| WORDS OF WISDOM FROM SPIRITUAL MASTERS |
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Swami Chinmayananda (Gurudev) (1916-1993)
Even after repeated failures we refuse to understand why we fail.Even under the sledge-hammer of misery and sorrow, we are blind to our own false values. A thousand repeated disappointments do not teach us how to use our productive intelligence more efficiently.
In short, man refuses to learn, although Mother Nature and Father Life, day in and day out, tirelessly give us wise tuitions! |
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Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)
"Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize"
Meditation is a powerful tonic. It is a mental and nervine tonic as well. The holy vibrations penetrate all the cells of the body and cure the diseases of the body. Those who meditate save doctor's bills. The powerful, soothing waves that arise during meditation exercise a benign influence on the mind, nerves, organs and cells of the body. The Divine energy freely flows like Taila-dhara (flow of oil from one vessel to another) from the feet of the Lord to the different systems of the Sadhaka (aspirant). |
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Swami Tapovan Maharaj (1889-1957)
Grace of the Self, grace of God, grace of the Guru and grace of the scriptures - those who have gained these four realize truth and rejoice beyond the shadow of fear. Of these, grace of self means self-effort. God helps those who help themselves. By the grace of God an aspirant comes into contact with a Guru who is established in Brahman. And through the grace of the guru he learns the secrets and puts them into practice. |
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Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950)
Association with sages leads one to liberation. Such association should therefore be cherished. Alongwith the practice of self enquiry, such association is more potent than any other spiritual discipline. The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts but not him. |
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Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Unity is Knowledge, diversity is ignorance. This knowledge is your birthright. I have not to teach it to you. There never were different religions in the world.
We are all destined to have salvation, whether we will it or not. You have to attain it in the long run and become free, because it is your nature to be free. |
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Adi Sankaracharya (788-820 A.D.)
It is evidently clean that each one is pure from the stand point of his Real Self. He is unvitiated. As a result of crime committed by the body or the mind, the self (Atma) is not to be held liable. A water duck does not get drenched whether it lives in the dirty pool or in the Ganga water. Likewise, the soul, the Atma whether enshrined in a body with a pure or impure mind, remains ever pure and unaffected. |
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Albert Enstein (1879 - 1955)
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. |
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