VIRTUE
The progress to perfection is through pain and suffering. Hard flint must
come into sharp collision before it can produce sparks.
The Human body is a temple and all human beings need to keep the body quite
clean and healthy and free from desires.
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness towards
the happy, mercy and compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous
and indifference towards the wicked.
Partake your possessions with others as you are only a trustee. Otherwise
you will have to part with the same one day.
Not to injure others is virtue while seeking the company of pious persons
is a symptom of virtue.
To proclaim that one knows everything, is nothing but one arising from one's
ego and pride.
Mere learning in colleges is not education. That which is useful for this
and the other world is real education for it purifies life and directs the
way to Dharma, controls Artha, destroys Kama and enables attainment of Moksha.
Man has to face problems of life boldly and courageously. Persistant efforts
bring success in life. The progress to perfection is through pain and suffering.
Ego is at the root of all ignorance. When this 'I'ness disappears ignorance
also disappears.
Happiness does depend on what you can give and not on what you can get.
Education should be a training in humility, Vidya should give Vinaya.
A clean action elevates man while a foul action debases him.
The three cardinal virtues are: do not see evil ; do not hear evil; and
do not speak evil. Sri Ganapathi Tatwa reveals this. His small eyes teach
people to shut their eyes to evil, the fan like ears to winnow off all worthless
hearing, the trunk on the mouth to ward off all evil talk.
'DHARMO RAKSHATI RAKSHITAH' ie Dharma protects those who protects Dharma.
What follows you after death is only your Dharma and not your wealth or
learning.
Happiness and misery are intermingled. So one has to treat them both with
equanimity.
If the mind is clean and upright, life also will be clean and upright.
Erase the animal in you. What you sow, that you do reap. So cultivate goodness
and Godliness.
An ounce of practice outweighs tons of tall talks.
A wrong done in secret does not enjoyu immunity any more than an unnoticed
fire burn of the finger escapes harm. Right living under all circumstances
behoves a clean person.
Uprightness begets excellence. Therefore uprightness ought to be forstered
more than life.
Everyone wants that he should be happy. He should also wish others to be
equally happy.
Be a ray of light whereever you go. Pray as if everything depends on God.
Work as if everything depends on you.
Renunciation is overcomming the world.
The qualities of tolerance, co-operation and coexistence are to be taught
from the childhood stage by providing the children with congenial atmosphere
and enriched environment.
Education should enable mankind and should help man to lead a happy and
healthy life not swerving from the path of Dharma, Artha Kama which lead
to Moksha at the end.
Vairagya is non-attachment and has nothing to do with detachment.
Religion is the principle which cannot be eradicated from the heart of the
man.