Quotes from Divine Power -3

Quotes from Divine Power -3


First - He is a messenger of God.


Second - He is the son of God.


Third - He and His Father are one.



men have equal chances and equal rights to attain Godhead



Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.


Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker



All men are cells in the same divine organism, in the divine body. That should be your faith, your fortune, your fort, your fullness.




Hate screeches


Fear squeals


Conceit trumpets


But love sings lullabies.





Food cooked in water should not be used the next day; it becomes harmful.




No society can find its fulfillment, no social ideal can fructify, without the blossoming of the spirit of man.




Patience is all the strength that man needs.




The earlier years of life are the most crucial, and so the mother and the father have to share the responsibility for the upbringing.




Through the media of films, books, music and the behavior of elders, young minds are excited and aroused into indulgences.



The God of death does not give notice of His arrival to take hold of you. He is not like the photographer who says, "I am clicking, are you ready?"




Whenever you get a little leisure, do not spend it in talking about sundries, but utilize it in meditating on God or in doing service to others.




Greed yields only sorrow; contentment is best.




Whatever acts a good or bad man may do, the fruits thereof follow him and will never stop pursuing him.




It is not the standard of living that is important, but the manner of living.




You must render service out of spontaneous urge from within, with a heart filled with love.




A chance conglomeration of humans does not become a society.




A society has to be welded into a unit by the consciousness of kinship in God.




Unity is divinity; Purity us enlightenment.




Reform the body, reconstruct the mind, regulate the way of living, then, the country will become automatically strong and prosperous.




Forget the harm that anyone has done to you, and forget the good that you have done to others.




There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love.




If one student is bad, only that student is affected. But if one teacher is bad, hundreds of students get spoiled.




Your thoughts play a vital role in shaping your life.




Religion is three-fourths character.




The present is a product of the past, but it is also the seed for the future.




Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.




Form a Satsang, where you meet and exchange truths and virtuos talk; where you study holy books and discourses on the glory of God.




All work is God's. He inspires, He helps, He executes, He enjoys, He is pleased, He reaps, He sowed.




Have faith in yourself. When you have no faith in the wave, how can you get faith in the ocean?




Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.




You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.




So long as you say 'I am' there is bound to be fear, but once you say and feel 'I am God' you get unconquerable strength.




By eating flesh one develops violent tendencies and animal diseases.




Do not get swelled up when people praise you and do not feel dejected when people blame you.




Serve man until you see God in all men.




Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.




What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is love, love for all humanity.




Service springs out of love and it scatters love in profusion.




Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine love.




Mankind can find happiness only in unity, not in diversity.




Philosophy that cannot be understood, scriptures that are not practised - it is a waste of time to talk of them.




Anger is the harvest of the bewitching mind; it enslaves man and fogs his understanding.




People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive every one requires the same nourishment; inner peace.




Whatever the trouble, however great the sorrow, persist and win by recollecting the Lord.




Those who have gone through pain and suffering can understand and sympathise with those who are in pain




The basic Truth in all religions, irrespective of country or race is one and the same.




Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with God, that is the state of meditation.




The mind is a bundle of desires - remove the threads of attachment one by one; at the end the 'cloth' disappears and the mind is clear and pure.




Practice silence - for the voice of God can be heard in the region of your heart only when the tongue is stilled and storm is stilled and the waves are calm.




Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.




God is in you, around you, behind you, above you, beside you.




Of all the righteous acts, help rendered to those needing it, is the most righteous.




Surrendering the fruit of action to the Lord is real sacrifice.




My birthday is the date when divinity blossoms in your heart.




God is neither distant nor distinct from you.




What is offered to God is totally free from all defects and imperfections.




The joy that we cause in the heart of God is the only worthwhile achievement.




The acid test by which an activity can be confirmed as holy or sacred is to examine whether it promotes attachment or avoids bondage.




Body is like a flashlight.
Eye is like the bulb
Mind is the battery cell
Intelligence is the switch
Only when the four work together do you get the light.




Any happiness that you can give to others will result in happiness for yourself in the end. Man must realize that he cannot get anything without sharing it with humanity around him. So, you must believe that happiness of the people around you will lead to your own happiness in due course.




Illnesses are caused more by malnutrition of the mind than of the body. I will recommend the repetition of the Name of God. That is Vitamin G. That is the medicine; regulated life and habits are 2/3 of the treatment, while the medicine is just 1/3 only.




It is only when you have both divine grace and human endeavor that you can experience bliss, just as you can enjoy the breeze of a fan only when you have both a fan and the electrical energy to operate it.




Do not think that only those who worship a picture or image with pompous paraphernalia are devotees. Whoever walks straight along the moral path, whoever acts as he speaks and speaks as he has seen, whoever melts at another's woe and exults at another's joy .... is a devotee, perhaps a greater devotee.




This is bad; this is good - can such judgements be ever made about anything in God's creation when all are manifestations of His will?.




Love is one without a second. When this love is directed towards the world, it is called attachment (anuraga), and when directed towards God, it is called prema (devotional love).




The play is His
The role is His gift
The lines are written by Him
He directs, He decides the dress and decoration,
The gesture and the tone,
The entrance and the exit.
You have to act well to receive His approbation
When the curtain falls
Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm
The right to play higher and higher roles
That is the meaning and purpose of life




Living with God is the true education
Living for God is the true devotion
Living in God is the true spirituality.




A bubble of water is born out of water. It is made up of water. It ultimately mixes with water and disappears. As in this analogy, man is like a bubble and Narayana is like the source, "water". Man is born out of Narayana, is made up of Him and ultimately merges with Him.




A pure thought from a pure heart is better than a Manthra.




A zero will get its value only if it is placed after an integer. So also a "Jeeva" will get some value only if it is placed in conjunction with divinity.




Accomodate all forms of God in your heart. Do not exclude some and welcome others. Accept all achievements and failures as proofs of the grace of God.




Adoration, affection and attachment are the flowers. Devotion and dedication are the fruits. When they ripen they fill themselves with the sweet sustaining juice called wisdom.




Ambition to earn fame in the world, to gain some position of authority over men, to lead a luxurious life can never ensure mental peace.




An expansive mind is more laudable than an expert brain. One person shedding love is more desirable than a hundred hard hearted companions.




An iron box is essential to keep safe the precious stones. So too the body is essential to keep safe the precious gifts of virtue, love and discrimination.




Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases. Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.




Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty. Anger can be subdued only by forbearance and cruelty can be overcome only by nonviolence.




Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.




As long as the sugar is on the tongue, you feel the sweetness in taste. Similarly, so long as the heart has love, peace and devotion, you feel bliss.




As the food, so the mind. As the mind, so the thought. As the thought, so the act.




At all times, engage yourself in serving others. There is no greater Sadhana than this.




Be a servant; a servant of God. Feel that you are an instrument in His hand. Let Him shape you and use you as He knows best.




Be clear and content
Be moderate and wise
Be vigilant and steady.
Be earnest and sweet.




Be good, Do good, See good - this is the way to God.




Be guarded against the 'evil of the tongue', 'evil of the mind' and 'evil of the hand'.




Be like a star which never wavers from the crescent, but is fixed in steady faith. Be like a lotus which is not affected by the water in which it is born.




Be what you profess to be. Speak what you intend to do. Utter what you have experienced. No more. No less.




Believe that God is one, though he is addressed and prayed to by different groups of people in different names.




Believe that there is no morality higher than truth, there is no prayer more fruitful than seva.




Believe that there is nothing greater than truth; nothing sweeter, nothing more precious and nothing more lasting.




Bend before the lowly, the humbly, the Godly, the good. Do not bend before the proud; the promoters of hate and greed.




Bhajan cleanses and purifies the atmosphere by its vital vibrations. It inspires, instructs, it calls and comforts.




Bhakti (devotion) is as essential for experiencing Atmic Bliss as blood is essential for the body.




Be like the ant. When the ant gets a mixture of sand and sugar, it selects only sugar; it neglects sand. See only good in others. Pay no attention to the bad.




Body is a house given to you for rent. Live there so long as He wills, thanking him and paying Him the rent of faith and devotion.




By chanting the name of the Lord sanctify your time. By singing His glory, sanctify your life. Always continously develop a pure heart for the welfare of the world.




Calamity, danger, death cannot be avoided for all time. They are inevitable factors of life and you have to learn to live bravely with them.




Chanting the name of the Lord must be considered as the highest form of Sadhana. You can travel anywhere in the light of this name. In this age of Kali Yuga, the easiest way to reach the Lord, is this chanting of the Lord's name. There is nothing more sacred than this name.




Character is the most precious gift of education. Without character, wealth, education and social status are of no avail.




Close your eyes to the faults of others, but keep them open to discover your own.




Consider the entire society as your home, only then you will realize genuine unity with all.




Constant dwelling with the name of the Lord gives that unshakeable peace unaffected by the ups and downs of life.




Command the mind, regulate your conduct, keep your heart straight and clear, then you will get the grace of God.




Concentration is a conscious activity and meditation is a super conscious experience.




Contentment is the most precious treasure. Contentment alone can lead man to the goal of life, the attainment of divinity.




Cows may be of different breeds or colors or sizes, but milk they yield is the same, the world over. So too, all religions, what ever their origin or extent of influence, are means to teach man this process.




Creation is divine; imitation is human.




Dedicate all your physical possession and mental skills and intellectual attainments to the service of the Lord.




Desire is storm, greed is whirl-pool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche and ego is volcano. Discard these and you will be liberated.




Dedicate your hands to the service of mankind, never deviate from that attitude.




Dedication ensures success; purifies inner vision, gives lasting joy.




Desires, disappointments and despair cause diseases. Filling the mind with the thought of God is the curative drug.




Develop the quality of love that asks for no return, develop divine knowledge and develop the inner vision.




Devotion is the sustenance of the heart, just as food is the sustenance for the body; devotion to duty is the highest form of worship to God.




Devotion is not a uniform to be worn on certain days when you gather for worship and then to be laid aside when the service is over.




Devotion to God does not mean merely offering worship in a shrine or taking part in Bhajan or Sankirtan. One must recognize the form of Divine in the images one worships or human being one serves.




Devotion truly means worshipping the Lord, not caring for the fruits of one's actions.




Discipline is the mark of intelligent living; it is more essential for success in spiritual effort.




Dive and declare the depth, eat and judge the taste.




Divine bliss cannot be gained by accumulation of impediments like cars and houses, land and gold, stocks and stores.




Divine is not manufactured by any company nor available in any shop. It is not something that can be earned from outside, it has to sprout and grow from within and treasured within.




Divine is the inner core of all beings, near and far, big or small. Expand your consciousness to its utmost limits.




Do and dedicate,
Work and worship,
Plan and protect,
But do not worry about the fruit,
That is the secret of spiritual success.




Do good deeds, you get good in return. Do bad deeds, you reap bad results; do not blame God, thank yourself, blame yourself.




Doing one's duty, however small, in an unattached manner gives rise to the awakening of self awareness.




Do not be affected when the results you anticipate are not produced; do not anticipate at all, but leave it to God.




Do not depend on others to serve your needs, become your own servant before proceeding to serve others.




Do not get puffed up when you succeed. Do not get punctured when you fail.




Do not give room for differences based on language, religion, caste or nationality. Develop the feeling that all are children of God. You may worship God in any form of your choice, but always bear in mind that God is one. Cultivate love and promote unity and harmony among all.




Do not give up wordly duties, but do them with the Name of God on your lips inviting the Grace of God on your heads.




Do not lay claim to long life but to divine life; do not pine for more years on earth, but for more virtues in the heart.




Each has has his particular duty, task, role as an individual; do that duty, carry on that task. Play that role as best as you can; that is how one can fulfill himself.




Earning money cannot be the purpose of education; acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education.




Education does not mean only giving meaning to the words. Whatever is learnt in schools and colleges has to be practised and has to be used for the welfare of the society. That is true education.




Education is a wasteful process unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom and wisdom is expressed in character.




Education is to be valued not as a means of earning one's livelihood, but as the essential requisite for a happy, peaceful and progressive life.




Education must ultimately mean:
"E" for Enlightment
"D" for Duty and Devotion
"U" for Understanding
"C" for Character
"A" for Action
"T" for Thanking
"I" for Integrity
"O" for Oneness
"N" for Nobility




Education should be divorced from job hunting. Its primary purpose should be to enable the educated to lead an honorable and meaningful life in society.




Education without character, politics without principles and commerce without morality are not only useless, but positively dangerous.




Ego lives by getting and forgetting. Love lives by giving and forgiving.




Engage always in good deeds, beneficial activities, speak the truth, do not inflict pain by word or deed or even thought. That is the highest gain which you can earn in this life.




Every action of yours at the present time is bound to have a reaction, resound and reflection in the future.




Every human being is has a body which is like a chariot and has a charioteer, which is the Atma. This is universally true and this is the basis of the unity and diversity of in all mankind.




Every human being has four birthdays: the first is when he emerges from his mother's womb; the second is when he begins his spiritual study to lead him from darkness to light; third is when he has gained wisdom for achieving self realization; the fourth and last is when he realizes his true identity and merges with Brahman.




Every passing minute is a precious gift from God which you have to use for the best and most lasting benefit.




Every rise will be followed by a fall, every elation will be followed by depression.




Feel that you are a hundred percent dependent on God, He will look after you and save you from harm and injury.




Feel that your family, your house, your fields, your cars are all the Lord's property and that you are only the trustee.




Feel the presence of God when silence reigns; in the excitement and confusion, you cannot hear His 'Foot Fall'.




For the disease of 'Bhavaroga' (birth death cycle), Bhagavan is the medicine; for the disease of desire, Jnana is the prescription; for the disease of doubt, the most effective remedy is paropakara (service); for the major infection of asanthi (anxiety), the course of treatment is Bhajan.




Friendship should not be based on consideration of fear and favor, sacred friendship is that which enables one to help others at all times and in all circumstances.




Get the doctor who would assure 'hereafter you will not fall ill' and not the doctor who gives some relief to the present attacks.




'Gift' is a meritorious act, if it is rendered to the needy at the time of need, in a manner that fulfills the need, it must be made without pride and publicity.




Give up in order to gain; restrain in order to receive; become blind in order to see more clearly.




Giving is gaining. Gaining is grieving.




Giving up one's evil thoughts constitutes sacrifice and yoga - leaving one's wife, giving up one's material possessions and repairing to the forest will be of no avail.




Goal of human life is not just eating, drinking, sleeping, tasting a little joy and grief and finally dying like any bird or beast; the goal is the realization of the eternal absolute.




God acts as creator, protector and destroyer. You must show your gratitude to God by your actions, not your words.




God can be addressed by any name that tastes sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.




God cannot be won by tricks or through short cuts, He can be won only by the hard way of struggle, detachment and tough discipline.




God does not appreciate external pomps and exhibitionistic behaviour. God does not take revenge if you do not recognize Him or revere Him.




God does not calculate the cost of all which you surrender at His feet; He examines the spirit in which it is surrendered.




God does not draw you near or keep you far; God does not deny anyone, it is only you who deny God.




God does not live in structures of stone or brick, He lives in soft hearts, warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.




God grants you what you need and desire; there is no reason to ask, no reason to grumble.




God has given you the heart to use in life, return it to Him as clean and as pure.




God has no desire to bless nor anger to induce Him to punish. You get blessed and punished as a result of your own feelings and acts.




God has no preference and prejudices. He is but reaction and resound.




God has not made any one wholly bad or wholly good; 
God has not made any one wholly bad or wholly good; your likes and dislikes are inducing you to label them such.




God is all mercy, adore Him so long as you have breath, so long as you are conscious.




God is all names and all forms, He cannot be identified with one name and one form; the whole universe is inhabited by God.




God is always ready to give you all that you want but you do not seem to know what is good for you and what you really want, so it is better and easier to surrender yourself completely to God and simply ask for His Grace.




God is nameless, but He responds when His name, in any one of the many, is taken by the seeker.




God is not attracted by your appearance, He will look at the cleanliness of the inner self.




God is not involved in either rewards or punishment. He only reflects, resounds and reacts; He is the eternal unaffected witness.




God is not somewhere away from you, someone distinct from you, He is in you, before you, behind you.




God is the sugar that can make the tasteless drink of life into a sweet potion.




God sees your devotion and not power; God cares for your quality and not your caste; God looks at your heart and not at your wealth.




God will respond only when you call Him from the depth of feeling. He will be deaf even if you call him a million times automatically and artificially with the tongue and not with the heart.




Grace of God is equal on all, but it leaks through the holes of anger, ego, lust, greed and desires. Fill the holes with trust, kindness, love, patience and gratefulness.




Hands are given to us so that we may perform good acts and offer the flower of service to the Lord.




Hands that help are holier than lips that pray.




However you are, you are mine. I will never give you up. Wherever you are, you are near me. You cannot go beyond my reach.




I do not need your garlands and fruits, they are not genuinely yours, give me something that is yours, something which is clean and fragrant with the perfume of virtue and innocence and washed in the tears of repentance.




I do not reveal or refuse, it is for you to discover and decide.




I do not take anything from anyone except their love and devotion.




I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith, so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim a better Muslim and the Hindu a better Hindu.




If God is a flower, you should feel yourself a bee that sucks its honey, if he is tree, be a creeper that clings to it, if he is the sky, be a tiny star that twinkles in it. Above all, be conscious of the truth that you and He are bound by supreme love.




If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.




If thought and activities of the mind are sound, healthy, non-violent, filled with love and morally harmonious, then peace is near at hand.




In all the deeds that you perform, in all the individuals that you meet and in all the thoughts that you entertain, you must see the divine and act accordingly.




In an office if you work full time, you get full pay; if you work part time, you get half pay. In the same manner, if you give only part of your mind and ask for full return of the grace of God, it is asking for full pay for half work.




In order to gain the benefit that education can confer, it must be directed towards the cleansing of the inner instruments of thought and feeling. It has to promote and protect the pleasure of spiritual learning.



In the garden of your heart, plant and foster the rose of divinity, the jasmine of purity and humility, the champak of generosity.


In the medicine chest of every member of our Seva Dal, one must keep in readiness tablets of discrimination, drops of self control, the powers of faith, devotion and patience. Only then one can be freed of the illness of ignorance.