complete trust.

The world is not a playground it is a school room. Life is not a holiday but an education, And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can live.

There is only one thing greater than happiness in the world and that is holiness and it is not in our keeping but what God has put in our power is the happiness of those about us and that is largely to be secured by our being kind to them.

Patience, kindness, generosity, humility, courtesy, unselfishness, good temper, guilelessness, sincerity these make up the supreme gift the stature of a perfect man.

The condition of growth then and the inward principle of growth being both supplied by nature, the thing man has to do the little function left for him to complete is to apply the one to the other. He manufactures nothing he earns nothing his one duty is to be in these conditions to abide in them to allow grace to play over him to be still and know that this is God.

No one can get Joy by merely asking for it. It is one of the ripest fruits of life and like all fruits must be grown.

Baruch Spinoza.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”

“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.”

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”

“Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.”

“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.”

“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”

Ethisc.

“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”

“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter”

“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”

“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”

indefinite duration.

spinoza.

Helping others.

EACH ONE. This totality constitutes your inner and outer body. The totality of substance with which your body is built from the outermost to the innermost is a field of work. It is as though one had gathered together carefully accumulated a certain number of vibrations and put them at your disposal for you to work upon them fully. It is like a field of action constantly at your disposal night and day waking or sleeping all the time nobody can take it away from you its wonderful. You may refuse to use it(as most men do) But it is a mass to be transformed that is there in your hands fully at your disposal given to you for you to work upon it. so the most important thing is to begin by doing that. You can do nothing with others unless you are able to do it with yourself. You can never give a good advice to anyone unless you are able to give it to yourself first and to follow it. And if you see a difficult situation somewhere the best way of changing this is to change it in yourself first and it is a wonderful thing.
Its an infinite grace that this universe is arranged in such a way that there is a collection of substance from the most material to the highest spiritual all that gathered together into what is called a small individual but at the disposal of the central will. and that is yours your field of work nobody can take it away from you and to the extent you can work upon it you will be able to have an action about the world. But only to that extent. one must do more for oneself besides than one does for others.

If one sincerely wants to help others and the world the best thing we can do is to be oneself what one wants others to be. not only as an example but because one becomes a center for radiating power which by the very fact that it exists compels the rest of the world to transform itself. M

To concentrate on ones own spiritual growth and experience is the first necessity to be eager to help others draws away from the inner work to grow it the spirit is the greatest help one can give others for then something flows out naturally to those around that helps them. 

every thing is as it should be.

A says sin is merely something which is not in its right place. In this perpetual becoming nothing ever repeats itself and there are things that disappear so to speak into the past and when their disappearance becomes necessary these things become for our very limited consciousness bad and repulsive and we revolt against them because their time is over. But if we had the overall view if we could contain within ourselves the past the present and the future all at once as it is somewhere above. We would see the relativity of these things and that it is above all the progressive force of evolution that gives us the will to reject and that where ever they are in their right place they are quiet acceptable. Only it is practically impossible to have this experience unless you have the total vision. The vision that belongs to the supreme alone. Therefore you must first of all identify with the supreme then with that identification you can return to a sufficiently exteriorised consciousness and see things as they are. but that is the principle and to the extent that you are capable of realizing it you search. When you can look at everything with a smile of total certitude that everything is as it should be, 

universal anthem.

The ambience of the Jagannath temple in Puri, Odisha, today cannot even be a patch on what it would have been five centuries ago. Yet, those who stand there watching the aarti at night, the frothing sea as the fountain, swear by its breath-taking beauty. So did Guru Nanak— as he stood at the temple under a star-studded sky sometime in 1506. In a spontaneous song, Nanak expressed his deep awe at what he saw, and reverence to the “ultimate creator” whose glory, he said, could not be contained in anything humans had to offer.

He said that he had been fascinated with pilgrims prostrating on the old Jagannath road, a sight that triggered the idea to explore its history. He, along with a group of researchers and archaeologists, undertook a 14-day journey on a bullock cart .from Jagannath Haat in West Bengal’s Hoogly to the temple at Puri, a journey that turned out to be “eye-opening about the history of this route.”

the creator’s grandeur is too much to be sung with a small set of lamps and incense; the sky itself is the grand platter, the stars are the lamps, the wind is the celestial fan and the flower-filled forests are the scent.

"Gagan mein thaal, rav chand deepak bane,

Taarka mandal janak moti dhoop malay aan lao,

Pawan chavro kare sagal ban raai phulant jyoti kaisi aarti hoye,

Bhavkhandana teri aarti.anhat sabad bajant bheri kaisi aarti hoye,

Bhavkhandana teri aarti."

It  means - The entire sky is the prayer-platter, the sun and the moon are the lamps, the stars and the constellations are the pearls and jewels. The air coming from the sandal laden Malay mountain are the incense, air is the sacred fan, entire flora of the earth are the flowers..... oh... what an aarti is it of you ! o destroyer of fear !                     This is the most beautiful recitation and description of the celebration of nature of the whole Universe