_______Listen to a 60 second rendition of the Gayatri Mantra_______
|
'GOD is not a person...God is the force. He is the essence of life.
He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
And yet, strangely enough, all are not able to derive either benefit from or shelter in the all-pervading living presence.' 'PRAYER is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.' 'FAITH becomes lame, when it venture in to matters pertaining to reason.' 'A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.' 'FAITH is like Himalaya Mountains which cannot possibly change.' 'A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority.' 'WHAT is faith worth, if it is not translated in to action?' 'LOVE and exclusive possession can never go together.' 'LOVE can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself-suffering, by self-purification.' 'LOVE is no love which asks for a return.' 'THE law of love knows no bounds of space or time.' 'LIFE is greater than all art.' 'LIFE becomes liveable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.' 'LIFE is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization.' 'A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.' 'HUMAN life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.' 'PEACE will not come out of clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.' 'WITHOUT prayer there is no inward peace.' 'THE man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.' 'PRAYER is the only means of bringing about orderliness, peace and repose in our daily acts.' '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.' |
_____
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah - August 15, 1947
_________
Pandit Nehru's announcement of Bapu's assassination - January 30th, 1948
___
