“What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.”

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.

Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.

Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.

If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won’t let us down.

If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.

If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.

Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.

The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.

Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.

Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.

As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

Pity melts the mind to love.

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.