Quotable Quotes from Swami I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I shall be with you, wherever you are, guarding you and guiding you. March on, have no fear. Duty is God; Work is worship. Even the tiniest work is a flower placed at the Feet of God. Start the Day with Love;Spend the Day with Love;Fill the Day with Love;End the Day with Love;This is the way to God. Cultivate nearness with Me in the heart and it will be rewarded. Then you too will acquire a fraction of that Supreme Love. Love as Thought is Truth.  Love as Action is Right Conduct.  Love as Understanding is Peace.  Love as Feeling is Non-violence. Duty without love is deplorable.  Duty with love is desirable.  Love without duty is Divine. Your heart must be transparent, like glass, with spiritual light within illuminating the whole world. Peace can only be won the hard way, by eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individual. The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do but in liking what one has to do. The end of wisdom is freedom; The end of culture is perfection; The end of knowledge is love; The end of education is character. First you must grapple with the fact that duty is God and start doing your duty. I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith – so that Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu. Transmuting “man” into “God” and experiencing that Ananda or Bliss is the one and only achievement for which life is to be devoted. The minimum qualifications for Grace are surrender of ego. The treasure that is precious is the quality of even mindedness in all situations. The joy of being the master of senses is far greater than being their slave. Your progress is reflected back as Grace, your decline is reflected back as its absence. The mirror just reflects. It has no partiality or prejudice. Sathya is what I teach;  Dharma is the way I live;  Shanthi is the mark of My personality;  Prema is my very Nature. Peace is shore less ocean – it is the light that illuminates the world. Virtue is the sign of the educated person. This is what makes education worthwhile. God can be felt and experienced only in the deepest depths of silence. Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason. To help the helpless is the only way to please, follow and reach Him. Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path. You are in the Light, then the Light is in you, You are the Light. Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. Devotion has to be unintermittent, uninterrupted, like the flow of oil from one vessel to another. Human society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes. Bear all and do nothing;  Hear all and say nothing;  Give all and take nothing;  Serve all and be nothing. Man minus immorality is Immortality. God is for those, who are not for themselves. So long as the sugar is on the tongue, you feel the sweetness in taste. Similarly, so long as the heart has love, peace and devotion, you feel the bliss. If you will not rise above the things of the world, they will rise above you. Praying is your task; what happens to the prayer is dependent on the Grace of God. Seek out your faults and others’ merits. Seeking others’ faults is dire sin. Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power. Earning money cannot be the purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education. True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride, impatience and cowardice. Follow the Master;  Face the devil;  Fight to the end;  Finish the goal. If animal feelings are washed out, Divine feelings begin to overflow instead. A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace. Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it. In the innermost recess of your heart there is a reservoir of peace where you must take refuge. Employ yourself usefully. Be like a trustee, holding on trust, on behalf of God, for the purpose, which He likes and approves. Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. All are expressions of the same God, as bulbs lit by the same current through manifold colors and wattage. Have faith in His Grace and lead a virtuous life, a life devoted to the service of the weak; a life spent in the thought about the might and glory of God. The refinement of an individual is measured by the yardstick of sense control. Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash. You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him. See God in every one you