India Reflections

Moodiness

Moodiness is nothing more than involvement, too much involvement with your own self. So, instead of moods affecting work, I think work affects moods, if you are willing to work. ...Please try it, because proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3", Chapter "Attitude", pg. 195, by Revered Chariji

Constant Remembrance

Do not brood over sadness and pain, but exert your mind to constant remembrance; joy and bliss will develop in you.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3", Chapter "Constant Remembrance", pg. 176, by Revered Chariji

Negative Thoughts

Negative thoughts should be quickly shifted away and replaced by remembrance of the Divine presence in you. By ignoring these negative thoughts, they will fade away and disappear forever. Then your cleaning session will be eased and will become efficient.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3", Chapter "Constant Remembrance", pg. 181, by Revered Chariji

Spirituality Is Assured

In spirituality there is no money, there is no power, there is no guarantee of prosperity; there is not even health which is assured. Spirituality is assured. 'Spirituality is assured' means it does have something with it. Our life gets regulated better and better. It becomes more and more normal, but it does not promise superlative health or happiness or wealth or anything like that - normalisation of a human being first.

Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2005", Chapter "Senstivity",...

Nearness to Him

Remembrance brings a lover close to the beloved. There is no limit to this closeness. The greater the love or affinity, the more does one advance towards Him. This relationship comes to us by inheritance. Now it is up to us to develop it as far as to secure utmost nearness to Him.

Taken from the book "Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Vol. 1 (1st Indian edn., 1989) ", Chapter "Maxim 2", pg. 207, by Babuji Maharaj

Character

A good heart, benevolent feelings and a balanced mind lie as the foundation of character. It must be capable of standing firm in the world of daily work, temptation and trial, and be able to bear the wear and tear of actual life.

Taken from the book "Truth Eternal (5th edn., 2010) ", Chapter "Lalaji", pg. 8, by Lalaji Maharaj

Understanding Love

Even in our ordinary human life, when we start loving someone, then we are able to understand the person. But if you want to understand everything about the person, why he or she lives in the way she lives, and then we want to love, it fails. That is, to put it in one sentence, love makes all understanding possible, but understanding does not create love. Similarly, spiritual growth makes physical life understandable, intellectual necessities understandable, but not the other way.

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Humanity

Humanity begins only when you see others - how they are living, what they are doing, what is their pain. First you see with your eyes, hear with your ears. Later, you sense - you sit before people and you sense that somebody is in pain; somebody is hungry.

Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2005", Chapter "Senstivity", pg. 238, by Revered Chariji

Afflictions

Afflictions are the boons from God. There are many secrets in them, and many inner experiences can be had by undergoing sufferings.

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

Go Inside

We should pray from the beginning, when we are happy, when we are healthy, when we are successful, just to balance the outer success and money and whatnot. You must sit in meditation every day so that you go inside and see that all that is worth nothing.

Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2005", Chapter "Senstivity", pg. 235, by Revered Chariji