The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realise you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
(Source: slychedelic, via aristela)
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
There is nothing to practise. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.
God can be felt and experienced only in the deepest depths of silence.
1. Ahimsa- Do not harm.
2. Satya- Do not lie.
3. Asteya- Do not steal.
4. Brahmacharya- Do not overindulge.
5. Aparigraha- Do not be greedy.
6. Saucha- Be clean.
7. Santosha- Be content.
8. Tapas- Be self-disciplined.
9. Svadhyaya- Be studious.
10. Ishvara Pranidhana- Surrender to God.
(via thehindublog)
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
(Source: journalofanobody, via the-spiritual-explorer)
Haridwar - August 2007
(via connectwithin)
A vegetarian diet helps to open the inner man to the outer person and brings forth higher consciousness. Eating meat, fish and fowl opens the doors to lower consciousness. It’s as simple as that. A vegetarian diet creates the right chemistry for spiritual life. Other diets create a different chemistry, which affects your endocrine glands and your entire system all day long. A vegetarian diet helps your system all day long. Food is chemistry, and chemistry affects consciousness; and if our goal is higher consciousness, we have to provide the chemistry that evokes it.
~ Lesson 26 from Living with Siva
