Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. Only then he would be able to develop integral vision.
Familiarity with books is not knowledge. One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning.
Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the real you sleeping in your heart.
When there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
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.
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
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.
