Swami Vivekananda - Fridays
1/11/19
'AS the different streams having their sources in different paths which men take
through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight,
all lead to Thee.
8/11/19
'THROUGH prayer, the love of God grows and assumes a form which is called supreme
devotion. Forms vanish, rituals fly away, books are superceded, images, temples,
churches, religions and sects, countries and nationalities - all these little
limitations and bondages fall off by their own nature from him who knows this
love of God.'
15/11/19
'TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally
degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto God, but do not ask
anything in return even from Him through prayer.'
22/11/19
'PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached,
philosophy is thrown away. Who will then care for it ? Freedom, salvation,
nirvana- all are thrown away. Who cares to become free while in the enjoyment of
divine love? '
29/11/19
'I do everything to be sweet, but when it comes to a horrible compromise with the truth within, then I stop. I do not believe in 'humility'. I believe on 'Samadarshitva' - same state of mind with regard to all.
The duty of the ordinary man is to obey the commands of his 'God' - society; but the children of light never do so. This is an eternal law. One accomodates himself to surroundings and social opinion and gets all good things from society, the giver of all good to such. The other stands alone and draws society up towards him. The accommodating man finds a path of roses; the non-accommodating, one of thorns. But the worshippers of "Vox Populi" go to annihilation in a moment; the children of light live for ever'.
Paramahamsa Yogananda - Saturdays
2/11/19
'MOST people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They
little know what radical change are possible through prayer. Every morning I
offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O
infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through
me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too
menial when offered to Thee in loving service.'
9/11/19
'GLORY of God is great. He is real, and He can be found in this life. In men's
heart there are many prayers--for money, health...prayers for all manner of
things. But the prayer that should be first in every heart in the prayer for
God's presence.'
16/11/19
'To PRAY is...
Go to your room and shut the door...make no fuss.
Sit down and talk to God.
Practice meditation. Let your
mind become so intense that the next time you sit to meditate you won't have tomake effort. Pray to him:
Lord you are the master of creation, so I come to you. I will never give up
until you talk to me and make me realize your presence. I will not live without
you...'
23/11/19
'WHEN you have found it impossible to fulfill some urgent wish by your own
effort, you turn to God in prayer. Thus every prayer that you utter represents a desire. But when you find God, all desires vanish, and there is no need for prayer. I don't pray. In fullfillmenrt of the wish or prayer for Him lies joy
eternal..'
30/11/19
'IF you dive really deep you will find pearl of His presence. Unless we apply
definite methods of science in practicing RELIGION, it becomes little more than
a slave for our conscience.'
Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsadeva - Sundays
3/11/19
"THE magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that the sailing
vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed
towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness."
10/11/19
"BE not a traitor in your thoughts. Be sincere; act according to your thoughts;
and you shall surely succeed. Pray with a sincere and simple heart, and your
prayers will be heard:"
17/11/19
'WHAT are you to do when you are placed in the world? Give up everything to Him,
resign yourself to Him, and there will be no more trouble for you. Then you will
come to know that everything is done by His Will.'
24/11/19
'GOD is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is
as good as worshipping God.'
Bonus Sutra
"Therefore I say, 'Even though my guru frequents a grog-shop, still to me he is the embodiment of Eternal Bliss.' All want to be the guru, but very few indeed want to be a disciple."
Hazrat Inayat Khan - Mondays
4/11/19
'ONE person in praying feels he is fulfilling a certain duty which he considers
to be one among the other duties of life. He does not know to whom he is
praying; he thinks it is to some God... Praying, to him, is
something that he must do.. in order to fall in with the custom of the family or
the community.. he acts like everybody else. His prayer is mechanical, and if it
has any effect, it is very little.'
11/11/19
'WHEN one is praying in a room, he is not alone, he is there with God, then to
him God is not in the highest heaven, but close to him, before him, in
him.....all names and forms disappear before Him. Then every word of prayer he
utters is a living word....'
18/11/19
'MAN often thinks that, as God is the knower of the heart, there can be no need
of any recital or gesture in prayer: but that it would surely be sufficient if he
were to sit in the silence and think of God. But this is not so; it is according
to the extent of a man's consciousness of prayer that his prayer reaches God.'
25/11/19
'MAN asks another question as to why God, who knows already what he wants and
what is the need of his life, should require to be asked at all. For answer to
this we have the words of Christ ' Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall
be opened unto you'. In another words, this means that though God knows your
need , it has to become clear and definite to yourself by prayer.'
Bonus Sutra
'THE question whether God has time to give attention to our prayer is answered
by the mystics, who says that it is through the medium of man himself that God
hears his prayers.'
Jiddu Krishnamurti - Tuesdays
5/11/19
'IT is not the silence cultivated by thought. It is the silence of intelligence,
silence of Supreme Intelligence. In that silence comes that which is not
touched by thought, by endeavor, by effort. It is the way of intelligence which
is the way of compassion. Then that which is sacred is everlasting. That is
meditation. Such a life is religious life. In that there is great beauty.'
12/11/19
'DO you know what practicing every day does to your brain? Your brain becomes
dull, mechanical, it is tortured, making effort to achieve some silence some
state of experience. That is not meditation.
That is just another form of achievement like a politician becoming a minister.'
19/11/19
'NOW to live without measurement, to be totally, completely, free of all
measurement, is part of meditation. Not that ' I am practicing this, I will
achieve something in a years time. That is measurement which is the very nature
of one's egotistic activity. Meditation is the ending of measurement, ending of
comparison completely..'
26/11/19
'THERE is nothing sacred in the temple, in the mosque, in the churches. They
are all the inventions of thought.'
Bonus Sutra
'YOU can sit on the banks of the river Ganga or some place and do all kinds of
tricks with yourself. That is not meditation. Meditation is some thing that is
of daily life. It is your movement of life, and then there is in that movement
freedom, order, and out of that flowers great silence. Only when you have come
to that point, what one finds there, is absolutely sacred.'
Sri Aurobindo - Wednesday Guest
6/11/19
'IF there is the will to surrender in the centre being, then the Psyche can
come forward..'
Mother Teresa - Wednesday Guest
13/11/19
'FEEL often during the day the need for prayer and pray. Prayer opens the heart,
till it is capable of containing God himself. Ask and seek and your heart will
be big enough to receive Him and keep Him as Your Own. Pray. Prayer is the way
to listen to God, to speak with Him, to understand His love for us.'
Mahatma Gandhi - Wednesday Guest
20/11/19
'PRAYER is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of
one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words
without a heart.'
Sri Sri Ravishanker -Wednesday Guest
27/11/19
'A PRAYER:
"Give me not thirst if you cannot give me water. Give me not hunger if
you cannot give me food. Give me not joy if I cannot share. Give me not the
skills if I cannot put them to good use".'
His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupAda -Wednesday Guest
Bonus Sutra
'THE highest perfection of life is to satisfy the senses of the Lord'. The Lord wants this and He demands it.'
Osho Rajneesh - Thursdays
7/11/19
'WHENEVER you meditate and you come upon beautiful spaces, immediately pray to
Existence:
' Let my joy be showered over every being - conscious, unconscious. I don't want
any personal claim over it.'
14/11/19
'WHEN you pray purify your intelligence and it becomes your wisdom. Purify
yourself completely and you
become one with whole. And to be on with the whole is the ultimate benediction,
the blissfulness, the experience for which thousands of people have been
searching down the ages on wrong paths. This
world has to be loved, this world has to be respected, this world has to be your
temple, your mosque
your church. This world has to be your gratefulness, your gratitude.
Enlightenment is not something of
another world. Enlightenment happens now and here.'
21/11/19
'WHAT is a prayer? Prayer is sending blessing to all. Prayer is sending your
compassion to all. Prayer is creating an antidote of negative thoughts - it is
positivity.'
28/11/19
'IN the days of Buddha, or in the days of Lao-Tzu, the world was very very
peaceful, natural, it was a heaven. Why? The population was very very small, one
thing. People were not thinkers too much, they were more and more prone to
feeling rather than thinking. And people were praying. In the morning, they
would do the first thing and that would be a prayer. In the night they would
do the last thing...the prayer. And through out the whole day also, when ever
they would find a moment, they would be praying inside.'
Bonus Sutra
"To Breathe is to Pray".....
'Look at Nature: In Nature the colours
flow afresh every day, new flowers
bloom each morning. Even before the
old leaves have fallen, the new buds
burst and new shoots spring up. The
festival goes on. Such is the life of a
religious person. He will be festive
each moment and grateful that he is.
His every breath is an expression of
gratitude and benediction.'
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