· It is said in the Bhagavata that the Avadhuta chose a kite as one of his twentyfour gurus. The kite had a fish in its beak; so it was surrounded by a thousand crows. Whichever way it flew with the fish, the crows pursued it crying, ‘caw! caw!’ When all of a sudden the fish dropped from its beak, the crows flew after the fish, leaving the kite alone. The ‘fish’ is the object of enjoyment. The ‘crows’ are worries and anxiety. Worries and anxiety are inevitable with enjoyment. No sooner does one give up enjoyment than one finds peace.
· Brothers may live happily, but they get into trouble when the property is divided. Dogs lick one another’s bodies, they are perfectly friendly. But when the householders throw them a little food, they get into a scrap.
· One cannot know the truth about God through science. Science gives information only about things perceived by the senses. (Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa)
· Think not about yourself but only for others. That is renunciation, that is religion, that is all. You have died, why do you think of yourself? Have you not given everything over to Mother? Why then think of yourself again? Never care for position. Give up all such ideas. Work is worship. Everything is in the life we live, not in position. Mother knows the heart and sees the heart and arranges things accordingly. Let your light so shine that everybody can see it. Let your work be silent and in secret and your Mother who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. The fowls in the air have their nests to rest, but the Son of man had nowhere to lay his head. Jesus had no position, and millions and millions of hearts are his place, or he is the place where millions of weary souls go for rest. (Swami Turiyananda)
· Even the very causes of all the pleasant and the unpleasant incidents in our lives are in fact parts of a jigsaw puzzle, which remains incomprehensible till the last piece falls into place. And that last piece is the regaining of our spiritual nature and the realization that we are essentially identical with the Lord who is omnipotent, transcendent and also immanent and that all existence is spiritually one. (Swami Atmaramananda)
· Brothers may live happily, but they get into trouble when the property is divided. Dogs lick one another’s bodies, they are perfectly friendly. But when the householders throw them a little food, they get into a scrap.
· One cannot know the truth about God through science. Science gives information only about things perceived by the senses. (Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa)
· Think not about yourself but only for others. That is renunciation, that is religion, that is all. You have died, why do you think of yourself? Have you not given everything over to Mother? Why then think of yourself again? Never care for position. Give up all such ideas. Work is worship. Everything is in the life we live, not in position. Mother knows the heart and sees the heart and arranges things accordingly. Let your light so shine that everybody can see it. Let your work be silent and in secret and your Mother who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. The fowls in the air have their nests to rest, but the Son of man had nowhere to lay his head. Jesus had no position, and millions and millions of hearts are his place, or he is the place where millions of weary souls go for rest. (Swami Turiyananda)
· Even the very causes of all the pleasant and the unpleasant incidents in our lives are in fact parts of a jigsaw puzzle, which remains incomprehensible till the last piece falls into place. And that last piece is the regaining of our spiritual nature and the realization that we are essentially identical with the Lord who is omnipotent, transcendent and also immanent and that all existence is spiritually one. (Swami Atmaramananda)
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