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Where the light of the undying Sun shines, the light of burning lamp seems insignificant. By Guru's grace, I know this. Servant Namdev is absorbed in Celestial Lord.
Saint Namdev

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx
I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
Abraham Lincoln
Tapasya teaches us the power of perseverance and determination in achieving our goals.
Annonymous
Happiness dies when not shared.
Baba Amte
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is simply putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Death is not the ultimate reality.
Rabindranath Tagore
Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.
Nelson Mandela
There is a degree of freedom that creates apirations.
Anand Mahindra
Long is the cycle of birth and death to the fool who does not know the true path.
Gautam Buddha
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramhansa Yogananda
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi
The new man will not be a Christian or a Hindu, a Mohammdean or a Buddhist. He will simply be religious.
Osho Rajneesh
The greatest danger to character comes from greed and by money, wasteful expenditure and the social prestige that is falsely associated with it.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Know that the chanting of My Name destroys all sins in this world, if the chanting is done with one-pointed devotion and complete dependence upon me.
Ramayana
Look upon all animate beings as your bosom friends, for in all of them there resides one soul.
Rig Veda
If you want to be effective at work and achieve, its better that you be internally focused. If you are not focused and you are not internally, mentally stable, your output at the workplace is low as well. I am saying that you prioritize things that mean to you, you work on yourself, you work on your internal self. The consequences will be that you would be super productive in less no. of hours.
Gaur Gopal Das
Truth and Virtue do not necessarily belong to wealth and Power and distinctions of big mansions.
Raja Ram Mohan Rai
You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Einstein
We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.
Sonam Wangchuk
The most important guru mantra is to never reveal your secrets to anyone. It will destroy you.
Chanakya
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
Kabir
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
Suffering is real. To urge anything that dismisses it as ‘unreal’ is to mock the pain of another.
Arun Shourie
How beautiful is humble courtesy!
Rabindranath Tagore
If the performance of Yajnas is the corner-stone of the work-portion of the Vedas, as surely is Brahmacharya the foundation of the knowledge-portion.
Swami Vivekananda
By remembering one help rendered, even a dreadful harm is forgotten.
Thirukkural
Art is the response of man's creative Soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
Don't avoid doing something wondering what its consequences may be. Give it a thought, break it down, and consider what really may happen rather than not do it at all.
Kiran Bedi
The more you expect from fate, the more it will disappoint you, have faith in karma, you will always get more than your expectations.
Annonymous
And is this Power benevolent or malevolent? I see it is purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love, He is the Supreme Good.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our emotions are the gestric juices which transform this world of appearance into the more intimate world of sentiments.
Rabindranath Tagore
Eat fire and your mouth will burn, live on credit and your belly will burn.
Proverb
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Bhakti yoga isn't something you join. It means love, falling in love.
Krishna Das
Truthfulness indeed is tapa (penance). In truthfulness do reside self-restraint and all other virtues. Just as the fish can live only in the sea, so can all other virtues reside in Truthfulness alone.
Mahavira
Give me blood, I will give you freedom. 
Subhash Chandra Bose
The fire of tapasya burns away all impurities and leads one to the ultimate realization.
Annonymous
Nothing is a greater test of education than the noble employment of leisure and means.
Sister Nivedita
The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
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When we tune out the opinions, expectations and obligations of the world around us, we begin to hear ourselves.
Jay Shetty
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Be moderate in your demands, just in your criticism, accurate in your facts, logical in your conclusions, and you can be sure that any propositions you make to our rulers will be considered by our strong and enlightened Governement.
Badruddin Tyabji
Life is pain. Pain arises out of dark desires. Wisdom lies in the stilling of desire.
Gautam Buddha
The citizens are the masters of this country and the mininsters are their servants.
Anna Hazare
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smalledst fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Its not the side of the bigger army that wins. It’s the country that tells a better story, that wins.
Shashi Tharoor
My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of its parts. That's how I see business… Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
All your anxieties and worries come from egotism and selfishness.
Swami Ramkrishnananda
Nation First. Then your Guru, your Parents and finally your God! So, the nation should always come before yourselves.
Chhatarapati Shivaji
Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
Kailash Satyarthi
He who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
Isha Upanishad
Do not hate anyone, for hate only breeds more hate.
Guru Govind Singh
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
It is very easy to run away from everything, yet difficult to wake up; don’t run from your life, from your duties, from those around you; awake to them!
Morari Bapu
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
Sai Baba
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
Swami Vivekananda
Life is immense, comprehensive and dynamic. It includes spirit and matter and idealism and pragmatism and rotates round the axis of the noble and the ignoble. Life strives for higher ends. It is a mission, a service, and finally worship.
Dr Zakir Hussain
God keeps an accurate record of all things good and bad. There is no better accountant on earth.
Mahatma Gandhi
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.
Narayan Murthy
The Unit of Seed finds expression in various forms-The Roots, The Trunk, The Branches, The Leaves, The Flowers and The Fruit. All these have different forms, colours and properties. Still we recognise their relation of unity with each other through seed.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
See life as an adventourous game and play the game without worrying about the outcome.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
Tapasya is the art of realizing the ultimate truth through self-discipline.
Annonymous
Brevity speaks. It forces you to convey complex thoughts.
Anand Mahindra
We cannot change situations in life but we can change our attitude towards them.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Richard Feynman
I am grateful for the award since it is possible that it may provide a measure of encouragement to those, who like myself, have been motivated in their scientific pursuits, principally, for achieving personal perspectives, while wandering, mostly, in the lonely byways of Science…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
God exists in one's heart like the pupil in the eye. But ignorance causes a man to seek Him far and wide.
Kabir
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do
Voltaire
Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.
Kiran Bedi
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
Adi Shankaracharya
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von Bismarck
Praising somebody in their presence and then backbiting are worse than decrying virtue and doing evils.
Thirukkural
Experience is less relevant than knowledge and the ability to learn and to innovate.
Vikram Sarabhai
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything. I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen Power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It transcends the senses. But it is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.
Mahatma Gandhi
The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
Bhagat Singh
Live your life to the fullest.
Mahatma Gandhi
The heart has no language, it speaks to other heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
In India, unlike in the United States and Australia, agriculture is not just a food producing enterprise but also the backbone of the livelihood security of nearly 60 per cent of the population.
M S Swaminathan
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
Amartya Sen
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
Good company makes one blessed, it brings virtues and extripates vices.
Guru Granth Sahib
A good leader takes care of those who he is leading. He delegates responsibility.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.
M S Swaminathan
Can we function in life without memory? History is the national memory. How individuals learn form memory is different. If the same thing happens to three individuals they will learn perhaps different things from that. So history also offers different lessons for different individuals.
Irfan Habib
Even a harmless lie can be considered as truth when it brings benevolent results.
Thirukkural
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Beneath all diversities, lies only one unity in which the lover and the beloved both lose their individuality. And only love exists.
Swami Ramtirth
The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace.
Mother Teresa
On seeing the cold look of the host, the face of the guests (atithi) withers like the anicham (a delicate sensitive flower) that withers when smelt.
Thirukkural
One should first weigh the investment, expenditure and income, and then proceed.
Thirukkural
I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Parsi but above all an Indian first.
Dadabhai Naoroji
Swaraj has no meaning until it can annihilate the yawning gap between the haves and have nots.
Maulana Azad
The forms are many, but the informing spirit is one. How can there be room for distinctions of high and low where there is this all embracing fundamental unity underlying the outward diversity? For that is a fact meeting you at every step in daily life. The final goal of all religions is to realize this essential oneness.
Mahatma Gandhi
Don't look over mind's cravings. Rather overlook them.
Amogh Lila Das
The true Indian civilization is in the Indian villages. The modern city civilization you find in Europe and America, and in a handful of our cities which are copies of the Western cities and which were built for the foreigner, and by him. But they cannot last. It is only the handicraft civilization that will endure and stand the test of time. But it can do so only if we can correlate the intellect with the hand.
Mahatma Gandhi

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