Sri Sarada Quotes

Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Peace begins when expectations end. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love.
Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom.
Between Love and Wisdom
my life continuously flows. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love is giving everything and taking nothing ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds. ~ Simon Mainwaring

In the inner life, if there is no sincerity, nothing can be achieved. And to whom are you being sincere? You are being sincere to yourself. You have a higher reality and you have a lower reality. When you become sincere, immediately you pull your lower reality up to your higher reality. Just like a magnet, your higher reality pulls up your lower reality so that it can take shelter in the higher reality. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Whatever is needed for you and your body will be taken care of, when you know this the lack will disappear from your life. When you realise ISHA permeates your everything you relax and are at ease - that is when things happen. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Even stupid people have a role to play
in your life. They make you wiser and
more patient. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

One should perform even an insignificant task with respect. ~ Sarada Devi

Not the power to conquer others
But the power to become one with others
is the ultimate power. ~ Sri Chinmoy

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

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters. ~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version. ~ Sri Chinmoy

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you. ~ Sri Chinmoy

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion. ~ Sri Aurobindo

A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders. ~ Sri Aurobindo

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 ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

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

The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith. ~ Muhammad Ali

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

Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free access to the Divine. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Precious and spacious
The aspiring heart has to remain
Always. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava. ~ Frederick Lenz

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom. ~ Sri Aurobindo

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.' ~ M.I.A.

Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else. ~ Sri Chinmoy

What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils. ~ Sri Chinmoy

to the world. God created both body and soul, and the resurrection of Jesus shows that he is going to redeem both body and soul. The work of the Spirit of God is not only to save souls but also to care and cultivate the face of the earth, the material world. It is hard to overemphasize the uniqueness of this vision. Outside of the Bible, no other major religious faith holds out any hope or even interest in the restoration of perfect shalom, justice, and wholeness in this material world. Vinoth Ramachandra, a Sri Lankan Christian writer, can see ~ Timothy J. Keller

The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good. ~ Sri Chinmoy