Mata Amrtanandamayi Quotes

Who is Mata Amrtanandamayi

Mata Amrtanandamayi is Born 27 September 1953, from kerala, India., Very famous spiritual leader , known to most people simply as "Amma")

Mata Amrtanandamayi Quotes

1)    In this universe it is love that binds everything together. Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life.

2)    Is God a Man or a Woman ? The answer to this question is neither---- God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.

3)    Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

4)    O Divine Spirit, do You see me here? May your starry hands shower grace upon me-the strength to keep remembering You and the sorrow to keep calling You, my only refuge and comfort. Blissful, oh beautiful is your Divine World! Lift me to your world of a million twinkling stars!

5)    Only when goodness awakens within, will one's personality and actions gain beauty and strength.

6)    Serving the world with love and cooperation, you will find your own true Self. As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away, and without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.

7)    The Divine is present in everyone, in all beings, in everything. Like space it is everywhere, all pervading, all powerful, all knowing. The Divine is the principle of Life, the inner light of consciousness, and pure bliss-----. It is our very own Self.

8)    The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.

9)    When love overflows and is expressed through every word & deed, we call it Compassion. That is the goal of religion.

10) "Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that."

11) "Our duty towards God is compassion and love towards the poor and needy."

12) "Beware; your actions in the present determine your future."

13) "All your problems arise because you don't stand firm within your Self."

Sri Sri Ravishankar quotes

1. "Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.Rely on your Self; self-reliance" 

2. "Faith is realizing that you always get what you need." 

3. "why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives." 

4. "Have "eternal wait," infinite patience. When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through practice you reach the same spot." 

5. "Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better" 

6. "Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them." 

7. "Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn." 

Mahavira Quotes

Mahavira (599 BCE–527 BCE), also known as Vardhamana, was the twenty-fourth and last tirthankara of Jainism. Therefore, although Mahavira is widely regarded as the founder of Jainism, he is more properly regarded as a reformer of Jainism. Mahavira was born into a royal family in what is now Bihar, India.

Humility is of five kinds: humility in faith, in knowledge, in conduct, in penance, and in decorum or etiquette.These lead to liberation.

Humility is the foundation of the Jain faith.The practice of self-restraint and austerity should make one humble and modest.To a person who is not humble , righteousness and austerity are of no avail.

Learning tempered with humility is beneficial in this world and the next.Just as a plant cannot grow without water, learning will not be fruitful without humility.

Study of scriptures (Svadhyaya) is of five kinds: 1. Reading of scriptural texts, 2. Questioning, 3. Repitition, 4. pondering over and 5. narration of religious discourses opening with auspicious praise(of Jina).

He who studies scriptures with devotion and without any desire for personal praise and honour but for purging of his karmic pollution will have the benefit of scriptural knowledge which conduces to happiness.

A monk devoted to penance and and desirous of practising meditation should neither have attraction for pleasant objects of senses nor rejection for unpleasant sense objects.

It is not possible to describe the state of liberation as it transcends verbal expression.Nor is there the possibility of argument as no mental activity is possible.There is no pride as it is devoid of all the blemishes of the mind.Having transcended pleasure and pain even the knowledge of the seventh hell does not cause melancholy.

Where there is neither pain nor pleasure,neither suffering nor obstacle, neither birth nor death, there is emancipation(Nirvana).

The wise man should not conceal the meaning of a scriptural text nor should he distort it.He should not harbour pride nor a tendency to self-display.He should not make fun of anyone nor bestow words of blessing on anyone.

By knowledge one understands the nature of substances, by faith one believes in them, by conduct one puts an end to the flow of karmas, and by austerity one attains purity.

Those who take wholesome and healthy food, in lesser quantity, never fall sick and do not need the services of a physician.They are their own physicians.They remain engaged in their internal purification.

One should practise Dharma before old age creeps up, the senses become feeble and one falls a prey to all kinds of diseases.(For, it will not be possible to practise Dharma later with a feeble and incompetent body.)

Death takes away the man who uselessly thinks,"I have this and I have not that, this I must do and this I should not do".Why then should a person be indolent?

An indolent person can never be happy and a lethargic person can never acquire knowledge.A person with attachments cannot acquire renunciation and a person who is violent cannot be compassionate.

Pride, anger, carelessness, illness and idleness are the five obstacles in the path of acquiring knowledge.

Anger spoils good relations, pride destroys humility, deceit destroys amity and greed destroys everything.

Conquer anger by forgiveness, pride by humility, deceit by straight-forwardness and greed by contentment.

The nights that pass by will never return.They bear no fruit for him who does not abide by Dharma.

The soul is the begetter of both happiness and sorrow, it is its own friend when it treads the path of righteousness and its own enemy when it treads the forbidden path.

A person who speaks the truth becomes trustworthy like a mother, venerable like a preceptor, and dear to everyone like a kinsman.

Truthfulness is the abode of austerity, self-restraint and all other virtues.Indeed, truthfulness is the source of all noble qualities as the ocean is that of the fish.

If there were numberless mountains of gold and silver as big as mount Kailasha, they would not satisfy an avaricious man; for avarice is boundless like the sky.

Bodhidharma Quotes

Bodhidharma Quotes

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.

You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.

As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Your mind is nirvana.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Sathya Sai Quotes

1.   The greatest fear man can have is the fear of losing GOD's Love.

2.   Too much food results in dullness of mind.

3.   A language is as sweet as the tongues of the speakers.

4.   Every experience that is drawn through any of the senses has an effect on one's health.

5.   Love all beings; that is enough.

6.   Discipline is the mark of intelligent living

7.   When calamity approaches, discrimination departs.

8.   A man's well-being depends upon his degree of contentment. 

9.   God is all Names and all forms.

10.               Follow the Master, face the devil, fight to the end, finish the game.

11.               Real happiness lies within you.

12.               All things in creation are subject to the law of change, and man, too, is subject to this law.

13.               Renunciation is the power of battling against evil forces and holding the mind in check.

14.               The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

15.               God is not to be spoken of as coming down or going up, since HE is everywhere.

16.               Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

17.               What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man?  It is Love, Love for all humanity.

18.               Each man carries his destiny in his own hands.

19.               Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.

20.               Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

21.               Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

God and Faithful Quotes

When I cannot understand my Father’s leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful—Only wait.

– A.B. Simpson

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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

-Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865)

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If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

-Winston Churchill, (1874 - 1965)

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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."

- Eleanor Roosevelt, (1884-1962)

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"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

- Helen Keller, (1880-1968)

Spirituality and Love

Within every love story hides the wooing of the gods and goddesses. This is one area of life where the practical meets the mythical. For many people the experience of romantic love is their first experience of spirituality, although they may not know it.

The First Stage of Love: Attraction

The Law of Attraction states, “To be attractive, you have to be authentic.” What makes a person attractive? The wisdom traditions tell us that attraction first and foremost comes from naturalness. Nothing is more beautiful than naturalness.

The Second Stage of Love: Infatuation

This law states that infatuation exists to open the door to a deeper, transcendent reality. Infatuation happens when the attraction between two people is so intense that it transports them beyond ordinary perception and the ordinary world becomes enchanted.

The Third Stage of Love: Communion

The Law of Communion says that communion is contact of soul with soul. Communion is the sharing of spirit. Therefore, communion is the basis of trust. In this stage, lovers move into territory of the unknown, taking from each other what they did not possess alone.

The Fourth Stage of Love: Intimacy

The law of Intimacy states that in true intimacy flesh merges with flesh, and spirit with spirit. In intimacy, sexual energy and spiritual energy are recognized as one. Sexual energy is seen as the creative energy of the universe.

The Fifth Stage of Love: Surrender and Non-Attachment

The Law of Surrender says that losing yourself in another person is the best way to find your true self. Surrender is the result of relinquishing the ego’s last claims to separation. Surrender and non-attachment open the door to the miraculous, because miracles exist outside the realm of I, me, and mine.

The Sixth Stage of Love: Passion

The Law of Passion says that higher reality is experienced in the merging of the masculine and the feminine in one’s own being. Passion for life and passion in love are the same thing. This is because life, in its essence, is love.

The Seventh Stage of Love: Ecstasy

The Law of Ecstasy says that ecstasy is our original state. This is where we come from, the Garden of Eden, the state of grace to which we shall one day return. Ecstasy is the final stage of intimacy with spirit that flows through love.