1st May 2024- Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continous friction otherwise. How else could parents do their duties to their children, husbands to their wives, and vice versa? Do we not meet with cases of friction everyday in our lives? Duty …
3rd April 2024- Be brave and be sincere; then follow any path with devotion, and you must reach God. Once lay hold of one link of the chain, and the whole chain must come by degrees. Water the roots of the tree (that is, reach the Lord), and the whole tree is watered. Getting the …
3rd April 2024- Be brave and be sincere; then follow any path with devotion, and you must reach God. Once lay hold of one link of the chain, and the whole chain must come by degrees. Water the roots of the tree (that is, reach the Lord), and the whole tree is watered. Getting the …
1st March 2024- “Mother, manifested as light in all beings, we bow down to Thee!” She is equally in suffering, hunger, pleasure, sublimity. 5th March 2024- Just as a race advances, so individuals have to advance. The steps which the human race has taken to reach to the highest pinnacles of religious thought, every individual …
1st February 2024- I am Ramakrishna’s slave, having laid my body at his feet “with Til and Tulasi leaves.” That great sage laid down his life after having attained to superhuman heights of jñāna, bhakti, love, and powers, and after having practiced forty years stern renunciation, non-attachment, holiness, and great austerities. I trust his words …
1st February 2024- I am Ramakrishna’s slave, having laid my body at his feet “with Til and Tulasi leaves.” That great sage laid down his life after having attained to superhuman heights of jñāna, bhakti, love, and powers, and after having practiced forty years stern renunciation, non-attachment, holiness, and great austerities. I trust his words …
3rd January 2024- Learn to help without pitying or feeling that there is any misery. Learn to be the same to enemy and to friend; then when you can do that and no longer have any desire, the goal is attained. 5th January 2024- We have to realize the teachings Sri Ramakrishna has given us …
5th December 2023- The term “duty,” like every other universal abstract term, is impossible clearly to define. We can only get an idea of it by knowing its practical operations and results. 7th December 2023- As we struggle through the paths of life, there will come a time when we shall become perfectly unselfish; and …
5th December 2023- The term “duty,” like every other universal abstract term, is impossible clearly to define. We can only get an idea of it by knowing its practical operations and results. 7th December 2023- As we struggle through the paths of life, there will come a time when we shall become perfectly unselfish; and …
1st November 2023- I am a very soft-natured man in spite of the stern Vedantic views I hold. And this proves to be my undoing. At the slightest touch, I give myself away. For, howsoever I may try to think only of my own good, I slip off in spite of myself to think of …