मित्रे रिपौ त्वविषमं तव पद्मनेत्रम् स्वस्थेऽसुखे त्ववितथस्तव हस्तपातः । छाया मृतेस्तव दया त्वमृतं च मातः मुञ्चन्तु मां न परमे शुभदृष्टयस्ते ॥ ५ ॥ अम्बास्तोत्रम्  To friend and foe Thy lotus-eyes are even; Ever Thine…

The ideal of Vedanta is to solve the problem of life, to point out the aim of human existence, to make our ways of living better and more harmonious with the universal Will that is working in nature, to make us realize that the will…

Yes, one can see God through bhakti alone. But it must be 'ripe' bhakti, prema-bhakti and raga-bhakti. One cannot realize God without prema-bhakti. Another name for prema-bhakti is raga-bhakti. (Supreme love, which makes one attached…

If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men…

The Master has shown me that it is he who is manifested through all. Then who is there to blame or whom to criticize? Swami Advaitananda (God Lived With Them — Swami Advaitananda, p 524) সর্বভূতে তিনিই বিদ্যমান; কাকে নিন্দা…

The essential thing is renunciation. With out renunciation none can pour out his whole heart in working for others. The man of renunciation sees all with an equal eye and devotes himself to the service of all. Does not our Vedanta also…

The Upanishads are the most wonderful books. One should learn Sanskrit in order to be able to grasp their true meaning. They are a concise statement of all the great truths of the universe. Every line is the expression of a mind that…

One must inherit good tendencies to realize God. One must have done something, some form of tapasya, either in this life or in another. Sri Ramakrishna (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, 19 September 1884) তাঁকে লাভ করতে হলে…

It is of no use simply to take a course of lessons. To those who are full of Tamas, ignorant and dull — those whose minds never get fixed on any idea, who only crave for something to amuse them — religion and philosophy are simply…

The Yogis say that that part of the human energy which is expressed as sex energy, in sexual thought, when checked and controlled, easily becomes changed into Ojas, and as the Muladhara guides these, the Yogi pays particular attention…