Sri Ramanuja Quotes

If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together. ~ Eboo Patel

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Don't keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Hope is man's preparation for the unknown. ~ Sri Chinmoy

The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God. ~ Sri Chinmoy

This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of mind, then only can I be of help to you. If you have peace of mind, then only can you be of help to me. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Dissolving the name is awareness.
Dissolving the form is meditation.
The world is name and form.
Bliss transcends name and form. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Person is a bubble on Time's sea. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future ~ Sri Aurobindo

But he knew he'd started reading books on Sri Lanka, because he needed to explain things, to himself and others -- because if that world, his world over there had ever made sense, it seemed far more confused when questioned from outside. ~ Pradeep Jeganathan

The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent. ~ Sri Chinmoy

What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: "I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world." All such thoughts must be thrown far away. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Your burden is of false self-identifications - abandon them all. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the Westerners call the soul. It takes interest in the movements of the mind and the vital only when there is a harmony between these movements and the truth above. The knowledge of the psychic being is deeper. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Even in Sri Lanka, the worst only happened in my imagination, I'd say, and this is so because we live on a planet where good people outnumber bad. ~ Tania Aebi

If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Hold on to your dreams, one day, it will come true. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do. ~ Sri Chinmoy

A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Of all the medicines
In the inner life,
A smile is by far
The best medecine. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Never worry about things That you are unable to change. Change your own way Of looking at truth, ~ Sri Chinmoy

Wherever you go, go with inspiration and aspiration.
Whatever you do, do with love and concern.
Whomever you see, see with purity's beauty
And responsibility's glory. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Few are those from whom the Grace withdraws, but many are those who withdraw from the Grace.

Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga, p.613 ~ Sri Aurobindo

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence. ~ Sri Aurobindo

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