Incredible India!

"The real India is a quest of the inner most soul of man - not the geography, nor the political history, but the inner journey. The journey of meditation is the real India. Mahavir represents it. Buddha represents it. Krishna, Christ and Nanak - they represent the real India. And I have the heritage of all of them and much more" 

- Osho, The Secret of Secrets, Chapter 10 - The Zorba-Buddha Synthesis

Famous Quotes

Dated: Friday, 17th September, 1999

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it 

- Hellen Keller

People are always blaming their circumstances of what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, they make them." 

- George Bernard Shaw

Dated: Tuesday, 21st September, 1999

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone 

- St. Francis of Assisi 

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable

 - Benjamin Franklin

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand deeds bowing in prayer

 - M. K. Gandhi

Take Your Pick

From Bard To Verse


Take Your Pick

There are two ways to live;

Being a free bird is one,

A pet in captivity another.

There are two ways to think;

In dreams is  one,

In despair another.

There are two ways of living life on the edge;

Being on the move is one,

Falling off a running train another.

There are two things to listen to;

A person of wisdom is one,

Only your echo another.

There are two states of mind;

Being a prince is one,

A prisoner of thoughts another.

- Pooja Gupta

Seeing Is Believing

"It is impossible to see, remember or imagine anything without shifting from one part to another."

"Deep breathing at all times is helpful to vision."

"Without central fixation of the mind, central fixation of the eyes is impossible."

"In complete attention there is no observer." - Juddu Krishnamurti

"Love opens all doors." - The Mother

प्रेम भक्ति है | प्रेम की खोज का अर्थ अहंकार की मृत्यु | (Love is true devotion. The quest for love means the death of ego.)

Wisdom of Words

"The finest timber comes from the slowest growing trees."

- Krishnaprem

The Prophet - Khalil Gibran

Quotes from 'The Prophet' - Khalil Gibran

"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage."

"If you would know God, you shall see Him playing with your children. Look into space, you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightening and descending in the rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees."

"Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing."

"Your body is a harp of your soul. And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds."

"The breath of life is the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind."

"You are good when you are fully awake in your speech."

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

"Love possesses not nor would it be possessed. For love is sufficient unto love."

"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself." 

Perfection Of Wisdom - Buddhism

Buddha at Shanti Stupa - Leh, Ladakh, India © Saloni Chavda 2010
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The bodhisattva should adopt the same attitude towards all beings, his mind should be even towards all beings, he should not handle others with an uneven mind, but with a mind which is friendly, well-disposed, helpful, free from aversions, avoiding harm and hurt; he should handle others as if they were his mother, father, son or daughter. As a saviour of all beings should  a bodhisattva behave towards all beings. So should he train himself if he wants to know full enlightenment. 

- The Perfection of Wisdom, Thursday, November 25, 1999, The Speaking Tree - Times of India

Don't Be Literal, Be Liberal

"Those who seek to know by the aid of dictionary only technically reach the house, for they are stopped by the outside wall and find no entrance to the hall. This is the reason why the teachings of our greatest prophets give rise to endless disputations when we try to understand them by following their words ad not by realizing them in our own lives. The men who are cursed with the gift of the literal mind are the unfortune ones who are always busy with their nets and neglect the fishing"

      - Rabindranath Tagore

Pandhare Kesh, Heerva Man

" पांढरे  केश 

हीरवा  मन " 

(  વૃદ્ધત્વમાં  કેશ 

ભલે  સફેદ,

પણ  મન,

ફૂલ ગુલાબી )  

When you grow old, your hair may turn white, but your mind and spirit blooms as the most beautiful pink rose in the most lush green garden of knowledge and wisdom; the knowledge of a life lived well and the wisdom in loving others.

One Life

" Mans' dearest possession is life, and since it is given to him to live but once, he must so live as not to be seared with the shame of a cowardly and trivial past, so live as not to be tortured for years without purpose. " 

Lenin

Responsibility - Quotes

"If you lay a rotten and crazy foundation, you must not build; since the greater and more weighty the superstructure, the sooner it will fall."

"No one skillful in any art is solicitous to please a person unskillful" - Epictetus

"Every art gives a certain assurance and confidence, on its own ground" - Epictetus

There was never any more inception than there is now,

Nor any youth or age than there is now,

And will never be any more perfection than there is now.

- Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

Quotes to Ponder...

"One of the chief causes of unhappiness in the world is that our mind is preoccupied all the while with its relation with other human minds."

"Into this surrounding space as you sit, or stand, you fling forth your spirit; and the spirit of what you are gazing at - for every scene that exists has its spirit - flows back responsively into your mind."

"Make yourself as porous, as receptive, as yielded up as you can try to the magic of the scene before you."

"What makes us unhappy is not what we lack but what we possess."

"Everything that lives is holy."