It is love that begot us; love nurtured us through the initial years of our life; love strengthened and fortified us as we grew into adulthood; love makes life possible thereafter, and brings into our life a flowering and fragrance that warms our heart and cherishes us and fortifies us to face life to its very end. Every one of us participates in this divine play of love.
Taken from the book "The Principles of Sahaj Marg, Set 1 (Vols. 1-3)", Chapter "The River of Love", pg. 198, by...
I have my own experiences of sufferings and miseries, and after pondering over them a good deal I have now come to the conclusion that suffering and disease are the boons of Nature in disguise which helps deliverance from the effects of samskaras (impressions, grossness). When one is cleared of their remnants, spiritual progress goes on unabated, provided one's mind is inwardly inclined towards it. None is required to give up the normal activities of life connected with his worldly living, but...
Nobody really understands what life is for and what life is about. The only answer we get is from spirituality, which says that this life is given to us so that we can create our next life in the higher world, where there is no more physical existence but only life in life.
Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol I.", Chapter "Association-Discipleship-Self-Mastery", pg. 240, by Revered Chariji
A person loves to the capacity of his/her heart. When the transformation is complete, the love is pure, ideal, and totally and absolutely self-less! Then also we begin to understand that there cannot be, and must not be, any question of deservingness in this matter of love. Does a candle shine on you because you deserve it? Can it discriminate between persons or things before it? It shines on all and everything because it cannot do otherwise. This is the great mystery of love and its divine beauty.
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The next thing most essential for spirituality is moderation. The word carries a vast sense. It does not pertain only to the mending of our external ways of living so as to make them agreeable to others, but it is something which covers the entire sphere of our mental and physical activities. Moderation really means that we have entered the sphere where our restless tendencies have subsided to a great extent.
Taken from the book "Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Vol. 2", Chapter "Message...
It is, therefore, essential to find out means for developing within every individual a state of peace and contentment. Thus, all that we have to do for the attainment of world peace is to mould the mental tendencies of the people individually. That means the proper regulation of mind so as to introduce into it a state of moderation.That is the only way for bringing peace into the world. It is therefore essential for all of us to develop peace of mind within our individual self. But that being...
When you realize that you need to change, it is possible to do so. You must learn to pause and think before you react in anger or out of emotion, for the spoken word is like a spent arrow; it cannot be retracted once it is out.
Taken from The Spider's Web, vol. 3, p.190 –Rev. Chariji
All of us have problems with our jobs, with our environment, etc., and we hope very ardently that change of our own character and attitudes will help us to fit better into the environment in a cosmically pleasing way. One cannot escape one's predetermined existential parameters, caused by our samskaras (impressions, grossness), by artificially changing our environment. Sahaj Marg (Natural Path) says very correctly that only by changing one's own self is a total change possible. Otherwise, everything...
So, time-I have also found this in my own experience-the more you do, the more time you seem to have. Because time is utilisation. As one man used to tell me, an hour has sixty minutes, and it has three thousand six hundred seconds. And if you can do one thing in each second, you can do three thousand six hundred things in an hour. We have enough time. We have more time than we need. The secret is to apportion the time to what we have to do.
Taken from the book "Principles of Sahaj...
The easiest method for it would be to think everything one has to do as the order of God, and treat it as one's duty. We must remember that everything we have in this world has come down to us from God. Our fellow beings are also His creation. He is the Master of everything, and we are all His children, no matter if a few of them are specially entrusted to our charge. In this way we shall be relieved of the feelings of undue attachment. If this feeling becomes deep-rooted, one will be serving...