The core of India's Light, part 3
1.
Aham BrahmasmiI am Brahman.
To say that I am Brahman, or God without a second, is to smash the pride of ignorance-night.
2.
AhamkaraPride
Human pride destroys us. Divine pride employs us for God-manifestation. What is divine pride? I am of God only. I am eternally all for God.
3.
AhimsaNon-violence
To practise non-violence what I need is a pure heart and a sure life. India's Gandhi did it. I, too, can do the same.
4.
AmitabhaThe Buddha of measureless Light
The Buddha inspires our mind. The Buddha illumines our life. The Buddha fulfils our heart. The Buddha satisfies our soul.
5.
AmrtaNectar-delight
Self-giving is today's nectar-delight. God-becoming is tomorrow's nectar-delight.
6.
AnandaBliss
My soulful cry is Divinity's Bliss. My fruitful smile is humanity's bliss.
7.
ArupaWithout form
Our inner beauty increases when we pray to the Reality without form. Our outer beauty increases when we make friends with Divinity's outer form.
8.
AryaThe noble and the holy
The Godward march is only for the noble and the holy.
9.
AstikaBeliever
A God-believer is he who at once lives in Divinity's Compassion-Heart and on humanity's inspiration-head.
10.
AsuraDemon
Impurity is demon's food. What is impurity? Impurity is constant self-indulgence.
11.
AUMThe transcendental mantra
A represents God the Dream. U represents God the Dreamer. M represents God the Dreamland.
12.
AvidyaIgnorance
To have an eternal hunger for God the Truth and God the Light is to finally come out of ignorance-night.
13.
AvyayaImperishable
Only a God-lover's gratitude-heart remains always imperishable.
14.
BhagavanGod
Man says to God, "Do give me Your infinite Light." God says to man, "First give Me your ignorance-sea. Then I shall gladly give you what you are asking for."
15.
BhaktaDevotee
Three times God gets tremendous joy: when He sees His Transcendental Head, when He touches His Universal Body, and when He touches His self-giving devotee's heart.
16.
BhaktiDevotion
In the spiritual life nothing is sweeter and nothing can be sweeter than the devotion-cry of the devotee's heart.
17.
BalaStrength
Strength challenges the world. Power enjoys the spontaneous surrender of the world.
18.
BalavatAs a child
When you approach God as a child, He gives you what you have asked for, plus the full assurance that He will give you everything that He has in His Universe.
19.
BhavaInspiring emotion in the heart
The fastest way to make progress is always to cry for inspiring emotion in the heart and surrendering devotion to the Lord Supreme.
20.
BhogaEnjoyment
Enjoyment is not fulfilment. Enlightenment alone is fulfillment. Give yourself totally. Lo, enlightenment has dawned immediately.
21.
BhoktaEnjoyer
The divine enjoyer at once enjoys the beauty of Heaven and the purity of earth.
22.
BrashtahFallen
You are fallen because your aspiration-flames are extinguished. You are fallen because your ingratitude-existence is looming large.
23.
BhikshuMonk
The life of a monk desires world-rejection. World-rejection is nothing short of the rejection of God's own Body. Rejection cannot solve the world-problems. It is the heroic acceptance of God that can and will someday transform each problem into a veritable opportunity for God-manifestation on earth.
24.
BijaSeed
The human cry is the seed. The divine Smile is the tree.
25.
ChitConsciousness
When consciousness is infinitely expanded in today's blindness, man becomes tomorrow's all-illumining vision-sun.
26.
ChakshuEye
The eyes of the seeker may not know where God is, but the heart of the seeker not only knows where God is but also pulls God's Compassion-Presence into the seeker's existence-cry like a magnet.
27.
DaivaDivine
The animal in me says that it can easily destroy the world. The human in me says that it can easily create a new world. The divine in me says that it can soulfully cry and fruitfully smile.
28.
DambhaPride
Human pride declares: "I am above all." Divine pride whispers: "I am for all."
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DanaAlms-giving
I have no faith in alms-giving, but I have all faith in self-giving, for self-giving completes all human insufficiencies.
30.
DandaPunishment
Not to dare to do the right thing, the divine thing, the supreme thing, in order to please the Inner Pilot, is undoubtedly the worst possible punishment.
31.
DarshanaVision
According to the inner vision, each human being is a divine prince. According to the outer vision, each human being is a slave of bondage-day and ignorance-night.
32.
DasaSlave
If one cannot become the lord of his lower self, then he cannot become a perfect slave of his higher self: God.
33.
DharanaConcentration
Concentration is another name for power. Meditation is another name for peace. Contemplation is another name for bliss.
34.
DikshaInitiation
The supreme initiation is when the Master says to the disciple, "Take what I have," and the disciple says to the Master, "Take me as I am."
35.
GandhaFragrance
A soulfully grateful heart has always the best fragrance in God's entire creation.
36.
GayatriThe sacred mantra from the Rig Veda addressed to the sun.
If the seeker soulfully recites the Gayatri mantra in the morning and the evening, illumination is bound to take place in the seeker's confusion-mind infinitely sooner than he would ever expect.
37.
GuruDivine Teacher
The human teacher says to the student, "Work with me and I shall give you everything." The divine Teacher says to his disciple, "I have kept God waiting for you. Don't delay; come with me to see Him."
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GhoshaSound
The outer sound confuses the human mind. The inner sound awakens the human heart.
39.
HahakaraLamentation
Lamentation indefinitely delays not only our God-realisation but also our life-elevating preparation.
40.
HavisOffering
When we give to God as an offering both our desire-life and our aspiration-life, God tells us that the offering of our desire-life helps us run toward Him, and the offering of our aspiration-life helps Him run toward us.
41.
HayaHorse
In the Vedas the horse signifies sacrifice — sacrifice of our life-energising power and God-manifesting light.
42.
HiranmayaGolden
The Golden Shore of the Beyond will always remain a far cry unless and until we not only believe in the supreme secret of self-giving but also practise it at every moment.
43.
Iccha-mrtyuDeath by an act of will
Aspiration for an immortal life so that God can be manifested is infinitely more meaningful, fruitful and praiseworthy than death by an act of will.
44.
Iccha-saktiWill-power
Will-power reaches the goal not because it is the possessor of an adamantine heart, but because it is the boundless lover of an illumining and fulfilling goal. No will-power, no success. No will-power, no progress. For success, be careful and be brave. For progress, be conscious and be self-giving.
45.
IshtasdevataThe personal aspect of the presiding deity.
The personal aspect of the presiding deity governs the human in us compassionately and awakens the divine in us selflessly.
46.
JagadguruWorld Teacher
If we love the World Teacher who is Compassion, then the World Teacher who is Perfection brings us to the World Teacher who is His own Eternity's Satisfaction.
47.
JapaRepetition of an incantation
In order to get the best result while repeating an incantation, we have to feel an illumining flame deep within us which is growing into countless flames, and finally into a full-blazing sun.
48.
KhaSky
The mental sky has to be cleared up before the psychic cry can climb up to the highest height.
49.
KirtiFame
The human fame is a deceptive but loud sound. The divine fame is a soundless sound which the seeker hears in his receptivity-heart.
50.
KratuSacrifice
A cheerful self-giving founded upon oneness is always ignorant of sacrifice.
51.
KrodhaAnger
Anger is the connecting bridge between man's destruction-blow and his repentance-flow.
52.
KrpaCompassion
God's Compassion-Dictionary houses countless words, excepting only one word: frustration.
53.
KshetraSoil
When we sleeplessly cry only for God's Love, our heart's soil becomes immediately fertile and receptive.
54.
KusaSacred grass
The seeker has to be as sacred and humble as grass in order to consciously and constantly make the fastest progress.
55.
KutiraHut
The body of a hermit lives in a hut, but the heart of the hermit lives in the entire universe.
56.
KshayaDestruction
The intimate friend of aspiration is illumination and never destruction.
57.
KshanaMoment
A moment of inner cry reveals an entire day of outer smile.
58.
KshamaForgiveness
Out of His infinite Bounty God grants His Forgiveness so that once more I can get the opportunity to cry for a new dawn. But how can I ever forgive stupidity's shameless heights?
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