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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.


Sri Aurobindo

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IBNOULKHATIB YAHYA Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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SRI AUROBINDO Heaven's call is rare, rarer the heart that heeds.
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When expectation ends.
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Is the only language
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The impossible
And end by accomplishing
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SRI SARADA DEVI The new definition of God - It has the root in Vedanta. The concentrated form of the whole human rac...
SRI JIBANKRISHNA OR DIAMOND I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Br...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures an...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Blessed is the mother who gave birth; blessed and respected is the father of one who serves the True...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB There is only one breath; all are made of the same clay; the light within all is the same.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Rare, very rare, is that friend who comes and says, O my Beloved, take me into Your Embrace! O my Lo...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB What is that way, by which the Lord's Praises might be sung? What is that intellect, by which this p...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB O Nanak, in the end, all this vanishes like a dream!
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA He alone knows everything, unto whom the Lord Himself gives knowledge. One may talk and preach and g...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The True Lord writes His Inscription on each and every head.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Those whose minds are pleased by the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, are joyful in the palaces of the...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB What good are the ceremonial lines drawn around your kitchen, when these four are seated there with ...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The Lord has become merciful, and now I meditate on the Name of the Lord. Servant Nanak has obtained...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Servant Nanak serves the Lord, the Banker; he shall never again be called to render his account.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The day of my wedding is pre-ordained. Come - let's gather together and pour the oil over the thresh...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of t...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA What Glorious Virtues of Yours can I describe, O my True Guru?
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Those upon whom He casts His Glance of Grace become His happy soul-brides. One who recognizes her Lo...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Go, and ask the happy soul-brides, By what virtuous qualities do you enjoy your Husband Lord? We are...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The discarded soul-brides suffer in terrible agony; they have no luck at all.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB O Nanak, they are forever the happy soul-brides, whose light merges into His Light.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The happy soul-brides receive the Lord's Name, O my Lord of the Universe; night and day, their minds...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB