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Spirituality is to awaken the Divine in one's conciousness.

 

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A spiritual relation differs from other types of relationship,

it is expected to always stand at a high level.

 

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Only one who is harmonious in body and mind can achieve

the highest development of his spiritual powers.

 

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If You own two watches You can never tell the right time.

 

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If You come too close to meYou will either melt or harden like steel,

depending what You are made of.

 

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Living spirituality is Yoga.

 

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A short concentration with feelings will bring You far more

than long meditation without feeling.

 

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The level of our mental life is determined by the type of thought that dominates it.

At a lower stage, thought can express a blindness in which darkness, indolence,

and lack of attention, intelligence or comprehension are its main features.

In an agitated state, thoughts are dominated by wishes, desires, greed or excesses.

On the other hand, in a mind intensely “mono-focal”, that is to say concentrating

on only one object, thoughts are sharp, constructive, noble, and elevated.

In reality, thoughts are an image of the man himself.

 

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One with God

Oh God! I am forever one with Thee

By the glory of birth

The celestial powers proclaim it

To the utmost bounds of the earth

I think of this birthright immortal

And my being expands like o rose

As a fragrant cloud of incense

Around and above me flows

A glorious song of rejoicing

In an innermost spirit I hear

And it sounds like heavenly voices

In a chorus divine and clear

And I feel a power uprising

Like the power of an embryo god

With a glorious wall it surrounds me

And lifts me up from the sod

On the demise of a close disciple’s mother

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No amount of sermonizing or sophistication, of intellectuality or intuition, subtlety or simplicity,

free thinking or determinism will ever bring you a step nearer the accomplishment of your object,

if that is the attainment of peace of mind, so long as there is disease in your body .

 

Jatindra Mohana (Sri Goswami’s father)

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Avatara

Who Knows the first word?

What is birth?

Is the Universe first, and the Divinity next?

Then who will know the Origin?

How the Creative Impulse arose?

Is he a creator, or not?

Was there someone where there was nothing?

Does he know the secret, or not?

There was neither Real nor Unreal

No air, no sky

Was everything covered, how, who then sustained?

Was there all water, deep, very deep?

There was neither Death nor immortality

Neither night nor day

There was only One who breathed in airless sphere

Only He who was awakened and others sleeping

There was only darkness,

Endless water with no shore,

One, possibly in void, remaining in secret

Awakened by his own tapas; it is He

It is He who is immanent in the Universe,

He who is within every living being,

Sometimes he comes out from his secret dwelling

And appears as non-man and man.

So, He became Fish, Tortoise, Boar

And Wamana, Rama, Krishna,

And others

And now in human form

Manifesting as much as necessary the Power

And imparting Wisdom

As much as human head can hold

And with the Spiritual message "manaso mano, pranasya pranah"

Mind of the mind, Life of the life

He as Truth, and reincarnated as Mother and Father of all

Our Time‘s divine manifestation

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