chitta happens

Definition of a man or woman of God...

2010-05-13T20:04:00.000-07:00

The Vedic definition of a man or woman of God...
Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned;
stronger than the thunder,
where principles are at stake.

the way to consciousness

2010-04-06T08:49:00.000-07:00

The only way to achieve consciousness
is by concentrating on the physical, the mental, and the spiritual.
Concentration on the powers of the spirit to discover unity
in diversity is called consciousness.
All that draws on unity is moral all the draws on diversity is immoral.
Swami Vivekananda

the greatness of our soul...

2010-04-05T09:50:00.000-07:00

To know our soul apart from our ego is the first step toward accomplishing the supreme deliverance. It is necessary that we know with absolute certainty that in essence we are spirit. And we can only arrive at this knowledge if we render ourselves masters of our ego, if we rise above all pride, all appetite, all fear, by knowing that material losses and the death of the body can never take away the truth and the greatness of our soul.

Rabindranath Tagore

What causes fear?

2010-02-26T08:05:00.000-08:00

Fear is man's greatest enemy,
and it manifests itself in forms as diverse as shame, jealousy, anger, insolence, arrogance...
What causes fear? Lack of confidence in oneself.
Swami Prajnanpad

The soul is consciousness...

2010-01-16T00:00:00.000-08:00

What is the soul? The soul is consciousness.
It shines as the light within the heart.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

you see truly...

2010-01-13T15:00:00.000-08:00

If you see the soul in every living being, you see truly.
If you see immortality in the heart of every mortal being, you see truly.
The Bhagavad Gita

catch the tone...

2009-12-24T00:42:00.000-08:00

Amidst this chaos there is harmony,
throughout these discordant sounds there is a note of concord,
and he who is prepared to listen to it will catch the tone.

Swami Vivekananda

cosmic understanding...

2009-12-16T09:15:00.000-08:00

To reach cosmic understanding,
it is necessary to unite our feeling with that infinite feeling that penetrates everything.
In fact, for man, true progress coincides with the breadth of the base of our feelings.
All our poetry, philosophy, science, art, and religion
serve to embrace with our understanding
the spheres too vast and high.

Rabindranath Tagore

a unification...

2009-12-15T08:41:00.001-08:00

When water joins with water,
it is not a meeting but a unification.

Swami Prajnanpad

The Great Hope...

2009-12-12T11:37:00.000-08:00

All the responsibility of good and evil in on you. This is the great hope.
What I have done, that I can undo.

Swami Vivekananda

The language of the finite...

2009-12-09T08:07:00.000-08:00

The whole universe is to us a writing of the Infinite
in the language of the finite.

One Blood

2009-12-08T08:01:00.000-08:00

In your veins, and in mine, there is only one blood,
The same life that animates us all!
Since one unique mother begat us all,
Where did we learn to divide ourselves?

Kabir

understanding of the soul...

2009-12-07T11:03:00.000-08:00

The key to cosmic awareness, to a consciousness of God,
is in the understanding of the soul.

Rabindranath Tagore

see God in yourself

2009-12-06T23:13:00.000-08:00

If you see God within every man and woman,
then you can never do harm to any man or woman.
If you see God in yourself, then you attain perfection.

The Bhagavad Gita

the essence of yoga...

2009-02-21T23:02:00.000-08:00

Free yourself from anger and desire, which are the causes of pain and conflict, and thereby make yourself whole. This is the essence of yoga; this is the means by which you come to know the soul, and thereby attain the highest spiritual state. Learn to meditate. Close your eyes; calm your breathing; and focus your attention on the center of consciousness. Thus you will master the senses, the emotions, and the intellect - and thereby free yourself from desire and anger.

The Bhagavad Gita

be what you really are...

2009-02-21T22:59:00.000-08:00

We are always comparing what we are with what we should be. This measuring ourselves all the time against something or someone is one of the primary causes of conflict. Now why is there any comparison at all? If you do not compare yourself with another you will be what you really are.

Krishnamurti

out of conflict is disorder...

2009-02-21T22:54:00.000-08:00

As long as the brain, which is so heavily conditioned, is measuring, "the more," "the better," moving psychologically from this to that, it must inevitably bring about a sense of conflict, and this is disorder.
Not only the words more and better, but the feeling, the reaction, of achieving, gaining - as long as there is this division, duality, there must be conflict. And out of conflict is disorder.

Krishnamurti

to be...

2009-02-21T22:46:00.000-08:00

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to be.

Rabindranath Tagore

we are trying to achieve an aim...

2009-02-21T22:42:00.000-08:00

An animal, a child and an ignoramus are slaves to their desires. They want to satisfy them immediately, whatever the time, the place or the circumstances...How can a man be distinguished from them? Before satisfying his desires, a man takes into account the time, the place and the circumstances, because he is trying to achieve an aim.

Swami Prajnanpad

happiness lies in contentment...

2009-02-21T22:38:00.000-08:00

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plain living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Mahatma Gandhi

shadow in pain...

2009-02-21T22:34:00.000-08:00

To understand pleasure is not to deny it.
We are not condemning it or saying it is right or wrong but if we pursue it, let us do so with our eyes open, knowing that a mind that is all the time seeking pleasure must inevitably find its shadow in pain.
They cannot be separated, although we run after pleasure and try to avoid pain.

Krishnamurti

we are free already...

2009-02-21T22:31:00.000-08:00

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already.
Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
Every idea that we are happy or unhappy is a tremendous delusion.

Swami Vivekananda

who will save you?

2009-02-21T22:28:00.000-08:00

Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself. Who will save you?
Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul.

Swami Vivekananda

purifying contact with infinity...

2009-02-21T22:25:00.001-08:00

Man must understand that when he cuts himself off from all stimulating and purifying contact with infinity, and no longer relies on it for his subsistence and his health, he risks madness; he tears himself asunder, and divorces himself from his very substance.

Rabindranath Tagore

rhythmic dance of incessant creation

2009-02-21T22:15:00.000-08:00

Man has lost his inner perspective, he measures his greatness by his size and not by his
vital attachment to the infinite; he judges his activity by his own movement and not by the serenity of perfection, not by the peace that exists in the starry vault, in the rhythmic dance of incessant creation.

Rabindranath Tagore

the language of beauty...

2009-02-21T22:09:00.000-08:00

What does it matter if we do not understand the exact meaning of the grand harmony?
Is it not like the bow player who touches a string and at once releases every resonance?
This is the language of beauty, this is the caress that comes from the heart of the world and goes straight to our hearts.

Rabindranath Tagore

divine music within you...

2009-02-21T22:05:00.000-08:00

The divine music is incessantly going on within ourselves,
but the loud senses drown the delicate music,
which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we
can perceive with our senses.

Mahatma Gandhi

you see truly...

2009-01-22T11:19:00.000-08:00

If you see the soul in every living being, you see truly.
If you see immortality in the heart of every mortal being,
you see truly.

The Bhagavad Gita

You can break free.....

2009-01-09T21:06:00.000-08:00

The energy in the world flows from God at the center, and back to God.
The sages see life as a wheel, with each individual going round and round through birth and death. Individuals remain on this wheel so long as they believe themselves to be separate;
but once they realize their unity with God, then they break free.

Svetasvatara Upanishad

we all share the sunlight...

2009-01-06T10:50:00.000-08:00

All humanity shares the sunlight; that sunlight is neither yours nor mine.
It is the life-giving energy, which we all share.
The beauty of a sunset, if you are watching it sensitively, is shared by all human beings.

Krishnamurti

we are all connected...

2009-01-04T12:12:00.000-08:00

In nature, action and reaction are continuous. Everything is connected to everything else.
No one part, nothing, is isolated. Everything is linked, and interdependent.

Everywhere everything is connected to everything else. Each question receives the correct answer.

Swami Prajnanpad

all beings are one...

2009-01-03T15:00:00.000-08:00

One drop of the sea cannot claim to come from one river, and another drop of the sea from another river; the sea is a single consistent whole. In the same way all beings are one; there is no being that does not come from the soul, and is not part of the soul.

Chandogya Upanishad

welcome everything...

2008-12-31T12:15:00.000-08:00

To find God, you must welcome everything.

Rabindranath Tagore

the Spirit that penetrates everthing

2008-12-15T19:28:00.000-08:00

In his essence, man is not a slave to himself, nor to the world; he is a lover.
His freedom and accomplishments are in love,
which is another name for perfect understanding.
In this ability to understand, in this impregnation of everything that is,
he is one with the Spirit that penetrates everything,
and that is also the breath of the soul.

Rabindranath Tagore