MAHA MILAN
Monthly Magazine of Bharat Sevashram Sangha
MESSAGE OF THE GREAT ACHARYA FOR THE HUMANITY
-Without self-examination and self-investigation along with your daily activities, no progress can be achieved. So do not indulge in any continuous activity on the plea of duty, forgetting your own mission.
-Carry on your fight ceaselessly and untiringly. The momentary weakness will disappear. You should maintain your distinctive attitude and devote yourself to your special task in a different world of your own.
-Always and under all conditions stick to your own principles and ideals. Otherwise your firmness will fall back and laxity will destroy your spiritual life.
-Respect your own thoughts and character. Is the man who cannot respect his own self,respected by anyone else in the world?
-Do not hesitate to stake your life to accomplish your objective and to finish the work started, Shake off weakness.
QUOTATIONS
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
Mastery elevates and servitude debases.
Knowledge is not for mere display but for practical application.
Society in every country shapes itself out of its own initiative.
Hatred is no substitute for happiness.
In open societies, ideas are challenged by ideas alone.
A nation that loses its identity or sense of mission can never progress healthily.
The essence of man as a moral and spiritual being is that he is a knowing being.
Science seems ready as a final gift to confer upon us the power to remove all human life from this planet.
The existence of everything depends on some conditions.
By yourself you can do nothing. Seek a friend.
Every culture has its intellectual defenders.
SPIRITUAL FINANCE FOR LIFES JOURNEY
216. Only the ignorant and the inexperienced person gives oneself praise for ones own work and wants to get praise from all others, not getting which he becomes angry and displeased, but the learned and the wise person, even if the whole world gives praise, does not think that one has done anything to get praise. Instead, by that he becomes shy and ashamed.
217.Becoming Self-forgetful In the abundance of performance, surplus of rituals, preparations, glitter of many kinds of show-splendour and the pomp of music and songs, do not forget your principal goal. If that becomes so everything will become undone.
218.It is the sincere feeling which is the life of rituals, it is realization of God which is the goal of religious p0erformance.Rituals bereft of spiritual feeling is just gymnastics of limbs of the body and therefore fruitless and meaningless.
219.Spiritual feeling, making a ritual full of creativity and vibrant with life, makes it beautiful, worthwile, soothing to the mind and dear to the heart.
220. Rituals, are not for flaunting of oneself. They are for the satisfaction of one's God and nourishment of spiritual feeling - Keep this in mind always. Then there will not be anymore mistakes, self-forgetfulness will not take place.
226.The fulfilment of spiritual struggle is in solitude only, the nourishment and increase of spiritual feeling is in solitude only.
"Mind you see and I see
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