var ticker_msg = new Array( "Discipline yourself to work and strive without the shackles of likes and dislikes, love and hatred, joy and sorrow. These come and go, ignore them with mere side-glance.", "A man firmly established in wisdom is tranquil and his equipoise is never broken even when he is investing his entire energies in the world outside for the service of mankind.", "When man is threatened with a sure mishap, and when he knows no remedy or defence against it, he, in his desperation always turns to prayer.", "Strange! Wealth estranges us all. It is all very strange, the money psychology! When you have not got any, you will pant to get some! When you get some, you grow jealous of others who have more, and feel conceited among those who have less.", "To give love, we must become independent in ourselves and be a pillar in life for others to hold to us. Such an individual, who needs no crutches for his own existence, alone can have the power to give love. All others are receivers of love.", "Man alone is given the freedom to act as he likes, and to the extent he disobeys the Universal law of sacrifice, to that extent he suffers.", "Every job demands its quota of efforts. Never give up too soon. Strive on, until you win.", "What is good need not necessarily be pleasant, although there are some pursuits which are good and pleasant at the same time.", "Do not run away. Face the world and get hit by the world. Let the world drop you again and again. It is the means to destroy the Ego.", "Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good and reject and forget to remember what is bad. This is the way to live intelligently in life.", "You have two eyes, but one vision. Eyes are two, but the Light that emanates from them both is one - vision.", "Determination should not turn to arrogance, and resolution into obstinacy. Often they do; the antidote is love.", "It is vain to waste one's time, considering which God to worship. Worship him in any form. It is the sincerity of devotion that matters.", "Anger is nothing but an attachment for an object, when expressed towards an obstacle between ourselves and the object of our attachment.", "Learn to always speak softly, words of love and affection, then friends multiply.", "The suffering depends, not upon the factual happenings, but upon the texture of one's mind.", "Prayer reminds me that I am not lost in a dream, but I am only dreaming that I am lost.", "If you realise you were wrong, have the courage to admit it.", "The highest prayer in this world is service, the greatest devotion is loving the people around us: and the noblest character trait is divine compassion for all living creatures.", "Face the challenges squarely. It is by meeting it, that a challenge is answered, not through circumvention. It is by facing it, that a problem is solved, not through escape.", "Brood not, but think! Brooding bears no fruit, while thinking does. To brood aimlessly is to abuse the faculty, whereas to think is to put it into use.", "Hoard not, but give! It is by giving you assert and retain your independence from things you possess. By hoarding you lose this freedom and stand in slavery to the things you own.", "Surrender and serve. Discover the joy of service by placing at His feet, not your achievements, but only the sense thereof. It costs you nothing but brings everything.", "Submit and learn. Submit to the feet of your Master, and render yourself receptive. Submit to the Will of the Lord, and draw a lesson from every event. Submit to the grandeur of Nature and listen to every silent message it offers.", "Control and master. Control the vagrant mind, the violent senses. Never let them do as they fancy, but bring them all to serve your will. Yield not ever to their dictates, and see that they execute all that you order.", "Remember when you make an appointment with another person, you assume the responsibility of punctuality and that you have no right to be a single minute late.", "Tragedies come from the world. Don't worry about them. He gives. He takes away. Don't lose your faith in Him.", "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.", "In life, one gets what one deserves and not what one desires and He knows what one deserves.", "Some act till they meet obstacles, others act inspite of obstacles, and conquer them; but some act not, fearing the possibility of some obstacles, that might arise enroute.", "Where ego asserts, Lord vanishes. When ego vanishes, Lord enters.", "There is no new year that I know of. We with our mind's passions and hopes conceive the coming year and the year that has gone off.", "Rest in HIM who is ever the same in your heart and watch the parade of events in the stream of TIME.", "A man firmly established in freedom is tranquil. His equipoise is never broken even when he is investing his entire energies on the world outside for the service of mankind.", "You must be ready to accept all things as natural with quiet cheer.", "Do not believe it possible to be wedded to worldly life and yet be an ascetic.", "The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comfort.", "A man of integrity is accepted, believed, trusted and befriended by all.", "A well trained and controlled mind stands a man in good-stead better than armies. It saves him from cowardice as well as perils.", "The cultured give happiness wherever they go. The uncultured, whenever they go!", "The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything.", "Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.", "Lives of great men, their deeds and words always stimulate and ennoble our mental life.", "Everybody exists. It is only the few who live. To live, you should have an IDEAL.", "The greatness is not what we do, but, unavoidably it is always in how we do, what we do.", "Fools give up the loin-cloth and other externals; but do not reject that whose rejection alone really matters.", "When opportunity knocks, we are either out or sleeping in.", "It takes two to make a quarrel. Also it takes two to make up (patch up) after a quarrel. Without invoking love, this can never be accomplished.", "End the mind and remain great is the thunderous bidding from every corner in the Hall of Vedanta.", "To give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery.", "Advaita is possible only in feeling and not in action.", "No one, steeped in sensuous pleasures, can ever find abidance in BRAHMAN. Can lotus ever grow on rocks or hair on tortoise shells?", "Continuous change alone is the changless law.", "Death connotes not only the condition of the body when life has ebbed out from it, but includes the very principle of change and finitude.", "The 'subject' of Dhyana must ultimately come to find its identity with the 'object' of Dhyana.", "All learned people admit that the paramount duty of a sanyasin who has renounced the world is the uninterrupted practice of spiritual discipline which alone leads to Moksha.", "Renunciation is the only way to perfection. Even a little renunciation is rewarded with immense blessings. Renounce, RENOUNCE.", "Grief is the state of mind created by the absence of objects of one's liking.", "Restlessness of the mind and unsteadiness of character are reflected in the physical movements of an intelligent being.", "Who is a friend? He who comes to you with love and cheer, when all others have left you, is a true friend.", "A true friend is discovered not by searching outside for a right person to befriend, but by your growing to be the right person to deserve a friend.", "You are never away from HIM. You are in HIM - with HIM, at HIM. You are HIM alone.", "Young men never care, to listen to advice. This is their nature. Nobody need curese them for it. Yet when they once trip and fall, they learn for themselves. A serious scare is always worth more to a teenager, than any amount of advice.", "Actions are the louder expression of thought. The quality of thought is ordered by the nature of our inner belief and faith.", "Any activity undertaken by a perfect Master does not and cannot bring about any consequences, good or evil upon Him, He is only a Divine instrument.", "Meet life as it reaches you. With or without the things our minds demand. Life can be a brilliant success. But, for this, we must discover something else to depend upon. Seek that something in youself; not outside.", "Man becomes high or low according to his deeds.", "The contents of the present moment, divorced from all relationship with the past and future, is the absolute fullness of the INFINITE.", "Carefully navigate round the dangerous rocks of thy own lower nature. Thou shall reach the eternal Heaven of peace and bliss-TRUTH.", "Mind at rest is the Temple of Joy. So long as it is gurgling with its desires, passions and attachments in its stormy surface, the signature of joy gets ruffled out.", "In life, the glory lies not in the quarry, but in the chase. The success is not in the trophy won but in the race run...", "Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host; and stays to enslave us.", "To be patient means to suffer something that hinders or hurts us, and still retain our self-composure. How many difficulties, with their consequent unpleasentness and discord, could be smoothed over and almost entirely eliminated by patience. Patience always elevates and strengthens our character. We need patience not only with others, but also with ourselves.", "Our present work may be great or small, yet the important thing is to do it well.", "The LORD is ever with you. Your own anxieties and fears are veiling HIM from you. He is so near to you that you cannot see HIM. You are in HIM - at HIM. You are He alone.", "Even the devil knoweth not, the mind of man.", "You alone are in the heart. You unconsciously got locked in and you cry out to others to open up and release you. Nobody can. Stop crying. Find the handle and turn... Lo! It has opened, and you get immediately a blast of the life-giving, reviving breeze of fragrant cool love from all around.", "Even though you have not conquered, the battles of the world, you become the world conqueror, when you have conquered your mind.", "Stop all your attachments to false values. In an ever changing world, there is nothing worthwhile for us to desire or weep for. Joys and sorrows are bound to come in human life; they are just like the two sides of the same coin.", "A BRAHMATMAN is one whose Atman has become one with BRAHMAN; one who has found his identity with the Self everywhere. He is called BRAHMAVID, the knower of BRAHMAN.", "The incompetent and the ineffectual alone grumble that they would have done much more had the cirucumstances been different.", "The inward tremors are experienced only when any burning desire has conquered us completely.", "Diginity of labour consists in service.", "Efficiency is the capacity to bring proficiency into expression.", "Equanimity in the face of life's challenges must flow out, not from the dark cages of one's inertia and stupidity; it must gurgle out from one's own wisdom and understanding.", "Charity is an attempt wherein I try to expand and bring into the ambit of my life, all others around me and grow to consider the other man's needs and requirement as important as my own personal needs.\n\nTo live seeking an identity thus, with at least those who are immediately around me, is to live away from the suffocating selfishness and the throttling grip of my body-consciousness.", "Liberation or attainment of perfection is a condition experienced by the mind; liberation is only for the mind because the mind alone was in bondage.", "Man awakened to the Self's glory is GOD. GOD, self-forgetful of HIS own true nature is the deluded man.", "Faith in yourself, and in the goodness of the SUPREME are necessary accessories for acomplishing all great achievements. But mere blind faith is impotent; it must be followed by sweaty efforts and panting hours of work. You accomplish nothing with faith alone, and you can do nothing without it.\n\nCultivate faith and support it with your honest and sincere efforts.", "Action includes not only physical but also mental actions, conscious and subconscious. Action is, in short, everything we think and do.", "The quality of activities cannot be raised, unless we raise the very texture of our thoughts and the depth of our understanding.", "The knowledge of BRAHMAN is the immediate perception of non-difference between BRAHMAN on the one hand and the universe on the other.", "Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good, reject and forget to remember what is bad. This is the way to live intelligently in life.", "By birth man does not become an outcast nor does he become a high caste man. He becomes high or low according to his deeds.", "It is a matter of common experience that the knowledge of a subject by itself will not enable a person to act always according to it.", "Love is to human hearts what the sun is to flowers!!.", "The suffering depends, not upon the factual happenings, but upon the texture of each one's mind.", "Some act till they meet obstacles, others act inspite of obstaces and conquer them but some act not, fearing the possibility of some obstacles, that might arise enroute.", "Become quietly effective. Don't expect them to fully understand you. They won't. So, demonstrate with results what 'they' would not understand with words!", "Wisdom is the assimilated knowledge in us, gained from an intelligent estimation and close study of our own direct and indirect experience in the world.", "To train ourselves to endure meekly the little pinpricks of life with magnanimous joy-heat and cold, pain and pleasure, success and failure--is itself the highest sadhana.", "A man-of-wisdom lives in the world, but he is never of the world.", "Everyone points to the other man, who, according to him, is happier. But the only one, who has the courage to declare that he is truly happy, is he who has relinquished all his passions and hungers from within.", "The fiery touch of the LORD'S grace, when it descends upon His devotees, is invariably felt by the seeker, more as a refreshing shower of divine mercy.", "Yoga is skill in action.", "Not sickness, but health, is the mystery of life.", "Whatever springs in mind, man expresses it.", "Without devotion, knowledge is tasteless. Without knowledge, devotion is mere empty idol worship.", "Anger is nothing but an attachment for an object, when expressed towards an obstacle between ourselves and the object of our attachment.", "Among men, it is he whose mind is ever fixed on BRAHMAN; the best and noblest.", "Wherever there is the concept of the 'other', there is fear, restlessness, agitation, worry, anxiety, each following the other.", "Desire is at the root of all actions, good or evil.", "Act efficiently whenever you work. The results of action depend upon the very quality of action.", "'Renounce Ego' is the LORD'S only request. 'And I will make you a GOD' is the promise.", "Evolution is not an accident. It is a logical development and has its stages.", "Work without faith and prayer, without sincerity are like artificial flowers without fragrance.", "A quiet mind produces a more brilliant intellect.", "Learn to speak softly, always words of love and affection, then friends multiply.", "GOD is not purchasable nor is He available for one's persuasions to be an ally in one's animalistic activities.", "If money does not bring happiness GIVE IT BACK.", "History is full of instances wherein, victory would have been to the vanquished, if only they had battled a little longer! We often fail for lack of perseverance in our efforts.\n\nWe leave our work half done in our impatience; every job demands its quota of efforts. Never give up too soon; strive on until you win.", "Enthusiasm is the very fuel in all great men. By inexhaustible ardour for whatever they undertake to accomplish, they generate an extraordinary drive for action.\n\nIn spiritual self-improvement, and in serving the nation in its cultural and spiritual aspects, the workers and the missionaries must discover in themselves the secret of invoking this trajectory-force of true and flawless enthusiasm.", "In the darkness of ignorance, we attach ourselves to the unreal and the fleeting. In the light of knowledge, we identify ourselves with the real and permanent.", "Have patience and live in true endeavour and ISWARA smarana. The best will surely turn up. Now and then, in everybody's live comes a small crisis. Face it bravely. The Lord looks after everyone.", "The man who is not proud of his motherland and who is not true to his customary duties must be regarded as a base, ungrateful fellow.", "We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving.", "The quality of a mind would determine how the Ego would react to a given challenge.", "Live morality before you talk of it. Practice meditation before you preach it. Taste goodness before you recommend it. Gain BLISS before you offer it to others.", "Human as we are, let us never look back for a moment but dynamically march forward creating a glorious future of magnificient achievements by rightly exercising the independent self-effort, which is man's prerogative.", "Temper brings you to trouble. Pride keeps you there.", "Life is full of waves. Pain and pleasure, gain and loss, conquest and defeat must buffet the waters of life. Otherwise, it is complete stagnation. It is death.", "The secret of success behind all men of achievement, lies in the faculty of applying their intellect in all their activities, without being misled by any surging emotions or feelings.\n\nThe secret of success in life lies in keeping the head above the storms of the heart.", "In all worthwhile undertakings, there will be risks of failure, of disappointments, of even disaster: To face them all with inner poise and firm faith is to discover the glory of final Victory.\n\nA conquest, without facing dangers, is as dull as Victory without a shining glory. A game without a prize!", "The greatness in an ideology is not, in fact, in the ideology; but it is in the subject which lives that ideology.", "The secret of action is to get established in equanimity, renouncing all egocentric attachments and forgetting to worry over our successes and failures.", "At all times, send our thoughts of love to all; kindness to all; blessings to all. Soon you will find the ALL including your enemies, showering you with love.", "The mind has to be raised step by step from the gross state to the subtle state, then to the causal state, and still futher to the great cause, and thus finally to samadhi.", "The leisurely moments of contemplation are the occasions when the dreadful mask of nature falls off and we peep into the encouraging kindly beauty of life and its environments.\n\nThoreau asserts, When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence; that petty fears and petty pleasure are but the shadows.", "ATMAN is Sat-Chit-Ananda as Electricity is Heat-Cold-Light.", "The difference between BRAHMAN and the world of objects is the lateral inversion. CONSCIOUSNESS is Infinite; the world is finite.", "Multiplicity of worldy concerns binds down a Sanyasin as much as any householder.", "Conquest of desire is Kaivalya the highest goal of man.", "GOD is not an 'object' to be found outside. Stop searching. Discover HIM within.", "The ego, born into a suitable physical body, and living through the required field of circumstances, gathers the matured fruits of action, done in ignorance and animalism in the past.", "Running away from life is not the way to reach the highest goal of evolution.", "It is but human to make mistakes, to fall a prey to some temptation, to get enchanted by some false emotion, or to elope with a wrong intention.\n\nBut how quickly can one regain his original goodness measures one's spiritual poise acquired.\n\nIn short, fall often as you must, but don't lie down where you have fallen like a rock. Be yourself ever like a rubber ball, rebound and pant up to reach agin the summits from you had the fall!", "The quieter the mind, the sharper the intellect.", "In short, the ability to love and express it in action are the requirements in gathering more and more friends. In fact 'love in action' is the heart of all religion.", "Know what to do. And then do it yourself.", "Many get enchanted by their own imaginations, dreams and fantasies.\n\nThere is not harm in these dreams if one does not believe them to be real and consider them as already gained.\n\nA great achievements have sprung from dreams stemmed forth from imagination, indeed have sprouted up and grown from fantasies... but accomplished through effort, hard work, and self-application. Don't imagine your sincerity in work--but work sincerely with imagination.\n\nPlan out your work-- and work out your plans.", "Thoughts in an individual, expressed in the outer world of objects become his actions.", "The bright beginning made each day can become the early dawn of the day of achievement.", "It is easy to develop the intellect, but it is difficult to develop the heart.", "To argue that life results when lifeless matter combines itself, is as absurd as holding that light comes out of darkness.", "Grief and dejection are the price that delusion demands from its victim, man.", "Love is something to be sustained and fulfilled, by loving. By loving alone can love be made to grow and thrive.", "Wrong imagination is the bane of life; all failures can be directly traced to an impoverished mental equanimity created by the unintelligent entertainment of unfounded fears of possible fears.", "Plan out your work. Then work out your plan. The former without the latter is a sheer waste. The latter without the former is mere unproductive confusion.", "When the sattwic vasanas increase, your devotion to your ideal grows more and more.", "As the thoughts, so the actions. Immoral thoughts cannot lead to moral actions. Actively non-cooperate with the lower instincts by immediately remembering the LORD.", "Prosperity is like wine, which goes to the head, and makes man forget his CREATOR. Adversity on the contrary, sobers him and reminds him of GOD and His GLORY.", "This love that we have, needs constant giving and as we give away, it gets replenished from His INFINITE source.\n\nBut if you refuse to give love, the stagnant love in your own heart putrifies and the crawling worms start eating up your own heart!", "In introspection, the mind itself is the subject of study.", "Desire and anger, and their numberless children of sin and sorrow, breed in the marshy lands of our own deluded intellect. To remain under their sway is ignorance. To rule over them is perfection.", "The outer world can gain a capacity to ill treat man only when the individual exposes himself unguarded; he is then crushed by his own attachments and wrong valuations.", "Whenever your attention is drawn towards the world of objects, think of its unreal nature. The world is nothing but the reflection of BRAHMAN having no reality apart from it.", "Intuitive illumination occurs the very instant when 'ignorance' is dispelled.", "Desire is called sinful, since, in its grosser expression, it makes us live and work satisfying our lower nature. It thus results in overliving the life of a lower level of evolution.", "Disappointments come only to those who make appointments with future. Do make appointments, but only with the present. Then disappointments can never, never come.", "We suffer silently wounds inflicted by weapons, suffer the pains of diseases, yet to suffer the thought 'I am not the ego', why such dread?", "Each experience is a perceptible mental disturbance (mano-vritti); and the illuminator of these vrittis, is the ONE that lights up the concept of time in our lives.", "The vision of an INDESCRIBABLE THING must necessarily be INDESCRIBABLE.", "If the mind is filled with Sattwa, the other two gunas perish by themselves.", "Friends are made by many acts, and friends are lost often by a single thoughtless act. You must grow up to deserve a friend... to have friends, you must have friendliness in you: selfless and loving, with deep concern for others.", "If you want to prove GOD, improve yourself. This is the only method.", "He who seeks happiness outside himself will never find satisfaction. It is an illusion to think that more Comfort means more happiness.", "Spiritual unfoldment cannot take place merely because of intellectual appreciation of the theory of perfection.\n\nEvolution takes place only when a corresponding change in the subjective life is accomplished. Recommend it. Gain BLISS before you offer it to others.", "Actions are nothing but the actor's thoughts projected and expressed in and through him.", "To give without sympathy is to build a temple without the idol and is as futile as painting a picture with black ink on a black board.", "Spiritual knowledge cannot be given, take it.", "Be regular.\n\nBe sincere.\n\nMake each day a rounded beauty of love, goodness and joy.\n\nLivein the bliss of best thoughts, said and done.", "A man of full realization instinctively becomes a lover of the whole Universe.", "Our work is love made visible.\n\nWhen love is made to manifest, work is done: when we work only to produce profit or wages, work becomes crushing, sweating, joyless labour.", "De-personalization is the secret of inspiration.", "We are only instrument in HIS hands. Never identify yourself with your outer personality; son of so and so, husband of such and such etc.\n\nBe ever a pliant reed in the hands of the Eternal Flute Player.", "Character is formed from the repeated choice of thoughts and actions.\n\nMake the right choice we shall have a firm and noble character.", "Unless we have a definite faith in the goal of our existence, and unless we believe, work for, and actually come to experience the goal positively as an existant factor, there is no hope of any plan becoming successful.", "A mere detachment, in itself, is only a negative existence of merely escaping from life.\n\nThe perfect one, ever established in the Supreme, experiences both the best and the worst in life with equal detachment.", "When the intellect gets purer, it will lose all its present charms for sense experiences, that it had before or may gain in the future.", "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.", "Everything will straighten itself in time.\n\nOnly we need patience, faith, self-surrender.\n\nThe LORD is great. He knows best the purity of every thought, action and the motive.", "An intellect fumed with anger comes to experience delusion and the deluded discrimination comes to lose all memories of the past.", "Cease to give love, we cease to have love; this is the strict law of love.", "To dissipate ourselves with immoral or criminal thoughts is more harmful than physically indulging in them.\n\nThe mind has a tendency to repeat its own thoughts.", "A situation is judged by the intellect as honourable or dishonourable with reference to its own existing values and cultivated habits of thinking.", "A plan can deliver its promised blessings only when the plan is executed with promptitude.", "The learned man who discountenances the efforts for the realization of Brahman, is more dangerous than the ignorant one.", "You are the mirror in which the whole cosmos is reflected.\n\nHow can mirror complain of the dancing things seen in it?", "Desires are never quenched by enjoyment.\n\nIt rather inflames them, as clarified butter does fire.", "DIVINE law does not entitle everyone to everything.\n\nTo attach ourselves to the Divine is to detach ourselves from the undivine.\n\nTo walk into light is to walk out of darkness.", "The ending of ego is the REALIZATION of the SUPREME state.", "He who has experienced the HIGHER refuses to remember and relive the past.\n\nEven a street dog will not eat its own disgorging.", "To expose the mind to the quiet atmosphere of meditation upon the ALL pervading BEING, is to heal the mind of ulcers and cause it to become perfect in wisdom.", "Love for one's equal is called friendship.", "To expose the mind to quiet atmosphere of meditation upon the ALL pervading BEING, is to heal the mind of ulcers and cause it to become perfect in wisdom", "Love for one's equal is called friendship", "You can cheat others, but never your conscience your GOD.", "Contentment in anything that reaches him accidentally, unasked and unexpected should be the motto of all serious seekers of inward growth.", "The secret of action is to get established in equanimity, renouncing all ego-centric attachments, and forgetting to worry over our successes and failure.", "Great achievements are earned not through proficiency alone, but achievements are rewards of efficiency.", "True knowledge enables a man to realize that he is the Soul with a body. Now, in his ignorance, he thinks that he is a body with a soul.", "If the INFINITE is not conditioned by matter, It will not be able to express ITS GLORIES as vividly as we see it today, in the multiple universe.", "The ordinary man gets involved in the activity of this world, but not the man of perfection.", "The man of Perfection, even while living in the physical body attains the Infinitude, though he may be a Perceiver Feeler Thinker, from the standpoint of others.\n\nThe man of Realization has the attitude, 'though doing, I am not the doer'.", "As your body requires daily cleansing, so does your mind.\n\nSo long as your mind is full of negative tendencies, you can never bring it to single-pointed concentration. Control the mind.", "There is no vessel to ferry man across the Ocean of worldiness except Jnana.", "One may change one's dress easily, but who can change his heart with the same ease.", "The universe is a cosmos and not a chaos.\n\nThere exists a mental affinity, a scientific law, a rhythm of mental relationship in which the entire living world is held together in one web of love.", "Thou shalt reach the eternal Heaven of Peace and Bliss-Truth.", "You are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty.", "We compromise with our ideal, in seeking the temporary gratification of some passing whim of our mind.\n\nOn such occassions the usual justification is that it is 'a necessary evil'.", "Love is the greatest persuasive power we know in life.", "Leap from the shores of duality into the rugged boat of discrimination and play ceaselessly towards the horizon of experience.", "Kripa (kindness) is an attitude of sympathy cooked in kindness, honeyed with love and served on golden platters of understanding.", "Where we keep the mind in peace, there Worry is not in itself a sin, but like all sins it is precious energy misspent in unproductive and wrong directions.", "However much an individual or a team of workers may toil, a cultural renaissance cannot come out of it directly.\n\nA national culture habit has its roots in the individual character, it thrivs and blooms only on the fertile soil of our actual behaviour in life.", "The source of all bliss is the dedicated performance of duty.", "Bondages are created upon our personality and life by none other than ourselves.\n\nThese bondages, infinite in number, are produced by the subtle chord of our attachment to things.", "Constant contemplation upon sense-objects is the cause for bondage.", "He who believes that fall is antecedent to rise will never give way to despair.", "Divinity is not to be given to you from somewhere else.\n\nThe Upanishad thunders, 'That Thou Art'.", "Each embodied life indicates a long autobiography of the ego, it is only after a long chain of existence in different forms that it has, at last, reached the present destination.", "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.", "Doing good in return for evil is the correct morality.", "More important than what is behind you and what is ahead of you is what is in you. Seek IT. Centered in it, act and live.", "Man cannot see GOD, but GOD is not un-experiencable non-existence.", "Learn to be happy alone. If we do not enjoy our own company why inflict it on others?", "Fantatic consistency in doing anything has in it the assurance of success.\n\nThis, in a noble cause, is perseverance.\n\nIt becomes obstinacy in a bad cause: Both are consistency of effort.\n\nPerseverance is positive and creative.\n\nObstinacy is negative and destructive.\n\nYou have the choice choose Intelligently.", "Bhakti is the attitude of the mind, and jnana is the attitude of the intellect, both flow towards the LORD.", "All disturbances and challenges rise not only from our relationship with others, but in our attitude to all other things and beings.", "Never brood over things which have happened or worry over things yet to happen. Live in the present. Intelligently face life with a tranquil mind, full of prayer and ISWARA smarana.", "The summit of Vairagya is the total absence of desire to seek any enjoyment in the world of objects.", "When our hearts are full of love, life is a smiling valley of beauty and joy, romantic and divine.", "Whatever be the form of GOD, only a mind which has freed itself totally from worldly entanglements, can be filled with Divine love.", "FAITH is 'To believe what you do not see', the reward of which is, 'you see what you believed'.", "Seek the LORD\nin the smiles of your friends,\nin the glow of angry eyes,\nin the storms of passion.\n\nHe is everywhere, in everything.", "Bhakti and service are inextricably connected.", "Just living the routine life of unintelligent imitation of others in society is the surest way to a life of sensuality.\n\nEscapist from life cannot claim an entrance to religion.", "Strange! Wealth estranges us all.\n\nIt is all very strange, the money psychology!\n\nWhen you get some, you grow jealous of others who have more, and feel conceited among those who have less!", "The train runs, but not the steam,/nthe fan moves, but not the electricity,/nthe fuel burns, but not the fire./nThe body, mind and intellect functions,/nbut not the Life, the Self in them.", "Be a tapasvin and learn to tap the very source of all life and joy, which is verily in thyself. Go inwards towards the LORD in thee.", "We pray for Peace--\nbut we shall not yield to Adharma.\nWe live in contentment--\nbut never shall we submit to agression.\nWe are soft,\nbut never when we deal with naked evil.", "Association fastens love, while separateness reduces it.", "Let the worldly man live in Varanasi or Kailas, at Badri or Gangotri, wherever he be, his mind will be attached and fickle.", "The body is the same in the case of the Knower and in the case of the ignorant.", "That which has neither a beginning nor an end, can have no cause for ITSELF.", "Indeed, event the austere sanyasins are susceptible to the beauty of creation.", "The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.\n\nIf after all our efforts, the vasanas are not totally exhausted, then the balance that remains to trouble us is called 'destiny'.\n\nMan can change his destiny not by wishing for it, but by working for it.", "Let your hands and legs function but let a part of your mind steadily hold on to the idea of the Divine Essence in you.", "The attitude of egolessness is the secret of unveiling the nobler and the dynamic in us.", "A strong man is one who faces facts.\n\nHe is weak who wants to escape from them.", "Be like a flower.\n\nGive Happiness and Fragrance to all!", "Be a noble person in life. The tides of circumstances and the tussle of happenings may toss us hither and thither, may buffet us up and down, but stay noble in your thoughts and actions and you will be ever safe.\n\nThis nobility in your heart must shine out in your actions, in your conduct, in your work.", "Whatever leads man to GOD is acceptable,\nwhatever stands in the way of realizing GOD, should be rejected totally and unceremoniously.", "Love of GOD is the bright sun, desire for the sensuous pleasure is darkness itself.", "Be free from the persecution of both joy and sorrow. Such a one alone can find peace here, below. Live in HIM who is beyond both these, the Illuminator, the ATMAN.", "Hope is necessary and can be an inspiration in living, if it is well controlled and well disciplined.\n\nLike tamed birds, we must clip the wings of our hopes, so that they may never fly over the fence!!\n\nIf you hope for the occurence of the impossible in the long run such disappointed hopes may severely embitter your life.", "When love rises to swirl around us, and when we review in this clear light of love, the very faults get transformed into the essential beauty in them. This is the magic touch of love, the miracle played by love.", "The real men of achievement are people who have the heroism to fuel more and more enthusiasm in their work, when they face more and more difficulties.", "He who has transcended egoism, experiences everlasting joy, finding himself the PARAMATMAN, in everything.", "Life is full of change. The faster the changes, the faster we are moving. See HIS hand in all change.", "Man is subject to such misery only because he is disobeying the law-of life as discovered and described in the scriptures.", "Tomorrow, we will be what we are now, plus what and how we have faced life's challenges today. This is the law of cosmic justice.", "The world of plurality has an irresistible charm to entangle us in our attachments. To avoid the ugly stain of bad vasanas, wear the gloves of constant Iswara smarana on your minds.", "We like someone 'because', we love someone 'inspite of'.", "Be ruthlessly discriminative. Let not the heart wander away without the intellect, its Master Driver.", "To assume differences in the world, is to belie this great Oneness in life.", "Be openly happy in the joy of others.\nBe sincerely sympathetic in others sorrows.", "Religion must not be considered true because it is necessary, but necessary because it is true.", "There is no companion like solitude. One who knows how to tune himself to the inner silence, even in the midst of the din and roar of the marketplace, enjoys a most recreative solitude.", "It is in the degree of devotion that the ALL-SEEING, ALL-KNOWING LORDSHIP lights.", "How can the limited mind comprehend the formless and unlimited BRAHMAN?", "One in Love expands to function from two points from oneself and from one's own Beloved.", "Mind cannot contemplate on any theme that cannot be conditioned by the senses.", "If I dislike you intensely, then even if I see you performing a good deed, I label all your actions as vile and vicious.", "If gathered knowledge adds up to form proficiency, the ability to translate that knowledge into action at the appropriate field is called efficiency.");