तव तत्त्वं न जानामि कीदृशोऽसि महेश्वर । यादृशोऽसि महादेव तादृशाय नमो नमः ॥ (श्री पुष्पदन्त विरचितं शिवमहिम्नः स्तोत्रं, ४१) O Lord, I do not know Your true nature. O Great God, whatever be your real nature, my salutations…

One should constantly practise the singing of God's name and glories, and meditation and contemplation as well. And one should always pray that the attachment to the world may disappear and love for God's Lotus Feet may grow. Sri…

Yours is the path of bhakti. That is very good; it is an easy path. Who can fully know the infinite God? and what need is there of knowing the infinite? Having attained this rare human birth, my supreme need is to develop love for the…

The main thing in spiritual life is to have love, devotion, and faith in God. He is our close relative. Swami Adbhutananda আধ্যাত্মিক জীবনের মূল কথা হল ভগবানের প্রতি ভক্তি, ভালোবাসা ও বিশ্বাস | তিনি আমাদের পরমাত্মীয় |…

One needs spiritual practice in order to know God and recognize Divine Incarnations. Big fish live in the large lake, but to see them one must throw spiced bait in the water. There is butter in milk, but one must churn the milk to get…

Work hard. Discipline yourself. Build your character. Endure to the end. Realize your Self. And be free. Swami Trigunatitananda (God Lived With Them, p. 512) পরিশ্রম করো | সংযত হও | চরিত্র গঠন করো | সহ্য করে যাও | নিজের…

"It is the coward and the fool who says, 'This is fate'" — so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, "I will make my fate." - Swami Vivekananda

Read "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna" and similar other books and try to understand their meaning. The more you will read, the newer and deeper will be the import you will discover in them. The Sadhaka (aspirant) understands one way by…

Man is divine, all this which we see around us is the outcome of that consciousness of the divine. Everything that is strong, and good, and powerful in human nature is the outcome of that divinity. Swami Vivekananda (The Spirit and…

All expansion is life, all contraction is death. All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Swami Vivekananda (Letter to Swami…