. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)
Interpretation
Life itself offers lessons that can be as profound as any scripture.
In this quote, Swami Satchidananda emphasizes the importance of learning from everyday activities rather than relying solely on spiritual texts. He suggests that our daily experiences provide valuable lessons and insights that can lead to deeper understanding and wisdom if we are open to recognizing and reflecting on them.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.
Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.
Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! _x000D_ Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.
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