Great Throughts Treasury

"It is He within you who animates your existence and actuates all your works."

"It is perfectly true, when the lover meets his Beloved and communes with Him in the chamber of his heart, the lover feels the thrills of indescribable ecstasy."

"It is not the recitation of the Gita that can elevate you to the Truth of your existence namely, God, but a profound meditation on the truths inculcated in the slokas."

"It is indeed not sufficient merely to awaken the mind to the supreme sense of Reality. A constant hammering of the Truth on the restless mind is essential."

"Knowledge is the foundation, karma is the upper structure and bhakti is the dome. All the three go together to form the perfect and complete mandir of Self-realization."

"Know once for all that all movements and activities of your mind, senses and body are illumined only by His divine Shakti."

"Know that you are eternally one with Him; and still be His servant and child."

"Japam purifies the mind, and enables the aspirant to attain the knowledge of Truth."

"Let the whole life be lived out as an offering to Him who has brought us into being. Let His Name be ever on our lips and in our minds."

"Let love, humility and service be the motto of your life."

"Let bodies come, let bodies go; we are eternally dwelling in Him and are eternally one with Him."

"Let the fountain of universal love spring up in our hearts; in it resides everlasting joy. Let us not be lured away, by the shadows and phantoms of desire and attachment, from the amrita or nectar of immortality."

"Let us cling to His glorious Name with all love and faith, and let Him do what He pleases with us. Ours is to realize our immortality."

"Let us know that all actions, irrespective of any denomination, are pure and divine; because the divine alone is at work in the entire universe. Our bodies are merely vehicles through which Shakti works to fulfill Her purpose. It is She who works in the Saint as well as in the sinner. Saint and sinner are merely"

"Let us leave it to Him, the one sole Lord of all existences, to use the instrument, our body, as He wills. When we become conscious that He is working it, then, we realize that we are free. Freedom is not a state to be attained but to be realized."

"Let us look at the vast and changing play of the universe with our firm hold on the immortal, and remain unaffected by it. This is liberation."

"Let us not forget that we came alone into the world, and that we also depart alone from it, that we never bring with us our vaunted wealth or relations, and that when we give up this earthly life, we do not take them with us either."

"Let us not forget that all forms are subject to dissolution. And let us remember that the eternal Atman, of which they are only the fitting expressions, is deathless and changeless."

"Life becomes blessed and glorious when all its varied activities are dedicated in their entirety to the Lord and Master of the worlds, who is eternally seated in our hearts."

"Let your life be guided by the motto ?plain living and high thinking.?"

"Life can be understood only by going to the very root of it. And the root is ever sweet and eternal."

"Let us pray to Him to grant us an unbroken remembrance of Himself. To fulfill this prayer, He brings about such changes in our life as to enable us to be in touch with Him always. Here he proves to us that He is infinitely kind."

"Life involved in and identified with the phenomenal existence becomes a source of misery."

"Living in the world and doing all things that fall to his lot in the usual course, a man can attain God."

"Live for the sake of the great Truth that dwells within you."

"Loss and gain, honor and dishonor and praise and blame are things of no importance to the man who has found the joy of selfless activity and the peace of the Atman."

"Live humbly but nobly, braving all the storms of life with implicit trust in God and His dispensation."

"Love is really a most wonderful thing. It considers no sacrifice too great to achieve fulfillment in joy and peace."

"Mere external renunciation is not only not necessary but is not the way."

"Make your entire life and all its activities a blissful expression of Truth."

"Maya is mind, the cause of all duality. It is this mind that names actions as good and bad, and situations as pleasant and unpleasant, and then experiences the emotions, pleasurable and painful."

"Man is miserable because he seeks joy and peace in external conditions and objects, which are in their very nature incapable of yielding the perfect state, for which the heart of man longs."

"Moksha is not dependent on any particular external situation or circumstance."

"Misery lies not in external circumstances. It resides in the fettered and ignorant mind."

"Moksha is the realization of immortality by the removal of ignorance through the attainment of Divine knowledge. It is primarily a change in our internal consciousness and vision. A man, who is placed in a certain situation in the days of his ignorance, may still continue to remain there, in the same situation."

"No change of situation can bring us peace and rest until the ego-sense of actorship is swept away. When we have realized that God?s will alone works in all beings, and that the individual ownership of action is false, external circumstances and situations cannot affect us."

"No external darshan can give us eternal happiness; it can yield only transitory satisfaction and peace. We must seek fellowship of the imperishable Truth within us, so as to merge ourselves ultimately in Him and realize immortal bliss."

"Our actions, in themselves, are neither virtuous nor sinful. They are simply activities of the Divine Shakti. We give them the dual names, and suffer, through ignorance."

"Perfect faith in the goodness, kindness, greatness and love of God is a wonderful tonic to keep us ever calm and cheerful."

"Parabhakti means beholding the whole universe as a manifestation or expression of God, in all its varied activities and multitudinous forms."

"Ours is to pierce, through this universal phenomena and life, into the deathless, all-pervading, static, changeless and all-blissful Atman."

"Please do not think that we are in this world to weep and weep it away. For all alike, life is a fight and a struggle. The true hero is he, who fights his battles without prejudice or favor, and still lives a life of freedom and peace."

"Pray to Him constantly for nothing but to ?lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, and from death to immortality.?"

"Please remember, we can behold God only when we are free from the clutches of lust, wrath and greed."

"Question yourself as to who you are, and an immediate response will come from within, to the effect that you are the eternal, perfect Truth and Life."

"Realize that all the members of your household are God Himself in so many forms. Love them and be kind to them always."

"Purushottama is manifest through His divine Shakti-aspect, as the visible universe and all movements therein, and at the same time, as the changeless, all-pervading, inactive spirit, Shiva."

"Realize that He, the infinite Power within you, guides you, controls you and actuates you to do all things, at all times. Rise above conditioned conception of things, that is to say, rise above the gunas and dwandwas."

"Realize that all your actions are the spontaneous expression of the Divine within you."

"Really, there is no more powerful solvent to melt down all differences that divide man from man, and from the rest of the world, than universal love."