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Intellect ,Love and God
Well I use to wonder what is the need for intellect in Spirituality ?God is supreme and we need to reach him in our own ways .But yes there is a need to use some reasoning or intellect in finding … Continue reading
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Positive Spirit
There were 2 men one who was intensely meditating under a tree and another who was singing hymns with lot of devotion. Suddenly an angel appeared to the man who was meditating.The man asked angel to ask God when he … Continue reading
There is a danger of our religion entering into the kitchen. We are neither Vedantists, nor Pauranics, nor Tantrics. We are just “Don’t-touchists”. Our religion is in the kitchen. Our God is the cooking-pot, and our religion is, “Don’t touch … Continue reading
Greatest Sin
“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak” ~Swami Vivekananda
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Contentment is the secret of happinesss
As long as we need something else for happiness,we are beggars. Swami Vivekananda.
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Karma Yoga
The Ideal man is he who ,in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude ,finds the intensest activity,and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.He has learnt the secret of restraint,he … Continue reading
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Karma
Our tears and our smiles,our joys and our griefs,our weeping and our laughter,our curses and our blessings,our praises and our blames-every one of these we may find,if we calmly study our own selves,to have been brought out from within ourselves … Continue reading
God is now here
While Swami Vivekananda was addressing a gathering, one atheist walked up to him and said that “God is no where”.Vivekananda smiled and asked that gentleman to write the same statement on the board. Then Vivekananda walked up to that board … Continue reading
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The sound we hear when we stand on a beach is not the sound of a single wave hitting the shore,but the sum total of all the minute waves which make up the bigger waves. Like wise,every major event or … Continue reading