Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the real you sleeping in your heart.
I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added lustre.
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
Now you worship His Form, you repeat His name; ignoring His orders. Without practicing the discipline laid down by Rama to purify the mind, all else is mere show, empty rituals.
The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
Familiarity with books is not knowledge. One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning.
When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has travelled only from himself to himself.
