MOTIVATIONAL POINTS

                                                    GOOD THOUGHTS

   

    1. THE WHOLE LIFE IS A SUCCESSION OF DREAMS, MY AMBITION IS TO BE A CONSCIOUS DREAMER, THATS ALL.

    2. WE ARE ALLOWED TO WORKSHIP HIM. STAND IN THAT REVERENT ATTITUDE TO THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, AND THEN WILL COME PERFECT NON ATTACHMENT.

   3. YOU CAN NOT BELIEVE IN GOD UNTIL YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

   4. GIVE UP THE IDEA THAT BY RULING OVER OTHERS YOU CAN DO ANY GOOD TO THEM. BUT YOU CAN DO JUST AS MUCH AS YOU CAN IN THE CASE OF THE PLANT. YOU CAN SUPPLY THE GROWING SEED WITH THE MATERIALS FOR THE MAKING UP OF ITS BODY, BRINGING TO IT THE EARTH, THE WATER, THE AIR, THAT IT WANTS. IT WILL TAKE ALL THAT IT WANTS BY ITS OWN NATURE, IT WILL ASSIMILATE AND GROW BY ITS OWN NATURE.

  5. SHRI RAMAKRISHNA USE TO SAY, "AS LONG AS I LIVE, SO LONG DO I LEARN, THAT MAN OR THAT SOCIETY WHICH HAS NOTHING TO LEARN IS ALREADY IN THE JAWS OF DEATH".

  6. BE STRONG! YOU TALK OF GHOSTS AND DEVILS. WE ARE THE LIVING DEVILS. THE SIGN OF LIFE IS STRENGTH AND GROWTH. THE SIGN OF DEATH IS WEAKNESS. WHATEVER IS WEAK, AVOID! IT IS DEATH. IF IT IS STRENGTH, GO DOWN INTO HELL AND GET HOLD OF IT! THERE IS SALVATION ONLY FOR THE BRAVE. NONE BUT THE BRAVE DESERVES THE FAIR." NONE BUT THE BRAVEST DESERVES SALVATION.

 7. WHERE CAN WE GO TO FIND GOD IF WE CANNOT SEE HIM IN OUR OWN HEARTS AND IN EVERY LIVING BEING.

 8. THERE IS NO LIMITS TO THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND. THE MORE CONCENTRATED IT IS THE MORE POWER IS BROUGHT TO BEAR ON ONE POINT.

 9. THE CHEERFUL MIND PERSEVERES AND THE STRONG MIND HEWS ITS WAY THROUGH A THOUSAN DIFFICULTIES.

 10. YOU MUST WORKSHIP THE SELF IN KRISHNA NOT KRISHNA  AS KRISHNA.

  11. ALL KNOWLEDGE THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER RECEIVED COMES FROM THE MIND, THE INFINITE LIBERARY OF THE UNIVERSE IS IN OUR OWN MIND.

  12. GIVE A MENTAL ASSENT TO THE CUSTOMS OF THEIR FOREFATHERS.

  13. OH IF ONLY YOU KNEW YOURSELVES! YOU ARE SOULS, YOU ARE GODS. IF EVER I FEEL LIKE BLASPHEMING IT, IS WHEN I CALL YOU MAN.

  14. IF YOU CANNOT ATTAIN SALVATION IN THIS LIFE, WHAT PROOF IS THERE THAT YOU CAN ATTAIN IT IN THE LIFE OR LIVES TO COME?

  15. VIRTUE IS THE ONLY FRIEND WHICH FOLLOWS US EVEN BEYOND THE GRAVE. EVERYTHING ELSE ENDS WITH DEATH.

  16. AS SOON AS I BEGIN TO FEEL THAT I AM SEPARATE FROM THIS UNIVERSE, THEN FIRST COMES FEAR, AND THEN COMES MISERY.

  17. YOGA IS THE SCIENCE WHICH TEACHES US HOW TO GET THESE PERCEPTIONS (DIRECT EXPERIENCES OF GOD)

  18. FOR IT IS THE BODY THAT DRAGS US DOWN. IT IS ATTACHMENT, IDENTIFICATION, WHICH MAKES US MISERABLE. THAT IS THE SECRET. TO THINK THAT I AM THE SPIRIT AND NOT THE BODY, AND THAT THE WHOLE OF THIS UNIVERSE WITH ALL ITS RELATIONS, WITH ALL ITS GOOD AND ALL ITS EVIL, IS BUT A SERIES OF PAINTINGS - SCENES ON A CANVAS- OF WHICH I AM THE WITNESS.

  19. BE CONTENTED WITH THE THINGS OF THE PRESENT. THE COWS AND THE GODS ARE, AND SO ARE ALL ANIMALS, AND THAT IS WHAT MAKES THEM ANIMALS. SO IF MAN RESTS CONTENT WITH THE PRESENT AND GIVES UP ALL SEARCH INTO THE BEYOND, MANKING WILL HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE ANIMALS PLANE AGAIN.

  20. OUR KARMA DETERMINES WHAT WE DESERVE AND WE CAN ASSIMILATE.