Quotes Tagged "hinduism"

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.

Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

You dream of a new world to come, a new world to be birthed, a new dream to be dreamt. In the dream, a flower grows, a lotus from which the creator and the creation will unfold. From which light will begin to shine upon this vast dark sea, unveiling all the magic sleeping within. From this flower, infinite worlds and universes will be born. Each will contain a seed of light. And these seeds will light the heavens for all to guide their journeys by.

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.

What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is.

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly.

As we remember the Personal God, chant his name, clean his temples, or read tales of his play on earth...we start liking God. The expressive mind experiences the feeling of affection towards our preferred form of God. When this bond of love is purified by the addition of selflessness (nishkama mode) to it, love becomes true love or bhakti.

As we love God, wish to see him, develop a sense of belonging, and work for him, faith blossoms to produce refuge in him. Refuge is about leaving everything to God.

You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become

Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.

यह सम्पूर्ण प्रकृति तथा सृष्टि ईश्वर का ही तो एक मायने में विराट स्वरुप है। इसलिए सभी के प्रति क्षमा, करुणा, सज्जनता तथा प्रेम ही ईश्वर की सच्ची प्रार्थना है। समस्त ब्रह्माण्ड की ज्योति अपने भीतर अनुभव करें। आप सदैव अपने भीतर की शक्ति, निर्मलता, शुचिता, विपुलता तथा ज्ञान के भंडार को सहेज कर रखें। अज्ञान जनित विकारों से मुक्त होकर आत्म अवलोकन, आत्म चिंतन तथा आत्म जागरण के लिए सतत प्रयत्नशील रहें। ईश्वर से विनती है कि आपका आने वाला प्रत्येक नया दिन अपूर्व-सामर्थ्य, अनन्त-ऊर्जा तथा असीम- संभावनाओं से आपूरित रहे। मंगल शुभकामनाएं।

हिन्दू जीवन-दर्शन के हिसाब से ईश्वर इस जग के कण-कण में विद्यमान हैं। ईश्वर की वास्तविकता तो सदा से ही बिल्कुल स्पष्ट, खुला तथा सरल रही है। वेदांत में किसी पाखंड, किसी चमत्कार और किसी भी विभ्रान्ति की कोई जगह कभी भी नही रही है। आप जब अहंकार रहित होकर, अपने स्वार्थ को तिलांजलि देकर निष्काम भाव से अपने आराध्य की प्रार्थना करते हैं तो स्वतः ही अपने भीतर सम्पूर्ण ब्रह्माण्ड को देखने लगते हैं। निरंतर प्रार्थना से आपको अपनी आत्मा की पूर्णता का ज्ञान होने लगता है। आपको आन्तरिक शान्ति प्राप्त होती है, हर प्रकार का मन का मैल धूल जाता है, आध्यात्मिक सम्पदा की वृद्धि होती है, आत्मबल बढ़ता है तथा आत्म-ज्ञान प्राप्त होता है। ईश्वर से विनती है कि आपके आस पास से दुर्बलता, अपर्याप्तता, व्याधि, रोग तथा शोक का दूषित वातावरण बिल्कुल खत्म हो जाये और धर्म, प्रेम तथा भाईचारा आपके चारो तरफ फैलता चला जाये। आपके घर में हमेशा उमंग, आनंद और सुख-समृद्धि बनी रहे।

हमे दुबारा खुद को ये याद दिलाने की जरूरत है कि ईश्वर किसी सुख या दुख का वितरक नही है। और न ही वो सुख और दुख को निर्धारित करता है। ये सब तो हमारे खुद के कर्मों के संतुलन या असंतुलन का नतीजा हैं। इसलिये उस भावातीत ईश्वर की प्रार्थना किसी सुख को पाने या किसी दुख से छुटकारा पाने की लालसा से करना एकदम बेकार है। #प्रार्थना द्वारा तो केवल उस आनंद के स्रोत को खोजना है, जो पहले से ही मेरे, आपके और प्रकृति के भीतर सब जगह मौजूद है। उसी ईश्वर को अपने भीतर अनुभव कर के मन मस्तिष्क में शांति का अनुभव करना प्रार्थना है। सहज कर्मों से तथा स्वाभाविक रूप से उस ईश्वरीय अस्तित्व को धारण करना ही प्रार्थना है। ईश्वर कृपा से आने वाला प्रत्येक नया दिन आपके जीवन मे ख़ुशियों की नई सौगात लाये तथा आप पहले से अधिक स्वस्थ, प्रसन्नचित्त, आनंदित, प्रफुल्लित एवं ऊर्जावान हो जायें। आपके संसार में हर्षोल्लास का वातावरण सदैव बना रहे।

We are of the earth very earthy, and we are not satisfied with contemplating the Invisible God. Somehow or other we want something which we can touch, something which we can see, something before which we can kneel down. It does not matter whether it is a book, or an empty stone building, or a stone building inhabited by numerous figures. A book will satisfy some, an empty building will satisfy some others, and many others will not be satisfied unless they see something inhabiting these empty buildings.