Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.

– Neem Karoli Baba

If, thinking to gain praise, honour, or respect, or to achieve a good
rebirth or to win salvation, or to escape pain, a man sins against earth
or causes or permits others to do so he will not gain joy or wisdom

Injury to the earth is equivalent to striking, cutting, maiming, or killing a blind man.
Knowing this, man should not sin against earth or cause or permit others to
do so. He who understands the nature of sin against earth is called a true sage
who understands karma. . . – Angas (Jain Quote)
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Angas
(sanskrit) The eight limbs of yoga. These are yama (abstinences), niyama
(observances), asana (postures for meditation), pranayama (breath control for
meditation), pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), dharana (concentration),
dhyana (meditation), and samadhi (contemplation).

Make four resolutions about your life hereafter and live in joy.

1. Practise Purity – Desist from wicked thoughts, bad habits and mean activities that weaken your self-respect.

2. Do Service – Serve others, for they are the reflections of the same entity of which you yourself are another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity on your own, except with reference to your Creator, the Lord.

3. See Mutuality – Feel always the kinship with all creation. See the same current flowing through all objects in the Universe.

4. Live in Truth – Do not deceive yourself or others by distorting your experience.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Guru-Disciple Relationship

God does not talk directly to you. He manifests
Himself to you through the channel of a guru and the
guru’s teachings. Disciples are those who allow
themselves to be fully disciplined by the channel.

–Paramahansa Yogananda, “Self-Realization Magazine”

Divine Love

Develop the love of God so that I see in your eyes
that you are drunk with God and not asking, “When
will I have God?” When you ask that, you are not a
devotee. The devotee says: “I have Him, He is listening
to me; my Beloved is always with me. He is moving my
hands; He is digesting my food; He is gazing at me
through the stars.”

–Paramahansa Yogananda, Lecture

All my questions have been answered, not through
man but through God. He is, He is. It is His spirit that
talks to you through me. It is His love that I speak of.
Thrill after thrill! Like gentle zephyrs His love comes
over the soul. Day and night, week after week, year
after year, it goes on increasing–you don’t know where
the end is. And that is what you are seeking, every one
of you. You think you want human love and prosperity,
but behind these it is your Father who is calling you. If
you realize He is greater than all His gifts, you will find
Him.

–Paramahansa Yogananda, “The Divine Romance”

The Divine is present in man like the unseen thread which holds a garland together. The entire cosmos is permeated by the Divine and is the visible manifestation of the Divine. Consider yourselves the children of one mother and belonging to the family of humanity. Do not give room for differences of race, creed and nationality. Believe firmly that all belong to the caste of humanity, follow the religion of love and speak the language of the heart. Water is called by different names in different languages. Likewise God is one, whatever name you call Him by, be it Allah, Jesus, Buddha or Rama – have that faith. Develop this universal outlook and don’t criticize any religion.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba