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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Valambal Swaminathan <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:02 PM Subject: Fwd: words of greatmen. To: [email protected] Dcan have . The pursuit of the Infinite , this effort to get beyond the limitations of the senses out of matter , as it were , and to evolce the spiritual person ---this striving day and night to make the Infinite one with our being , this struggle itself , is the grandest and most glorious that human being can have. It is good to conquer our external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.It is good to know the laws that govern the stars and planets , but it is infinitely better toknow the laws that govern the passions the feelings and the will of humanity. This conquering of the inner person , understanding the subtle workings that are within the human mind , and knowing its wonderful secrets belongs entirely to religion. Swami vivekananda, the complete works volume 2;65,66. God is more intimate to things than things are to themselves, St Augustine, Indias rishis , her great sages , regarded religion as a science, the practice of which severs the bonds of human suffering and reunites the conciousness with the cosmic joy of God , in whose image we are made.Yet many people hesitate saying , Iam not ready for spirituality, This is the greatest untruth one can speak, Why ? BEcause the soul is like a round peg that will not fit into the square hole of delusion.The one thing that every one seeking -- unalloyd happiness--the world cannot give, Hence there are thousands of unhappy people through out theworld, Paramahamsa Yogananda the divine romace. It is my beleif that only by a generous and unqualified acceptance of spiritual concepts can religion become truly significant in this age and provide that firm bed rock of inner values upon which an integrated and coherent super structure of material welfare and intellectual emancipation can be raised, If religion remains bound within the shackles of narrow orthodoxy, it will become increasingly irrelevent to the rising generation , and humanity will be left with an inner void that no amount of material progress will be able to fill. Dr. Karan Singh. This world and all of us in it are created by you. Oh Lord and you are yourself living within each of us, We could call a person base and evil only if there were some other God present within him or if he had been created by some one else. Guru Nanak. Ages have passed turning the beads But turning of the heart has not occured, Put aside the beads of the hand andturn the beads of the heart. Kabir. Seekest thou liberation oh my soul ? Seekest thou Supreme knowledge, supreme wisdom, supreme bliss? Then mayest thou enter the path, Fearest thou toil and hardship therein ? Nay, fear not , for Love is the guide and Life is the goal. Srimatha Gayathri Devi, As long as the bee is outside the petals of the lotus and has not tasted the honey , it hovers around the flowers emmitting its buzzing sound., But when it is inside the flower it drinks its necter noiselessly, As long as we quarrel and dispute about doctrines and dogmas , we have not tasted the nectar of true faith, when we have tasted it we become still. Sri Ramakrishna. If we remain in the level of inages and concepts we will always find differences. It is only in the mystical experience of transcendent reality that we can rise above all differences, all dualisms which divide the different religious traditions. Each religion has its own unique insight into the supreme reality and expresses it in different images and concepts. Father Bede Griffiths. VALAMBAL SWAMINATHAN.
