Puja

Puja means offerings. It can also be written as 'Pooja' which is a Sanskrit word. It also means reverence, worship etc. It is another special part of Hinduism. It is of two types, Daily Puja and Special Puja. Daily puja is performed daily whereas special puja is performed specially or occasionally.  Prayer to God, spiritual song or meditation etc. are also sometimes considered as puja or worshiping.  Puja consists of lot of things such as prayer, meditation, invitation, various natural objects such as paddy, newly born grass, leaves of various trees, sandalwood etc. Another common presence is flower, fresh flowers. Puja is offered to God. It is association of mind,body towards God.

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Hunduism

  Hinduism is one of the major religion in the world. It is religion that tells about the way of emancipation thorough the development and realization of soul.   It is also called 'Sanatan Dharma'. The word 'Sanatan' is taken from from Sanskrit language which means no ending and no beginning(ever present) and in fact, it is the oldest religion in the world. There is no such exact period when this religion was created but historian predicts it appeared 5000B.C or more. In very ancient days, Hinduism was known as the Arya Dharma and it followers are as Aryan. The river Sindhu(Indus) played a vital role for naming this religion as 'Hindu'. The people who lived near the 'Sindhu' (Indus) were mainly the arayan settlement. The other sides of the Sindhu were Persians and Arabs. They could not utter the word Sindhu properly and thus they called it 'Hind'  or 'Hindus' and arayan people's activities were regarded as Hinduism. From the Persian and Arab the word Hindu travel through west.  Hinduism is a bit different from other religion. There is no single founder of this religion. In ancient days saints and sagas realized the absolute truth and the omniscience God and that time the oracle was expressed from their utterances. They described how they realized the truth and these truth passed through generation to generation. The compilation of that truth is called 'Veda'. Veda is the main holy script of Hinduism.  Hinduism tells about self realization and self development. To attain the supreme ecstasy one has to realize his soul. Soul or self is the supreme concept of Hinduism.

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Gita

Gita or Srimad Bhagbatgita is one of major holy script in Hinduism. It is originated from Mahabharata, an epic in Sanskrit language. It contains about 700 verses. It is actually conversation between Krishna and Arjun in the battlefield of Kurukshetra. It consists of 18 chapters. Now a days it considered as a main holy script due to its clear direction about self-development. It is adjudged as essence of Vedas and Upanisadas. When Arjun was in dilemma over the battle, Lord Krishna guided and advised Him(Arjun) about his duty and work and made his mind clear about this. This historical talk between them is Srimad Bhagvad Gita. Sometime it is also written as Geeta.

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Durga

Durga is one of the Goddess in Hindu religion. It is derived from the word Sanskrit word 'durgo', which means resistance. She is known as a fearful God. She killed demon 'Mahishashur' (buffalo Demon). She is symbol of  'Shakti'. 'Shakti' means energy/power. She is believed to be the power behind creation, destruction. She is also hailed as the mother of the universe.

She is consort of Shiva. Trishul(Trident) is her main weapon and lion is her mount. She is worshiped as holy mother in the Hinduism. She is offered twice in the year. At autumn she worshiped as Durga and at spring, she is worshiped as 'Devi Basanti'. Worshiping Goddess Durga is the major festival in Bengal part of India.

Durga derives her name from her identity as the slayer of the demon Durgo. This demon was wreaking havoc on heaven and earth. Shiva, the trident-bearing Supreme Destroyer, was helpless against him as Durgo was invincible against all males. At Shiva’s request , his consort Parvati assumed the form of a warrior and killed the demon. The connection to Parvati places Durga in a familial context and provides a vital clue to why a marital goddess is worshipped as a mother and wife.
Parvati, after all, is the daughter of the Himalayas who gained Shiva’s love after long penance and married him against her mother’s wishes. It is this daughter who returns to the lap of the Himalayas every year with her children from her divine abode on Mt. Kailash.
She is again a goddess of vegetation (as symbolised by the Nabapatrika, collection of nine branches of plants, kept to the right of Ganesha during the worship), returning every year with promise of a good harvest. In Markendeyapurana, after demon –king Shumba falls, Durga departs with the promise that if crops failed she would return as Shakambhari and nourish the world with vegetation.
The epic, Mahabharata, describes Durga as one who ends all misteries(durgati-nashini). In Deviparana, she is also the protector of fortresses (durgo means a fortress in Sanskrit).
The form in which Durga is portrayed in the annual festival derives from another myth. Mahishasura, the buffalo-demon, once prayed long and hard to Brahma, the Father of Creation. Satisfied, the god appeared before the king of the nether world and offered him a boon. Mahishasura sought to be immortal. When this was refused , he thought up the next best option-that he die only at the hand of a woman. After all, what risk would he, an intrepid warrior, stand from a frail female! Armed with this confidence, he set off to conquer the universe. First, he took over earth and then marched with this army towards heaven. The war raged for a thousand years and the demons were victorious. The gods were driven out of heaven and flocked to Lord Shiva for protection. As Shiva listened to their tale of woe, a divine effulgence emanated from his face. The other gods too emitted a similar glow. This energy combined to take a 1,000-armed towering female form. Jewellery and gems frpm Kshirod Sagar, the mythical sea of milk, were brought to dress her up with earrings, rings, bangles, necklaces and anklets. The gods, then, created replicas of their own weapons and armed her. Himalaya , the king of the mountains gifted her a lion which she took as her mount.
Adorned in finery and armed to the teeth, Durga let out a roar and headed for Mahishasura’s palace. Such was the impact of the sound that it unleashed cyclones in the sea and landslides in the mountains. Mahishasura rushed out to check the cause of the uproar. But on seeing Durga, he burst out laughing. This infuriated Durga even further. She reminded the demon-king of his vulnerability, and urged him to battle. As Mahishasura summoned his army, Durga exhaled deeply. Immediately, thousands of soldiers were produced to fight on her side. The demon, who could take on the guise of any animal, first assumed his favourite form, that of the buffalo. It trampled on hundreds and injured hundreds more with the lashing of its tail. Durga threw a lasso at the raging animal. To slip out of the noose, Mahishasura transformed himself into a lion. But Durga soon chopped off its head with a sword.
The demon king waged war in this own form for some time before metamorphosing into an elephant. The elephant attacked Durga’s mount, the lion. Durga immediately cut off its trunk with her sword. At this, the elephant gave up its form and turned to a buffalo. As the buffalo raged across Creation, the Goddness raised a cup of wine to her lips and glared at the animal with blood-shot eyes. “Roar as you please, you foolish beast. When I destroy you, the gods will make more noise in celebration. "
The buffalo, which was hurling trees and mountains at her, now sped towards her, neck craned and horns pointed. Durga leapt on the Creature and cut off its head in one fell blow. Mahishasura tired making his way out of the creature’s body but Durga was ready. The divine trident pierced the demon’s chest. This is the moment that is frozen in the images worshipped every autumn.

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Chandi

Chandi or Sri Sri Chandi is another holy script in Hinduism. It is also written in Sanskrit language. To Hindu religious people, this book is popular one. This book is also known as 'Shaptashati' or 'Durgashaptashati' (Shaptashati means  seven hundred). It contains near about 700 verses but there are controversies about the number of verses. There is a custom to add an extra verse while reciting Sri Sri Chandi. Chandi is actually part of  'Markandey Puran'.
In Markandey Puran, from chaptar 89 to 93, 'Devi Mahatmya' is described. In Bengal this part is known as Sri Sri Chandi. This Devi Mahatmya is also described in Devibhagbat, Brahmabaibarta Puran, Ramayan etc. Chandi has many annotation. Among these 'Vaskar's' annotation is famous. Vaskar's annotation is named as 'Guptabati.' Guptabati was revealed probably in 1741.
The word Chandi is derived from the word 'Chanda'. Chanda means extremely angry. Chandi is feminine gender of chanda that means extremely angry women. Actually how the Goddess appeared to kill demons in order to save God in different period of time is described in the three chapters of Sri Sri Chandi.

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Holy words of Sri Ramkrishna - 4

Those who wish to attain God or make progress in their devotional practices should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

---Ramkrishna

Do you talk of social reform ? well, you may do so after realizing God. Remember, the Rishis of old gave up the world in order to attain God. This is the one thing needful. All other things shall be added to you, if indeed you care to have them. First see God, and then talk of lectures and social reforms.

---Ramkrishna

The true nature of the Jiva is eternal Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. It is due to egotism that he is limited by so many Upadhis (limiting adjuncts), and his forgotten his real nature.

---Ramkrishna

If you can find out the nature of Maya, the universal illusion, it will fly away from you just as a thief runs away when detected.

---Ramkrishna

The cat catches her kitten with her teeth and they are not hurt; but when a mouse is so caught, it dies. Thus Maya never kills the devotee, though it destroys others.

---Ramkrishna

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.

---Ramkrishna

Jiva is Shiva (all living beings are God). Who then dare talk of showing mercy to them ?Not mercy, but service, service. For man must be regarded as God.

---Ramkrishna

Let me be condemned to be born over and over again, even in the form of a dog, if so I can be of help to a single soul.

---Ramkrishna

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

---Ramkrishna

A truly religious man should think that other religions are also many paths leading to the Truth. One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions.

---Ramkrishna

Every man should follow his own religion. A Christian should follow Christianity, and a Mohammedan Mohammedanism. For the Hindu, the ancient path, the path of the Aryan Rishis, is the best.

---Ramkrishna

I will give up twenty thousand such bodies to help one man. It is glorious to help even one man.

---Ramkrishna

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in the boat. An aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

---Ramkrishna

Do everything that is necessary in the proper time, and let your mind be always fixed on God.

---Ramkrishna

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. There all are one.

---Ramkrishna

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly ad meek.

---Ramkrishna

Be as devoid of vanity as the cast away leaf carried by the high wind.

---Ramkrishna

God cannot be seen so long as there is the slightest taint of desire. Therefore have your minor desires satisfied, and renounce the major ones through right reasoning and discrimination.

---Ramkrishna

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Holy words of Sri Ramkrishna - 3

The spiritually minded belong to a caste of their own, beyond all social conventions.

---Ramkrishna

He alone enters the Kingdom of Heaven who is not a thief of his own thought. In other words, guilelessness and simple faith are the roads to that Kingdom.

---Ramkrishna

women whether naturally good or not, whether chaste or unchaste, should always be regarded as images of the blissful Divine Mother.

---Ramkrishna

Don't find fault with anyone, not even with an insect. As you pray to God for devotion, so also pray that you may not find fault with anyone.

---Ramkrishna

Dispute not. As you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion, allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.

---Ramkrishna

It is said that truthfulness alone constitutes the spiritual of the Kali Yuga (i.e. modern age). If a mans clings tenaciously to truth, he ultimately realizes God.

---Ramkrishna

Visit not miracle-mongers and those who exhibit occult powers. These men are stragglers from the path of truth.

---Ramkrishna

If there is a small hole at the bottom of a jar of water. the whole water will leak out. Similarly, if there is the smallest tinge of worldliness in the aspirant, all his exertions will come to naught.

---Ramkrishna

The soiled mirror never reflects the rays of the sun; similarly those who are impure and unclean at heart and are deluded by Maya never perceive the glory of the Lord. But the pure in heart see the Lord as the clear mirror reflects the sun.

---Ramkrishna

Money can fetch you bread alone. Do not consider it as your sole end and aim.

---Ramkrishna

He is truly a man to whom money is only a servant; but, on the other hand, those who do not know how to make a proper use of it, hardly deserve to be called men.

---Ramkrishna

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly, as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

---Ramkrishna

The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.

---Ramkrishna

Men are of two classes-men in name only (Manush) and the awakened men (Man-hunsh). Those who thirst after God alone belong to the latter class; those who are mad after ‘woman and gold’ are all ordinary men-men in name only.

---Ramkrishna

Rain water never stands on high ground, but runs down to the lowest level. So also the mercy of God remains in the hearts of the lowly, but drains off from those of the vain and the proud.

---Ramkrishna

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Holy words of Sri Ramkrishna - 2

In this age, work without devotion to God has no legs to stand upon. It is like a foundation on sand. First cultivate devotion. All other things--- schools, dispensaries, etc. -- will, if you like, be added to you. First devotion, then work. Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand.

---Ramkrishna

If you say, 'I am a sinner', eternally, you will remain a sinner to all eternity. you ought rather to repeat, 'I am not bound, I am not bound. Who can bind me ? I am son of God, the King of kings'.

---Ramkrishna

He who thinks that he is a Jiva, verily remains as a Jiva, but he who considers himself to be God, verily becomes a God. As one thinks, So does one become.

---Ramkrishna

Do not let worldly thoughts and anxieties disturb your mind.

---Ramkrishna

Purify the spectacles of your mind, you will see that the world is God.

---Ramkrishna

As the dawn heralds the Sun, so sincerity, unselfishness, purity and righteousness precede the advent of the Lord.

---Ramkrishna

The more is a man's attachment to the world, the less is he likely to attain Knowledge. The less his attachment to the world, the more is the probability of his gaining Knowledge.

---Ramkrishna

Give up everything to Him, resign yourself to Him, and there will be no more trouble for you. Then you will come to know that everything is done by His will.

---Ramkrishna

Meditate on God either in an obscure corner, or in the solitude of forests, or within the silent sanctuary of your own heart.

---Ramkrishna

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

---Ramkrishna

As soft clay easily takes an impression, but not hard stone, so also Divine wisdom impresses itself on the heart of a devotee, but not on a bound soul.

---Ramkrishna

The ego that asserts, 'I am the servant of God' is the characteristic of the true devotee. It is the ego of Vidya (Knowledge), and is called the 'ripe' ego.

---Ramkrishna

The companionship of the holy and the wise is one of the main elements of spiritual progress.

---Ramkrishna

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

---Ramkrishna

Wherein is the strength of a devotee? He is a child of God, and his  devotional tears are his mightiest weapon.

---Ramkrishna

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Holy words of Sri Ramkrishna

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find the God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

---Ramkrishna

Man suffers so much simply for want of devotion to God. One should therefore adopt such means as would help the thought of God to arise in the mind at the last moment of one's life. The means is practice of devotion to God.

---Ramkrishna

There are pearls in the deep sea, but you must hazard all perils to get them. If you fail to get at them by a single dive, do not conclude that the sea is without them. Dive again and again, and you are sure to be rewarded in the end. So also in the quest for the Lord, if your first attempt to see Him proves fruitless, do not lose heart.

---Ramkrishna

It is the power of Brahman in man that causes the mind and the intellect and the senses to perform their functions; and when that power ceases to act, these also stop work.

---Ramkrishna

A man who spends his time in discussing the good and bad qualities of others simply waste his own time. For it is time spent neither in thinking about one's own self nor about the Supreme Self, but is fruitless about thinking of others selves.

---Ramkrishna

Be not a traitor to your thoughts. Be sincere; act according to your thoughts; and you shall surely succeed. Pray with a sincere and simple heart, and your prayers will be heard.

---Ramkrishna

One is safe to live in the world, if one has Viveka (discrimination of the real from the unreal), and Vairagya (dispassion), and along with these intense devotion to God.

---Ramkrishna

Water is dried up at once if poured on a heap of ashes. Vanity is like this heap of ashes. Prayer and contemplation produce no effect upon the heart puffed up with vanity.

---Ramkrishna

He alone is the true teacher who is illumined by the light of true Knowledge.

---Ramkrishna

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and carries away the grains of sugar. So the holy Paramahamsas and pious men successfully sift the good from the bad.

---Ramkrishna

The magnetic needle always points to north, and hence it is that the sailing vessel does not loose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

---Ramkrishna

He is a true man who is dead even in this life-- that is, whose passions and propensities have been curbed to extinctions as in a dead body.

---Ramkrishna

Seekest thou God? Then see him in man; His divinity is manifest more in man than in any other object. Man is the greatest manifestation of God.

---Ramkrishna

Look at the anvil of a blacksmith --- how it hammered and beaten; yet it moves not from its place. Let man learn patience and endurance from it.

---Ramkrishna

One can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope; so too, diverse are the ways of approaching God and each religion in the world shows one of the ways.

---Ramkrishna

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Holy words of Thakur Anukulchandra

Where there is spirit there is heaven. Without spirit matter is nothing, but matter is matter with spirit. Yes .61

---Anukulchandra

I = we, we = I, when the universe is equal to I, everything is equal to I. There is one I - the truth - 62

---Anukulchandra

Sound is the expression of life. Without sound, everything is lifeless - 63

---Anukulchandra

There is no truth, no lie. Everything may be true everything may be lie! - 64

---Anukulchandra

Seek everything in Me, Me is I, What shall I do now? Medium may die - 65

---Anukulchandra

Keep signing touching everyone's being communicating the propitious message that the Supreme has come once more awakened and condescended to shower peace and solace on you all.55.

---Anukulchandra

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Holy words of Sri ma Sarada Devi -3

Whenever the mind goes after anything other than God, consider that as transient and surrender the mind at the sacred feet of the Lord.

---Sarada Devi

The mind naturally tends towards evil deeds. It is lethargic in doing good works. Formerly I used to get up at 3 a.m. and sit up for meditation. One day I felt indisposed. That one day's irregularity resulted in the upsetting of my routine for a number of days. That is why I say that perseverance and tenacity are necessary for success in all good work.

---Sarada Devi

Don't be afraid. I tell you that in this Kali Yuga mental sin is no sin. Free your mind from all worries on this account. You need not be afraid.

---Sarada Devi

It is the nature of water to flow downwards, but the sun's rays lift it up towards the sky. Likewise, it is the very nature of the mind to go to lower things, to objects of enjoyment, but the grace of God can make the mind go towards higher objects.

---Sarada Devi

The mind is everything, It is in the mind alone that one feels pure and impure. A man, first of all, must make his own mind guilty and then alone he can see another man's guilt. Does anything ever happen to another if you enumerate his faults? It only injures you.

---Sarada Devi

On moonlit nights I would look at the moon and pray, 'May my mind be pure as the rays of the moon! ' or 'O Lord, there are stains even on the moon, but let my mind be absolutely stainless'.

---Sarada Devi

Do the Master's work, and along with that practise spiritual disciplines, too. Work helps one to keep off idle thoughts. If one is without work, such thoughts rush into one's mind.

---Sarada Devi

How can one's mind be healthy if one doesn't work? No one can spend all twenty-four hours in spiritual thought and meditation. So one must engage oneself in work; it keeps the mind cheerful.

---Sarada Devi

It is very necessary to have a fixed time for japa and meditation. For it cannot be said when the auspicious moment will come. It arrives so suddenly. No one gets any hint of it beforehand. Therefore one should observe regularity, however busy one may be with duties. ....Even in the midst of the most intense activity one should at least remember God and salute Him.

---Sarada Devi

As wind remove the cloud, so the Name of god destroys the cloud of worldliness.

---Sarada Devi

Do you know the significance of japa and other spiritual practices? By these, the power of the sense-organs is subdued.

---Sarada Devi

One has to suffer the consequences of one's deeds. But by repeating the name of God, you can lessen its intensity. If you were destined to have a wound as wide as a ploughshare, you will get a pin-prick at least. The effect of karma can be counteracted to a great extent by japa and austerities.

---Sarada Devi

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Holy words of Sri ma Sarada Devi - 2

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

---Sarada Devi

A person may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and thus make him worldly. This is how She plays!

---Sarada Devi

As long as a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the desires along that make him take one body after another. There will be rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy .... Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot. Rebirth is inevitable so long as one has desires. It is like taking the soul from one pillow-case and putting it into another. Only one or two out of many men can be found who are free from all desires.

---Sarada Devi

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire along is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

---Sarada Devi

There is no happiness while living in this body. This world is full of sorrow. Happiness is only an empty word. Only those who have received the grace of the Master can recognize him as God, and that is there real joy.

---Sarada Devi

What is there in the world? Tell me what is good in this life? That was why in the end the Master took only bitter things. I would try to give him sandesh(sweet) and he would say, "What is there in sandesh? It is just the same as clay".

---Sarada Devi

However spiritual a man may be, he must pay the tax for the use of the body to the last farthing (i.e. undergo suffering and death incidental to the embodied stat). But the difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

---Sarada Devi

Everything - husband, wife, or even the body - is only illusory. These are all shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages, you will never be able to go to the other shore of the world. Even this attachment to the body, the identification of the self with the body, must go. What is this body, my darling? It is nothing but three pounds of ashes when it is cremated. Why so much vanity about it? However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.

---Sarada Devi

The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.

---Sarada Devi

If you love any human being you will have to suffer for it. He is blessed, indeed, who can love God alone. There is no suffering in loving God.

---Sarada Devi

Always do your duty to others, but love you must give to God alone. Worldly love always brings in its wake untold misery.

---Sarada Devi

These earthly ties are transitory. Today they seem to be the be-all and the end- all of life, and tomorrow they vanish. Your real tie is with God.

---Sarada Devi

Sri Ramakrishna would say, 'Musk forms in the navel of the deer. Being fascinated with its smell, the deer run hither and thither. They do not know where the fragrance comes from. Likewise, God resides in the human body, but man does not know it. Therefore he searches everywhere for bliss, not knowing that it is already in him.' God alone is real. All else is false.

---Sarada Devi

Everything depends on one's mind. Nothing can be achieved without purity of mind. It is said, 'The aspirant may have received the grace of the Guru, the Lord, and the Vaishnava; but he comes to grief without the grace of 'one'. That 'one' is the mind. The mind of the aspirant should be gracious to him.

---Sarada Devi

Don't worry! Restlessness is the nature of the mind, as it is of the eyes and ears. Practise regularly. The name of God is more powerful than the senses. Always think of the Master, who is looking after you. Don't be troubled about your lapses.

---Sarada Devi

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Holy words of Sri ma Sarada Devi - I

Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray. `O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind." By doing so constantly you will gradually attain peace of mind.

---Sarada Devi

One who makes a habit of prayer will easily overcome all difficulties and remain calm and unruffled in the midst of the trials of life.

---Sarada Devi

No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result and one gets one's opportunities accordingly.

---Sarada Devi

Each has to get the results of the actions he earned for this life. A pin at least must prick where a wound from sword was due.

---Sarada Devi

One suffers as a result of one's own actions. So, instead of blaming others for such sufferings, one should pray to the Lord and, depending entirely on His grace, try to bear them patiently and with forbearance under all circumstances.

---Sarada Devi

My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.

---Sarada Devi

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetrated in her! Yet she quietly endures them all. Man, too, should be like that.

---Sarada Devi

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

---Sarada Devi

You see, my son, it is not a fact that you will never face dangers. Difficulties always come,but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.

---Sarada Devi

Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the name of God. None, not even God in human form, can escape the sufferings of the body and mind. Even Avataras, saints and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.

---Sarada Devi

Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.

---Sarada Devi

He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him.

---Sarada Devi

My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.

---Sarada Devi

Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.

---Sarada Devi

What does a man become by realizing God? Does he grow two horns? No, what happens is that he develops discrimination between the real and the unreal, obtains spiritual consciousness, and goes beyond life and death. God is realized in spirit. How else can one see God? Has God talked to anyone who is devoid of spiritual fervour? One envisions God in sprit, talks to Him and establishes a relationship with Him in spirit.

---Sarada Devi

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Holy words of Swami Swarupananda

One caste is high while another is low; one nation is born to serve while another is to lord over all, nothing is more dangerously false than such a hypothesis. Know it for certain that all men are created by God and in the eye of God all are equal

---Swarupananda

Every man can easily realize this truth through Prayer and meditation and when such realization comes, he becomes a Brahmin. This is the truth of all truths and this is why the Brahmin one day commanded respect from all quarters.

---Swarupananda

The term Brahmin does not connote any particular caste or sect but it signifies a transcendental stage of spiritual sublimity. Every man of the world can attain to that stage by spiritual training. Every man in the universe has the right to become a Brahmin by reaching that stage. It is only to help people in reaching this transcendental stage that dynamic souls, the highly radiant teachers descend on this earth.

---Swarupananda

God is one but He dwelleth in every man. Hinduism recognise as many manifestations of God as there are creatures in His universe. But Hinduism never admits polytheism nor does it reprove another's method of worship. This is why the Hindus never took to sword to do away with the Non-Aryan's worship of too many gods and goddesses. Nor did they prevent the aboriginals from worshipping God according to their traditional customs and belief. As a result of this, the worship of many gods and goddesses gradually found its way into Hinduism which is in reality monotheistic. This is the worst evil that has come upon the Hindu society because of its catholicity. Many great men have dedicated their whole life to save the Hindu society from this evil and many more will yet be born to bear the torch.

---Swarupananda

When religion foments racial or national animosity, it indirectly encourages crimes and vices of the worst type. It is a sin to engender hatred among races and nations. It is abominable from worldly consideration and also unpardonable in the eye of God. But even to this day we have observed this malpractice-running rampant in different climes and different periods of history. Hinduism declares it in clear terms that love for all is a solid truth, a reality; and ill-will and factions between man and man are all illusions. In love do I send my clarion call to you, my sons and daughters, brothers and mothers living in. towns and villages, in hills and dales, to discard the unreality and illusions of animosity and war, and flock under the banner of truth for becoming men in the truest sense. of the term.

---Swarupananda

No matter whatever race or nationality you are born in or may belong to, I am come to give you the sacred rights of a Brahmin. I am come to dispel the ignorance that has cumbered on you through ages. I am come to give such strength to your nerves and muscles as can remove the load of age-long suffering and inequities. A true Master (Guru) is not tied 'down to any sect, state or society. His inspiration comes from God alone and he plunges himself in the work of uplifting and renovating the depressed humanity with noble thoughts and sublime ideas. Whoever of whatever place on earth has fallen down and is down-trodden, rest assured, in all circumstances I seek your welfare. If you seek your own good and salvation, it will be easy for me to grant you that. I am not come to destroy or cry down any religious belief or any social institution. I am come only to awaken divine love and compassion in man wherever and in whatever condition may he be.

---Swarupananda

The truth I have realised has come unto me from God Himself. I am ready to help and guide those who are earnest, however fallen and lowly. But are you ready? If so, I am with you ever and ever.

---Swarupananda

Embrace everybody in your loving bosom, make the whole world your home. See that not an atom anywhere feels that it is not an object of your tenderest affections. (Letters)

---Swarupananda

Go forth to the whole world and tell everyone that none is far from Me. All are Mine and I am everybody's.( Letters)

---Swarupananda

I belong to all and all sects are Mine.(Letters)

---Swarupananda

You are sublime by your love for God, for humanity and for country. Love is your life, love is your career, love is the sum total of your life-long achievements. The beginning of love is but the beginning of life. Immortal love is but immortal life. Stand steady on this heavenly bliss and live for love and die for love. The holy name of God is the key to the treasury of love and the gate to the kingdom of purity and perfection.

---Swarupananda

Not ephemeral enjoyments with concomitant reactions and remorse but eternal bliss with eternal happiness is your birth-right, my dear children.

---Swarupananda

I mean to insist on you that no true growth of life is possible without perfect cleanliness. Cleanliness and clear conscience are the two most valuable prizes that you may pride in. You cannot build yourself up. without a thorough and careful cultivation of those goods habits that invigorate the moral consciousness and strengthen the moral back-bone. Have high aspirations and materialize them through tenacity and perseverance. Life is a serious business, fraught with the deepest meanings, transcending the highest speculations of the biggest philosopher. Life is God's design on earth. Believe that you are the gradual unfolding of the Divine. Desire through all eternity and you must not lose an inch of ground in fully utilizing yourself in His wonderful scheme. Rise equal to the occasion and prepare yourself for everything seemingly favourable or untoward.Akhanda Samhita 8th part( Bengali Ed. )

---Swarupananda

The luckiest man in my opinion is he, who can keep a conscience untroubled by any evil deed or thought. What a grand thing it is to remain pure and to help others in their glorious attempts at attaining perfect purity. Cleanliness is really next to godliness if it means the sanctity both of body and mind. A pure mind in a chaste body is the noblest acquisition on earth.Akhanda Samhita 8th part ( Bengali Ed)

---Swarupananda

The ideas I implant in you are to be radiated throughout the eternal future and to be infused in the ever-coming younger generations. Akhanda Samhita 8th part (Bengali Ed)

---Swarupananda

Live a God-life. Know yourself -,always in Him and Himself always in you. Let not a single breath pass unheeded.

---Swarupananda

I am neither an advocate of Celi­bacy nor a preacher of Matrimony. I am but a worshipper of true Man­hood. I am satisfied if you are a Man,-married or unmarried I care little to know. Many great men have lived the life of married men while many have not. Only marrying or not-marrying can seldom be regarded as any sign of greatness. Many bachelors have spoiled their lives by not-marrying while truly great men have ship-wrecked their I would-be wonderful careers by accepting a share-holder of life's joys and miseries. Look upon Manhood as  your God and not upon any mania or fancy.

---Swarupananda

I want work, massive work, but not impure work. I want service, whole-time service, but not impure service. Purity of purpose and sanc­tity of means are the first conditions of my demands.

---Swarupananda

Are you my children? If so, be like me. I don't talk while I work or if I talk it is always on a sublime thing.

---Swarupananda

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Holy words of Swami Santa Das

You should always remain very submissive to your master (Guru) that will open up quickly your inner powers.

---Santa Das

One can reach God only by the grace of the Guru.

---Santa Das

Your boat has been tied with the ship. Do not get afraid. Even if your boat capsizes, the ship will dart the boat to the destination.

---Santa Das

The seed (Mantra) of salvation has been planted in you. It will work slowly out it is definite that you will finally feel its result and know the superconscient.

---Santa Das

The guru will be able to instill in you his energy up to that measure as you would be able to get rid of your ego.

---Santa Das

The mind must be brought under control. It is absolutely indispensable. First the observance of brahmacharya accompanied by sexual continence and moral discipline are essential.

---Santa Das

You should always remember that this world is only a playground. Its joys and sorrow, scarcity and plenty- all these are temporary, external things they have no place in your real life. You should try to realize that you really are all the time above these states.

---Santa Das

You always are engaged in thinking as - "What will happen to your sons, daughters and other members of your family? "This is a futile action. As human being, you are completely under control of God as a servant is to his master. Do your duties as servant does, your sense of ego will be disappeared.

---Santa Das

If you want to have milk from a cow you will have to approach her as a calf. At the very sight of you milk will flow into her udder. On the other hand if you go with a knife or scissors like a butcher and start chopping the udder you will not able to draw a single drop of milk but only blood. So try to be a devotee. The grace of God will automatically flow to you.

---Santa Das

If you want to have milk from a cow you will have to approach her as a calf. At the very sight of you milk will flow into her udder. On the other hand if you go with a knife or scissors like a butcher and start chopping the udder you will not be able to draw a single drop of milk but only blood. So try to be a devotee. The grace of God will automatically flow to you.

---Santa Das

Faults and merits, good qualities or bad ones both are present in all less in some, more in others. Unless one ignores them one cannot establish pleasant relations with others.

---Santa Das

The mind becomes pure only slowly and gradually. The quickness with which results are obtained magically is never seen in real life. The samaskaras of innumerable births covering an infinitely long period of time settled themselves in mind; the removal of them takes a long time.

---Santa Das

To offer any eatable to God means to turn it into a part of God Himself. The power or quality of prasad is unique. Those who regularly take prasad, putting any food in their mouth can feel the difference between the things offered to God and not so offered.

---Santa Das

You are never out of my sight.

---Santa Das

When I remain away from you, don't think that, I am away from you. Nearness of mind is real nearness.

---Santa Das

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Holy words of Swami Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Have a look at holy man that will wash away all your sins.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Guru initiates a disciple by a mantra. This he does by extracting the substances of religious scriptures.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Eat less and speak less.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Do your work from within; don't be disturbed by either blame or fame.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Do your duties by hands; recite the divine mantra in your lips, and mediate the divine deity of Sri Sri Thakurji in your mind simultaneously. It needs no special time.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

You cannot hide anything from your guru.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

You have to face the result of your deeds. Do not get worried about the future. Always chant within yourself the mantra given to you by your guru. This is the only way to survive. If you always recite the mantra within yourself, initiated by your guru, sorrow and suffering cannot touch you.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Four hours, two hours, one hour, half an hour try to recite the mantra given to you by Me as far as possible. If a day is gone devoid of the holy intoning of the mantra, that day would go in vain.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

If you go on reading without understanding, you will become a parrot. You cannot perceive spiritual erudition by reading a lot of books. Savouring of a single drop of heavenly ambrosia uplifts you.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

One cannot get these two things at a time - wealth and God. You will have to choose between the two. If you sincerely devote yourself for His blessings with all earnestness, He will come to you.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Nothing can be kept hidden from a 'Sadguru'.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Pray for the advent of 'Sadguru' - he will decent in human form and all your darkness will be illuminated.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

He who is devoted me to me, as already been blessed with released from all human bondages. He is destined for ultimate emancipation.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Keep yourself pure under all circumstances.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

Do your work from within, don't be disturbed by either blame or fame.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

If you do not chant your mantras but devote your time in the service of saints and savants you are destined to attain your ultimate goal.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

The saints accept earthly bodies only for the benefit of mankind.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

The saints, by their grace, remove the roots of all human sufferings.

---Ram Das Kathia Babaji

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Holy words of Swami Dhananjoy Das

His blessings are bestowed through insult, injury and torture.

---Dhananjoy Das

The root cause of our sorrow is our addiction towards things, which are transient.

---Dhananjoy Das

Sorrow and difficulties constitute a man properly. Pains and sufferings are His manifestations.

---Dhananjoy Das

Association of great souls will make our feelings and spirit, pure.

---Dhananjoy Das

Try to forgive the sinner. The whole world is manifestation of the Supreme Being. So you have no right to find fault in others.

---Dhananjoy Das

Sri Sri Thakur Ji does not see the earthly wealth of a person. There is no difference between affluence and penury in the eye of Him. He only covets for your devotion.

---Dhananjoy Das

You will get the full result of pilgrimage. If you can serve your Guru and God properly at home, hence you need not crave for going on pilgrimage.

---Dhananjoy Das

Wealth and profound attachment to worldly materials bring disaster in life.

---Dhananjoy Das

Being overpowered by your pride and ego, do not deny the all pervading existence of God. God is the soul of every creation, animate or inanimate. Only those devotees who have full faith in their masters (Guru) can realize this.

---Dhananjoy Das

Attachment is the root cause of all miseries on earth. You should consider your husband,wife, parents, children etc. as the manifestations of God. Try to serve them in a dispassionate manner. If you can stand in this thought firmly, no sorrow can touch you. Do your duties surrendering yourself at the holy feet of God and Guru.

---Dhananjoy Das

Do not be disappointed in sufferings and pain. Sufferings actually lessen the burden of our sins of previous births. This is the special grace of Him. When He wants to take you nearer to Him, He gives all these awkward situations to minimize your addiction to the worldly things.

---Dhananjoy Das

If one commits a wrong and admits the same before the Guru in all humility, the master will definitely forgive the wrong-doer.

---Dhananjoy Das

Uninterrupted remembrance of God will help one to get him quickly-more quickly than by chanting of mantras (blessedwords) or concentrated or periodic meditation.

---Dhananjoy Das

Of all the methods of attaining Him. the medthod of 'Bhakti' (devotion) is easiest.

---Dhananjoy Das

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Holy Word of Vivekananda -2

Are not drums made in the country? Are not trumpets and kettle-drums available in India? Make the boys hear the deep-toned sound of these instruments. Hearing from boyhood the sound of these effeminate forms of music, . . . the country is well nigh converted into a country of women. (VII. 232)

---Vivekananda

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul, "at my will, mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal. (I. 178)

---Vivekananda

Men, men, these are wanted: everything else will be ready, but strong, vigorous, believing young men, sincere to the backbone, are wanted. A hundred such and the world becomes revolutionized. (III. 223-24)

---Vivekananda

Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battle-field then to live a life of defeat. (II. 124)

---Vivekananda

Come, do something heroic. Brother, what if you do not attain mukti, what if you suffer damnation a few rimes? Is the saying untrue: 'There are some saints who, full of holiness in thought, word, and deed, please the whole world by their numerous beneficent acts, and who develop their own hearts by magnifying an atom of virtue in others as if it were as great as a mountain'? (VI. 314-15)

---Vivekananda

Can anything be done unless everybody exerts himself to his utmost? 'It is the man of action, the lion-heart, that the Goddess of Wealth resorts to.' No need of looking behind. FORWARD ! We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage, and infinite patience, then only will great things be achieved. (VI. 383-84)

---Vivekananda

Be not in despair; the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal. (II. 124)

---Vivekananda

Why weepest thou, brother? There is neither death nor disease for thee. Why weepest thou, brother? There is neither misery nor misfortune for thee. Why weepest thou, brother? Neither change not death was predicated of thee. Thou art Existence Absolute. . . . Be your own self. (V. 275)

---Vivekananda

Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, `Have faith in this fellow or that fellow', but I say, `Have faith in yourself first', that's the way. Have faith in yourself-all power is in you-be conscious and bring it out. Say, `I can do everything'. `Even the poison of a snake is powerless, if you can firmly deny it.' (VI. 274)

---Vivekananda

Once when I was in Varanasi, I was passing through a place where there was a large tank of water on one side and a high wall o the other. It was in the grounds where there were many monkeys. The monkeys of Varanasi are huge brutes and are sometimes surly. They now took it into their heads not to allow me to pass through their street, so they howled and shrieked and clutched at my feet as I passed. As they pressed closer, I began to run, but the faster I ran, the faster cane the monkeys, and they began to bite at me. It seemed impossible to escape, but just then I met a stranger who called out to me, `Face the brutes'. I turned and faced the monkeys, and they fell back and finally fled. That is the lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. (I. 338)

---Vivekananda

Stand up and fight! Not one step back, that is the idea. Fight it out, whatever comes, Let the stars move from the spheres! Let the whole world stand against us ! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. Taking a step backward, You do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all the gods in the world. Has misery ceased? . . . The gods come to help you when you have succeeded. So what is the use? Die game. You are infinite, deathless, birthless. Because you are infinite spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! (I. 461)

---Vivekananda

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