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Quote on mind

2009-05-11T05:25:00.000-07:00

Volumes have been written on the human mind. What does it mean? How does it work? etc. But, for all practical purposes, we know that our thought is our mind.Our thoughts are the building blocks of our life. Our thought determines what we are, and what we shall be in the future..

Our mind has two parts:-

1. Conscious mind, 2. Unconscious mind.

Our mind is like an iceberg in the ocean. We know that out of ten, only one part of the iceberg is visible and nine tenth of it is under water. Similarly, the large part of our mind known as the subconscious is hidden from our conscious mind. Only a very small part of it is known to us. This is our conscious mind.

There is a great secret in it. This small part - the conscious mind, can control and mould the whole of the unconscious mind. All saints and sages of the world have proved this fact. They tell that what we think intensely and constantly for a sufficiently long time, enters into our conscious mind and makes the necessary changes. What our unconscious mind accepts, that we feel and what we feel, that we become. If you feel like Buddha, you become Buddha. If you feel like Christ, you shall become Christ.

Thus, we find that our thoughts make or mar our life. Our mind is our greatest friend and greatest enemy also. It is the cause of our bondage as well as our liberation....

The Boy Who Wanted To Meet God

2009-05-10T04:00:00.000-07:00

There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with Twinkies and a six-pack of root beer, and he started his journey.

When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park, staring at some pigeons. The boy sat down next to her and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed that the old lady looked hungry,so he offered her a Twinkie. She gratefully accepted it and smiled at him. Her smile was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered her a root beer. Once again, she smiled at him. The boy was delighted. They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, yet they never said a word.

As it grew dark, the boy realized how tired he was and he got up to leave.Before he had gone more than a few steps,he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug. She gave him her biggest smile ever.

When the boy opened the door to his own home a short time later,his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face.

She asked him, "What did you do today that made you so happy? He replied, "I had lunch with God."But before his mother could respond, he added,"You know what? She's got the most beautiful smile I've ever seen!"

Meanwhile, the old woman, also radiant with joy, returned to her home.Her neighbor was stunned by the look of peace on her face,and she asked,"What did you do today that made you so happy?" She replied, "I ate Twinkies in the park with God." But before her neighbor responded, she added, "You know, he's much younger than I expected."

Will someone see God in your smile or kind deeds? Maybe they're not even looking for God, but may see Him in the kindness you show.

Isn't that what we're here for?

It might be a stranger, someone you work with, a family member or friend. Let them see God in you. Show His love in all you do.There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with Twinkies and a six-pack of root beer, and he started his journey.

When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park, staring at some pigeons. The boy sat down next to her and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed that the old lady looked hungry,so he offered her a Twinkie. She gratefully accepted it and smiled at him. Her smile was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered her a root beer. Once again, she smiled at him. The boy was delighted. They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, yet they never said a word.

As it grew dark, the boy realized how tired he was and he got up to leave.Before he had gone more than a few steps,he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug. She gave him her biggest smile ever.

When the boy opened the door to his own home a short time later,his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face.

She asked him, "What did you do today that made you so happy? He replied, "I had lunch with God."But before his mother could respond, he added,"You know what? She's got the most beautiful smile I've ever seen!"

Meanwhile, the old woman, also radiant with joy, returned to her home.Her neighbor was stunned by the look of peace on her face,and she asked,"What did you do today that made you so happy?" She replied, "I ate Twinkies in the park with God." But before her neighbor responded, she added, "You know, he's much younger than I expected."

Will someone see God in your smile or kind deeds? Maybe they're not even looking for God, but may see Him in the kindness you show.

Isn't that what we're here for?

It might be a stranger, someone you work with, a family member or friend. Let them see God in you. Show His love in all you do.

20 Witty onliners -

2009-05-09T00:35:00.000-07:00

1. Regular naps prevent old age... Especially if you take them while driving.

2. Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.

3. Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!

4. They said we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried- but they wanted cash.

5. A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school uniforms.

6. Don't feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.

7. Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without... But whatever you do, you'll regret it later.

8. You can't buy love. . But you pay heavily for it.

9. True friends stab you in the front.

10. Forgiveness is giving up my right to hate you for hurting me.

11. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

12. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

13. My wife and I always compromise. I admit I'm wrong and she agrees with me.

14. Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

15. Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.

16. It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.

17. They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

18. Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

19. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.

20. Real friends are the ones who survive transitions between address books

YOUR LIFE IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. IT'S A REFLECTION OF YOU!

2009-05-08T05:23:00.000-07:00

"A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, his son
falls, hurts himself and screams: "AAhh!!" To his surprise, he hears the
voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: "AAhh!!"

Curious, he yells: "Who are you?"
He receives the answer: "Who are you?"
And then he screams to the mountain: "I admire you!"
The voice answers: "I admire you!"
Angered at the response, he screams: "Coward!"
He receives the answer: "Coward!"
He looks to his father and asks: "What's going on?"
The father smiles and says: "My son, pay attention."
Again the man screams: "You are a champion!"
The voice answers: "You are a champion!"
The boy is surprised, but does not understand.

Then the father explains: "People call this ECHO, but really this is LIFE.
It gives you back everything you say or do.

Have Faith in yourself first

2009-05-07T03:52:00.000-07:00

Let people say whatever they like ,

stick to your own convictions, and rest assured ,

the world will be at your feet.

They say , " Have faith in this fellow or that fellow,"

But we have to Say, " HAVE FAITH IN YOURSELF FIRST". that's the way.

Rough road makes you strong

2009-05-06T00:52:00.000-07:00

The road is good is the roughest and steepest in the universe.

It is a wonder that so many succeed,

no wonder that so many fall.

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles...

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Anything that makes you weak physically.

intellectually and spiritually,

reject as poison; there is no life in it, it cannot be true.

These mysticisms, in spite of some grains of truth in them,

are generally weakening.....

Work is Worship

2009-05-05T03:54:00.000-07:00

The Supreme Soul from Whom has this whole of universe originated & because of Whom is it existing, by worshipping Him with ones day-to-day jobs & activities, one can attain the supreme state.

(Shrimad Bhagvad Geeta: 18.46)

Anybody, may be a very affluent or a poor person, can reach the ultimate state of suprem bliss, by offering the flowers of daily chores to the omnipresent God.

There is a well named 'Pisajhari Kuan' in the middle of the road going from Munger to Bhagalpur in Bihar, India.

A 13 year old girl called 'Shyamo' got married. Her husband died a year after her marriage. She became a widow at the young age of 14. Shyamo thought that it is not wise to become an escapist, materialistic & lazy. She made her parents understand her feelings & she started leading a pious & pure life.

Shyamo's parents were very poor. She used to get up early in the morning & earn some money by making flour using grind-stone. Then, she used to take her bath and pray to God & sing praises of His holy name. After that she used to again sit down to make thread using the spin-wheel. If somebody wanted to get food prepared, then she used to do that also. The whole day she used to keep herself busy working with full sincerity & diligence. As a result she used to get sound sleep in the night & easily she was able to concentrate for the short duration she used to pray. As this routine continued, one day Shyamo observed that all those who travel on Munger-Bhagalpur road feel very thirsty. Not only did she earn her living by making flour, thread & cooking, but she also donated all her life-long savings to construct a well for the travellers.

Even today that 'Pakka Kuan' (constructed well) located on the Munger-Bhagalpur road denotes Shyamo's sacrifice, austerity, goodwill and dedication & zeal towards work.

No matter how adverse the circumstances be, if one continues to work diligently without losing faith & hope, then his duties take the form of worship. The peace & contentment experienced by a devotee or a Yogi, the same happiness & peace is evolved in the heart of the one who does his duties with the aim of pleasing God.

Even though Shyamo became a widow at a very young age, she did not let her life get misled, dedicatedly she did her jobs practising self-control, purity in action & pleasing behaviour. That is the reason that even if her body is not existing in this world, but the songs of her good qualities are still being sung...

I wish the people entangled in fighting & creating tension for others get some inspiration from her! If we let the river of self-less services flow in our family & society, then the world would be so great!

If tomorrow came and I didn't have You

2009-05-04T03:51:00.000-07:00

If tomorrow came and I didn't have You,
What could I say? What would I do?
My world would be ripped and torn apart
and I'd be struggling out in the dark.
I can't imagine my life without You and
the many blessings You drop off too!

A whisper in my ear
when I face a rough day and as You're
with me when I kneel and pray. The comfort
You give as I read Your word and sing Your
praises so they can be heard.

Lord, I don't want to face a tomorrow
without You. There would be no meaning
and I couldn't get through. You enrich
my life in everyway, grant salvation and
grace along the way. I don't want
a tomorrow without You and I'll keep
praying so I don't lose You.

But Baba My Saviour and Lord i know you are within me
My heart is your dwelling place
Everyday help me clean the seat of your throne
With in my heart so that you feel at ease within.
Let my heart be locked and let me lose the key so that i have you always with in me
Baba be always with me - rest in my heart
Let my heart recognise all hearts that have "you" within
As you rightly said you "I dwell in all inanimate and animate"

|| You Find What You Seek ||

2009-05-03T05:21:00.000-07:00

Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds.

What ever we discovered in our own lives is that we see more of what we look for. Clarity precedes mastery (big idea there) and the more clearly we look for what we want, the more powerfully we generate that result in our own lives. By setting clear goals in the important areas, we see more of what we are searching for. By looking for the best in others, we generally find it. And by looking for the good things in our lives and expressing gratitude for our blessings (rather than thinking about any problems), we see more of what's good.

attitude of gratitude

2009-05-02T05:19:00.000-07:00

Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you,

knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger

and better than your current situation.

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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking,

always by doing. Try to do your duty,

and you'll know right away what you amount to.

The Self-Knowing people are both kind and indifferent towards all

2009-05-01T03:44:00.000-07:00

They appear to be making efforts like a materialistic person, but in reality they are in a state of supreme meditation.
They take the world to be an illusion and know the Lord to be omni-present.

The Self-Knowing persons know of the inaction inherent in an action.
The company of such persons generates a pleasent soothing effect.
No matter what they do, but all of them are always stationed in the form of the Real Self.

Human desire

2009-04-27T03:22:00.000-07:00

Human desire is illimitable and without end.

It makes you pursue the mirage in the desert;

it makes you build castles in the air;

it breeds discontent and despair, once you succumb to it.

But develop the thirst for u r SADGURU ; you discover the cool spring of Ananda within you.

Sai Naam makes you very strong and steady; it is sweet and sustaining.

fear and fearlessness

2009-04-25T03:21:00.000-07:00

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in GOD.......

The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in HIMSELF....

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work .

The moment you fear, you are nobody.

It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world.

It is fear that is the cause of all our woes ,

And it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment......

Life and struggle

2009-04-22T03:18:00.000-07:00

A man found a cocoon of an emperor moth. He took it home so that he could watch the moth come out of the cocoon. On the day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the moth for several hours as the moth struggled to force the body through that little hole.

The moth seemed to be stuck and appeared to have stopped making progress. It seemed as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. The man, in his kindness, decided to help the moth; so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The moth then emerged easily. But its body was swollen and small, its wings wrinkled and shriveled. The man continued to watch the moth because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to and able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the little moth spent the rest of its life crawling around with a small, swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly. The man in his kindness and haste did not understand that the struggle required for the moth to get through the tiny opening was necessary to force fluid from the body of the moth into its wings so that it would be ready for flight upon achieving its freedom from the cocoon. Freedom and flight would only come after the struggle. By depriving the moth of a struggle, he deprived the moth of health.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.
If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled.
We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets, and don't forget the power in the struggle.

An idle mind is devil's workshop

2009-04-21T03:16:00.000-07:00

NEver sit idle when some fear arises in your heart. If you sit idle, you will start brooding over it.
That will only enhance the fear in your heart. The popular proverb - " An idle mind is devil's workshop" has great truth in it.

This proverb actually explains the state of our own mind!

So, when fear arises in you heart, don't sit idle. Get up at once and do one of the following...

1. Start reading words of strength and hope.

2. Take up some constructive and creative activity.

3. Go to some dependable elders you know and spend some time in their elevating presence.

4. Take deep breaths rhythmically and do some methodical exercises.

5. Pray intensely to GOD in whichever form you like.

If you want to achieve success in overcoming fear, there are certain rotten personal habits you must avoid at all costs...

1. Wandering about doing nothing

2. Losing yourself in idle gossip

3. Brooding over your weaknesses.

4. Postponing your duties.

5.Lingering in an undecided state of mind.

All of these exhaust the brain, weaken the mind, and drain all your energies, leaving the inner core of your personality greatly damaged.

So easy to beat yourself up over mistakes

2009-04-20T03:12:00.000-07:00

So easy to beat yourself up over mistakes you've made. So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste.

But let me ask you a question: "is there really such a thing as a mistake?" First of all, no one tries to fail or mess things up. Every one of us wakes up in the morning, walks out into the world and does the best we can do based on what we know and the skills we have. But even more importantly, every so-called "mistake' is actually a rich source of learning. An opportunity to build more awareness and understanding and gain precious experience. Experience that will help us do, feel and be even better. So, just maybe, there are no mistakes. Just maybe what we could call failures are actually growth lessons in wolf's clothing. And just maybe the person who experiences the most wins.

Kundaini - Breathing Therapy

2009-04-19T03:04:00.000-07:00

The nose has a left and a right side; we use both to inhale and exhale.

Actually they are different; you would be able to feel the difference.
The right side represents the sun, left side represents the moon.
During a headache, try to close your right nose and use your left nose to breathe.

In about 5 mins, your headache will be gone? If you feel tired, just reverse, close your left nose and breathe through your right nose.
After a while, you will feel your mind is refreshed.

Right side belongs to 'hot', so it gets heated up easily, left side belongs to 'cold'.

Most females breathe with their left noses, so they get "cooled off" faster.

Most of the guys breathe with their right noses, they get worked up.

Do you notice the moment we wake up, which side breathes faster? Left or right? ?

If left is faster, you will feel tired.
So, close your left nose and use your right nose for breathing, you will get refreshed quickly.

This can be taught to kids, but it is more effective when practised by adults.

This alternative natural therapy without medication is something that he has experienced.

Cool Link

2009-04-18T03:57:00.000-07:00

Too cool...... check out this link, and do follow the instructions given :)

HEMA is a Dutch department store.

Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything (it's in Dutch, anyway)

but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens. Don't click on any of the

item pictures, just wait and see what happens. Great graphics !

http://producten.hema.nl/

A rich man meets Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa

2009-04-18T03:46:00.000-07:00

A rich man went to Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and said:
"I've heard that Godess Maha Kali herself comes to meet you." Shri Ramakrishna: "Yes, that is true."
"When does she come?" "That is not fixed.
Is there a particular time when the God & the saints pay a visit? They come at their own goodwill."
"I want that you should help me a little. Whenever the Godess Maha Kali comes at your place next time do send her to my house also."
This person appeared very clever to Shri Ramakrishna therefore He said:
"That's OK! But you give me your address."
The richman wrote his address on a piece of paper & gave it to Shri Ramakrishna.
Then Shri Ramakrishna said: "Is this your address?" "Yes Sir! This is definitely my address."
"No, this is the address of your body. I can send the Mother (Godess) only if you give me your address."
"My address! The rich person was bewildered." Shri Ramakrishna smiling said:
"How can a person invite the Mother (Godess) without knowing his own address?" The rich person stepped back silently & went away.

Heart is not a basket for keeping sadness

2009-04-18T03:08:00.000-07:00

Heart is not a basket for keeping sadness.

Keep it like a flower garden it is the place for keeping happy things.

Let your heart be happy always.....
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Forget the things that made u sad........

and remember those that made you glad.

Forget the troubles that passed away.....

and remember the blessings that come each day.....

The Cracked Pot

2009-04-18T03:02:00.000-07:00

There was a farmer who owned two pots which he used to fill with water every evening from the river side and bring back home for daily usage.However, one of the pots was slighty cracked due to which by the time the farmer used to reach home, half of the pot got emptied.

The pot always felt ashamed for its shortcoming and regretted why the farmer had not thrown him away.One fine day, the pot managed to ask whether the farmer has ever noticed that it is cracked and half of the water and his valuable energy gets wasted everyday.

The farmer took the pot on the way to riverside and told the pot-- see the flowerbed , i knew that you are cracked so I had sown the seeds which have turned into beautiful flowers because of the watering done by you.

Motivational Quotes & Quotations a video

2008-02-22T23:45:00.000-08:00

This video comes with some good motivational quotes with good background music. The quotes on the video

* Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - Thomas A. Edison

* A journey of a 1000 miles must begin with a single step - Lao Tzu

* It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney

* Thought is action in rehearsal - Sigmund Freud

* The beginning is the most important part of the work - Plato

* When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on - Franklin D. Roosevelt

* He that climbs the tall tree has won the right to the fruit - Sir Walter Scott

* The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing - Steven Covey

* Motivation is when your dreams put on the work clothes - Benjamin Franklin

* You have to 'be' before you 'do' and 'do' before you 'have' - Zig Ziglar

* Whatever you are, be a good one - Abrahan Lincoln

Cute Love Quotes Video part 2

2007-12-12T12:45:00.000-08:00

Here is the second part of video to the Cute love quote posted before. No Quote is repeated and the background music is different. So those who enjoyed the first one can read some more love quote.

Nursery Rhyme See Saw Animated

2007-09-08T07:16:00.000-07:00

Kids can Listen and see the this Nursery Rhyme called " See Saw ".

You can also preview the books, sitting at your home or office, right on your computer, if you are thinking to buy one. Preview the books, select the ones which you like and buy online from links provided for each book.

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by Robert Louis Stevenson - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1989 - 121 pages
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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 48 pages
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Flora's Feast: A Fairy's Festival of Flowers in Full Color

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Number Rhymes to Say and Play! - Page 7

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Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee

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Cute Love Quotes Video

2007-08-24T12:42:00.001-07:00

Decided to blog this video called Cute Love Quotes, after reading some comments like,

" I cried "

" pretty really and wonderful "
" i love this video "
" This is really beautiful qoutes !"

and so on

The video contains some famous love Quote. The comments for the video on the you tube shows the popularity of the quote displayed. The beautiful love Quotes will bring back the romance in one's heart.

Yankee Doodle

2007-08-21T18:19:00.000-07:00

Yankee Doodle the famous American song, famous as Nursery Rhyme . The song was originally sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized colonial "Yankees" with whom they served in the French and Indian War. The Lyrics of the song is attributed to Doctor Richard Shuckburgh, a British Army surgeon.

Kids will love this short poem with music and animation.

nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie

2007-08-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

This one is short poem for kids. My kid particularly loved this poem, more so when shown in animated version as he loves watching cartoon characters, singing with music. In fact all children would love learning nursery rhyme,this way, more than learning from book. However, learning from the books with picture and lyrics is an experience in itself. The video clip also displays the lyrics of the poem. This nursery rhyme is called Wee Willie Winkie author of the poem is William Miller, composed in 1841.

Rain rain

2007-08-18T10:36:00.000-07:00

Rain Rain go away favorite poem with kids, animated.

Polly put the kettle on

2007-08-18T10:34:00.001-07:00

Another good animated poem for kids, kids would love to learn it this way. This one is called Polly put the kettle on.

Polly put the kettle on

2007-08-18T10:34:00.000-07:00

Another good animated poem for kids, kids would love to learn it this way. This one is called Polly put the kettle on.

nursery animated rhyme called Pop goes the weasel

2007-08-18T10:30:00.000-07:00

A nice nursery animated rhyme called Pop goes the weasel

Quote on self awareness

2007-08-15T06:50:00.000-07:00

When one's own true nature is known, then there is being without beginning and end. It is unbroken awareness bliss.

Only when the ever-present Consciousness is realized will it be permanent.

There is only one state, that is consciousness, or awareness or existence.

Knowing the Self, God is known. In fact, God is none other than Self.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

grace of guru-selfrealization

2007-08-09T11:11:00.000-07:00

God never acts. He just is.

It is very hard to realize one's true state or nature without the grace of the guru.

God or guru never forsakes the devotee who has surrendered himself.

The guru does not bring about Self-realization. He simply removes the obstacles to it.

Individuality is the illusion that we are not identical with God. When the illusion is dispelled, what remains is God.

Realization of the Self is realization of God. It is not an experience of God, rather, it is an understanding that one is God.

Silence is the best, the most potent initiation. Silent initiation changes the heart of all.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Sri Ramana Maharshi a very good video clip

2007-08-03T00:29:00.000-07:00

A very good video of Sri Ramana Maharshi and the sacred mountain Arunachala

Physical body, self surrender and karma

2007-08-02T22:11:00.000-07:00

Whatever this body is to do and whatever experiences it is to pass through was already decided when it came into existence.

He who is forgetful of the Self, mistaking the physical body for it, and goes through innumerable births, is like one who wanders all over the world in a dream. Thus, realizing the Self would only be like waking up from the dream-wanderings.

Surrender can never be regarded as complete so long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord.

Destiny (karma) is the result of past actions.

Awareness which already exists within everyone everywhere, is imperishable and changeless.

-- Sri Ramana Maharshi

Karma (destiny) (conduct)

2007-07-23T09:04:00.000-07:00

- Until realization, there will be karma, that is, action and reaction. After realization, there will be no karma, and no world

- When there is no "I" there is no karma (destiny).

- Bad habits and bad conduct are like a wound in the body. Every disease must be given appropriate treatment.

- There is no standard by which to judge something to be right and another to be wrong. Opinions differ according to the nature of the individual and according to the surroundings. They are ideas, and nothing more.

- If one remains at peace oneself, there is only peace everywhere.

-- Sri Ramana Maharshi

Few more quotes on self by Sri Ramana Maharshi

2007-07-14T15:51:00.000-07:00

* The Self is God. "I AM" is God.

* Know that you are the perfect shining light, which not only makes the existence of God's kingdom possible, but also allows it to be seen as some wonderful heaven.

* Faith is in things unknown, but the Self is self-evident.

* That bliss of the Self is always with you and you will find it for yourself if you seek it earnestly.

* All unhappiness is due to the ego; with it comes all your trouble. What does it avail you to attribute to the happenings in life the cause of misery which is really within you?

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

Human mind, the self, the doer

2007-07-13T14:52:00.000-07:00

* It is the human mind that creates its own difficulties and then cries for help.

* To bring about peace means to be free from thoughts and to abide as pure Consciousness.

* He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.

* Effort must be made to eradicate the mental tendencies. Knowledge can only remain unshaken after all the mental tendencies are rooted out.

* To be the Self that you really are is the only means to realize the bliss that is ever yours.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Sri Ramana Maharshi some beautifull quotes with great insight

2007-07-12T13:29:00.000-07:00

Few of very good quotations of Sri Ramana Maharshi

* "You are not instructed to shut your eyes to the world, you are only to "see yourself first and then see the whole world as the Self."

* So long as you consider yourself to be the body, you see the world as external and the imperfections appear to you.

* Look within, see the Self. Then there will be an end of the world and its miseries.

* If one knows the truth that all one gives to others is giving only to oneself, who indeed will not be a virtuous person and perform the kind act of giving to others.

-- Sri Ramana Maharshi

Love life happiness

2007-07-04T12:26:00.000-07:00

* You must love all and help all, since only in this way can you help yourself.

* Good, God, Love, are all the same thing. If the person keeps continuously thinking of any one of these, it will be enough. All meditation is for the purpose of keeping out all other thoughts.

* If one scrutinizes one's own Self, which is bliss, there will be no misery at all in one's life.

* Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

-- Sri Ramana Maharshi

A love song

2007-06-19T10:30:00.000-07:00

This is yet another poem written by the blogger way back. i use to write poems and compose in to the song on guitar and perform among the friends. Since all the songs were on philosophical aspect, one of my friend forced me to write a love song (those were college days, although i never studied in one, my friends did). and this was what came out, also on guitar it came out quite good.

OOH GIRL, COME AND LISTEN TO MY SONG,
'CAUSE I SING YOU THIS SONG FOR OUR LOVE, TONIGHT,
SO COMMON GIRL AND LISTEN TO MY SONG, 'CAUSE I SING YOU THIS SONG FOR OUR
LOVE,

ALLOW ME TO HOLD YOU TIGHT IN MY ARMS,
AND GET IN ANOTHER WORLD,
ALLOW ME TO KNOW ALL OF YOUR DREAMS,
AND REALIZE ALL YOUR FANTASIES,
ALLOW ME TO DROWN YOU IN MY LOVE,
AND GET OVER FLOODED WITH MY LOVE,
ALLOW ME GIVE YOU SOME PRECIOUS MOMENTS,
AND GET THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE,

I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO GIVE TO YOU BABY, SO PLEASE COME AND TAKE IT ALL FROM ME

Self Consciousness

2007-06-16T05:39:00.000-07:00

"Consciousness is always Self-consciousness. If you are conscious of anything, you are essentially conscious of yourself"

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Yes very true, whatever we are conscious of, basically we our conscious of our own self, the self is always involved. To be aware of what happening to the self in the present moment is very essential i feel. Most of the time we are lost, lost in thoughts, lost in the past and the future, bringing the consciousness to the present is what great teachers like Sri Ramana Maharshi wants from us, they are the awakener rather than the teachers.

The ignorance of I thought

2007-06-10T11:06:00.000-07:00

* "The ignorance is identical with the "I"-thought. Find its source and it will vanish. The "I"-thought is like a spirit which is not palpable, and it rises up simultaneously with the body, flourishes on it and disappears with it."

* All these notes you are making of my sayings and so on, are useful for beginners, for friends and to answer the questions of others. But for yourself, you know that they are only pieces of paper. Dive into the Self and find all you want to know there!

*By repeated practice one can become accustomed to turning inwards and finding the Self. One must always and constantly make an effort, until one has permanently realized. Once the effort ceases, the state becomes natural and the Supreme takes possession of the person with an unbroken current. Until it has become permanently natural and your habitual state, know that you have not realized the Self, only glimpsed it.

* What need is there to explain the non-self? Take Vedanta, for instance: they say there are fifteen kinds of prana (breath, vital force, the upward flow of energy). The student is made to memorize their names and functions. The air goes up and is called prana, and when it comes down it is called apana (the downward flow of energy); it operates the indriyas (organs of sense) and is called something else. Why all this? Why do you classify, give names and enumerate the functions, and so on? Is it not enough to know that one prana does the whole work? The antahkarana (mind; the seat of thought and feeling) thinks, desires, wills, reasons etc, and each function is attributed to one name such as mind or intellect. Has anyone seen the pranas or the antahkaranas. Have they any real being? They are mere concepts. When and where will they end?

*Consider this: A man sleeps. He says on waking that he slept. The question is asked, "Why does he not say in his sleep that he is sleeping?" The answer is given that he is sunk in the Self and cannot speak, like somebody diving into a pool to bring something up from the bottom. The diver cannot speak. When he has actually recovered the article and emerges from the water, he speaks. Well, what is the explanation? When he is immersed in the water, it would gush into his mouth if he were to open it to speak. It's simple, isn't it? But the philosopher is not content with this simple fact. He explains it by saying that fire is the deity that presides over speech, and that it is inimical to water and therefore cannot function. This is called philosophy and students are struggling to learn all this. Isn't it a sheer waste of time? Again the gods are said to preside over the limbs and senses of the individual. So they talk about hiranyagarba (cosmic egg) etc. Why should confusion be created and then explained away? Those who do not involve themselves in this maze are lucky. I was very fortunate that I never took to it. If I had, I would probably be nowhere, always in confusion. Fortunately, my vasanas (inherent tendencies and conditioning) took me directly to the "Who am I?" enquiry.

*All relative knowledge belongs to the mind, not the Self. It is therefore illusory, not permanent. A scientist who formulates the theory that the earth is round, for instance, may prove it incontrovertibly, but when he falls asleep the whole idea vanishes: his mind is left blank. What does it matter if the world is round or flat when he is asleep? So you see the futility of all such relative knowledge. Real knowledge is to go beyond all relative knowledge and abide in the Self. Realize that the Self transcends intellect; the intellect itself must vanish to reach the Self.

*The jnanis (one who has realized the Self) point out that the yogi assumes the existence of the body and its separateness from the Self, and therefore advises effort for their reunion by the practice of yoga. In fact, the body is in the mind, which is seated in the brain; the brain functions by light borrowed from another source, as admitted by the yogis themselves in their fontanelle theory (that the life-current enters the body through the fontanelle, the soft spot in the head at birth). The jnani argues that if the light is borrowed, it must come from its original source. Go to the source directly and do not depend upon borrowed resources. An iron ball needs fire to come into being separate from the mass of iron. Later, it cools down relinquishing the fire, but it must be heated once again if it is to reunite with the mass. So, the cause of separation from the Self must also be its means of union.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on Love

2007-06-10T04:31:00.000-07:00

"Love alone can transform the present madness and insanity in the world - not systems, not theories, either of the left or of the right. You really love only when you do not possess, when you are not envious, not greedy, when you are respectful, when you have mercy and compassion, when you have consideration for your wife, your children, your neighbour, your unfortunate servants."

From: The first and the Last freedom.

Here J. Krishnamurti, points how love alone can transform the present madness we see in the world. All the theories to solve the problems, have failed as we see, cause theories can never bring about a inner change in humanity. Theories are learned be the mind and the inner totality is never touched by what is learned only through the theories. Love is the quality that is needed in human, only that is the answer to the wars and all the crimes and insanity going on in the world. Because a man with a loving heart cannot harm or even think to harm anybody, in anyway, now mentally, nor physically. He always looks for a harmony and peace. Further J. Krishnamurti also shows what love is not? because it is in discovering what love is not, that we find what love is, which is our essential nature. Most of us misunderstand the nature of possession as love, while possession is perhaps the opposite of love as it binds what we think we love, the object of love becomes a thing and love is such a vast process that it cannot be possessed nor it posses. Similarly when we are envious or greedy we should know that we are far away from love. These things are the wall for the love to flower. And when we have the quality of compassion, mercy we should know that we love. Compassion and mercy not just for whom we called are nearer and dear ones and for ones whom we think that we love. But for every living being in general. Even the servants we should be compassionate and should be careful not to hurt them. Even for the animals there must be a feeling of compassion. Those who feel for each and every living being can be called transformed by love and not those who would rob and cheat other for the sake of so called loved ones.

A poem MYSTERY WOMAN

2007-06-09T23:15:00.000-07:00

This one was also written in those days when i might be around 20. This poem never got a chance to get composed into a song with music.

SHE IS SITTING IN THE DARK, IN THE CANDLE LIGHT,
HER HAIR ARE LONG, HER EYES GOT THE GLEAM,
HER HANDS GOT THE POWER, SHE'S GOT A CRYSTAL BALL,
HER VOICE GOT THE DEPTH, SHE WON'T TELL YOU WHAT SHE MEANS,

SHE IS MYSTERY WOMAN

SHE IS WEARING RED GOWN, IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT,
SHE'S YOUNGER THAN YOU THINK, LIKE SHE'S FROM OTHER WORLD,
SHE'LL CREATE FIRE IN YOUR HEART, THAT WILL BURN UP YOUR PAST,
SO YOU BETTER BE AWARE, 'CAUSE SHE CAN KILL YOU IN THE NIGHT,

SHE IS MYSTERY WOMAN

BUT IF YOU WANT TO BE MYSTIFIED, YOU LET HER WORK HER WAY,
SHE WILL FILL YOU WITH HER MAGIC, THAT COULD EXPLODE YOUR HEAD,
YOU KEEP YOUR EYES ON HER, AND WATCH HER EVERY MOVE,
SHE COULD HIT YOU WITH THE LIGHTENING, RIGHT BETWEEN YOUR EYES,

SHE IS MYSTERY WOMAN

RUNNING FOR NOTHING

2007-06-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

This was the first ever poem i wrote, it was written for a purpose of transforming into a song since i was learning guitar and wanted to do something creative, something original, as such things were loved. And it was also the first composed song of my own.

AS THEY DO I'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR HEAVEN,
EACH TIME I ENDED TO THE HELL'S GATE,
IT WAS ENOUGH OF IT WHEN I HEARD A MAD MANS WORDS,
HE SAYS, RUN FOR NOTHING,
RUN FOR NOTHING,

I DID GAVE HIM A CHANCE,
SINCE I'VE BEEN RUNNING, RUNNING AND RUNNING,
I'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING,

ITS SO TEMPTING, SO ORGASMIC, SO FILLED,
THIS NOTHING,
SO I'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING

Meditation Ramana Maharshi

2007-06-07T23:15:00.000-07:00

Few quote from Ramana Maharshi on meditation and self inquiry

‘The same line you take in meditation will be expressed in your activities.’

‘If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.’

‘Inquiring, "Who am I that is in bondage?" and knowing one's real nature alone is liberation.’

‘If one resorts uninterruptedly to remembrance of one's real nature until one attains the Self, that alone will be sufficient.’

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Uninterrupted remembrance of the self requires much aliveness and vigilance from our part. To be aware of everything that is happenings to the self, the past and the future affecting the mind, the environment affecting the mind, and in the midst of that remembering the self can be quiet arduous. The grace of the God or Guru or perfect Master helps much. Also Sai Baba of Shirdi use to say many times "You need not go far or anywhere in search of Me. Barring your name and form, there exists in you, as well as in all beings, a sense of Being or Consciousness of Existence. That is Myself. Knowing this, you see Me inside yourself, as well as in all beings. If you practise this, you will realize all-pervasiveness, and thus attain oneness with Me."

CALL FOR HORIZON

2007-06-06T15:54:00.000-07:00

This version of poem was composed in a song with a rock rhythm and was sung in a couple of rock shows

I WANNA FLY LIKE EAGLE,
FLYING HIGHEST,
I WANNA KNOW THE DANGERS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
I WANNA KNOW ALONENESS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,

HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,

ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,

I WANNA FLOW LIKE RIVER,
ALWAYS FLOWING,
YEAH FLOWING,
AND FLOWING,
THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS,
THROUGH THE PLAINS,

HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,

ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,

I WANNA MELT AND MERGE IN,
INTO OCEAN,
I WANNA FLY OVER THE,
OVER THE HILLS,
I WANNA MOVE ON,
UNTRODDEN PATHS,

HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,

ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON

I WANNA FLY LIKE EAGLE,
FLYING HIGHEST,
I WANNA KNOW THE DANGERS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
I WANNA KNOW ALONENESS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,

HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,

ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,

I WANNA FLOW LIKE RIVER,
ALWAYS FLOWING,
YEAH FLOWING,
AND FLOWING,
THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS,
THROUGH THE PLAINS,

HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,

ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,

I WANNA MELT AND MERGE IN,
INTO OCEAN,
I WANNA FLY OVER THE,
OVER THE HILLS,
I WANNA MOVE ON,
UNTRODDEN PATHS,

HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,

ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON

SITTING BY RIVER SIDE

2007-06-05T10:27:00.000-07:00

About 18 years ago when i was about 20 years of age used to write poems, and compose them into songs. Few songs were sung i local rock shows and others just while with friends. All these the poems will be posted under the label blogger's poems will be posted.

This one was called Sitting by Riverside

SITTING BY RIVER SIDE, I SEE THE STARS SHINES BRIGHT,
WATCHING BENEATH MY SHOES, IS THE GRASS SO GREEN,
WATER RUNNIN' GOT, GOT THE SOUND SO RIGHT,
WIND BLOWING MAKES, MAKES ME FEEL ALL RIGHT,

SITTING BY RIVER SIDE

WALKING TROUGH THE DESERT, I SEE THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT,
BELOW MY FEET IS, IS THE SAND SO HOT,
DISTANT HORIZON, MAKES ME FEEL SO HIGH,
HALLUCINATION, TRYING TO TAKE ME AWAY,

WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT

PASSING THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS, THE AIR IS SO THIN,
BELOW MY EYES ARE, THE VALLEYS SO DEEP,
MOUNTAIN PEAKS AT DISTANCE, WANNA MAKE ME REACH SO HIGH,
I DON'T KNOW DESTINATION, 'CAUSE ITS LIKE THE CALL FROM THE UNKNOWN,

Love and Attachment

2007-06-04T11:42:00.000-07:00

* 'Love is a dangerous thing, it brings the only revolution that gives complete happiness. So few of us are capable of love, so few want love. We love on our own terms, making of love a marketable thing. We have the market mentality and love is not marketable, a give-and-take affair. It is a state of being in which all man’s problems are resolved. We go to the well with a thimble and so life becomes a tawdry affair, puny and small.'

* 'When you get rid of attachment, there will be LOVE.' 'LOVE can not exist where there is attachment.'

* 'Attachment gives a sense of belonging, identification with something, a sense of reality, of being. When that is threatened, there is fear, anger, envy, jealousy, pain. Is all this love?'

* 'In the denial of what love is not, love is'.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

* 'But true Bliss can come only to one who would take courage in his hands and become free of all attachment to forms, which are nothing but the illusions of duality. Only then can he get united with his true Beloved, who is God as the eternal and abiding Truth behind all forms, including what he regards as his own body.'

* 'Often wars are carried on by a form of love, but a love that has not been properly understood. In order that love may come into its own it must be free, untrammeled and unlimited. Love exists in all phases of human life, but usually it is latent; or it is limited and poisoned by personal ambition, racial pride, narrow loyalties and rivalries, and attachment to sex, nationality, sect, caste or religion. For the resurrection of humanity the heart of man must be unlocked so that adulterated love may be manifested in it — a love uncorrupted and free from "me" and "mine".'

Meher Baba

Avoid attachment to both what is pleasant
And what is unpleasant.
Losing the pleasant causes grief.
Dwelling on the unpleasant also causes grief.
Do not cling to the pleasant.
Let it pass,
So that the separation will not diminish you.
Clinging to what is dear brings sorrow.
Clinging to what is dear brings fear.
To one who is entirely free from endearment
There is no sorrow or fear.

Gautam Buddha

* 'A third motive is Kama, which is pleasure, love, or attachment. For this one neglects things and makes sacrifices. It is the main object in life. Yet pleasure is such that the desire for it is never satisfied. The more one experiences the pleasures of this earth, the more one wants to experience them. This pleasure is not lasting and it usually costs more than it is worth.'

* 'The attachment and love and affection of man are not very different from the attachment of the birds and animals. There is a time when the sparrow looks after its young and brings grains in its beak and puts them into the beak of its young ones, and they anxiously await the coming of their mother. And this goes on until their wings are grown, and once the young ones have known the branches of the tree and they have flown in the forests under the protection of their mother, they never again remember that mother who was so kind to them. There are moments of emotion, there are impulses of love, of attachment, of affection, but there comes a time when these pass; they pale and fade away. And there comes a time when a person thinks that there is something else he desires and something else he would like to love.'

Hazrat Inayat Khan

* 'You will feel restless for God when your heart becomes pure and your mind free from attachment to the things of the world. Then alone will your prayer reach God. A telegraph wire cannot carry messages if it has a break or some other defect.'

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsha

* 'Let go of your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.'

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Desires and silence of the mind

2007-06-01T23:14:00.000-07:00

Silence comes with the absence of desire. Desire is swift, cunning and deep.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

WITH EGO YOU ARE LIVIN' IN THE ...

2007-05-31T18:43:00.000-07:00

IF YOU'VE GOT A PURPOSE, YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF TENSIONS,
IF YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE, THERE ARE LOTS OF WEIGHTS,
IF YOU'VE GOT SOME AIM, YOUR VISION IS BLURRED,
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR DESTINATION, YOU'VE LOOSED THE PATH,

IF YOU'VE GOT EXPECTATIONS, YOU'VE GOT DISSATISFACTION,
IF YOU WANT SOMETHING, A KING IS ACTING LIKE A BEGGAR,
IF YOU WANT TO RULE THE PEOPLE, YOU'VE GOT TO BE A SLAVE,
IF YOU'RE HANKERING FOR LOVE, YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN TO GIVE,

IF YOU'VE GOT A PURPOSE, YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF TENSIONS,
IF YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE, THERE ARE LOTS OF WEIGHTS,
IF YOU'VE GOT SOME AIM, YOUR VISION IS BLURRED,
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR DESTINATION, YOU'VE LOOSED THE PATH,

Blogger's Poem

Jiduu Krishnamurti on fear

2007-05-31T08:10:00.000-07:00

Peace is the state of mind; it is the freedom of all desire to be secure. The mind-heart that seeks security is always under then shadow of fear. Our desire is not only of material security, but much more for inner, psychological security, and it is this desire to be inwardly secure through virtue through beleif, through a nation that creates a limiting and conflicting groups and ideas.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on Death

2007-05-31T07:57:00.000-07:00

You cannot rationalize death away, saying that all things die. that the fresh green leaf of spring is blown away in the autumn and so on. You can reason and find explanation for death, or try to conquer by will the fear of death, or find a belief for the substitute of that fear; but all this is still the action of the mind.

Atttaiining knowledge of the self

2007-05-31T00:39:00.000-07:00

* Not leaving the Self is true Knowledge (Jnana).

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Inscrutable are the ways of Fakir

2007-05-31T00:37:00.000-07:00

Shama, you are as a newborn infant, as yet! Unless Allah Favors him, what can I do?
Can anybody step up to this mosque without being Allahmiya’s debtor? Inscrutable are the ways of Fakir here. Over Him, I have no control.

Sai Baba of Shirdi

On Suurender and Karma

2007-05-30T02:08:00.000-07:00

* Perform your duty conscientiously and with detachment regarding yourself not as a doer but only as an instrument in his hands.

* Surrender the fruit of action to Him (God) so that action will not harm or bind you. Let your love and compassion grow to all creatures of God. Do not engage in controversy. Words of others cannot harm you. Bear with others patiently. Accept your lot cheerfully without comparing yourself with others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not give tit for tat for each is answerable for his own actions.

Sai Baba of Shirdi

tendencies towards sense-objects

2007-05-29T03:03:00.000-07:00

* As long as there are tendencies towards sense-objects in the mind, the inquiry "Who am I?" is necessary.

* Without giving room even to the doubting thought, "Is it possible to destroy all these tendencies (vasanas) and to remain as Self alone?" one should persistently cling fast to Self-attention.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Power of Love and Love for power

2007-05-25T15:56:00.000-07:00

Peace will come when the power of love
overcomes the love of power

Jimi Hendrix.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on Love and Respect

2007-05-25T15:54:00.000-07:00

Obviously there is no love when there is no real respect, when you don't respect another, whether he is your servant or your friend. Have you not noticed that you are not respectful, kindly, generous, to your servants, to people who are so-called `below' you? You have respect for those above, for your boss, for the millionaire, for the man with a large house and a title, for the man who can give you a better position, a better job, from whom you can get something. But you kick those below you, you have a special language for them. Therefore where there is no respect, there is no love; where there is no mercy, no pity, no forgiveness, there is no love. And as most of us are in this state we have no love.

True love is unconquerable and irresistible

2007-05-25T15:50:00.000-07:00

Love has to spring spontaneously from within
And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force.
Love and coercion can never go together;
But though love cannot be forced on anyone,
It can be awakened in him through love itself.
Love is essentially self communicative;
Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.
True love is unconquerable and irresistible,
And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself,
Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches

Meher Baba.

Seek not Love but for the barriers against it

2007-05-25T15:48:00.000-07:00

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely
to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.

Rumi.

Wonderful quote by the great Mystic Poet Maullana Rumi. This quotes point to the essential fact all the great Mystics and Prophets and teachers have been pointing to. Our nature is that of love, we do not need to look for it as we are it. There are many barriers within us that project themselves as love, many short comings like lust, possession, wants, selfish expectations, ambitions, greed which are needed to be known understood and got rid of.

Love brings about the transformation

2007-05-25T15:46:00.000-07:00

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called
love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will
discover that for you the world is transformed

Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Love does not require a sword to rule

2007-05-25T15:43:00.000-07:00

Love rules his kingdom without a sword

....Proverb.

Has Love ending

2007-05-25T15:42:00.000-07:00

True love doesn't have a happy ending:
true love doesn't have an ending

....Unknown.

Strenght of the lover

2007-05-25T15:41:00.000-07:00

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength,
and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish
much, and what is done in love is done well.

...Vincent Van Gogh.

Love and Fear and Obedience

2007-05-25T15:38:00.000-07:00

Wicked men obey from fear;
good men, from love

...Aristotle.

The beauty of Love

2007-05-25T15:36:00.000-07:00

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord
that is called love which can exist between
a man and a woman.

...Kahlil Gibran.

Love and Time

2007-05-25T15:34:00.000-07:00

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship
and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will
not be created for years or even generations

...Kahlil Gibran.

Love of God

2007-05-25T15:32:00.000-07:00

God loves each of us as if there
were only one of us

...St. Augustine.

What does Love Look Like

2007-05-25T15:30:00.000-07:00

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others.
It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes
to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and
sorrows of men. That is what love looks like

St. Augustine.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on Love and forgiveness

2007-05-25T15:27:00.000-07:00

Is forgiveness love? What is implied in forgiveness? You insult me and I resent it, remember it; then, either through compulsion or through repentance, I say, "I forgive you". First I retain and then I reject. Which means what? I am still the central figure. I am still important, it is I who am forgiving somebody. As long as there is the attitude of forgiving it is I who am important, not the man who is supposed to have insulted me. So when I accumulate resentment and then deny that resentment, which you call forgiveness, it is not love. A man who loves obviously has no enmity and to all these things he is indifferent. Sympathy, forgiveness, the relationship of possessiveness, jealousy and fear - all these things are not love. They are all of the mind, are they not? As long as the mind is the arbiter, there is no love, for the mind arbitrates only through possessiveness and its arbitration is merely possessiveness in different forms. The mind can only corrupt love, it cannot give birth to love, it cannot give beauty. You can write a poem about love, but that is not love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on Love and sentiment

2007-05-25T15:26:00.000-07:00

Obviously love is not sentiment. To be sentimental, to be emotional, is not love, because sentimentality and emotion are mere sensations. A religious person who weeps about Jesus or Krishna, about his guru or somebody else, is merely sentimental, emotional. He is indulging in sensation, which is a process of thought, and thought is not love. Thought is the result of sensation, so the person who is sentimental, who is emotional, cannot possibly know love. Again, aren't we emotional and sentimental? Sentimentality, emotionalism, is merely a form of self-expansion. To be full of emotion is obviously not love, because a sentimental person can be cruel when his sentiments are not responded to, when his feelings have no outlet. An emotional person can be stirred to hatred, to war, to butchery. A man who is sentimental, full of tears for his religion, surely has no love.

The essence of Love

2007-05-25T15:25:00.001-07:00

Love is something eternal;
the aspect may change,
but not the essence

Vincent Van Gogh.

Giving is Love

2007-05-25T15:23:00.000-07:00

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get,
but rooted in what you can give to the other person

Josh McDowell.

Communication in Silence

2007-05-25T15:20:00.001-07:00

Couples who love each other tell each other
a thousand things without talking

Chinese Proverb.
The true lovers have the language of the silence, they don't need to talk about love. It is conveyed in each others presence or remembrance. It's a happening, it happens without their effort, the great force of love transport them in a different world, and they can feel what words cannot convey. There are no demands, no wants and they should be careful that the energy of love should work on them and get deeper in their selves and higher in spirits, there are lot of other things which project themselves as love takes the real thing away.

Love one soul two bodies

2007-05-25T14:25:00.000-07:00

Love is composed of a single soul
inhabiting two bodies

Aristotle.

Love and Passion

2007-05-25T14:24:00.000-07:00

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst

Kahlil Gibran.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on Love and sentiment

2007-05-25T14:19:00.000-07:00

Meher Baba Quote on Love

2007-05-25T13:18:00.000-07:00

Revenge follows hatred and forgiveness follows love. Without love none can cultivate the noble habit of forgetting and forgiving. You forgive a wrong done to you in the same measure in which you love the wrongdoer.

You can counteract a disease only by its antidote.Love is the antidote to hatred. When you feel like hating a man try to remind yourself that he is a form of your own Self.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on Love and possession

2007-05-25T13:06:00.000-07:00

What is love with most of us? When we say we love somebody, what do we mean? We mean we possess that person. From that possession arises jealousy, because if I lose him or her what happens? I feel empty, lost; therefore I legalize possession; I hold him or her. From holding, possessing that person, there is jealousy, there is fear and all the innumerable conflicts that arise from possession. Surely such possession is not love, is it?

From: The first and the Last freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on contentment

2007-05-25T13:03:00.000-07:00

Does not effort mean a struggle to change what is into what is not, or into what it should be or should become? That is we are constantly struggling to avoid facing what is, or we are trying to get away from it or to transform or modify what is. A man who is truly content is the man who understands what is, gives the right significance to what is. That is true contentment; it is not concerned with having few or many possessions but with the understanding of the whole significance of what is; and that can only come when you recognize what is, when you are aware of it, not when you are trying to modify it or change it.

From: The first and the Last freedom.

Meher Baba Quote on Love

2007-05-25T12:32:00.000-07:00

I love you.

Do not worry about your weaknesses. Eventually they will go; even if they linger, love will one day consume them.

Everything disappears in the Ocean of Love. Because I love you, you have a pool of love within you. When you feel wretched, when you fall in your weakness, have a dip in that pool of love. Refresh yourself in that pool of love.

It is always there. Even if you wash your weaknesses every day in the pool it will remain clear. Don't worry. Baba loves you, that is what really matters.

Meher Baba

Lao Tzu Quote on Love, Courage and generosity

2007-05-25T10:45:00.000-07:00

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao Tzu
The Way of Lao-tzu

HOW TO LOVE GOD

2007-05-25T10:37:00.000-07:00

To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

If, instead of seeing faults in others, we look within ourselves, we are loving God.

If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to help others, we are loving God.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, we think ourselves more fortunate than many many others, we are loving God.

If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as His Will, we are loving God.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to Love God, and find Him as our own self.

Meher Baba

This poem has taken my heart and soul, in fact it is after reading this, the drawing towards Meher Baba's words and read and read more here , and later visited the Meher Baba Samadhi and the Meher Baba center in Ahmadnagar, and bought many books from there, the most significant being "God Speaks"

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on tranquillity

2007-05-25T01:25:00.001-07:00

If you are aware of that process of thought and feeling, you will see that there is a constant battle going on, an effort to change, to modify, to alter what is. This is the effort to become, and becoming is a direct avoidance of what is. Through self-knowledge, through constant awareness, you will find that strife, battle, the conflict of becoming, leads to pain, to sorrow and ignorance. It is only if you are aware of inward insufficiency and live with it without escape, accepting it wholly, that you will discover an extraordinary tranquillity, a tranquillity which is not put together, made up, but a tranquillity which comes with understanding of what is. Only in that state of tranquillity is there creative being.

From: The first and the Last freedom.

Love Poem of Rumi A sufi Mystic Poet

2007-05-25T01:00:00.000-07:00

If I could have known to value what I owned

i've travelled around
raced through every city
while i knew all along
no place could be found
like the city of love

if i could have known
to value what i owned
i would not have suffered
like a fool
the life of a vagabond

i've heard many tunes
all over the globe
all empty
as a kettledrum
except the music of love

it was the sound of
that hollow drum
that made me fall
from the heavens
to this mortal life

i used to soar
among souls
like a heart's flight
winglessly roaming and
celestially happy

i used to drink
like a flower that drinks
without lips or throat
of the wine that overflows
with laughter and joy

suddenly
i was summoned by love
to prepare for a journey
to the temple of
suffering

i cried desperately
i begged and pleaded
and shredded my clothes
not to be sent
to this world

just the way i fear now
going away
to the other world
i was frightened then
to make my descent

love asked me to go
with no fear to be alone
promising to be close
everywhere i go
closer than my veins

love threw its spell
its magic and allure
using coyness and charm
i was totally sold and
bought everything with joy

who am i to resist
love's many tricks
and not to fall
while the whole world
takes love's bait

love showed me
a path but then
lost me on the way
if i could have resisted
i would have found my way

i can show you my friend
surely how you can get there
but here and now
my pen has broken down
before telling you how

Ghazal (Ode) 1509
Translation by Nader Khalili
"Rumi, Fountain of Fire"
Burning Gate Press, Los Angeles, 1994.

Sri Ramana Maharshi Quote on Meditation

2007-05-25T00:09:00.000-07:00

Although tendencies towards sense-objects, which have been recurring down the ages, rise in countless numbers like the waves of the ocean, they will all perish as meditation on one's nature becomes more and more intense.

Hafiz on heart and God

2007-05-24T06:40:00.000-07:00

“No one could ever paint a too wonderful picture
of my heart or God.”

Hafiz

Sri Ramana Maharshi on thoughts and self

2007-05-23T16:32:00.000-07:00

What does it matter how many thoughts rise? At the very moment that each thought rises, if one vigilantly inquires, "To whom did this rise?" it will be known "To me." If one then inquires, "Who am I?" the mind will turn back to its source (the Self) and the thought which had risen will also subside. By repeatedly practicing thus, the power of the mind to abide in its source increases.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on Love and Respect

2007-05-23T14:41:00.000-07:00

You may say that you have respect but your respect is for the superior, it is merely the respect that comes from wanting something, the respect of fear. If you really felt respect, you would be respectful to the lowest as well as to the so-called highest; since you haven't that, there is no love. How few of us are generous, forgiving, merciful! You are generous when it pays you, you are merciful when you can see something in return.

From: The first and the Last freedom.

Friendship Quote by Sufi Mystic Poet Rumi

2007-05-23T08:34:00.000-07:00

Friendship is as precious as gold.
Why entrust it to one who will betray it?
Spend time near the One with whom your trusts
are safe from loss or violation.
Be close with the One who created human nature,
the One who nurtured the character of the prophets--
who if given a lamb, will give you back a whole flock of sheep.
Truly, the Sustainer cares for and increases every good quality

"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"

Here Rumi talks about the Friends we should be with, and the company one should seek for. Further Rumi suggests us to be close to the ultimate, the one who created the human nature, the one who nurtured the character of the prophets, the saints, the sages. The sustainer, cares for us and if we seek the sustainer's company, the sustainer will sure send us the similar company (Friends)

below is some talks with Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansha, from The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna about the good company:

MASTER: "God and His glory. This universe is His glory. People see His glory and forget everything. They do not seek God, whose glory is this world. All seek to enjoy 'woman and gold'. But there is too much misery and worry in that. This world is like the whirlpool of the Visalakshi. (A stream near Sri Ramakrishna's birth-place.) Once a boat gets into it there is no hope of its rescue. Again, the world is like a thorny bush: you have hardly freed yourself from one set of thorns before you find yourself entangled in another. Once you enter a labyrinth you find it very difficult to get out. Living in the world, a man becomes scared, as it were."

A DEVOTEE: "Then what is the way, sir?"

MASTER: "Prayer and the company of holy men. You cannot get rid of an ailment without the help of a physician. But it is not enough to be in the company of religious people only for a day. You should constantly seek it, for the disease has become chronic. Again, you can't understand the pulse rightly unless you live with a physician. Moving with him constantly, you learn to distinguish between the pulse of phlegm and the pulse of bile."

DEVOTEE: "What is the good of holy company?"

MASTER: "It begets yearning for God. It begets love of God. Nothing whatsoever is achieved in spiritual life without yearning. By constantly living in the company of holy men, the soul becomes restless for God. This yearnihg is like the state of mind of a man who has someone ill in the family. His mind is in a state of perpetual restlessness, thinking how the sick person may be cured. Or again, one should feel a yearning for God like the yearning of a man who has lost his job and is wandering from one office to another in search of work. If he is rejected at a certain place which has no vacancy, he goes there again the next day and inquires, 'Is there any vacancy today?'

"There is another way: earnestly praying to God. God is our very own. We should say to Him: 'O God, what is Thy nature? Reveal Thyself to me. Thou must show Thyself to me; for why else hast Thou created me?' Some Sikh devotees once said to me, 'God is full of compassion.' I said: 'But why should we call Him compassionate? He is our Creator. What is there to be wondered at if He is kind to us? Parents bring up their children. Do you call that an act of kindness? They must act that way.' Therefore we should force our demands on God. He is our Father and Mother, isn't He? It the son demands his patrimony and gives up food and drink in order to enforce his demand, then the parents hand his share over to him three years before the legal time. Or when the child demands some pice from his mother, and says over and over again: 'Mother, give me a couple of pice. I beg you on my knees!' — then the mother, seeing his earnestness, and unable to bear it any more, tosses the money to him.

"There is another benefit from holy company. It helps one cultivate discrimination between the Real and the unreal. God alone is the Real, that is to say, the Eternal Substance, and the world is unreal, that is to say, transitory. As soon as a man finds his mind wandering away to the unreal, he should apply discrimination. The moment an elephant stretches out its trunk to eat a plaintain-tree in a neighbour's garden, it gets a blow from the iron goad of the driver."

Love and reputation

2007-05-23T02:03:00.000-07:00

Love and reputation, brother,
are not in harmony:
don't stand at the door of reputation, if you are a lover.

"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"

Self Inquiry quote Sri Ramana Maharshi

2007-05-23T01:57:00.000-07:00

Cling to yourself, that is, to the "I"-thought. When your interest keeps you to that single idea, other thoughts will automatically get rejected and they will vanish.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

self inquiry quote Sri Ramana Maharshi

2007-05-23T01:20:00.000-07:00

The mind will subside only by means of the inquiry, "Who am I?" The thought "Who am I," destroying all other thoughts, will itself finally be destroyed like the stick used for stirring the funeral pyre.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Inner Self quote Sri Ramana Maharshi

2007-05-22T12:45:00.000-07:00

If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self. At this level it is not necessary to make an effort to reject thoughts.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Self Quote Sri Ramana Maharshi

2007-05-17T23:44:00.000-07:00

Stick to this "I"-thought and question it to find out what it is. When this question takes strong hold on you, you cannot think of other thoughts.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Love Poem Rumi A sufi Mystic Poet

2007-05-17T12:51:00.000-07:00

That moon has returned, whose like the sky never saw even in
dreams; he has brought a fire which no water can extinguish.
Behold the body's tenement, and behold my soul -- Love's cup
has intoxicated the one and ruined the other.
When the master of the tavern became my heart's companion,
my blood turned to wine out of love, my heart to roast.
When the eye is filled with his image, a voice proclaims,
"Well done, goblet, and bravo, wine!"
My heart suddenly descried the ocean of Love; it leaped away
from me, saying, "Come, find me now!"
The sun of the countenance of Shams-i Din, Pride of Tabriz
-- in its track like clouds all hearts are running.

Translation by A. J. Arberry
"Mystical Poems of Rumi 1"
The University of Chicago Press, 1968

Love Poem Rumi

2007-05-17T12:48:00.000-07:00

That moon, undreamt even by sky, returns
Bringing a fire no water can quench.

The temple of my body and my soul
Are made drunken and desolate by his love.

When the tavern-keeper became my soul-mate
My blood turned to wine, my heart to kebab.

When the eye is consumed by thought of him
A voice arrives: Well done, O Flagon. Brave, wine!

Loves fingers drag up, root and stem,
Every flower where Love's rays fall.

When my heart noticed Love's sea, suddenly
It escaped me and leapt in, crying, "Save me!"

Tabriz's glory, the face of the Wild One is
The Sun whose track all cloudy hearts follow.

Version by James Cowan
"Rumi's Divan of Shems of Tabriz, Selected Odes"
Element Books Limited 1997

love for God Quote Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

2007-05-17T11:21:00.001-07:00

"After attaining God one forgets His external splendour, the glories of His creation. One doesn't think of God's glories after one has seen Him. The devotee, once immersed in God's Bliss, doesn't calculate any more about outer things. When I see Narendra, I don't need to ask him: 'What's your name? Where do you live?' Where is the time for such questions? Once a man asked Hanuman which day of the fortnight it was. 'Brother,' said Hanuman, 'I don't know anything of the day of the week, or the fortnight, or the position of the stars. I think of Rama alone.'"

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa