Ø Seekers of wisdom discover sublime truth, seekers of love and devotion get transported into ecstasy; aspirants after perfection get inspiring ideals and examples; seekers of dirt end up in finding what they are after. The swan gets the milk, the crow the filth. (Swami Sastrananda)
Ø So long as we have no ideal to follow, we will have to heed to the calls of our lower nature; a characterless man is a slave to all worldly enjoyments. Whatever appears to him to be pleasant at first sight, he blindly follows, without caring for the after-effects. (Swami Ramakrishnananda)
Ø Meditation is not an easy thing. Eat a bit more and your mind will not settle that day. When lust, anger, greed and the whole host of evil passions are kept under control, then and then alone does meditation become possible. If any one of these asserts itself, meditation will be impossible. (Swami Brahmananda)
Ø In this ever-changing evanescent world, union coexists with separation, prosperity with adversity, happiness with misery, fortune with misfortune, enjoyment with disease, property with strife. Each follows the other like a shadow that passes. (Swami Vrajananda)
Ø A tree is known by the fruit it bears. If love for a stone image of Kali can produce a Ramakrishna, why not then try it? Ramakrishna proves what love for an ideal can achieve, even when that ideal is seen in a form beyond human understanding. God as a person may or may not exist; as an ideal, He certainly exists. (Swami Lokeswarananda)
Ø So long as we have no ideal to follow, we will have to heed to the calls of our lower nature; a characterless man is a slave to all worldly enjoyments. Whatever appears to him to be pleasant at first sight, he blindly follows, without caring for the after-effects. (Swami Ramakrishnananda)
Ø Meditation is not an easy thing. Eat a bit more and your mind will not settle that day. When lust, anger, greed and the whole host of evil passions are kept under control, then and then alone does meditation become possible. If any one of these asserts itself, meditation will be impossible. (Swami Brahmananda)
Ø In this ever-changing evanescent world, union coexists with separation, prosperity with adversity, happiness with misery, fortune with misfortune, enjoyment with disease, property with strife. Each follows the other like a shadow that passes. (Swami Vrajananda)
Ø A tree is known by the fruit it bears. If love for a stone image of Kali can produce a Ramakrishna, why not then try it? Ramakrishna proves what love for an ideal can achieve, even when that ideal is seen in a form beyond human understanding. God as a person may or may not exist; as an ideal, He certainly exists. (Swami Lokeswarananda)
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