करनी बिन कथनी कथै, अज्ञानी दिन रात।

कूकर सम भूकत फिरै, सुनी सुनाई बात॥

Kabir Das says in this saakhi verse that a person who has heard wise sayings might be repeating them to others without really practicing the same, quite like a dog that barks without making itself understood.

A sadhak, a seeker, should be mindful to practice and should not preach without personal experience through practice. It is a waste.

A foolish devotee had a golden image of Buddha, which she took with her wherever she went. In the course of her wanderings, she came to a monastery where hundreds of images of Buddha were present.
She did not like the other Buddhas, she liked only her own. Whenever she burnt incense before her Buddha, she never liked that the fumes should go to the others. She drew a curtain round the image.
In a few months her Buddha became dark and grim, while the others were shining brighter, still.
Similar is the case with the narrow-hearted persons. They do not honor others’ faith. But as a river without tributaries suffers dearth, their faith too lacks firmness and dies immature death.
One should develop the heart to embrace the other faiths, also. The religion that embraces all and fights with none is the real religion. Such a religion alone will endure, while others will vanish like bubbles. Such an enduring religion is the religion of truth, purity, non-violence and love.

~ Swami Sivananda

Q. How to control desire?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Be in the now. Desire is wanting to be happy tomorrow. Be happy and joyful now. Like children, if you ask them what they want, they will say nothing. Because they are happy with 'now'.

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प्रश्न: संकल्प का क्या महत्व है, और इसे कैसे शक्तिशाली बनायें? क्या विश्व संकल्प के बल पर ही चलता है?

श्री श्री रविशंकर: मन में संकल्प और विकल्प भरे हुये हैं। हर काम संकल्प से ही पूरा होता है। अपना हाथ हिलाने की प्रक्रिया के पहले हाथ हिलाने का संकल्प आता है। अगर मन में एक साथ २० संकल्प उठें तो कोई काम नहीं होता। जब हमारा मन शांत और विश्राम की स्थिति में हो तो हमारा संकल्प शक्तिशाली बनता है।

एक कमज़ोर मन का संकल्प कमज़ोर होता है, और शक्तिशाली मन का संकल्प शक्तिशाली होता है। हम अपने मन को साधना और ज्ञान से शक्तिशाली बना सकते हैं। तब संकल्प भी शक्तिशाली होगा। एक ज्ञानी व्यक्ति ५० दिनों के बाद एक संकल्प करता है और एक अज्ञानी व्यक्ति एक दिन में ५० संकल्प करता है।

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If you cannot love your brother whom you have seen,how can you love God whom you have never seen ? You cannot be selective in your forgiveness,in your kindness, in your tolerance.If you can extend this charitable nature to an impossible person, then you will know that it is possible to extend it towards everyone.

~Swami Chidananda.

What we should aim for is to get the answers from within. Not from somebody else. One solution for everything.

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Evil is mere appearance. It is not a reality. It is an illusion. Evil exists to glorify good. Good and evil are not two independent things or entities. They are the two sides of the coin.

An evil man is a saint of the future. Transmute evil into good through Vichara or reflection.

Out of evil often cometh good. There is neither absolute good nor absolute evil in this phenomenal world. Good and evil are relative terms.

Behold good alone in everything. Develop again and again the good-finding faculty. Destroy the evil-finding quality to its very root.

~Swami Sivananda