Timeless Teachings Of Sages of India
Guidance for Meditation and Life from Sages and Great Gurus
Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 2
We only get what we deserve. It is a lie when we say, the world is bad and we are good. It can never be so. It is a terrible lie we tell ourselves. This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon any one outside. But be a man, stand up, lay the blame on yourself. Get hold of yourself.
Vivekananda Quote 4
Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 2
The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. There may be a million microbes of misery, floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death.
Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 2
The greatest cause of sorrow is this: we take up something, and put our whole energy on it; but perhaps it is a failure and yet we cannot give it up. We know that it is hurting us, that any further clinging to it is simply bringing misery on us; still we cannot tear ourselves away from it. The bee came to sip the honey, but its feet stuck to the honey-pot and it could not get away. That is the one cause of misery: we are attached, we are being caught. Therefore says the Gita: “Work constantly; work, but be not attached; be not caught.”
Swami Chinmayananda Teachings
Just as physics, biology, and other sciences are not the exclusive property of any one country, or of people in a particular era or age, but are universally applicable irrespective of time and age, similarly the science of living as pronounced by the Rishis of Vedanta, visualizes a plan of life to suit all people, at all times, everywhere.
Swami Chinmayananda Teachings
Man’s control of nature external is called civilization. Man’s control of nature internal is called culture.
Adi Sankara Teachings
Brahma Jnanavali Mala – Verse 21
Knowledge of the Blissful Self
I am the auspicious one, the inner light and the outer light, the indwelling light, higher than the highest, the light of all lights, self-luminous, the light that is the Self.
Adi Sankara Teachings
Brahma Jnanavali Mala – Verse 20
Knowledge of the Blissful Self
Brahman (Self) is real, the universe is mithya (it cannot be categorized as either real or unreal). The jiva (individual soul) is Brahman itself and not different. This should be understood as the correct Sastra (scriptural teaching). This is proclaimed by Vedanta.
I Am That
Item 3 – The Living Present
Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. Moments of pleasure are merely gaps in the stream of pain. How can the mind be happy?
I Am That
Item 1 – The Sense of ‘I am’
The sense ‘I am’ is always with you, only you have attached all kinds of things to it – body, feelings, thoughts, ideas, possessions etc. All these self-identifications are misleading. Because of them you take yourself to be what you are not.
Adi Sankara Teachings
Brahma Jnanavali Mala – Verse 19
Knowledge of the Blissful Self
The pot, wall, etc., are all nothing but clay. Likewise, the entire universe is nothing but Brahman. This is proclaimed by Vedanta.
Adi Sankara Teachings
Brahma Jnanavali Mala – Verse 18
Knowledge of the Blissful Self
He who realizes after repeated contemplation that he is a mere witness, he alone is liberated. He is the enlightened one. This is proclaimed by Vedanta.
Adi Sankara Teachings
Brahma Jnanavali Mala – Verse 17
Knowledge of the Blissful Self
There are two things which are different from each other. They are the seer and the seen. The seer is Brahman (Self) and the seen is Maya (Illusion). This is what all Vedanta proclaims.
