I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added lustre.
Familiarity with books is not knowledge. One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning.
One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning. Any process of inquiry is related to learning. But basically our inquiry should be concerned with finding out what is transient and what is permanent. This is true knowledge.
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
You deserve to be called a human being only when you develop good feelings in you. Let your thoughts, words and deeds be suffused with sacred feelings.
Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the real you sleeping in your heart.
As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. Only then he would be able to develop integral vision.
Now you worship His Form, you repeat His name; ignoring His orders. Without practicing the discipline laid down by Rama to purify the mind, all else is mere show, empty rituals.
