We should learn to love everyone equally, because in essence we are all one, one Atman, one soul.
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
Finding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds.
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is. In addition to your husband or wife, you should have a friend - and that friend should be God. Even if your husband or wife makes you unhappy, tell that to God, and not to anyone else. If your neighbor picks a fight with you, go to the meditation room and complain, 'Why did you let him treat me like that? Weren't you with me?' Open your heart and tell God everything. Then it becomes a satsang.
You can lead a truly spiritual life while remaining a householder. You will be able to enjoy the bliss of the Self, but your mind has to be on God all the time. Then you can easily attain bliss. A mother bird will be thinking of the young ones in the nest, even when she is out looking for food. Similarly, you have to keep your mind on God, while engaged in all worldly actions. The important thing is to be completely dedicated to God or the Guru. Once you have that dedication, the goal will not be far away.
If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.
In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
When we raise one hand to say "bye-bye" we are gesturing that we are going apart from each other, whereas when we join our palms and bow our head, our hearts become closer.
Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.
Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to ojas (vitality), we also need to do spiritual practice. With increase in ojas, our intelligence, memory, health and beauty will also increase. We will gain lasting mental quietude.
Look upon others as being part of yourself.
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.
Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.
Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
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