India Reflections

Happiness outside

Happiness is not anywhere outside. It is in our fixing the attention, in the steadiness of disposition, and in the withdrawal of our mind. Those who know this secret need not search for happiness outside.

Taken from the book "Truth Eternal (5th edn., 2010) ", Chapter "Knowledge, Upasana, Happiness", pg. 90, by Lalaji Maharaj

God inside your hearts

God has hidden Himself inside your hearts and exposed you. Hide yourselves and expose God!

Taken from the book "Truth Eternal (5th edn., 2010) ", Chapter "Lalaji", pg. 18, by Lalaji Maharaj

Offer advice

Never offer advice unless invited; otherwise it is likely to yield bad results. If you find fault with anybody, pray for his freedom from it.

Taken from the book "Truth Eternal (5th edn., 2010) ", Chapter "Lalaji", pg. 13, by Babuji Maharaj

A Secret

You should seek and create happiness within you and not depend for it from external circumstances or people. As for love, it is something to be experienced in giving and not in receiving.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3", pg. 8, by Revered Chariji

Real Joy

Spirituality is joy, happiness and bliss, because the soul is able to expand and get on the way to the source where it comes from.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3", Chapter "Youth", pg. 8, by Revered Chariji

Waiting

Being at the starting point of your career as well as your family life, you are in a state of expectation and get depressed because Nature does not go as fast as you wish it to. Everything takes time to unfold and get settled but, of course, you have the impatience and ardour of the youth. So my humble advice would be: do not worry, have faith and confidence; what is in store for you will arise soon and will be the best for you.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3 (2013)",...

Attention

A thought by itself has no power. It is the attention that we give it that gives the thought its power. By meditation, if we are able to exclude such thoughts without fighting with them, without attending to them, then the mind achieves a state – a state of existence, a state of being – where a single thought alone can exist at a time.

Taken from the book "The Principles of Sahaj Marg, Set 1 (Vols. 1-3)", Chapter "Purification and Regulation of the Mind by Sahaj Marg Yoga", pg....

Promising Life

You can have a promising life if you adopt a positive attitude.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3 (2013)", Chapter "Youth", pg. 8, by Revered Chariji

Purity in everything

Purity in everything is essential and that can be developed with dedicated practice and devotion.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3", Chapter "Prefect Work", pg. 149, by Revered Chariji

Happiness - the natural inner condition

Happiness should not depend on external factors; it is the natural inner condition that you will reach when you have removed all unnecessary things. With regular abhyas, everything that is necessary will unfold at the right time and place.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3", Chapter "Practicing Sincerely", pg. 96, by Revered Chariji