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Om pita nohsi, pita no bodhi Namstestu, ma mahingseeh Vishwani deva sabiturduritaniparasuva, Yadbhadrangtannaasuva. Namahshambhabayacha  mayobhabayo cha Namahshankarayacha  mayaskaraya cha Namahshibaya cha shibataraya cha. You are our Father, as a father teach us true wisdom. We bend low in reverence before you. Save us from delusion and sin; forsake us not, destroy us not. O God our father, forgive us our trespasses and send us that which is for our good. You are the cause and the source of all goodness Read More …

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. – James Allen *   *   *   *   * Seek not your own life – for that is death but seek how you can best and most joyfully give your own life away – and every morning fresh life shall come to you. – Edward Carpenter *   *   *   *   * It is not the function of our soul to gain God, to utilise him for any special material purpose. Read More …

Prayer ought to be considered as the beginning of religious life – the key to the Kingdom of God. – Keshub Chandra Sen *   *   *   *   * I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. – Khalil Gibran *   *   *   *   * Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose Read More …

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. – M. K. Gandhi *   *   *   *   * The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Emerson *   *   Read More …

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – M. K. Gandhi *   *   *   *   * When I have known my duty, I shall fearlessly do it at all costs, without caring if in discharging it I lose or retain wealth, honour or even my life. – Sivanath Sastri *   *   *   *   * For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool. – APJ Abdul Kalam

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. – Rabindranath Tagore *   *   *   *   * For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Emerson *   *   *   *   * Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. – James Allen

We are fighting for a righteous cause – our right to live with honour and in peace – are not for the sake of self-glory or to rule over others. – Guru Hargobind Singh *   *   *   *   * Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God. – Emerson *   *   *   *   * You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. – James Allen

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance. – Thomas à Kempis *   *   *   *   * Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. – Emerson *   *   *   *   *  For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we Read More …

The truth of a saying does not depend upon the multitude of prayers. – Rammohun Roy   *   *   *   *   * It is not the function of our soul to gain God, to utilise him for any special material purpose. All that we can ever aspire to is to become more and more one with God. – Rabindranath Tagore *   *   *   *   * There is nothing so frightful as ignorance in action. – Goethe

The principle of veneration never dies out. Man fallen into superstition, into sensuality, is never quite without visions of the moral sentiment – Emerson   *   *   *   *   * Love is the magic stone that transmutes by its touch greed into sacrifice.               – Baul *   *   *   *   * To live religiously is to live naturally, to live naturally is to act up to the dictates of conscience. To live to nature is to live to God. – Keshub Read More …