Learning from Life

When caught in a traffic jam, the driver has to stay on, co passengers can walk away. In life too remember that they will be situations when you cannot walk away because you are the driver. You have to be around because only you can drive to a solution.

- Banyan Thought Tree

Marriage

"A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.”

- Chanakya, Prime Minister to Maurya Emperor Chandragupta

Realization

He who carries out his activities without attachment, attributing the agency of the actions to Prakriti (Nature) is untouched by them as a lotus leaf is unaffected by water.

-Srimad Bhagavad Gita

Realization

The senses are subtle and powerful. The mind is higher than the senses and the intellect is higher than the mind, and what is higher than the intellect is the Self. Realizing thus the Self by the control of the senses and the purification of the intellect, annihilate this formidable foe, Desire.

-Srimad Bhagavad Gita

Realization

Raja Yoga is linking oneself with God through mental concentration. God realization can be attained through Bakthi (Devotion) and Gyan (Knowledge) as well. All paths when pursued with sincerity lead to the Supreme.

-Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Realization

Atman(Soul)

Atman is the ruler of the body and is internal; the body is the ruled and is external.Yet people see these two as one ! What else can be called ignorance but this? Atman is all consciousness and holy; the body is all flesh and impure. Yet people see these two as one! What else can be called ignorance but this?

-Sri Sankaracharya

Realization

Scientists have discovered that matter is nothing but a manifestation of cosmic energy. So there exists a single cosmic energy or force which is infinite in capacity and takes on the form of matter under certain conditions. Our holy scriptures( Vedas) also make the same assertion.

-Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji (Jagadguru)