Daily Hindu Wisdom

[Green Gaia]

With clear and steady insight
He sees this world is a mirage,
And he no longer wonders about it.

How can he fear the approach of death?


-Ashtavakra Gita 3:11

 

[Green Gaia]

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

-Mohandas Gandhi

 

[Green Gaia]

Like oil in sesame seeds, like butter
In cream, like water in springs, like fire
In firesticks, so dwells the Lord of Love,
The Self, in the very depths of consciousness.
Realize him through truth and meditation.

-Shvetashvatara Upanishad

 

[Green Gaia]

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

-Ramakrishna

 

[Green Gaia]

When consciousness is unified...all vain anxiety is left behind. There is no cause for worry, whether things go well or ill. Therefore, devote yourself to the disciplines of yoga, for yoga is skill in action.

-Bhagavad Gita 2:50

 

[Green Gaia]

Of what purpose is longstanding fellowship
If friends' familiar actions are not accepted as one's own?

Familiar with familiarity, the wise are not annoyed
When friends do things without asking.


-Tirukkural 81:803-804

 

[Green Gaia]

How you have toiled,
Life after life,
Pressing into painful labor
Your body and your mind and your words.

It is time to stop.

Now!



-Ashtavakra Gita 10:8

 

[Green Gaia]

If given with love, a handful is sufficient.


-Telugu Proverb

 

[Green Gaia]

The Self cannot be known through study
Of the scriptures, nor through the intellect,
Nor through hearing learned discourses.
The Self can be attained only by those
Whom the Self chooses. Verily unto them
Does the Self reveal himself.

-Katha Upanishad

 

[Green Gaia]

The point is to love God even as the mother loves her child, the chaste wife her husband, and the worldly man his wealth. Join together these three forces of love, these three powers of attraction, and direct them all to God. Then you will certainly see him.

-Ramakrishna

 

[Green Gaia]

This supreme Lord who pervades all existence, the true Self of all creatures, may be realized through undivided love.

-Bhagavad Gita 8:22

 

[Green Gaia]

Men who conduct themselves virtuously
Are incapable of voicing harmful words, even forgetfully.


-Tirukkural 14:139

 

[Green Gaia]

Sooner or later
Fortune or misfortune
May befall you.

When you know this,
You desire nothing,
You grieve for nothing.
Subduing the senses,
You are happy.


-Ashtavakra Gita 11:3

 

[Green Gaia]

Love can’t be hid by hiding.


-Indian Proverb

 

[Green Gaia]

To be united with the Lord of Love
Is to be freed from all conditioning.
This is the state of Self-realization,
Far beyond the reach of words and thoughts.

To be united with the Lord of Love,
Imperishable, changeless, beyond cause
And effect, is to find infinite joy.
Brahman is beyond all duality,
Beyond the reach of thinker and of thought.

-Tejabindu Upanishad

 

[Green Gaia]

If you want to be a true doer of divine works, your first aim must be to be totally free from all desire and self-regarding ego. All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme; your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfill, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works. You must grow in the divine consciousness till there is no difference between your will and hers, no motive except her impulsion in you, no action that is not her conscious action in you and through you.

-Sri Aurobindo

 

[Green Gaia]

Make your mind one-pointed in meditation, and your heart will be purified...With all fears dissolved in the peace of the Self and all desires dedicated to Brahman, controlling the mind and fixing it on me (God), sit in meditation with me as your only goal. With senses and mind constantly controlled through meditation, united with the Self within, an aspirant attains nirvana, the state of abiding joy and peace in me.

-Bhagavad Gita 6:12-15

 

[Green Gaia]

Food, clothing and such are not much different among people,
It is modesty that distinguishes good men from others.


-Tirukkural 102:1012

 

[Green Gaia]

For pleasures come and go.
How often I have watched their inconstancy!

But I have forsaken good and bad,
And now I am happy.


-Ashtavakra Gita 13:7

 

[Green Gaia]

Love is all important and its own reward.


-Tamil Proverb