The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
-Swami Vivekananda
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
-Swami Vivekananda
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
I’ll wear two swords, a sword of shakti (power) and a sword of bhakti (meditation).
Other than our 'mind', what is it that we have, which we can call our own?
Everything else is gifted by nature and made usable by science. At the same
time, if you talk of joy of mind, it lies in "art". But then it is difficult to understand
that in this process, where do we feel the need for these 'so-called religions'?
-Deep Trivedi
The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-Mahatma Gandhi
If putting a 'tilak' on the forehead, wearing a holy thread on the wrist, offering
prayers five times a day or visiting a temple, mosque and church, you could
attain 'Dharma - the religion', the ultimate height of the world, then nothing is
cheaper than religion.
-Deep Trivedi
You look at it, but it is not to be seen; Its name is Formless. You listen to it, but it is not to be heard; Its name is Soundless. You grasp it, but it is not to be held; Its name is Bodiless. These three elude all scrutiny. And hence they blend and become one.
All religions exhort us to cleanse the heart of malice, greed, hate and anger. All religions hold out the gift of Grace as the prize for success in this cleaning process.