Everything comes first into the mind and then into the active world. So we must train ourselves not to have thoughts about unwanted things, about negative things, about sickness, about illness, about meanness. That is why it is important that you think well of all. If you think so-and-so is bad and nasty, that person will be bad and nasty, at least to you. So everything in the world happens from...
A man can be a real man only when his eye is diverted towards his inner self. Therein lies the real quest for Reality. One who adheres to it establishes his footing in the sphere from which everything descended by itself. In other words, he connects his link with the main Source. The only thing which remains then is its expansion, for which the prescribed abhyas is sufficient.
Taken...
Prejudice is the greatest evil, rather the deadliest poison to spiritual life. It keeps one confined to himself, losing all access to a broader vision. It creates narrow-mindedness, and all prospects of development and progress are lost to those who pin their soul to it. Prejudice breeds hatred towards others and it is nothing but a feeling of false self-superiority in a disguised form. If you...
If you want, you will learn. When we think it is difficult, we create a barrier. So it is our own creation. There is nothing difficult or easy if we think it is that. If a woman is afraid of the dark, but suppose her child is sick, at midnight she walks to the doctor. Why? How? Because she has forgotten her fear. Isn't it? So when you forget your fear, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Taken...
Only love makes it possible to be together wherever we are without insisting that we should be together someplace else.
Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2004, Vol. 2", Chapter "Give Up", pg. 11, by Revered Chariji
Knowledge is contemplation, thinking, pure discrimination and nothing else. Differentiating things, demarcating the line of difference, establishing the points of difference or distinction – this alone is knowledge, which is the characteristic of the mind.
Taken from the book "Truth Eternal (5th edn., 2010)", Chapter "Ignorance and Knowledge", pg. 68, by Lalaji Maharaj
A true devotee is one who loves Him not for any favour or worldly interest but merely for love's sake. He is perfectly content with all that is bestowed upon him whether good or bad, joyful or unpleasant. Joy or sorrow is meaningless to him.
Taken from the Book "Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Vol. 1", Chapter "Realization" p. 92, by Revered Babuji Maharaj
In our own personal intercourse here on earth, we neither have the time nor the inclination to find out what the other person likes. So the safest course is to give what you like yourself. It is a test of love when it seeks to find out what really You like so that I can offer you what you like.
Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2004, Vol. 2", Chapter...
Sometimes your actions are those of a sinner, which doesn't make you a sinner. Sometimes they are those which can be called saintly, which of course doesn’t make you a saint either. We are what we are.
Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2004, Vol. 2", Chapter "This I Am", pg. 175, by Revered Chariji
What we must strive for in order to secure absolute freedom from bondage is to become the lightest and the finest, closely corresponding with the godly attributes, and securing complete similarity with Him. The nectar of real life is for him and him alone who brings himself up to the standard required for the purpose.
Taken from the book "Complete...