Sri Babaji Quotes

To follow the crowd Is to miss The destination. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry. ~ Sri Chinmoy

When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Begin with perfecting your daily life. That's the way to perfection. ~ Sri M

What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest. ~ Sri Chinmoy

No Man lives who has not seen some of his prayers granted. ~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth ~ Sri Chinmoy

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. - ~ Sri Chinmoy

God's foremost treasure on earth
Is my ever-blossoming
Gratitude-heart. ~ Sri Chinmoy

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Cultivate love within you and all your negative emotions will soon disappear. ~ Sri Avinash Do

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom). ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A mind in the present moment is meditation. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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 ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
~Sri Ramana Maharshi..** ~ ~Sri Ramana Maharshi..**

If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Do your practice and all is coming. ~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries. ~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

The only necessity in this sadhana is to open yourself to the Divine Force; if one is open the necessary understanding or knowledge will come of itself through spiritual experience.

Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Himself and the Ashram, p.448 ~ Sri Aurobindo

In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year. ~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

You have no idea
How much you do for mankind
When you love God unconditionally
Even for a fleeting moment. ~ Sri Chinmoy

The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Walk lightly on this # planet and yet leave such a # footprint that cannot be erased for thousands of years! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar