a man ruin his disciples, by remaining always with them ! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leaves them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves !"

.....On Swami Vivekananda from the book, "The Master As I saw Him" by Sister Nivedita.

 

Hare Krishna!


It is no superstition with you (Nivedita), I am sure, you have the making in you of a world mover, and others will also come. Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones ! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep ?

......Swami Vivekananda.

 

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy? When you let your mind follow the call of the senses, they carry away your better judgment as storms drive a boat off its charted course on the sea.

-Bhagavad Gita 2:66-67

 

"The Lord alone I depend on--and He works through me."- Swami Vivekananda

 

"We have done the work for thee, we have become perfect in works, the wide shining Dawns have taken up their home in the Truth, in the fullness of Agni and His manifold delight, in the shining eye of the god in all his brightness" -Rig Veda IV.2.19

"Vanished the darkness, shaken in its foundation; Heaven shone out, upward rose the light of the divine Dawn; the sun entered vast fields of the Truth beholding the straight things and the crooked in mortals. Thereafter indeed they awoke and saw utterly by the sun's separation of the straight from the crooked, the Truth from the falsehood; then indeed they held in them the bliss that is enjoyed in Heaven" -Rig Veda IV.1.17.

 

You are the endless sea
In whom all the worlds like waves
Naturally rise and fall.

You have nothing to win,
Nothing to lose.
Child,
You are pure awareness,
Nothing less.

You and the world are one.

So who are you to think
You can hold on to it,
Or let it go?

How could you!

-Ashtavakra Gita 15: 11-12

 

Lord, if you tell me to love others just as You love them, then You must love them in me and through me. So the closer my union with You, the more I love all my sisters without distinction.
St. Therese of Lisieux

 

Hare Krishna!


It's wonderful! Thanks.

Love,

Kumar.

 

Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me; this I promise; for you are dear to me. Abandon all supports and look to me for protection. I shall purify you from the sins of the past; do not grieve.

-Bhagavad Gita 18:65-66

 

Om Nama Shiva Shankar!

 

Lord, in the sincerity of my heart, I offer myself to Thee this day, to be Thy servant evermore, to serve Thee, and to become a sacrifice of perpetual praise to Thee.
~St. Therese

 

hare Krishna!

Wonderful ! Thanks.

Love,

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna !


" The only person who can understand me is myself "

........................ Sri Aurobindo.

(Taken from the book " Sri Aurobindo On Himself " )

 

"The Mother's consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play. Nothing can be done without her knowledge and force, without her consciousness - if anybody really feel her consciousness, he should know that I am there behind it and if he feels me it is the same with hers."

Sri Aurobindo - letter may 1932.

 

".....the way of love and delight gives the supreme liberation. Its highest crest is supra-cosmic union. But for love complete union is mukti; liberation has no other sense; and it includes all kinds of mukti together, nor are they in the end, as some would have it, merely successive to each other and therefore mutually exclusive.
We have the absolute union of the divine with the human spirit, sayuja; in that reveals itself a content of all that depends here upon difference, - but there the difference is only a form of oneness, - Ananda too of nearness and contact and mutual presence, samipya, salokya, Ananda of mutual reflection, the thing we call likeness, sadrsya, and other wonderful things too for which language has as yet no name. There is nothing which is beyond the reach of the God-lover or denied to him; for he is the favourite of the divine lover and the Self of the Beloved"

Sri Aurobindo 'Synthesis of Yoga'.