Why Are We Born Over and Over Again?
“How did [the Self] come down to earth? There is but one answer to that in our scriptures. Ignorance is the cause of all this bondage . . . knowledge will cure it by taking us to the other side. How will knowledge come? Through love, Bhakti; by the worship of God, by loving all human beings as the temples of God.” — Swami Vivekananda
How To Get Rid of Bad Karma
“It is only that which is waiting to bear fruit in the future that we can conquer and control, towards which end all of our forces should be directed.” — Swami Vivekananda
When What You Have Gets Taken Away
“To be frustrated is to be psychologically prevented from gaining or achieving that upon which our mind and heart are set. We want something. . . and when we are thwarted, we feel frustrated, a feeling of being nothing, a miserable failure.” — J. Krishnamurti
We Often Get This Wrong About Civilization
“If we deeply experienced and understood that the self is ever impermanent, then there would be no identification with any particular form of craving, with any particular country, or with any organized system of thought or religion, for with identification comes the horror of war, the ruthlessness of so-called civilization.” — J. Krishnamurti Ralph Waldo […]
The Absolute Law of Karma
“Metal that is malleable doesn’t have to undergo treatment by fire. Likewise, a wise person aware of his own strengths and weaknesses and that of others bows down to the more capable and powerful. He does not pick unnecessary fights and saves himself from needless suffering.” — Vidur Niti