1. Holy Mother Shri Sarada Devi Born 22 December, 1853 Jayrambati, West Bengal, India Died 20 July, 1920 Kolkata
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3. "Everything depends on the mind. Nothing can be achieved without purity of mind. It is said, "The aspirant may have received the grace of the Guru, the Lord and Vaishnavas; but he comes to grief without the grace of 'one'." That "one" is the mind. The mind of the aspirant should be gracious to him.
19. UNIVERSAL TEACHINGS SEE GOD IN ALL If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; the whole world is your own.
20. GOD IS WITHIN YOU When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one’s spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one’s heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast. PERSEVERE IN YOUR SEARCH FOR GOD Continue to pray without losing heart. Everything will happen in time.
21. TRUST COMPLETELY IN GOD If anyone surrenders himself totally at his feet, the Master will see that everything is set right. LOVE OF GOD IS ESSENTIAL One’s love of God depends entirely upon one’s inner feelings. Love of God is the essential thing.
25. ` "When a person takes refuge with God, life's goal changes-- God Himself reverses his destiny. Does he grow a pair of horns? No, but he can distinguish good from evil, discover knowledge and pass beyond the reach of life and death. You must find Him in your meditations. Who has seen more than this, to whom has He actually spoken?... it is in spiritual transports one sees Him, talks with Him, and so on..."
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31. The mind becomes pure after long practice. The pure mind can never be had without Sadhana. What happens when one finds God? Does one grow two horns? No, indeed, but the mind becomes pure. And illumination dawns on a pure mind.
32. Listen, when God first created man, He endowed him with the spirit of goodness. As a result, men were born with wisdom and it did not take them long to realize that the world was an ephemeral thing. Immediately they took the name God and set out to meditate on Him and by His grace were liberated from the bonds of life. God thought this will not do; this is not the way to make them play the game of life. In the end along with the spirit of goodness, He mingled in profuse quantities, the spirit of materialism and that of vanity. Then the game of life went on with a swing.
33. One should not hurt others even by words. By indulging in rude words, one’s nature becomes rude. One’s sensitivity is lost if one has no control over one’s speech. The master uses to say, ‘One should not ask a lame person how he become lame.”
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35. "These earthly ties are transitory. Today they seem to be the be-all and end-all of life, and tomorrow they vanish. Your real tie is with God."
