Sri Sri Sri Sivananda Murty India's unity is not geographical and never political but cultural. (Culture is our father, mother and Lord. Only by respecting il, we maintain our humanness and ‘safeguard our future. Pray for the restoration of the pristine glory of Bharath. By doing so, you shall be redeeming your indebtedness. Then, only then, will spiritual [progress be spontaneous. Bharath is like a cow. To some, il is an object of If you have to mention one person to describe the greatness of India, itis The BUDDHA. Poverty has been made ten times lighter by the weight of the health of our culture. ‘The history of India is not the story of dynasties ‘but the chronicle of the glorious lives of our great Rishi When a man takes to Hinduism, it is not conversion, it is admission into higher schools.‘You must take pride that you are bom in this country. It was the Aryan who taught the art of living and the science of leaving. If ] have to come back in a body again, I will come only to this Aryavarth, even as an animal. Life is not a chance but an opportunity. Present is the plant of the future. Man is planting the seed of the future. Loving is living, Living is loving. Where there is love, there is sacrifice. Love never tires. Attachment tires. ‘One should not fall in Love, one should rise in Love. Aman should live and leave with dignity. Remembrance is less, desires are more, that is the problem, ‘You must follow Truth, believe in Truth, say the ‘Truth, think of the Truth, ‘The best way to treat the gift of God is to retum it-to Him. Give as you give to your sons. God pervading the material. world is the only miracle. This is the greatest miracle second to none,Letall your emotions be active but under control. Do not judge other's ignorance through your knowledge. ‘What is tolerance to a fault? Complementing your enemy for successfully harming you. Immorality is poison to brain. ‘Transparency isa sign of good health, it prevents self - destruction, ‘The crown of Aryan life ambition is Moksha. A life is fully rewarded if it is leading to Moksha. ‘Wherever we go and whatever we do, our duty is to uphold the culture and remember the God constantly, as this is our necessity. Every suffering is the reflected wave of our actions in the past. God is reached not through desirelessness but through Dharmic satiation. If you shoud get whatever you want, you should have to give whatever others want. Killing in the name of God is the extraordinary sin. So long as you are free from dislike, malice, jealousy, possessive instinct, preferential treatment etc. your vision will be clear, ‘Leaving the body in the performance of Dharma is Sreyas, thar is not death. Sreyas means Moksha. God's words I say!Dharma is apporpriateness in thought, actions attitude and judgement to a thing ora happening or a desire or an incident in life. People say they serve God. How could that be? Always itis God who serves us, Guru is the wish-fulfilling tree. He can give anything. Karma is overruled at the discretion of Guru, ‘The absence of Ego is the Guru. The Guru is more important than His teaching. A Master upholds all the paths but holds on to none. The Guru acts in unreality and lives in reality. God has come as Guru, 80 Guru is God A Guru is one in-a million to one in a million. Each one of us in qualitatively God. But no one is quantitatively God. If we sin, God helps us in washing it by our going through its results. If we-eam merit, God rewards us with material benefits. All material comforts can be obtained by eaming merit or punyam. God has nothing to do with them directly. He takes care only of the joumey Of the soul, God is closer to you than. your bedy.God is too simple to be understood by human beings. The simplest possible thing in the world is God. Nothing is simpler than God. One plus ‘one is twa; well, even this is highly complex when compared to God, Any political or religious philosophly that dismisses the worship and love of God cannot stand. It crumbles ; it is bound to be washed away. For one who remembers God and rises high x3 @ mountain, the problem looks like a pediie t him. Peace is neither happiness nor sorrow. Happiness is not peace, Happiness is m oarsebves. Peace is totally different, ‘Grace is 5 process. Your passiviry 0 the Leave it to Him. Whatever happens will ‘happen. With understanding prayer beommes more effective, without it, you ane just a parrot. Faith has mo logic. A logic can newer hawe: faith, Just as experience has mo Language amd iamguage has no experience. Amy Feeling that is pare ts dewotion. ‘God follows His devotees.Like all the seven colours put together give out that streak of white light, all nine Rasas combine to become Bhakti. ‘Guru Bhakti is nothing but loving your Guru as your Mother, Father and everything. He is the tree for you, the creeper. Jnana is the result of or a boon given to the Bhakt shown, when nothing else is desired through that Bhakti, No doult Bhaku makes one’s journey a lot easter, bat Bhakti has to be acquired. ‘Go on uttering Truth for ten years as a ‘vratam and whatever you utter will be truth afterwands. Most concentrated form of matter is thought. When thought concems itself with a truth it is emergy. Drop alll anxiety, throw yourself at His fect swith ahandom and nekex ‘Whar fs the way oot? Tapas! If you have he sironetih you con win ower death also. Health or no health, food or mo food. powerty ‘orriches spend time im Tapas. “Eapas burns karma. Tapas is 2 24 hour business. “Expas is moching bet silence, that is absence of mind.