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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Holy words of Swami Vivekananda - I

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

---Vivekananda

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.

---Vivekananda

Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological gods, and in all the gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. (III. 190)

---Vivekananda

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. (II. 308)

---Vivekananda

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, you will be. If you think yourselves strong, strong you will be (III. 130)

---Vivekananda

Be free; hope for noting from any one. I am sure if you look back upon your lives, you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others, which never came. All the help that has come was from within yourselves. (II. 324)

---Vivekananda

Never say, `No'; never say, `I cannot', for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty. (II. 300)

---Vivekananda

Ye are the children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth-sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal. (I. 11)

---Vivekananda

Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times; and if you fail a thousand times make the attempt once more. (II. 152)

---Vivekananda

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Teach men of the strength that is already within them. (II. 300)

---Vivekananda

If there is one word that you find coming like a bomb from the Upanisads, bursting like a bomb-shell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word, fearlessness. (III. 160)

---Vivekananda

If you look, you will find that I have never quoted anything but the Upanisads. And of the Upanisads, it is only that one idea strength. The quintessence of the Vedas and Vedanta and all lies in that one word. (VIII. 267)

---Vivekananda

Be strong, my young friends, that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words, but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches. I have gained a little experience. You will understand the Gita better with your biceps, your muscles, a little stronger. (III. 242)

---Vivekananda

This is the one question I put to every man .... Are you strong? Do you feel strength? - for I know it is truth alone that gives strength. ... Strength is the medicine for the world's disease. (II. 201)

---Vivekananda

This is the great fact: Strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death. (II. 3)

---Vivekananda

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