Timeless Teachings Of Sages of India
Guidance for Meditation and Life from Sages and Great Gurus
Mahatma Gandhi Teachings
Pathway to God
God does not reside above. He has to be realized on earth. He is here, within you, within me. He is omnipotent and omnipresent. You need not think of the world beyond. If we can do our duty here, the beyond will take care of itself.
Mahatma Gandhi Teachings
Pathway to God
There is an indefinable Mysterious Power that pervades everything. I feel it though I don’t see it. It is this Unseen Power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It transcends the senses.
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Teachings
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Anyone and everyone cannot be a guru. A huge timber floats on the water and can carry animals as well. But a piece of worthless wood sinks, if a man sits on it, and drowns him. Therefore in every age God incarnates Himself as the Guru, to teach humanity. Satchidananda alone is the Guru.
Mahatma Gandhi Teachings
Pathway to God
God is not some person outside ourselves or away from the universe. He pervades everything and is omniscient as well as omnipotent. He does not need any praise or petitions. Being immanent in all beings, He hears everything and reads our innermost thoughts. He abides in our hearts and is nearer to us than the nails on our fingers.
Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 6
The lower the animal, the more is its enjoyment in the senses, the more it lives in the senses. Civilization, true civilization, should mean the power of taking the animal-man out of his sense-life – by giving him visions and tastes of planes much higher – and not external comforts.
Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 6
Everybody is hypnotised already. The work of attaining freedom, of realising one’s real nature, consists in de-hypnotisation. One thing to be remembered is that we are not gaining powers at all. We have them already. The whole process of growth is de-hypnotisation.
Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 6
Never quarrel about religion. All quarrels and disputations concerning religion simply show that spirituality is not present. Religious quarrels are always over the husks. When purity, when spirituality goes, leaving the soul dry, quarrels begin, and not before.
Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 6
All regulations in eating, practicing, etc., are all right so long as they are complementary to a spiritual aspiration; but they are not ends in themselves; they are only helps.
Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 6
Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
Mahatma Gandhi Teachings
Pathway to God – God
I dispute the description that Hindus believe in many Gods and are idolaters. They do say that there are many gods, but they also declare unmistakably that there is one God, the God of gods. It is not, therefore, proper to suggest that Hindus believe in many gods.
Mahatma Gandhi Teachings
Pathway to God – God
God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist. For in His boundless love, God permits the atheist to live. He is the searcher of the hearts. He knows us and our hearts better than we do ourselves.
Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 6
Do not think covetously about mere mental powers. Let them go. One who seeks the powers of the mind succumbs to them. Almost all who desire powers become ensnared by them.
