Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsadeva - Sundays
1/12/19
"If a man has faith in God, then even if he has committed the most heinous sins
- such as killing a cow, a Brahmin, or a woman -he will certainly be saved
through his FAITH. Let him say to God, 'O Lord,
I will not repeat such an action', and he need not be afraid of anything."
8/12/19
"God can be realized through all paths. All RELIGIONS are true. The important
thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs
or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole."
15/12/19
"But you must remember, unless one is guileless and broad-minded, one cannot
have such FAITH. Bony people, the hollow-eyed, the cross-eyed - people with
physical traits like those cannot easily acquire faith.
What can a man do if there are evil omens on all sides?"
22/12/19
'THE physicians of one class feel the patient's pulse and go away, merely prescribing
medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the
medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians. Likewise, there are
teachers who give only instruction, but do not stop to see whether their
teachings have produced good or bad effect.'
29/12/19
`God is realized as soon as the mind
becomes free from attachment.
Whatever appears in the Pure Mind is the voice of God
That which is Pure Mind is also Pure Buddhi; that, again, is
Pure Atman, because there is nothing pure but God.
But in order to realize God one must go beyond dharma and adharma."
Pir-O- Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan - Mondays
2/12/19
'THE ignorant believer, by his claim of BELIEF, causes a revolt in an
intelligent person, thereby turning him into an unbeliever. Parents think
nowadays that by giving the children the belief that has been held in the
family, they make them narrow, yet at the same time have no substitute, no
belief and it is very difficult to believe later on.
9/12/19
'IF anybody asks what sufism is, what kind of RELIGION is it, the answer is that
sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary
importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.'
16/12/19
'THERE are many prophecies and several beliefs concerning world RELIGION, but
what is most needed is to understand what religion means. The present religion,
the coming religion, or the past religion, is for those who divide the truth,
which is one, in to many.'
23/12/19
'IT is something living in the soul, in the mind, and in the heart of a man -
it's absence keeps man as dead, and it's presence gives him life. If there is any
RELIGION, it is this.'
30/12/19
'ALL life comes from one source which is the very life of all things, and not only life but intelligence also;
that is what religion calls: GOD. Whatever we call it, it is the same. The difference is only in the name.'
Jiddu Krishnamurti - Tuesdays
3/12/19
'WE never give up all our BELIEFS; we never give up all the formulas, and the things that we have learnt from books, and from teachers. We are never, inwardly, at any moment simple. We are never, at any moment, not asking or not seeking.....Only when there is no Hinduism, no Islam, no Buddhism, no Christianity, can there be peace....'
10/12/19
'WE must find out what is a RELIGIOUS mind, because a religious mind brings
about a new world a new civilization, a new culture, a new outburst of energy.
One must find out for oneself what is a religious mind, not be told, not be
directed , not explained to.'
17/12/19
'YOU can only find out if you deny totally all the present religious BELIEFS
and ideas, because it is only a free mind that can find out what is the quality
of the religious mind.'
24/12/19
'A prisoner wants freedom, which means first he is caught in a prison, then he
wants freedom to leave that prison. That is only reaction. That reaction is not
freedom. Freedom implies the total ending of all illusions, of all BELIEFS, of
all your accumulated wants, desires. A religious mind is sane. Healthy.
31/12/19
'NOW to live without measurement, to be totally, completely, free of all
measurement, is part of meditation. Not that ' I am practicing this, I will
achieve something in a years time. That is measurement which is the very nature
of one's egotistic activity. Meditation is the ending of measurement, ending of
comparison completely..'
Sri Aurobindo - Wednesday Guest
4/12/19
'REASON has a legitimate function to fulfill, for which it is perfectly adapted;
and this is to justify and illumine for man his various experiences and to give
him FAITH and conviction in holding on to the enlarging of his consciousness.
But reason cannot arrive at any final truth because it can neither get to
root of things nor embrace their totality.'
Mother of Pondicherry - Wednesday Guest
11/12/19
'THEY do have FAITH, but tell themselves, "Well, I have faith in the Divine, but
this world, I see quite well what it's like! First of all, I suffer so much,
don't I? I am very unhappy, far more unhappy than all my neighbours" - for one
is always far more unhappy than all one's neighbours - "I am very unhappy and,
truly, life is cruel to me. But then the Divine is divine, He is All-Goodness,
All-Generosity, All-Harmony, so how is it that I am so unhappy? He must be
powerless; otherwise being so good how could He let me suffer so much?"
Sri Sri Ravishanker - Wednesday Guest
18/12/19
'IN science you have knowledge first, and then FAITH follows. In spirituality,
faith comes first, and then Knowledge follows. For example, the knowledge that
pesticides and chemical fertilizers are good for plants came through science,
and people had faith in it, and all over the world they were used. And then
another knowledge came that they were not good and the faith shifted to organic
farming. The same with antibiotics. The knowledge brought faith, the knowledge
changed, and then faith changed.'
Mahatma Gandhi - Wednesday Guest
25/12/19
'I Hope there is no pride in me. I feel I recognize fully my weakness. But my
FAITH in God and His strength and love is unshakable. I am like clay in the
Potter's hands. I shall continue to confess blunders each time the people commit
them. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within
me. And even though I have to face the prospect of a minority of one, I humbly
believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority. I believe in the
supreme power of God. I believe in Truth and, therefore, I have no doubt in the
future of this country or the future of humanity.'
Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyats - Wednesday Guest
Bonus Sutra
'MY message is the practice of compassion, love, and kindness. Compassion can be
put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member
of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture,
color, and creed. Deep down there is no difference." You should respect other
religions....the essence of all RELIGIONS is basically the same: to achieve a
true sense of brotherhood, a good heart, respect for others. '
Osho Rajneesh - Thursday
5/12/19
'IF you are born Mohammedan, you have to disappear as a born Mohammedan. If you
are a born Hindu, you have to disappear as a born Hindu. You have to find your
natural qualities- because only nature grows. Birth is accidental, birth
determines nothing. It was coincidence that you were born in a home where people
were Hindu - it is as much a coincidence as if they belonged to a particular
political party.
If your parents were Catholics you need not to be a catholic. You have to search
for your own path; each
one has to search for his own path.'
12/12/19
'FAITH is not belief, it is love. Faith is not belief it is not half, it is
total. Faith is not belief because there is no doubt in it, so how can you
believe?'
19/12/19
' FAITH is not rationalization at all: neither for nor against, neither this nor
that. Faith is a trusting, a love.'
26/12/19
' HEART doesn't know what doubt is, heart doesn't know what BELIEVE is- heart
simply knows trust. Heart is like a small child; the small child clings to the
father's hand, and wherever the father is going the child is going, neither
trusting nor doubting. The child is undivided. Doubt is half, belief is half. A
child is still total. Whole.'
Bonus Sutra
'RELIGION is just like an oasis; the desert is vast, and sometimes in tiny parts
of the desert an oasis appears. And while it lasts, seek it, and while it is
there, drink of it- and it is very very rare.'
Swami Vivekananda - Fridays
6/12/19
"WE find Jesus of Nazareth, in the first place, the true son of the Orient,
intensely practical. He has no FAITH in this evanescent world and all its
belongings. No need of text-torturing, as is the fashion in the west in modern
times, no need of stretching out texts until they will not stretch any more.'
13/12/19
'EACH soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within
by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship
or psychic control or philosophy- by one or more all of these- and be free. This
is whole of RELIGION.'
20/12/19
'WE see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark
but different stages of growth. The end of all religions is the realizing of God
in the soul . That is the one universal religion.'
27/12/19
'BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.'
Bonus Sutra
' A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION.
When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the
kingdom of heaven is within him.'
Paramahansa Yogananda - Saturdays
7/12/19
' I condemn no man - only man's BELIEF and oblivion of God. He can be known by
using the technique of meditation. Then he shall throb as wisdom in your mind,
and as joy in your heart, and you will be more active and more successful than
you have ever been before. You must believe in the possibility of what you are
praying for.......'
14/12/19
'IF you dive really deep you will find the pearl of His presence. Unless we apply
definite methods of science in practicing RELIGION, it becomes little more than
a slave for our conscience.'
21/12/19
'THOSE who do not give time to their RELIGION can not expect to know all at once
about God and the hereafter.'
28/12/19
'THE true practice of RELIGION is to sit still in meditation and talk to God.'
Bonus Sutra
`Giving love to all, feeling the love of God,
seeing His presence in everyone . . . .
that is RELIGION, this is the way to live in the world.'
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