Real Teachers

If you say, 'I am a sinner', eternally, you will remain a sinner to all eternity. You ought rather to repeat, 'I am not bound, I am not bound. Who can bind me ? I am the son of God, the king of kings.' A truly religious man should think that other religions also are paths leading to truth. We should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions Money can fetch you bread alone. Do not consider it as your sole end and aim Don't find fault with anyone, not even with an insect. As you pray to God for devotion, so also pray that you may not find fault with anyone. I will give up twenty thousand such bodies to help one man. It is glorious to help even one man He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life. Seekest thou God ? Then seek Him in man ! His Divinity is manifest more in man than in any other object. Man is the greatest manifestation of God.

"You think you know but in fact you are ignorant. When you see that you know nothing about yourself then you are yourself God.“ "The Buddha and Christ saved themselves through their own efforts. Afterwards the priests got hold of the rubbish and propagated it. The priests played the fool. Each man for himself - in this spiritual business. Don't believe anyone who promises to help you. No one will help because no one can. Another may point the way but you have to do the walking." Buddha, Christ, you, I are all like bubbles in the ocean. It is God who sees as the eye behind our eye. Brahman fills us entirely. You are God. I am God. Only one - no separation. You cannot separate me from you. Don't go outside your own religion. All is in that. Events take place according to prarabdha karma. They do not affect the soul. But man, by mere habit, identifies himself with these events and becomes subject to pain and pleasure.

Wanted —Reformers Not of others but of themselves, Who have won Not university distinctions, But victory over the local self. Age —The youth of Divine joy. Salary —Godhead. Apply Sharp—With no begging solicitation but commanding decision to the Director of the Universe, Your own Self Swami Rama Tirtha People say, "First deserve and then desire." Vedanta says, "Deserve only, no need of desiring." "A stone that is fit for the wall will never be found in the way." If you deserve, by an irresistible Divine Law, everything will come to you. In the Bible, in the New Testament, St. Paul or Christ had not to ask you to take up the cross of Christ, but they say ‘take up your cross’, that is the exact wording; ‘take up your cross’, and the meaning of that is, crucify your flesh, crucify your carnality, your little self, crucify your own ego. That is the meaning of it. So the cross ought to be a symbol of crucifying our selfish interests, our little ego, our little egotistical selfish ego. You read in the Bible too: "He who would save his life must lose it." Lose this lower life and you will save the real life, that is the principle.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss. Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized. Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self. Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state. Seek the source of the ego, abide there for ever in the source and find yourself in bliss. All actions, past, present and future, become extinct in the case of a liberated one, because his sense of being the doer is gone; it was lost along with the ego, who alone was the doer.

By multiplying wants, we only increase poverty. What is essential for life and honour should be made available to all the people of the country. It is for this we want plans. Men of means should live like the poor and should not increase their wants beyond necessities. The rich should share their prosperity with the poor. This is punya, leading to salvation. The more we increase our wants, to that extent, there will be no peace or comfort and it will only produce poverty and sorrow.

Kanchi MahaSwamigal

If we engage an inquiry into the Atman, at the end of it, it will be clear that God is in us as our very self. When that stage is reached, we have no use for the devas. Then all karmas will fall away from us. But, until then, we must obligatorily do the karmas directing them to the Gods.

We see our reflections in a mirror. In a row of mirrors, thousands of reflections are seen. It is only one person who sees all these reflections. The one who resides within us and who sees all this, is God. The seer is the cause of all the seen. That cause is knowledge which is the basis of this world. Where is that knowledge? Within you, what is macroscopic is microscopic in you.