Quotes

Simple Living

If there is understanding of the difference between the body and the soul then, just as we don’t neglect to supply the physical with food, similarly, we don’t live in the illusion that our inner craving or emptiness can be satisfied by endless material consumption.
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Education

Economic and spiritual well-being can and must go hand in hand. A yoga master is not against material prosperity or development, but sees it in the correct context. He is not against any knowledge that can lead to economic development, but neither does he believe that such material prosperity will bring complete satisfaction to the people. Therefore he is offering the science of the soul to the educators with the humble but firm request that they please add it to their curriculum.
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Brotherhood

Common in each of us, among other things, is the desire for peace. But this is not possible as long as we are not recognizing the fact that each of us is equal. If we do not see beyond the body, we will not see our absolute equality. When we see that each of us is an eternal, spiritual entity – relatives and brothers in the truest sense – then we will become peaceful individually and also as a society. There is no other way for human society to be peaceful.
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Reality of Life

Perfection means being in tune with reality. The first thing we must understand is reality – the reality of my identity i.e. my essence, position and function. Who am I?
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The Sage

Like the swans, which drink only the pure nectar of the blooming lotus flower, the liberated souls drink only at the fountain of transcendental love; they never try to find happiness in a life of material sense enjoyment.
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Real Happiness

Pleasure or blissfulness is not bad. To be blissful is our natural condition. But where will we find such pleasure, such bliss? Spiritual teachers state that happiness is to be found in loving devotional service to the Absolute Whole– not in the glittering but temporary goodies of this material world.
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Love

Real love between people has become so rare that people don’t even know what it is.
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Lust

Lust is a manifestation of inner spiritual hunger. The attempt to satisfy spiritual hunger in sense pleasure is due to ignorance. The development of pure, all-expansive love within the heart satisfies one’s spiritual hunger. Love cancels out lust.
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Sense Pleasure

Due to the desire for sense pleasures, people try to conquer nature but end up destroying the world.
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Sincerity

Diplomacy and duplicity, which are opposites of sincerity, do not get a person anywhere in spiritual life.
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Forgiveness

One must be able to forgive others especially for offenses against himself.
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False Pride

Proud people lack tolerance for people whom they consider lower.
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Anger

Anger is born out of lust; and lust is the result of contemplation of the senses on material objects.
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Beauty

It is unfortunate that people are attracted to the beauty of this world that is not real – it shrivels and dies.
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Knowledge and Wisdom

Material information gets old. Spiritual knowledge is ever fresh. The more you sincerely hear transcendental knowledge, the deeper your realizations become.
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Suffering In the World

Everyone is suffering. Everyone experiences birth, disease, old age and death. Everyone experiences fear, loneliness, emptiness, confusion, mental agitation, and heartache. Yet a fool, despite the fact that he keeps getting his teeth kicked in, never thinks twice about the whole thing. An intelligent person sees he is suffering and wants to know why. He thus becomes motivated to seek a solution to the problems of life. He seeks liberation. That is the beginning of spiritual life.
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Peace

People cannot remain as materialistic, selfish people and have peace and harmony in the family, society or world.
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"Buddhists are not Hedonists" by Jagad Guru Chris Butler

Jagad Guru Chris Butler
Buddhists do not believe in a life of hedonism because they believe in the law of karma (that is, a person’s actions in this life will affect his existence in his next life) and because they preach that happiness can be obtained...

Practical Wisdom and Insights of Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa

"Controlling the Mind" by Jagad Guru

Jagad Guru
Gaze intently at some nearby image in your immediate environment. Now close your eyes and look at the picture of that image in your mind. Try to hold the image in your mind and look at it for quite some time. If it begins to move around, try...

Relax your mind by hearing this chant by Jagad Guru Chris Butler

"Awareness" by Siddhaswarupananda

Siddhaswarupananda
“Awareness” refers to that inseparable, essential, inherent attribute of yours, the self, which enables you to perceive thoughts, feelings, the world, etc., and indeed your own existence (self awareness = awareness that “I am”).
Timeless Knowlege by Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa

Life of Crime Based on a Lie

Science of Identity Foundation
The most ironic thing about a life of crime is that it is based on a lie—the lie of materialism. The reason kids in poor neighborhoods idolize the local hoods is because they think that such hoods are happy. They see that by material...
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False Identity Causes Conflicts

The false identification of the body as the self leads to more than just racial conflicts. International conflicts, religious conflicts, sexual conflicts, and many other conflicts are rooted in this false identification.
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On Wisdom

(On the other hand,) for a person who cultivates wisdom or true knowledge, the results are inner peace, satisfaction, patience, respect for others, freedom from duplicity, compassion, joyfulness, remembrance of his . . .
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On Happiness

In his book Small Is Beautiful, noted British economist E. F. Schumacher wrote:

Insights of wisdom … enable us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactoriness of a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the neglect of the spiritual. Such a life necessarily sets man against man and nation against nation, . . .
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