Ramprasad

 “O foolish mind, do not indulge in hatred for any sacred way if you wish to enter pure Reality. With desperate longing for truth alone, the singer of this song has plunged into the ocean of ancient Scriptures, discovering at last that my blissful Mother, her black hair falling free in ecstasy, is the living power within every religious symbol, the coherent core of every philosophy. She is the warrior spirit, Kali dancing, and she is Shiva, all-transcending. She is ineffable sweetness, Radha-Krishna, the love play that dissolves conventionality. She is Sita-Ram, compassionately wise, the complete evolution of humanity.”

Peter Deunov

 “Nothing else is demanded of you but to be in harmony with the entire Universe.”

“Peacemakers are living in the Divine Fire. Peacemaking is the Divine beam, which comes from the depth of the human soul. The peacemakers are the Sons of God. Peacemaking is a Divine Light and it comes from the flame that has created it.” “The greater the sacrifice one makes, the bigger one becomes. The more sacrifices one makes, the wiser one becomes, the stronger one becomes, and the better one becomes. Good people have sacrificed themselves, that is why they are strong.” “Open your hearts to the Divine and do not think about what will happen to you. Open your minds to the sublime and bright thoughts and do not worry about tomorrow.”

SHREE MAA

 “These are the qualities of a disciple: humility, modesty, causing harm to none, patience, the purification of knowledge, worship of the teacher, purity, consistency, self control, constant equanimity of consciousness, unswerving devotion, distaste for the society of gossip, always residing in spiritual wisdom. All that is opposed is ignorance.”

Jnaneshvar painting by Balgajbar, Gurudev Siddha Peeth, Ganeshpuri]

 

Jnaneshvar was a great Siddha, mystic and poetic genius of Maharashtra, India who died at the age of 21 in ecstasy. His spiritual roots were in both the Nath and Bhakti traditions and listed his lineage as Shiva, Shakti, Matsyendra, Gorakhnath, Gahini and Nivritti (his elder brother). At the age of fifteen (1290) he is said to have delivered ex tempore the nine-thousand verses of his poetic commentary on the Bhagavad Gita; Jnaneshvari (Jnaneshwari) or “Goddess of Wisdom” [ also called Bhava-Artha-Dipika (“Light on the meaning of Being”)]. Jnaneshvar’s teaching was non-dualist, saying that the mainifest world is a “sport” (vilasa) of the Absolute; the Love of the singular Reality, and regarded bhakti (devotion), the means to liberation

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

 She who is centered in the Tao

can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart.

​Michael Kewley

 If you truly want to live in peace and be happy, you have to change something in you because no matter how hard you try, you cannot change every other living being in the universe to fit your desires.

Sri Aurobindo

 “The last stage of perfection occurs when you are completely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate instrument, servant, or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness; it will be your constant, simple, and natural experience that all your thought and seeing and action, your very breathing or moving come from her and are hers.”

Ramana Maharshi

 

“That inner Self, as the primeval Spirit, Eternal, ever effulgent, full and infinite Bliss, Single, indivisible, whole and living, Shines in everyone as the witnessing awareness. That self in its splendour, shining in the cavity of the heart This self is neither born nor dies, Neither grows nor decays, Nor does it suffer any change. When a pot is broken, the space within it is not, And similarly, when the body dies the Self in it remains eternal.”

The Sacred SPACE of the Heart

 

Swami Rama Tirtha

“Sit still, chant Om’ and then think Who is within you. All the Vedanta, nay all the philosophy of the Hindus is simply an exposition of this syllable Om.’ Om’ has a charm about it, an efficiency, a virtue in it which directly brings all feelings and all thoughts into a state of harmony, brings peace and rest to the soul and puts the mind in a state where it is one with God. Science may not be able to explain this, but this is a fact which can be verified by experiment. Woe unto science if it goes against the truth connected with the efficiency of the sacred syllable Om.’ The real Self which is knowledge absolute and power absolute is the only stern Reality, before which the apparent reality of the world melts away! Om’ is the name of this Reality.