Rumi: God’s Decree
When God’s decree becomes your pleasure, you become a willing slave, not because of burdening yourself, not on account of recompense, but by virtue of the nature now so pure that wherever divine edict...
Category: Mystic Trail
Yogananda: Do not become discouraged ever
You must try to rise above these changing scenes. Do not become discouraged when people strike you. You must remember to control yourself. Don’t talk too much. Those who talk too much are liable...
Utility Of Honesty in Trade by K.B. Khushalani
Bringing to you Late Shri K. B. Khushalani’s essay UTILITY OF HONESTY IN TRADE. Priced two annas, when it was published in 1936, this essay was awarded a Gold Medal based on an All India competition held in 1934. Readers will find that the essay is as relevant today as it was then.
Upanishad: Signs of progress in meditation
Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation. – Shvetashvatara Upanishad
Yogananda: Most are dreaming this Nightmare
This world may be a play to God but it is death to us. How few will wake from this dream! Most people are dreaming this nightmare. It is not easy to get out...
Rumi: The River and The Ocean
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. ~ Rumi
St. Catherine: About the transformation of soul
When the soul is naughted and transformed . . . she is so full of peace that though she press her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing comes forth from them than...
Yogananda: Soul Nervousness
There is a common form of nervousness: soul nervousness. The soul is so identified with the body that it has forgotten its real nature. Soul nervousness can be destroyed only by meditation—by transferring the...