GOD'S GRACE
Mr. Ashok Sharma asked:
BAHA 'I WRITING –“All calamities and afflictions have been created for man so that he may spurn this mortal world — a world to which he is much attached. When he experienceth severe trials and hardships, then his nature will recoil and he will desire the eternal realm that is free of afflictions and calamities.”
BAHA 'I WRITING –“As long as there is life on earth, there will also be suffering; only the degree varies. / Suffering is both a reminder and a guide. It stimulates us better to adapt ourselves to our environmental conditions, and thus leads the way to self-improvement.”
BAHA 'I WRITING –“Men who suffer not, attain no perfection. The plant most pruned by the gardener yields the most beautiful blossoms and the most abundant fruit.../ A soldier is no good as a General, until he has been in the front of the fiercest battle and has received the deepest wounds.”
BAHA 'I WRITING –“Suffering seems to be the portion of man in this world. Even the Beloved ones, the Prophets of God, have never been exempt from the ills that are to be found in our world, whether natural or man-made — they seem to be part of the polish God employs to make us finer, and enable us to reflect more of His attributes.”
BAHA 'I WRITING –“Tests are benefits from God, for which we should thank Him. Grief and sorrow do not come to us by chance; the Divine Mercy for l sends them to us our own perfecting. While a man is happy, he may forget his God; but when grief comes and sorrows overwhelm him, then he will remember his Father...”
BAHA 'U 'LLAH –“That seeker must at all times put his trust in God, must renounce the peoples of the earth, detach himself from the world of dust, and cleave unto Him Who is the Lord of Lords. If anyone revile you, or trouble touch you, in the path of God, be patient, and put your trust in Him Who heareth, Who seeth. He, in truth, witnesseth, and perceiveth, and doeth what He pleaseth, through the power of His sovereignty.”
BAHA U’LLAH –“All friends should fix their gaze on the supreme horizon, and cling to that which has been revealed by God. Avoid sedition and refrain from treading the path of dissension and strife. Sow not the seeds of dissension among men and contend not with your neighbour. Dissension and strife have always been, and shall remain, rejected by God.”
BAHA 'U'LLAH –“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth... The earth is but One country and mankind its citizens.”
BAHA’U’LLAH- “O son of man! I love thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.”
BAHA'I WRITINGS –“The ideal Herald will dawn as the true morn from the Divine City with spiritual glad tidings, and awaken the heart, soul and spirit from the sleep of negligence with the trumpet of knowledge. 0 Son of fhe Supreme! I made death for thee as glad tidings: why art thou in despair at its approach? I made light for thee a splendour: why dost thou hide from it? In His Name who shines forth from the Horizon of Might! Verily, the Tongue of the Ancient gives glad tidings to those who are in the world concerning the appearance of the Greatest Name, and who takes His Covenant among the nations. In the divine Holy Books there are unmistakable prophecies giving the Glad Tidings of a certain Day in which the promised One of all the Books would appear, a radiant Dispensation be established, the banner of the Most Great Peace and reconciliation be hoisted, and the oneness of the world of humanity proclaimed. The Prophets of God were in the utmost love for all. Each one announced the glad tidings of His successor and each subsequent one confirmed the teachings and prophecies of the former. There was no discord or variance in the reality of their \teachings and mission.”
BAHAL WRITINGS –“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. Spiritual Guide Just as there are laws governing our physical lives, requiring that we must supply our bodies with certain foods, maintain them within a certain range of temperatures, and so forth, if we wish to avoid physical disabilities, so also there are laws governing our spiritual lives. These laws are revealed to mankind in each age by the manifestation of God, and obedience to them is of vital importance if each human being, and mankind in general, is to develop properly and harmoniously Moreover, these various aspects are interdependent. If an individual violates the spiritual laws for his own development, he will cause injury not only to himself but to the society in which he lives. Similarly the condition of society has a direct effect on the individuals who must live within it.”
BAHA'U'LLAH –“Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday.”
BAHA'ULLAH –“Our hope is that the world's religious leaders and the rulers thereof will unitedly arise for the reformation of this age and the rehabilitation of its fortunes. Let them, after meditating on its needs, take counsel together and, through anxious and full deliberation, administer to a diseased and sorely-afflicted world the remedy it recfuireth... Religion is the greatest of all means for the establishment of order in the world and for the peaceful contentment of all that dwell therein... The purpose of religion...is to establish unity and concord amongst the peoples of the world; make it not the cause of dissension and strife.”
BAHA'U'LLAH –“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.”
BAHA'U'LLAH –“Some have regarded it as lawful to infringe on the integrity of the substance of their neighbour, and have made light of the injunction of God as prescribed in His Book.”
BAHA'U'LLAH –“There can be no doubt that; whatever the peoples of the world, of whatever race or religion, they derive their inspiration from one heavenly source and are the subjects of one God. The difference between the ordinances under which they abide should be attributed to the varying requirements and exigencies of the age in which they were revealed.”
BHABAVAD GITA –“The steady-minded, undeluded knower of Brahmn, being well-established in Brahmn, neither rejoices on receiving the pleasant nor grieves on receiving the unpleasant.”
BHAGAT SINGH_ “Organized religion in the prop of a man who has not found his self/good within.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“0 Dhananjaya, there is naught else (existing) higher than I. Like pearls on a thread, all this (universe) is strung in Me.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“0 Partha, when a man is satisfied in the Self by Self-alone and has completely cast out all desires from the mind, then he is said to be of steady wisdom... When he completely withdraws his senses from sense objects as the tortoise withdraws its limbs, then his wisdom becomes well established.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me; this I (Krishna) promise, for you are dear to me. Abandon all supports and look to me for protection. I shall purify you from the sins of the past; do not grieve.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“He who hates no single being, is friendly and compassionate, free from self-regard and vanity, the same in good and evil, patient; Contented, ever devout, subdued in soul, firm in purpose, fixed on Me in heart and mind, and who worships Me, is dear to Me.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“He who shirks action does not attain freedom; no one can gain perfection by abstaining from work. Indeed, there is no one who rests even for an instant; every creature is driven to action by his own nature.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“I am impartial to all the created beings. I have neither friend nor foe.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“Know that knowledge to be Sattvica, by which is seen in all beings the One Immutable, inseparate in the separate. But the knowledge, which sees in all beings the distinct entities of diverse kind as different from one another, knows that knowledge to be Rajasica. While that knowledge which is confined to one single effect, as if it were the whole, without reason, not founded on truth, and trivial, that is declared to be Tamasica.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“Remembering me, you shall overcome all difficulties through my grace. But if you will not heed me in your self-will, nothing will avail you.”
BHAGAVAD GEETA –“But if he born again and again, and again and again he were to die, even then, victorious man do not grieve.”
BHAGAVAD GITA -“For he who has no tranquility there is no concentration.”
BHAGAVAD GITA -“I am Father, Mother and Grandfather of the world.”
BHAGAVAD GITA - “I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.”
BHAGAVAD GITA – “The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“ He who is satisfied with wisdom and direct vision of Truth, who has conquered the senses and is ever undisturbed, to whom a lump of earth, a stone arid gold are the same, that Yogi is said to be a Yukta, a saint of established wisdom.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“ That disciplined man with joy and light within, becomes one with God and reaches the freedom that is God's.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“0 Janardana, although these, men, their hearts overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing one's family or quarrelling with friends, why should we, who can see the crime in destroying a family, engage in these acts of sin?”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“A man does not attain to freedom from action by non-performance of action, nor does he attain to perfection merely by giving up action. No one can ever rest even for an instant without performing action, for all are impelled by the gunas, born of Prakriti, to act incessantly.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“A man of faith, absorbed in faith, his senses controlled, attains knowledge, and knowledge attained, quickly finds supreme peace. But the ignorant man, who is without faith, goes doubting to destruction. For the doubting self there is neither this world, nor the next, nor joy.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“A person has the self as friend when he has conquered himself, But if he rejects his own reality, the self will war against him.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“A portion of Myself has become the living Soul in the world of life from time without beginning From Me alone comes memory, wisdom, and also their loss, I am that which is known in all the Vedas. Verily I am the Author of Vedanta and the knower of the Vedas is.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Abandon all supports and look to me for protection. I shall purify you from the sins of the past; do not grieve.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“All creatures enter into my nature at the end of an aeon. In another beginning I send them forth again. Nature gives birth to all things, moving and unmoving. I supervise. That is how the world keeps turning.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“All mankind is born for perfection, and each shall attain it, will he but follow his nature's duty.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquility. The intellect of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“And even if thou wert the greatest of sinners, with the help of the vessel of wisdom thou shalt cross the sea of evil. Even as a burning fire burns all fuel into ashes, the fire of eternal wisdom burns into ashes all works.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Approach someone who has realised the purpose of life and question him with reverence and devotion; he will instruct you in this wisdom. Once you attain it, you will never be deluded. You will see all creatures in the Self, and all in Me.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Arjuna: Of those steadfast devotees who love you and those who seek you as the eternal formless Reality, who are the more established in yoga? Krishna: Those who set their hearts on me and worship me with unfailing devotion and faith are more established in yoga.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As a man shedding worn-out garments takes other new ones, likewise, the embodied soul, casting off worn-out bodies, enters into others which are new.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As a man shedding worn-out garments takes other new ones, likewise, the embodied soul, casting off worn-out bodies, enters into others which are new.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As flame is enveloped by smoke, mirror by dirt, and embryo by the amnion, so knowledge is enveloped by desire and wrath.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“At the be ginning, mankind and the obligation of selfless service were created together. "Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires" this is the promise of the Creator... Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal in life. Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind. It was by such work that Janaka attained perfection; others, too, have followed this path... What the outstanding person does, others will try to do. The standards such people set will be followed by the whole world... The ignorant work for their own profit. The wise work for the welfare of the world, without thought to themselves. By abstaining from work you will confuse the ignorant, who are engrossed in their actions. Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Austerity of speech consists in speaking truthfully and beneficially and in avoiding speech that offends.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Be humble, be harmless,/ Have no pretension,/ Be upright, forbearing;/Serve your teacher in true-obedience,/ Keeping the mind and body clean,/ Tranquil, steadfast, master of ego,/ Standing apart from the things of the senses,/ Free from self;/ Aware of the weakness in mortal nature.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Because it is right to give, without thought of return, at a favour or of getting something in return, is selfish giving.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“But if he born again and again, and again and again he were to die, even then, victorious man do not grieve.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“But those who worship me, surrendering all actions to me, regarding me as the supreme goal, meditating on me with single-pointed yoga. Those whose minds are set on me, 0 Partha, I rescue before long from the ocean of deathbound existence. Fix your mind on me alone, place your intellect in me, then you shall, no doubt, live in me alone.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Concerned alone with the upholding of the world. You should act. Whatever the best man does, others do that also. The world follows the standard he sets for himself.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Constant devotion to spiritual knowledge, realisation of the essence of Truth, this is declared to be wisdom; what is opposed to this is ignorance.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Destroyed is my delusion and recognition has been gained by me through Thy grace, 0 Krishna. I stand firm with my doubts dispelled. I shall act according to Thy word.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Even if you were the most sinful of sinners, Arjuna, you could cross beyond all sin by the raft of spiritual wisdom.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Even those men, who, with a steady and devout mind, always follow My doctrine, are freed from the binding effect of all actions.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Foods that promote longevity virtue, strength, health, happiness and joy are juicy, smooth, substantial and agreeable to the stomach.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“For the protection of good, for the destruction of evil and for the establishment of dharma, I am born from age to age.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“For the protection of the virtuous, for the. destruction of evil-doers, and for establishing Dharma on a firm footing, I am born from age to age.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Giving up all unanimous (righteous and unrighteous actions), come unto me alone for refuge.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He alone who renounces the fruit of actions is called a man of renunciation.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He alone who renounces the fruit of actions is called a man of renunciation.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He by whom the world is not agitated and who cannot be agitated by the world, and who is free from joy, anger, fear and worry— he is dear to Me.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He by whom the world is not agitated and who cannot be agitated by the world, which is freed from joy, envy, fear and anxiety —he is dear to me. He who is free from wants, pure, expert, unconcerned, and untroubled, renouncing all undertakings or commencements — he who is thus devoted to me, is dear to me.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He gains knowledge who is possessed of faith, is active of purpose and has subdued the senses. Having gained knowledge, swiftly he comes to the supreme peace. But the man who is without knowledge, without faith and of a doubting nature, perishes. For the doubting mind there is neither this world nor another nor any happiness.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who avoids extremes, in feed and fast, In sleep and waking, and in work and play, He winneth yoga, balance, peace and joy.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who has no ill will to any being, who is friendly and compassionate, free from egoism and self-sense, even-minded in pain and, pleasure and patient, who is ever content, self controlled, unshakeable in determination with mind and understanding given up to Me he is dear to me.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who is satisfied with wisdom 'and direct vision of Truth, who has conquered the and is ever undisturbed, to whom a lump of earth a stone and gold are the same, that Yogi is said to be a Yukta, a saint of established wisdom.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who performs his duty without depending on the fruits of his actions — he is a sanyasi and a yogi, not he who is without fire and without activity.. No one becomes a yogi who has not renounced thoughts, scheming or planning.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who sees that the Lord of all is ever the same in all that is — immortal in the field of mortality — he sees the truth. And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others. Then he goes, indeed, to the highest path.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who shirks action does not attain freedom; no one can gain perfection by abstaining from work. Indeed, there is no one who rests even for an instant; every creature is driven to action by his own nature.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He whose undertakings are all free from desire and thoughts of the world, and whose factions are burnt up by the fire of wisdom, him even the wise call a sage. He, who, having totally given up attachment to actions and their fruits, has got over the dependence on the world, and is ever satisfied, does nothing at all, though he may be ever engaged in action. i He, who has subdued his mind and body, has given up all objects of enjoyment and has no craving, performing ' sheer bodily action, "such a person does not incur sin.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Him the sages call wise whose undertakings are devoid of desire for results and of plans, whose actions are burned by the fire of wisdom.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“I am Father and Mother of the world.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“I am the Self, 0 Arjuna, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the beginning, the middle and also the end of all beings.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“I look upon all creatures equally, none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“If Thou thinkest that it can Be seen by me, 0 Lord, Prince of mystic power, then do Thou to me Reveal Thine immortal Self. The Blessed One said: Behold My forms, son of Prtha, By hundreds and by thousands, Of various sorts, marvellous, Of various colours and shapes. But thou canst not see me with this same eye of thine own; I give thee a supernatural eye: behold my mystic power, as God!”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“If you put the federal, government in charged of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand. Stillness itself is inertia Action itself is discord when stillness and action equalize Then is the highest cosmic union, yoga. Lo! Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind such is the likeness of the Yogi's mind Freed from sense storms and burning bright to Heaven When mind broods placid, soothed with holy wont When Self contemplates Self and in itself Hath comfort!”
BHAGAVAD GITA -“In every age I come back, to deliver the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinners to establish righteousness.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“It is desire, it is anger, born of Rajo-Guna(quality of passion): of unappeasable craving and of great sin; know this as the foe in this world. As fire is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror by dust, as an embryo by the womb, so is this (Self) covered by that.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“It stretches its branches upward and downward. The states of all things nurture the young shoots. The young shoots are the nourishment of our senses. And below, the roots go far into the world of men; they are the sequences of actions. This understanding of the trees shape its end and its beginning, and its ground is not open to the ordinary world. The roots of that pipal tree have spread far. With the strong axe of detachment a man should cut that tree.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Just as fire is enveloped by smoke, just as a mirror is covered by dust, just as an embryo is covered by the womb, so is this (Atman) covered by it (desire).”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Know that knowledge to be sattvica, by which is seen in all beings the One Immutable, in separate in the separate. But the knowledge which sees in all beings the distinct entities of diverse kinds as different from one another, know that knowledge to be rajasica. While that knowledge which is confined to one single effect, as if it were the whole, without reason, not founded on truth, and trivial, that is declared to be tamasica.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Let the disciplined man ever discipline himself, abiding in a secret place, solitary, restraining his thoughts and soul, free from aspirations and without possessions.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Man attains perfection, being engaged in his own duty. Hear now how one engaged in his own duty attains perfection. He from whom is the evolution of all beings, by which all this is pervaded; by worshipping him with his own duty man attains perfection. Better is one's own duty, although imperfect, than that of another well performed. He who does the duty born of his own nature incurs no sin. 0 son of Kunti, one should not relinquish the duty to which he is born, though it is defective, for all undertakings are surrounded by evil as fire by smoke.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Man is bound by his own action except when it is performed for the sake of sacrifice. Therefore, Arjuna, do you efficiently perform your duty free from attachment, for the sake of sacrifice alone.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Man is bound by his own action except when it is performed for the sake of sacrifice. Therefore, do efficiently perform your duty free from attachment, for the sake of sacrifice alone. In this world that real soul has no use whatsoever for things done nor for things not done; nor has he selfish dependence of any kind on any creature. Therefore, go on efficiently doing your duty without attachment...”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Man is made up of faith; as is his faith, so is he. The faith of all men conforms to their mental constitution. Without faith, whatever offering or gift is made or work done or penance performed, it is reckoned as "non-being" both in the now and hereafter. A man of faith, absorbed in faith,
BAHA 'I WRITING –“All calamities and afflictions have been created for man so that he may spurn this mortal world — a world to which he is much attached. When he experienceth severe trials and hardships, then his nature will recoil and he will desire the eternal realm that is free of afflictions and calamities.”
BAHA 'I WRITING –“As long as there is life on earth, there will also be suffering; only the degree varies. / Suffering is both a reminder and a guide. It stimulates us better to adapt ourselves to our environmental conditions, and thus leads the way to self-improvement.”
BAHA 'I WRITING –“Men who suffer not, attain no perfection. The plant most pruned by the gardener yields the most beautiful blossoms and the most abundant fruit.../ A soldier is no good as a General, until he has been in the front of the fiercest battle and has received the deepest wounds.”
BAHA 'I WRITING –“Suffering seems to be the portion of man in this world. Even the Beloved ones, the Prophets of God, have never been exempt from the ills that are to be found in our world, whether natural or man-made — they seem to be part of the polish God employs to make us finer, and enable us to reflect more of His attributes.”
BAHA 'I WRITING –“Tests are benefits from God, for which we should thank Him. Grief and sorrow do not come to us by chance; the Divine Mercy for l sends them to us our own perfecting. While a man is happy, he may forget his God; but when grief comes and sorrows overwhelm him, then he will remember his Father...”
BAHA 'U 'LLAH –“That seeker must at all times put his trust in God, must renounce the peoples of the earth, detach himself from the world of dust, and cleave unto Him Who is the Lord of Lords. If anyone revile you, or trouble touch you, in the path of God, be patient, and put your trust in Him Who heareth, Who seeth. He, in truth, witnesseth, and perceiveth, and doeth what He pleaseth, through the power of His sovereignty.”
BAHA U’LLAH –“All friends should fix their gaze on the supreme horizon, and cling to that which has been revealed by God. Avoid sedition and refrain from treading the path of dissension and strife. Sow not the seeds of dissension among men and contend not with your neighbour. Dissension and strife have always been, and shall remain, rejected by God.”
BAHA 'U'LLAH –“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth... The earth is but One country and mankind its citizens.”
BAHA’U’LLAH- “O son of man! I love thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.”
BAHA'I WRITINGS –“The ideal Herald will dawn as the true morn from the Divine City with spiritual glad tidings, and awaken the heart, soul and spirit from the sleep of negligence with the trumpet of knowledge. 0 Son of fhe Supreme! I made death for thee as glad tidings: why art thou in despair at its approach? I made light for thee a splendour: why dost thou hide from it? In His Name who shines forth from the Horizon of Might! Verily, the Tongue of the Ancient gives glad tidings to those who are in the world concerning the appearance of the Greatest Name, and who takes His Covenant among the nations. In the divine Holy Books there are unmistakable prophecies giving the Glad Tidings of a certain Day in which the promised One of all the Books would appear, a radiant Dispensation be established, the banner of the Most Great Peace and reconciliation be hoisted, and the oneness of the world of humanity proclaimed. The Prophets of God were in the utmost love for all. Each one announced the glad tidings of His successor and each subsequent one confirmed the teachings and prophecies of the former. There was no discord or variance in the reality of their \teachings and mission.”
BAHAL WRITINGS –“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. Spiritual Guide Just as there are laws governing our physical lives, requiring that we must supply our bodies with certain foods, maintain them within a certain range of temperatures, and so forth, if we wish to avoid physical disabilities, so also there are laws governing our spiritual lives. These laws are revealed to mankind in each age by the manifestation of God, and obedience to them is of vital importance if each human being, and mankind in general, is to develop properly and harmoniously Moreover, these various aspects are interdependent. If an individual violates the spiritual laws for his own development, he will cause injury not only to himself but to the society in which he lives. Similarly the condition of society has a direct effect on the individuals who must live within it.”
BAHA'U'LLAH –“Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday.”
BAHA'ULLAH –“Our hope is that the world's religious leaders and the rulers thereof will unitedly arise for the reformation of this age and the rehabilitation of its fortunes. Let them, after meditating on its needs, take counsel together and, through anxious and full deliberation, administer to a diseased and sorely-afflicted world the remedy it recfuireth... Religion is the greatest of all means for the establishment of order in the world and for the peaceful contentment of all that dwell therein... The purpose of religion...is to establish unity and concord amongst the peoples of the world; make it not the cause of dissension and strife.”
BAHA'U'LLAH –“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.”
BAHA'U'LLAH –“Some have regarded it as lawful to infringe on the integrity of the substance of their neighbour, and have made light of the injunction of God as prescribed in His Book.”
BAHA'U'LLAH –“There can be no doubt that; whatever the peoples of the world, of whatever race or religion, they derive their inspiration from one heavenly source and are the subjects of one God. The difference between the ordinances under which they abide should be attributed to the varying requirements and exigencies of the age in which they were revealed.”
BHABAVAD GITA –“The steady-minded, undeluded knower of Brahmn, being well-established in Brahmn, neither rejoices on receiving the pleasant nor grieves on receiving the unpleasant.”
BHAGAT SINGH_ “Organized religion in the prop of a man who has not found his self/good within.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“0 Dhananjaya, there is naught else (existing) higher than I. Like pearls on a thread, all this (universe) is strung in Me.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“0 Partha, when a man is satisfied in the Self by Self-alone and has completely cast out all desires from the mind, then he is said to be of steady wisdom... When he completely withdraws his senses from sense objects as the tortoise withdraws its limbs, then his wisdom becomes well established.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me; this I (Krishna) promise, for you are dear to me. Abandon all supports and look to me for protection. I shall purify you from the sins of the past; do not grieve.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“He who hates no single being, is friendly and compassionate, free from self-regard and vanity, the same in good and evil, patient; Contented, ever devout, subdued in soul, firm in purpose, fixed on Me in heart and mind, and who worships Me, is dear to Me.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“He who shirks action does not attain freedom; no one can gain perfection by abstaining from work. Indeed, there is no one who rests even for an instant; every creature is driven to action by his own nature.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“I am impartial to all the created beings. I have neither friend nor foe.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“Know that knowledge to be Sattvica, by which is seen in all beings the One Immutable, inseparate in the separate. But the knowledge, which sees in all beings the distinct entities of diverse kind as different from one another, knows that knowledge to be Rajasica. While that knowledge which is confined to one single effect, as if it were the whole, without reason, not founded on truth, and trivial, that is declared to be Tamasica.”
BHAGAUAD GITA –“Remembering me, you shall overcome all difficulties through my grace. But if you will not heed me in your self-will, nothing will avail you.”
BHAGAVAD GEETA –“But if he born again and again, and again and again he were to die, even then, victorious man do not grieve.”
BHAGAVAD GITA -“For he who has no tranquility there is no concentration.”
BHAGAVAD GITA -“I am Father, Mother and Grandfather of the world.”
BHAGAVAD GITA - “I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.”
BHAGAVAD GITA – “The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“ He who is satisfied with wisdom and direct vision of Truth, who has conquered the senses and is ever undisturbed, to whom a lump of earth, a stone arid gold are the same, that Yogi is said to be a Yukta, a saint of established wisdom.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“ That disciplined man with joy and light within, becomes one with God and reaches the freedom that is God's.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“0 Janardana, although these, men, their hearts overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing one's family or quarrelling with friends, why should we, who can see the crime in destroying a family, engage in these acts of sin?”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“A man does not attain to freedom from action by non-performance of action, nor does he attain to perfection merely by giving up action. No one can ever rest even for an instant without performing action, for all are impelled by the gunas, born of Prakriti, to act incessantly.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“A man of faith, absorbed in faith, his senses controlled, attains knowledge, and knowledge attained, quickly finds supreme peace. But the ignorant man, who is without faith, goes doubting to destruction. For the doubting self there is neither this world, nor the next, nor joy.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“A person has the self as friend when he has conquered himself, But if he rejects his own reality, the self will war against him.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“A portion of Myself has become the living Soul in the world of life from time without beginning From Me alone comes memory, wisdom, and also their loss, I am that which is known in all the Vedas. Verily I am the Author of Vedanta and the knower of the Vedas is.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Abandon all supports and look to me for protection. I shall purify you from the sins of the past; do not grieve.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“All creatures enter into my nature at the end of an aeon. In another beginning I send them forth again. Nature gives birth to all things, moving and unmoving. I supervise. That is how the world keeps turning.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“All mankind is born for perfection, and each shall attain it, will he but follow his nature's duty.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquility. The intellect of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“And even if thou wert the greatest of sinners, with the help of the vessel of wisdom thou shalt cross the sea of evil. Even as a burning fire burns all fuel into ashes, the fire of eternal wisdom burns into ashes all works.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Approach someone who has realised the purpose of life and question him with reverence and devotion; he will instruct you in this wisdom. Once you attain it, you will never be deluded. You will see all creatures in the Self, and all in Me.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Arjuna: Of those steadfast devotees who love you and those who seek you as the eternal formless Reality, who are the more established in yoga? Krishna: Those who set their hearts on me and worship me with unfailing devotion and faith are more established in yoga.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As a man shedding worn-out garments takes other new ones, likewise, the embodied soul, casting off worn-out bodies, enters into others which are new.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As a man shedding worn-out garments takes other new ones, likewise, the embodied soul, casting off worn-out bodies, enters into others which are new.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As flame is enveloped by smoke, mirror by dirt, and embryo by the amnion, so knowledge is enveloped by desire and wrath.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“At the be ginning, mankind and the obligation of selfless service were created together. "Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires" this is the promise of the Creator... Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal in life. Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind. It was by such work that Janaka attained perfection; others, too, have followed this path... What the outstanding person does, others will try to do. The standards such people set will be followed by the whole world... The ignorant work for their own profit. The wise work for the welfare of the world, without thought to themselves. By abstaining from work you will confuse the ignorant, who are engrossed in their actions. Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Austerity of speech consists in speaking truthfully and beneficially and in avoiding speech that offends.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Be humble, be harmless,/ Have no pretension,/ Be upright, forbearing;/Serve your teacher in true-obedience,/ Keeping the mind and body clean,/ Tranquil, steadfast, master of ego,/ Standing apart from the things of the senses,/ Free from self;/ Aware of the weakness in mortal nature.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Because it is right to give, without thought of return, at a favour or of getting something in return, is selfish giving.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“But if he born again and again, and again and again he were to die, even then, victorious man do not grieve.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“But those who worship me, surrendering all actions to me, regarding me as the supreme goal, meditating on me with single-pointed yoga. Those whose minds are set on me, 0 Partha, I rescue before long from the ocean of deathbound existence. Fix your mind on me alone, place your intellect in me, then you shall, no doubt, live in me alone.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Concerned alone with the upholding of the world. You should act. Whatever the best man does, others do that also. The world follows the standard he sets for himself.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Constant devotion to spiritual knowledge, realisation of the essence of Truth, this is declared to be wisdom; what is opposed to this is ignorance.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Destroyed is my delusion and recognition has been gained by me through Thy grace, 0 Krishna. I stand firm with my doubts dispelled. I shall act according to Thy word.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Even if you were the most sinful of sinners, Arjuna, you could cross beyond all sin by the raft of spiritual wisdom.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Even those men, who, with a steady and devout mind, always follow My doctrine, are freed from the binding effect of all actions.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Foods that promote longevity virtue, strength, health, happiness and joy are juicy, smooth, substantial and agreeable to the stomach.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“For the protection of good, for the destruction of evil and for the establishment of dharma, I am born from age to age.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“For the protection of the virtuous, for the. destruction of evil-doers, and for establishing Dharma on a firm footing, I am born from age to age.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Giving up all unanimous (righteous and unrighteous actions), come unto me alone for refuge.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He alone who renounces the fruit of actions is called a man of renunciation.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He alone who renounces the fruit of actions is called a man of renunciation.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He by whom the world is not agitated and who cannot be agitated by the world, and who is free from joy, anger, fear and worry— he is dear to Me.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He by whom the world is not agitated and who cannot be agitated by the world, which is freed from joy, envy, fear and anxiety —he is dear to me. He who is free from wants, pure, expert, unconcerned, and untroubled, renouncing all undertakings or commencements — he who is thus devoted to me, is dear to me.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He gains knowledge who is possessed of faith, is active of purpose and has subdued the senses. Having gained knowledge, swiftly he comes to the supreme peace. But the man who is without knowledge, without faith and of a doubting nature, perishes. For the doubting mind there is neither this world nor another nor any happiness.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who avoids extremes, in feed and fast, In sleep and waking, and in work and play, He winneth yoga, balance, peace and joy.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who has no ill will to any being, who is friendly and compassionate, free from egoism and self-sense, even-minded in pain and, pleasure and patient, who is ever content, self controlled, unshakeable in determination with mind and understanding given up to Me he is dear to me.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who is satisfied with wisdom 'and direct vision of Truth, who has conquered the and is ever undisturbed, to whom a lump of earth a stone and gold are the same, that Yogi is said to be a Yukta, a saint of established wisdom.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who performs his duty without depending on the fruits of his actions — he is a sanyasi and a yogi, not he who is without fire and without activity.. No one becomes a yogi who has not renounced thoughts, scheming or planning.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who sees that the Lord of all is ever the same in all that is — immortal in the field of mortality — he sees the truth. And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others. Then he goes, indeed, to the highest path.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He who shirks action does not attain freedom; no one can gain perfection by abstaining from work. Indeed, there is no one who rests even for an instant; every creature is driven to action by his own nature.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“He whose undertakings are all free from desire and thoughts of the world, and whose factions are burnt up by the fire of wisdom, him even the wise call a sage. He, who, having totally given up attachment to actions and their fruits, has got over the dependence on the world, and is ever satisfied, does nothing at all, though he may be ever engaged in action. i He, who has subdued his mind and body, has given up all objects of enjoyment and has no craving, performing ' sheer bodily action, "such a person does not incur sin.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Him the sages call wise whose undertakings are devoid of desire for results and of plans, whose actions are burned by the fire of wisdom.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“I am Father and Mother of the world.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“I am the Self, 0 Arjuna, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the beginning, the middle and also the end of all beings.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“I look upon all creatures equally, none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“If Thou thinkest that it can Be seen by me, 0 Lord, Prince of mystic power, then do Thou to me Reveal Thine immortal Self. The Blessed One said: Behold My forms, son of Prtha, By hundreds and by thousands, Of various sorts, marvellous, Of various colours and shapes. But thou canst not see me with this same eye of thine own; I give thee a supernatural eye: behold my mystic power, as God!”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“If you put the federal, government in charged of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand. Stillness itself is inertia Action itself is discord when stillness and action equalize Then is the highest cosmic union, yoga. Lo! Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind such is the likeness of the Yogi's mind Freed from sense storms and burning bright to Heaven When mind broods placid, soothed with holy wont When Self contemplates Self and in itself Hath comfort!”
BHAGAVAD GITA -“In every age I come back, to deliver the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinners to establish righteousness.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“It is desire, it is anger, born of Rajo-Guna(quality of passion): of unappeasable craving and of great sin; know this as the foe in this world. As fire is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror by dust, as an embryo by the womb, so is this (Self) covered by that.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“It stretches its branches upward and downward. The states of all things nurture the young shoots. The young shoots are the nourishment of our senses. And below, the roots go far into the world of men; they are the sequences of actions. This understanding of the trees shape its end and its beginning, and its ground is not open to the ordinary world. The roots of that pipal tree have spread far. With the strong axe of detachment a man should cut that tree.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Just as fire is enveloped by smoke, just as a mirror is covered by dust, just as an embryo is covered by the womb, so is this (Atman) covered by it (desire).”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Know that knowledge to be sattvica, by which is seen in all beings the One Immutable, in separate in the separate. But the knowledge which sees in all beings the distinct entities of diverse kinds as different from one another, know that knowledge to be rajasica. While that knowledge which is confined to one single effect, as if it were the whole, without reason, not founded on truth, and trivial, that is declared to be tamasica.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Let the disciplined man ever discipline himself, abiding in a secret place, solitary, restraining his thoughts and soul, free from aspirations and without possessions.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Man attains perfection, being engaged in his own duty. Hear now how one engaged in his own duty attains perfection. He from whom is the evolution of all beings, by which all this is pervaded; by worshipping him with his own duty man attains perfection. Better is one's own duty, although imperfect, than that of another well performed. He who does the duty born of his own nature incurs no sin. 0 son of Kunti, one should not relinquish the duty to which he is born, though it is defective, for all undertakings are surrounded by evil as fire by smoke.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Man is bound by his own action except when it is performed for the sake of sacrifice. Therefore, Arjuna, do you efficiently perform your duty free from attachment, for the sake of sacrifice alone.”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Man is bound by his own action except when it is performed for the sake of sacrifice. Therefore, do efficiently perform your duty free from attachment, for the sake of sacrifice alone. In this world that real soul has no use whatsoever for things done nor for things not done; nor has he selfish dependence of any kind on any creature. Therefore, go on efficiently doing your duty without attachment...”
BHAGAVAD GITA –“Man is made up of faith; as is his faith, so is he. The faith of all men conforms to their mental constitution. Without faith, whatever offering or gift is made or work done or penance performed, it is reckoned as "non-being" both in the now and hereafter. A man of faith, absorbed in faith,
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