Purity, truthfulness, and honesty should make the cornerstone of your life. And there should be faith. With these, a man will have contentment in life, whatever circumstances he may happen to be in. Contentment in all circumstances is the…

Spiritual discipline means holding the mind steadfast at His holy feet all the time and immersing the mind in thoughts of Him. Repeat His Name. Sri Ma Sarada Devi (Gospel of The Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Reminiscences of Swami…

प्रसन्नतां या न गताभिषेकतः तथा न मम्लौ वनवासदुःखतः । मुखाम्बुजश्रीरघुनन्दनस्य मे सदास्तु सा मञ्जुलमङ्गलप्रदा ॥ तुलसीदास (अयोध्याकाण्ड, श्रीरामचरितमानस) May the splendour of Sri Rama’s lotus face, which grew neither bright at the…

It is good to talk glibly about the Vedanta, but how hard to carry out even its least precepts! Swami Vivekananda (The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 5, Epistles XXI)  বেদান্তের কথা ফস্ ফস্ মুখে আওড়ান খুব ভাল বটে,…

Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Swami Vivekananda (Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol 2, Hints on Practical Spirituality) একটি আদর্শের জন্য জীবন উৎসর্গ কর, আর কোন কিছু যেন মনে স্থান…

Is God to blame for what I myself have done? His mercy is always the same. His sun shines on the wicked and the good alike. His air, His water, His earth give the same chances to the wicked and the good. God is always the same eternal,…

Chaitanya was an incarnation of bhakti (love and devotion). He came to teach love of God to mankind. Have love for God and everything else is done for you. Sri Ramakrishna (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, 9 December, 1883)…

The fire of Yoga burns the cage of sin that is around a man. Mind becomes purified and Nirvâna is directly obtained. From Yoga comes knowledge; knowledge again helps the Yogi. He who combines in himself both Yoga and knowledge, with him…

यस्मादहं त्वशरणो जगदेकगम्य तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीनबन्धो ॥ yasmādahaṁ tvaśaraṇo jagadekagamya tasmāttvameva śaraṇaṁ mama dīnabandho ॥ O Thou the only goal of all beings, shelter have I none, therefore Thou art, O friend of the…

I see people who talk about religion constantly quarrelling with one another. Hindus, Mussalmans, Brahmos, Saktas, Vaishnavas, Saivas, all quarrel with one another. They haven't the intelligence to understand that He who is called…