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Abundance 
1. When everything is in abundance, dspassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.

Attachments
1. Your non-attachment to the mundane is your charm, Your attachment to the Divine is your beauty.
2. When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team.
 
Beauty 
1. Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person.
2. Beauty is a personal phenomenon. Something happens in you - an exclamation, a wave rising in the ocean - that blows the mind away. If it were not personal, it could not be divine. The divine is always personal.
3. When you are filled with joy, when you have blossomed in love, only then can you appreciate beauty.
4. Once beauty is awakened in one's heart, it spreads throughout the three bodies: gross, subtle and causal. It is the whisper of pure consciousness tapping the source, bring with the source. From there waves of beauty, waves of bliss are created at all levels of existence.
5. Just wake up and see that you are beautiful. The innocence in you is so beautiful. The dance in you is so beautiful.
 
Bliss
1. Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.
2. The Divine has given you all the small pleasures in the world but has kept bliss to Himself. To get the highest Bliss, you have to go to Him and Him alone.
 
Celebrations
1. When you start celebration from inside, it adds worth to the celebration. But the out to in approach leaves some shallow. Celebrate each moment within and without.
2. Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.
 
Comfort
1. Make others comfortable and you will see that Nature will take care of your comfort.
 
Devotion 
1. Through knowledge and devotion, transcend all Karma and be free.
2. A sign of intelligence is devotion and surrender.
3. Devotion is ultimate love, the pinnacle of love.
 
Divine
1. Let go of all efforts, search and desires, for He can be felt only in deep peace and stillness.
2. Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky - limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky.
3. Like birds returning to their nests, again and again come back to your Source; only there can you realise that you host the Divine.
4. Make your desires bigger. Desire for the highest. Don't go for anything smaller than that. Then Divine love dawns in you.
5. Attainment of the Divine depends on the intensity of longing and not on the time or qualification.
6. Knowledge prepares us to dive into devotion. Only Divine love brings fulfillment.
7. Every soul on this earth is divine. You need to realise it.
8. Be aware of the grace, of the love and of the joy that the divine is pouring on you every minute. As a seeker, be firm in your commitment to the practice of yoga, pranayama, meditation, and chanting.
9. Make the Divine your Valentine. Just Be.And know that you are loved. That is Beloved.
10. Attainment of the Divine depends on the intensity of longing and not on the time or qualification.
 
Dynamism
1. Patience in the mind and Dynamism in action is the right formula.
 
Enlightenment
1. Being in a crowd when you are alone is ignorance. Enlightenment is being alone in a crowd; a feeling of oneness in a crowd.
2. In a state of ignorance, imperfection is natural and perfection is an effort. In a state of enlightenment, imperfection is an effort and perfection is unavoidable.
 
Faith 
1. Faith in the self, faith in the Master, in the Divine, faith in the infinite order of things, faith in that Love- this is "Shradhaa".
2. Faith is giving the Divine a chance to act.
3. Have faith in the Divine and you will evolve.
4. Faith in the world brings you peace of mind. Faith in God evokes love in you.
5. In faith you can transcend the laws of nature, but it needs to be pure.
 
Freedom
1. You are free. You are the infinite space. The craving to be free is itself another bondage.
2. The moment you sing in gratitude, in glory of the Divine, it immediately dawns in you and fills you up again.
3. You are free right now.
4. There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
5. Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love.
 
Fulfilment
1. Though the river is vast, a little sip quenches your thirst. Though Earth has so much food, just a little bite satisfies your hunger. Accept a tiny bit of everything in life - that will bring you fulfillment.
 
Generosity 
1. Feel generous.
2. When you feel generous, your life becomes abundant, full of compassion and love.
 
God 
1. God is so generous, so universal, belongs to everybody, the whole creation, all the time, there is no personal connection and love may not happen. In a guru, you can't help but see that love, yet you cannot hold on to it. Through the guru you see the personal; you find the bridge between the personal and the infinite.
2. Listening to God is meditation! And asking from God is Prayer!
3. Expression of love is service, expression of joy is your smile, expression of peace is meditation, expressing God is conscious action.
4. Prayer within breath Is silence, and GOD is nothing but solidified silence.
5. God loves you. That is enough. And, you are love. That is enough!
 
Grateful 
1. Feel infinitely indebted for your body, for knowledge, for the things you have received, for your own life. Then you will bask in the abundance of the Creator.
2. Feel grateful for your very existence, your very body, and all that you have, and all the love you have received. And this gratefulness will bring you a flood of prosperity, joy, and happiness.
 
Guru
1. A Guru will put you into your Self, make you reach the goal - not just tell you some techniques and show you some path.
2. When you can see the whole world through the eyes of the Master, it is a sign that you have come to the Master.
3. A Guru does not simply stuff you with knowledge, but He kindles life force in you.
4. In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest.
5. When you are part of the Master, you have every right to be happy. You have every right to Knowledge, Happiness and the whole Universe.
 
Happiness
1. Be happy: devoid of sorrow.
2. Happiness is when you want nothing, and you want to give. Where the wanting and desires end, and the sharing begin, happiness is exactly there.
3. Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.
4. In joy, in peace, in that soothing-very soothing-inner state, you will find happiness.
5. The best form of worship (puja) is to be happy, is to be grateful
 
Harmony 
1. When the heart speaks and the heart listens, harmony is produced.
 
Innocence
1. Unconditionally creation loves you, supports you and holds you in its arms because it is all innocence. This entire creation is innocence. When you realize this, when you become innocent, you can be one with this kingdom.
2. In the present moment, we are all innocent. Wake up.
3. When the mind transcends the senses, it comes back to its true nature, which is innocence - 'in no sense'.
4. In the present moment, we are all innocent. Wake up.
 
Jaigurudev
1. Jai Gurudev means victory to the greatness in you, victory to the big mind in you that is both dignified and playful.
 
Knowledge
1. Just one spark of beauty in wakefulness, in the awakened state, manifests as knowledge, as wisdom.
2. Love is the appetizer, knowledge is the main course and seva is the exercise. Without love and seva, knowledge becomes indigestible.
3. Being devoted is not sufficient. But knowing you are an indivisible, inseparable part of the Divine is Knowledge.
4. The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality.
5. For one who has awakened in knowledge, there is no more suffering. The world appears completely different. For him every inch of this creation is filled with bliss, is a part of the Self.
 
Life 
1. Like a lit candle can light another candle, only one who has, can give. One who is free can free you; one who is love can kindle the Love.
2. Living in a finite body and expressing infinity is the possibility of human life.
3. The whole life is Sadhana. Doing Pooja and other rituals are important but one should also celebrate whole life as sadhana.
4. When you consider Life as sacred,Nature waits on you
5. Creation is anxious to fulfill your desires when you are hollow and empty.
 
Longing
1. Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation, for the longing in you is God.
2. Attainment of the Divine depends on the intensity of longing and not on the time or qualification.
3. Desire is fever of the head, longing is the cry of the heart.
4. Longing brings a sense of pain. To avoid the pain, you try to push away the longing. The skill is to bear the pain of longing and move on. Do not make the longing short - that’s why it is called Longing.
5. Longing for worldly things makes you inert, longing for infinity fills you with life.
 
Love
1. Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky - limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky.
2. Love is the ultimate flowering, and you cannot force it to happen. It is a gift to you; again, it's a gift to you. It is a happening, a spontaneous phenomenon.
3. God is peace, joy and love. Being in love is sharing that love
4. Faith in the self, faith in the Master, in the Divine, faith in the infinite order of things, faith in that Love- this is "Shradhaa".
5. Like a lit candle can light another candle, only one who has, can give. One who is free can free you; one who is love can kindle the Love.
 
Master
1. When you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins.
2. The key is to feel the presence of the Master. The Master is the Presence, not a relationship.
3. A Master is like an ocean. The ocean is there, readily available. It does not reject anybody. Whatever you want, you take from it, and the ocean is there, offering itself to you.
4. The moments you are in the company of Knowledge - the Master, are the most precious moments in your life.
5. When you feel so much oneness with the Master that you don't feel any separation between you, the Master and the Divine, then that is Divine Love.
 
Meditation 
1. Seeing love inside you that is meditation
2. A mind that has become no mind, and has come back to its source, is meditation.
3. Faith is the subject of head, Devotion is the subject of heart and Meditation connects both
4. A mature intellect is devoted; a mature heart is full of knowledge. Meditation matures your intellect as well as your heart.
5. Seva brings merit; merit allows you to go deeper in meditation; Meditation brings back your smile.
 
Mind
1. When a tiny atom explodes the radiation lasts a long time. The mind is more subtle than one-millionth of an atom. When the mind explodes, that is enlightenment.
2. When your mind is not complaining and is responsible, courageous, confident and hollow and empty. You are inexpiicably beautiful.
3. Inside you are both Big Mind and the Small Mind. The Being is only One. So when the mind recognizes this oneness, the mind disappears.
4. Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind.
5. One whose mind is turned inward is ever in Bliss.
 
Nature
1. Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
2. When you know and trust the process of creation, you will simply rejoice.
 
Patience
1. Patience in the mind and Dynamism in action is the right formula.
 
Relationships
1. The love that is defined by a relationship is limited. Dive deep in a love that is beyond relationships.
2. This is the ultimate relationship: When you can relate to your Self 100%. Then any face you look at, there is love, there is charm, there is beauty.
3. Welcoming is essential for expansion and growth, and resistance is essential for maintenance.
4. Only the presence of the Master will bring fulfillment to your life and to all your relationships.
5. The presence of the Master in one's life will bring fulfillment to all relationships. Every relationship will become complete with the presence of infinity, of the Master, in your life.
 
Respect
1. Have respect for your Self and no one can take away your self respect.
 
Responsibility
1. Responsibility is the dynamic expression of life in the present moment.
2. Unlimited responsibility empowers and brings you joy.
3. Total responsibility is total surrender. This is the Truth.
4. Responsibility is whatever is within your power to do.
5. Always know that the Divine never gives you a responsibility you cannot fulfil.
 
Sadhana
1. Sadhana is the real currency that you can use anywhere.
 
Smadhi
1. Being completely immersed in the mystery of life and creation is Samadhi.
 
Satsang 
1. The company of the Truth - Satsang is the resting place for the mind and the spirit
 
Self
1. In your innermost Self - in its purity and clarity - you are not different from God.
2. Finding the ever-present Self inside makes everything truly joyful.
3. Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious.
4. Everything is already happening in the Self, by the Self, with the Self, for the Self. That is total freedom.
5. Just wake up and see that you are beautiful. The innocence in you is so beautiful. The dance in you is so beautiful.
 
Seva
1. Expression of love is service, expression of joy is your smile, expression of peace is meditation, expressing God is conscious action.
2. When seva is made part of your nature, it happens without doership.
3. Be grateful for any opportunity to do Seva.
4. Service without attitude, love without reason, knowledge without intellect, life beyond time and events is what you are.
5. See God in the person next to you, that is service.
 
Silence
1. Soul to soul communication is silence.
2. Deep silence is the mother of creativity. No creativity can come out of one who is too busy, worried, over-ambitious or lethargic.
3. Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence
4. Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss.
 
Sincerity
1. Sincerity is being in touch with your depth.
 
Smile
1. The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile.
2. Expression of love is service, expression of joy is your smile, expression of peace is meditation, expressing God is conscious action.
3. " When you wake up every morning, look into a mirror and give yourself a good smile. The smile is the sacred gift of life."
4. Make your smile cheaper and your anger expensive.
 
Spirit
1. The body is the wick of the candle, the spirit is the glow. Recognise the spirit.
 
Spirituality
1. Curiosity is the mother of science; Wonder is the mother of spirituality.
2. To grow in unconditional love and in beauty is spirituality.
3. The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source is a spiritual practice.
 
Surrender
1. A sign of intelligence is devotion and surrender.
2. When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team.
3. Surrender is not an act, it is a state of your being.
4. Surrendering and taking responsibility without doership is the skill of the wise.
5. When you take responsibility and you find blocks, remember Surrender.
 
Time
1. Like weather, time has its own impact on you. Your sadhana and satsang are your shield, your protection.
2. Realize that you are more than time and that you can move through time with your timeless connection to the Divine.
 
Truth
1. That which is changeless is “Truth” that which changes is an illusion. Illusion does not mean non-existence, but it is ever changing.
2. Wake up and see that everything is changing. This is Truth. This one principle of Truth can save you.
3. Truth is hidden by the Golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know thatyou are the Sun.
4. Love is that which you cannot fully express or hide. Beauty is that which you cannot possess or renounce. Truth is that which you cannot avoid.
 
Wisdom
1. The moment you feel the connection from your side, just know that you are already connected; otherwise you won't even come near this Knowledge, this path.
2. Often one does not even know why one is in a hurry. It almost becomes a biological phenomenon to be in a rush. Wake up and become aware of the rush in you!
3. Smiling with all the Existence is silence!
4. Letting go of all actions, let us repose in Knowledge. Knowing what we know is insignificant and what we do not know is enormous, repose in faith.
5. Love within Infinity Is silence.
 
Yoga
1. Yoga takes you close to your true nature. Yoga with its techniques helps you to harmonize with nature. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace.
2. Abiding in the nature of the seer is Yoga.
3. The wave uniting with its depth is yoga.
4. Withdraw your senses from the object to its source, then the union happens, then the yoga happens. You look at something beautiful---now, take your attention from that something to the feeling of beauty that is arising in you. When you can appreciate beauty in every inch of the creation that is Yoga.
5. Wonder is the basis of yoga, the preface.
 
 

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