Man is what he thinks.
He thinks according to the
impressions recorded ‘within’.
The impressions are recorded while
contacting the objects in the world outside.
So the objects in the world outside
and the way in which they are being contacted make or mar the man.
Think?
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A man of ‘desire’ can never be in the ‘present’.
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Anybody can hurt me; but, nobody can harm me.
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A man of ‘in-action’ cannot contemplate;
A man of ‘action’ will not contemplate, unless he knows how to withdraw himself from the objective world;
A man of ‘un-action’ will always contemplate, as it is his nature.
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“Argument” means exchange of ‘ignorance’ coming out of ‘emotion’; “Discussion” means exchange of ‘ideas’ coming out of ‘intelligence’.
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Be present in the “present”.
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Be silent, by silencing the action;
Be silent, by silencing the words;
Be silent, by silencing the thoughts;
Be silent, by silencing the mind;
Be silent without knowing the Silence.
(Be silent — by withdrawing from action.
Be silent — by dissolving the words.
Be silent — by quietening the thoughts.
Be silent — by stilling the mind.
Be silent — until even Silence is not known as silence)
.. Refined by ChatGPT.
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Be independent, while being interdependent, in order to become indifferent!
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To know the truth, be true to know.
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Best thing in life is to think of unthinkable things.
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Being good is good; but being too good is but bad.
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Be in the family; be far away from the family.
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Be Empty; you will be Full.
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"Be simple; be humble"
Everybody will come to know .. what is 'WISDOM'.
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Disciple: How to understand what you understand?
Guru: To make you to understand what I understand, first I must understand what you understand!
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‘Desire’ and ‘Divine’ cannot be in the same place.
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Darkness goes from East to West; but if the lights are on, it cannot enter the room. Similarly if the person is enlightened, sufferings cannot enter into his bosom.
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Darkness means absence of Light; Ignorance means absence of “Wisdom".
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“Discussion” means exchange of ‘ideas’ coming out of ‘intelligence’.
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Everything is nothing except one-thing which is the ‘in-thing’!
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Everything is in space; yet space has nothing.
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Enemy’s worst enemy is the ignorance of the enemy’s enemy.
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Everybody is having (within him) the source of “Enlightenment”; but, it is covered by “Ego” of the individual concerned. Remove the “Ego”, “Enlightenment” will smile on you.
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Even when you are a ‘Master’, behave like a ‘Servant’; you will get rid of the “Ego”.
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Enlightenment means “mind without any thought”
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Every ‘subject’ may become an ‘object’ at some point of time or other; “SOUL” is the only ‘subject’ which can never become an ‘object’, as it is a part of the “WHOLE-SUBJECT”.
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Earth .. Absolute consciousness
Riverbed created by the embankment .. Pure consciousness
Water in the riverbed .. Subconscious mind
Bubble coming out of the water .. Ego.
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From being ‘Somebody’, one must become ‘Nobody’; then he will become ‘Everybody’.
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From being a balloon, one must become a flute (i.e. we must become a tool in HIS hands).
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From being 'somebody', one must become 'nobody'; then, he will understand 'everybody' with ease.
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From being a “human-being”, one must become the real “Being”.
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For a man who thinks, nothing is a problem;
For a man who feels, everything is a problem
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God make man simple; instead of being humble, he makes him complicated.
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Go beyond the mind through the mind; there lies the “enlightenment”
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How much you learnt is not important; how much you digested is important.
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How to handle the ‘man’ is not the problem; how to handle the ‘mind’ is the problem.
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How much we earn is not the problem; how we earn is the problem.
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How much we spend is not the problem; how we spend is the problem.
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Question:-
How comes the worry?
Answer:-
It comes because of the problems, we face.
But, who creates the problems? Only incidents happen. We alone convert them into problems.
In the battlefield, Arjuna saw problem in every incident and worried; while Krishna who was with Arjuna saw nothing as a problem and had no worries. Why?
Arjuna saw the incidents with emotion; Krishna saw them with intellect.
Think!
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Have a vision to have a goal;
Have a goal to have an inspiration;
Have an inspiration to have perfection in action.
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How to live with "ego" .. everybody knows it;
How to leave "ego" .. only few people know it.
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It is to be realized that “IT” is to be realized.
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If the mind is controlled by the intellect, man will handle the money;
if the mind cannot be controlled by the intellect, the money will handle the man; in that case the mind will make him mad after money.
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Instead of living in ‘peace’, we are living in ‘pieces’.
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In the world of unfits, the fit will become a mis-fit.
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In the Path of Wisdom, every ‘means’ is an ‘end’ itself; there is no such thing as ‘means to the end’.
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Inward expansion will lead to outward expansion of “God”
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Knowledge may enrich many-things; but wisdom alone enriches the ‘self’
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Know the ‘within’ to know the ‘without’.
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Knowledge is to be gathered; Wisdom is to be attained.
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Love demands nothing; Lust demands everything.
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Love with a cause is not love.
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Less luggage in the “Mind”; more comfort “in the Life Situation”; make the “Life Journey” pleasant.
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Money will not bring you any peace; peace depends upon the mind.
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Many-a-times we work without knowing the work;
Similarly, we live without knowing the “Life”.
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Many things are important in life; but, life is more important than those many things.
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Nothing enlightens like “Nothing”.
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Nothing is more valuable than 'values'.
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Ordinary love will become a “divine love”, when you regret nothing, demand nothing and expect nothing.
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One may like to succeed in life; another may like to have peace in life – when he proceeds, to succeed in his endeavour he must know how to enjoy the sufferings he may come across, for they may be the stepping-stones to achieve the desired goal.
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One’s return to the society should be more than what he gets from it.
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One cannot love everybody; but one should not hate anybody.
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One can see things from one's own angle; from other's angle; and from outside the angle.
When a person sees things from his angle, he will behave like a boss;
When he sees things from other's angle, he will behave like a leader;
When he sees things from outside the angle, he will be fit to behave like a Guide!
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One’s aim should be to eliminate but not to illuminate the ego.
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One of the duties of the father is to create a gap between the “mother” and the “son
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One must take lessons from one's own mistakes; from others' mistakes also.
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Problem is a problem when we think it as a problem; only incidents happen and we alone convert them into problems.
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'Pleasure' comes from “without”; 'Happiness' comes from “within”
‘Pleasure’ comes because of something;
'Happiness’ comes in spite of nothing .. It comes from "within" when the mind is empty.
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Real prestige comes when one leaves the place.
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Real strength is never visible.
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Self-respect emanates from 'ego'; try to behave like a man of humiliation.
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Stress and peace cannot go together;
Where there is stress, there can’t be any peace;
Where there is peace, there can’t be any stress.
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Success comes through the knowledge gained by failures.
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'Śraddhā' is not just one word.
If an individual has the tendency to adopt the following in his "endeavour", he is doing the thing with 'Sraddha':-
1. Faith
2. Practice
3. Perseverance
4. Fortitude
5. Forbearance
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The word "wisdom" contains four consonants which indicate the paths to follow, to know truth of "WISDOM".
W:the path of wisdom
S: the path of service
D: the path of devotion
M:the path of
meditation
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Think and Think, just to “not to think”.
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The path of ‘Wisdom’ destroys the “I”;
The path of ‘Devotion’ destroys the “MY”;
The path of ‘Service’ and the path of “Thyaana” take you away from the “I” and “MY”;
In either way, the end result will be the same – the attainment of enlightenment.
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Think..!
Why to think?
Think to change!
Whom to change?
Think to change the self!
What for?
Think to change the self to know the “SELF”.
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The foremost duty of the parents is to provoke their children to think.
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That which cannot be said, but should be said, must be said.
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The mind must die, before the man dies.
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The ‘Level of Understanding’ will depend upon the ‘Level of Understanding’.
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To know the Truth, be true to know.
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The first problem in solving any problem is to accept the problem.
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Think good; Act better; Deliver the best.
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To have outer harmony, one has to compromise now and then; but to have inner harmony, one has to ensure that convictions are never compromised.
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The leaves are dancing, but the tree is rooted into the earth.
The mind hovers around without any stoppage; but, the poor man doesn't know how to root into God.
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To get the 'SELF', forget the self.
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The duty of the Government is to 'govern' and not to run any business.
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The purpose of the life is to create "not only the best out of the good, but also to create the best out of the worst"
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Unless you suffer, you cannot and will not understand that “the suffering is to the body and not to me “.
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When you are in the ‘means’, don’t involve yourself in the ‘means’; that is ‘Karma Yoga’.
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Working on the elevation Without worrying foundation
Will it do good to any nation
When will we change wrong notion?
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Where man fails, Nature prevails.
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When we work for others, God will work for us.
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“What to do” is not the problem; “How to do what you want to do” is the problem
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When you treat your son as the ‘other’, you will treat the other as your ‘son’.
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When the ‘self’ goes out, then the ‘SELF’ comes out.
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When ‘nothing’ exists in the bosom, then ‘something’ comes out of it; that is “happiness”.
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Without character education
It’s a building sans foundation
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What has happened in the ‘without’ is not the problem; what is happening in the ‘within’ is the problem.
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Without Ego one cannot ‘grow’;
With Ego one cannot ‘glow’.
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Work like a bull; live like a beggar; you will come to know 'what is peace'.
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Whatever we see is either an object or comes from an object;
the ‘darkness’ is neither an object nor comes from an object.
Then what is it? It just means the ‘absence of light’.
Similarly ‘Avidya’ means the absence of ‘Vidya’.
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Whatever you see is not God, because he is beyond the obvious.
As long as you are in the obvious, you cannot go beyond the obvious.
Once you go beyond the obvious
(mentally ), you can safely play in the obvious, because nothing in the obvious will ever hurt you.
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When you are in the “means”, if you are not in the “expectations out of the means” you are in the “karma-yoga”
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What we meet is not the
problem; how we meet is the problem.
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Who or what is it that thinks within you? It is your own mind.
When it thinks of the body, you will have to suffer;
When it thinks of the "soul", you will feel the happiness; then you may enjoy even your sufferings.
Ultimately, you will find that your 'ego' is eliminated
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What is enlightenment?
In ordinary language, we can say that the enlightened person may have this quality ..
"Be silent without knowing the silence".
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We all know that our mind is connected with the material world.
But, can we say -- so surely -- that our mind is connected with the spiritual world also?
We may say that we are highly religious; yet, it is not enough.
Unless our mind is connected with the spiritual world, we cannot and will not come to know the "inner peace" which will take one to the "eternal bliss".
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You may possess many things, yet you are away from everything;
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You may be away from God, yet you are always with the God.
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Brahmin
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Kshatriyan
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Vysyan
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See things from outside the angle
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See things from the others’ angle
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See things from his own angle
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Adviser
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Leader
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Boss
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Guidanceg
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Discussion
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Argument
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Selfless
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Un-selfish
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Selfish
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Compassion
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Conviction
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Compulsion
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Sublimated ego
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Ego
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Inflated ego
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Open book(without entries)
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Open book
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Closed book
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Acceptance
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Accommodation
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Arrogance
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To forget
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To forgive
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To punish
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Present
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Present and future
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Past, present & future
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All
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We
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I
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concerned with the “motive”
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concerned with the “motive, action and result”
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concerned with the “result”
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“Means” only are important
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“Means” and “End” are important
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“End” alone is important
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Peace
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power
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possession
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Śraddhā – The Inner Flame
The lotus of purity upholds the flame of faith — Śraddhā, the light that never flickers.
Introductory Note
Every sincere seeker must kindle within himself the flame of Śraddhā.
Without it, knowledge remains mere information;
with it, even silence becomes wisdom.
Śraddhā – The Inner Flame
Śraddhā is not a single word; it is a way of being.
It is the quiet strength behind every noble endeavour.
When faith steadies the heart,
when practice becomes a habit,
when perseverance holds firm through failures,
when fortitude refuses to bend before adversity,
and when forbearance smiles through the trials of time —
Śraddhā shines forth.
It is not mere belief; it is the soul’s conviction expressed through tireless effort.
It sustains the seeker when knowledge is distant and the path seems endless.
Śraddhā is the bridge between aspiration and realization —
the unseen power that turns learning into living.
Closing Reflection
Where Śraddhā abides, doubt cannot dwell;
and where doubt departs, Truth reveals Itself.
(With sincere thanks to 'chatGPT)
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