Suri's Spiritual Quest

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-12:

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A humanity which has done nothing for its inner well being - how can it create external well being? How do you expect it to work?

Gems from the Buddha-19:

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Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

Gems from Gandhiji-32:

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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-11:

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If you really want better situations to live in for yourself and everybody, you must stop playing petty politics within yourself and around yourself.

Gems from Gandhiji-31:

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When one wants to arrive at the truth for the sake of the truth, the result is always good.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-10:

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Whatever is your highest, you just contemplate upon that. Your inner and outer purity will happen naturally.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-9:

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You're just an imitation of what is around you, it's just that you don't imitate one person; you take bits and pieces of hundred people and make yourself.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-8:

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Religions of the world are not about one man’s belief against another, but an opportunity for all humans to each to their common ultimate source.

Gems from Gandhiji-30:

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Controls imposed from above are always bad.

Gems from Gandhiji-29:

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….It (fasting) is the last weapon in the armoury of the votary of ahimsa. When human ingenuity fails, the votary fasts. This fasting quickens the spirit of prayer, that is to say, the fasting is a spiritual act and, therefore, addressed to God. The effect of such action on the life of the people is that when the person fasting is at all known to them their sleeping conscience is awakened.…

Gems from Mother Teresa-10:

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-7:

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Do not try to live by morals, ethics, slogans. These are all very poor substitutes for awareness. Be couscious and aware, you will see life the way it is.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-6:

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Once the stillness comes into your life, then the mind also becomes absolutely still. When your mind becomes still, your intelligence explodes.

Gems from Mother Teresa-9:

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Gems from Gandhiji-28:

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When one wants to arrive at the truth for the sake of the truth, the result is always good.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-5:

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If you are truly a seeker of Truth, Truth can not hide from you. It is in the Lap of truth that you have happened. Most people who claim to be seekers are only seeking security, solace, or the fulfillment of their desires.

Gems from Mother Teresa-8:

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-4:

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Whatever is your highest, you just contemplate upon that. Your inner and outer purity will happen naturally.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-52:

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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Gems from Mother Teresa-7:

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-3:

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When your happiness is dependant upon what is happening outside of you, constantly you live as a slave to the external situation.

Gems from Mother Teresa-6:

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It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-51:

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Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-50:

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If I am God, then my soul is a temple of the Highest, and my every work should be a worship--love for love's sake, duty for duty's sake, without hope of reward or fear of punishment. Thus my religion means expansion, and expansion means realization and perception in the highest sense--no mumbling words or genuflections. We have to become divine, realizing the divine more and more from day to day in an endless progress.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-2:

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If you are rooted in reality, there will be no fear.

Gems from Mother Teresa-5:

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It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Gems from Gandhiji-26:

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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Gems from Gandhiji-25:

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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Gems from Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev-1:

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Life is far beyond meaning, Life is beyond meaning and that's why it is so beautiful.

Gems from Mother Teresa-4:

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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Gems from Gandhiji-24:

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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Gems from Gandhiji-23:

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Gems from Mother Teresa-3:

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls - Mother Teresa

Gems from Mother Teresa-2:

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Gems from Gandhiji-22:

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gems from Gandhiji-21:

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Gems from Gandhiji-20:

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson: to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer of the day-27:

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God give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other - Reinhold Niebuhr's, "The Serenity Prayer"

Gems from the Buddha-18:

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When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

On Prayer-3:

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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things – Samuel M.Shoemaker

On Prayer-2:

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The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear him – William McGill

Gems from the Buddha-17:

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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without – Buddha

Videos for Spiritual Aspirants-11: Swami Vivekananda Speech at Chicago - Welcome Address

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Pranams to Swami Vivekananda and Grateful thanks to Ramnirmal and YouTube.

Videos for Spiritual Aspirants-10: Swami Chinmayananda 1974 - Science of Sprituality #3 of 3

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Grateful thanks to JorgeLuisJaureguiM and YouTube.

Videos for Spiritual Aspirants-9: The Message of Swami Sivananda - Part 1/5

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Grateful thanks to narayani21 and YouTube.

Videos for Spiritual Aspirants-8: "Science of Sprituality #2 of 3 " by Swami Chinmayananda

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Grateful thanks to Swami Chinmayananda, JorgeLuisJaureguiM and YouTube.

Videos for Spiritual Aspirants-7: "Science of Sprituality #1 of 3 " by Swami Chinmayananda

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For a detailed article on Swami Chinmayananda from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Chinmayananda

Grateful thanks to Swami Chinmayananda, JorgeLuisJaureguiM, YouTube and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-49:

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Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

Gems from the Bible-26:

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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her way, and be wise - Old Testament

Videos for Spiritual Aspirants-6: "Chakra Meditation Balancing & Healing"

2010-10-19T11:09:00.000+05:30

Grateful thanks to Chakrameditation and YouTube.

Videos for Spiritual Aspirants-5: "Sadhguru, How do I recognize my Guru?"

2010-09-28T08:53:00.000+05:30

Grateful thanks to Sathguru and YouTube.

Gems from the Quran-5:

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An hour's contemplation and study of God's creation is better than a year of adoration.

Gems from the Bhagavata-4:

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May the world be peaceful. May the wicked become gentle. May all creatures think of mutual welfare. May their minds be occupied with what is ausipicious. And may our hearts be immersed in selfless love for the Lord.

Gems from the Buddha-16:

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Be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves.

Gems from the Bible-25:

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Receive my instructions, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it - Proverbs, The Holy Bible

Gems from Sri Ramana Maharishi-1:

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The mind will always be wandering. Just as when a chain is given to an elephant to hold in its trunk, it will go along grasping the chain and nothing else, so also when the mind is occupied with a name or form, it will grasp that alone. When the mind expands in the form of countless thoughts, each thought becomes weak; but as thoughts get resolved the mind becomes one-pointed and strong; for such a mind self-inquiry will become easy.

For Spiritual Aspirants-8:

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Know That by knowing Which everything becomes known.

Attain That by attaining Which everything is attained.

For Spiritual Aspirants-7:

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Turn inward, dive deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper .....

As you go deeper and deeper and deeper, great truths will be revealed unto you, which will gradually transform your life.

Gems from the Quran-4:

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He is indeed successful who causeth the human soul to grow aright, and he is indeed a failure who stunteth and starveth it.

Gems from Manu Smriti-1:

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Let him say what is true, let him say what is pleasing, let him utter no disagreeable truth. Let him utter no agreeable falsehood. This is the Sanatana Dharma, the eternal law.

Gems from the Bhagavata-3:

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Like the bee gathering honey from different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

Gems from the Buddha-15:

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It is the mind which gives to things their quality, their foundation and their being. Whosoever speaks or acts with impure mind, him sorrow follows, as the wheel follows the steps of the ox that draws the cart.

Gems from the Vedanta-21:

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From the unreal, lead us to the real! From darkness, lead us to light! From death, lead us to immortality! - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Gems from the Vedas-2:

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Let noble thoughts come to us from every side - Rig Veda

Gems from the Quran-3:

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He who slayeth anyone shall be as though he had slain all mankind; but he who saveth a life shall be as though he had saved all mankind alive.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-48:

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Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking... Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Gems from the Buddha-14:

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Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-47:

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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-46:

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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-45:

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Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.

Gems from the Bible-24:

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Search, you will find.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-44:

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The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-43:

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If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-42:

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-41:

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The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-40:

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Gems from the Bible-23:

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The truth shall make you free.

Gems from the Bible-22:

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I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move.

Gems from the Bible-21:

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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Gems from the Bible-20:

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The price of wisdom is above rubies.

Gems from Mother Teresa-1:

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When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

Gems from the Bible-19:

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Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who have you and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.

Gems from Gandhiji-19:

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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-39:

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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

Gems from Gandhiji-18:

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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Gems from Gandhiji-17:

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Gems from Gandhiji-16:

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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Gems from Gandhiji-15:

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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Gems from Gandhiji-14:

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So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. AHIMSA IS THE FARTHEST LIMIT OF HUMILITY.

- Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

Gems from Gandhiji-13:

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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.

Gems from Gandhiji-12:

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gems from Gandhiji-11:

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The true connotation of humility is self-effacement..... Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Gems from Gandhiji-10:

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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Gems from Gandhiji-9:

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I cannot say what to preach, but I can say that a life of service and uttermost simplicity is the best preaching.

Gems from Gandhiji-8:

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Hinduism is not an exclusive religion. In it, there is room for the worship of all the prophets in the world.

Gems from Swami Vivekananda-38:

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A disciple went to his master and said to him, "Sir, I want religion". The master looked at the young man, and did not speak, but only smiled. The young man came everyday, and insisted that he wanted religion. But the old man knew better than the young man. One day, when it was very hot, he asked the young man to go the river with him and take a plunge. The young man plunged in, and the old man followed him and held the young man down under the water by force. After the young man had struggled for a while, he let him go and asked him what he wanted most while he was under the water. "A breath of air," the disciple answered. "Do you want God in that way? If you do, you will get Him in a moment," said the master. Until you have that thirst, that desire, you cannot get religion, however you may struggle with your intellect, or your books, or your forms.

Gems from Vinobaji-2: "Dispelling Delusions in the minds of people: Central Theme of the Gita"

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...
...taking into consideration both the beginning and the end of the Gita, it is clear that the removal of delusion is its central message. This is the purpose of the Gita, as well as of the whole of the Mahabharata. Vyasa had said, right at the beginning of the Mahabharata, that he was lighting this lamp of history to dispel delusions in the minds of the people.

This introduction to Arjuna's conditions helps us greatly in understanding the rest of the Gita. We should be grateful for this. It also helps us in another way. It reveals Arjuna's straight-forwardness and honesty. The world 'Arjuna', in fact, means one who is honest and straightforward in nature. He opened out his heart before Krishna, laid bare before Him all that he felt and thought. He hid nothing from Him and ultimately surrendered to Him totally. In fact, he was already his devotee. When he made Krishna his charioteer and entrusted to Him the reins of his horses, he had got ready to give into His hands the reins of his mind also. Let us do likewise. Let us not think that, unlike Arjuna, we do not have Krishna to guide us. Let us not get caught in the fallacy that Krishna was an historical person. Everybody has Krishna residing in his heart as the indwelling Self. He is nearer to us than the nearest. Let us bare our heart, with all its impurities and weaknesses, before Him and say, "O Lord! I take refuge in you. You are my sole guide, my master. Show me the right path and I shall follow it." If we do so, Arjuna's charioteer will be our charioteer too. We shall hear the Gita from His own lips and He will leads to victory.

Excerpt from TALKS ON THE GITA by Vinobaji (2005 - Published by Paramdham Prakashan, Paunar).

Humble prostrations at the holy feet of Vinobaji and grateful thanks to Paramdham Prakashan.

Happy New Year!

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Wish You All

a Happy, Prosperous and Purposeful 2010!

- Suri

Prayer of the day-26:

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O Agni! Lead us along the right path, to the kingdom of righteousness. Lord of Light, the dark recesses of the mind cannot be hid from You, the knower of all. Cut asunder the evil in us that would make us stray from the right path. Thus do we pray and offer our adorations unto You, ever and ever more (Rig Veda)

Videos for Spiritual Aspirants-4: "The Secret of Surrender" by Burt Harding

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Grateful thanks to Burt Harding and YouTube.