To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
If we sincerely want to become a liberated person, then we have to be willing to be independent in a world where so few truly think for themselves.
Mantras purify us and lift us to a higher state of awareness… Chanting also has significant effect on our bodies and minds. Like everything in this universe, our body is made up of vibrating energy.
The jiva or living being is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
Not knowing the consequence of good and evil karmas, he is afflicted and hurt. Nevertheless, he, due to his egotism, piles up karmas and undergoes births and deaths again and again.
