True education is that which originates from the heart....

True education is that 

which originates from the heart. 

Heart is very important for human existence. 

When a child is born, the first thing that people 

observe is the heart beat. 

You should rely more on 

your spiritual heart than on the physical heart.

 

Conscience is another name 

for spiritual heart. Keep your heart pure. 

That should be your main endeavor.

One should not feel proud about the position one occupies...

One should not feel proud 
about the position one occupies. 

The strength derived from wealth 
or position is unreliable. 

Morality and purity of mind 
alone can confer real  strength.  

To  develop  these qualities, 
one  has  to take up selfless service. 

The spirit of  service  eradicates  
egoism  and  selfishness. 

In  the  process, not only is  your  
life sublimated, but the  nation  also 
gains through the example of

a dedicated servant of the public.”

Faith is essential for human progress in every field...

Faith is essential for human progress in every field. 
Knowledge, and hence, wisdom can be earned 
only by means of faith and effort. 
 
Equipped with these, man can scale 
great heights and emerge victorious. 
However, one has to be warned against 
cultivating too much faith in things that are merely material. 

 One has to root it
deep in the eternal Truth, God.
Faith is power. Without faith, living is impossible. 
We have faith in tomorrow following today. 

That is what makes us take up 
activities that extend beyond this day. People
with no faith cannot plan; they court misery by their want of faith.

Egoism is a thorny bush which when planted and fostered in one's heart, one has to pay the penalty..

Egotism is a thorny bush which, 

when planted and fostered in one's heart, 

one has to pay the penalty. 

Egotism makes enemies of fast friends 

and ruins many good causes and projects, 

for it does not allow two good men to work together. 

Grief follows it like a shadow. 

Where there is no ego, joy, peace, courage, 

co-operation and love flourish. 

When man is aware that the 

same Divine Consciousness that 

motivates him is equally motivating all others, 

then love ousts the ego into the background 

and takes charge of man's activities, words and thoughts.

Love should enable you to welcome even hardships as meant for your own good...

When you have malaria, 
you have to take bitter quinine medicine. 

That is the medicine 
needed to cure the ailment. 

Likewise, when adversity confronts you,
treat it as a medicine for your own good. 

Gold has to be melted and beaten to make a jewel. 
A diamond is cut to make it more brilliant. 

Likewise, troubles in life serve to refine a person. 
Love should enable you to welcome even 
hardships as meant for your own good.

Post 188, jealousy and hatred do more harm to those who entertain these feelings than to those towards whom these are expressed...

If a registered letter is addressed to some one, 

who declines to receive it, the postal department

will deliver it back to the sender. 

 

Similarly, if you criticise someone or hate somebody, 

if the other person remains unaffected and unperturbed, 

your criticism and hatred come back to you. 

 

Jealousy and hatred do more harm

to those who entertain these feeling 

than to those towards whom these are expressed.

 

Live to keep the conscience clean, for no other proof of purity is required...

Live to keep the conscience clean, 

for no other proof of purity is required. 

Be vigilant of any wrong that you may commit, 

and do not rest, until you have undergone 

every penance to correct this wrong to a right. 

You must not forego the right at any time, 

even if it means facing the gutsy winds of limited hardships - 

however much the winds may howl, let them not frighten you. 

The pillar of truth can face any storm with a silence - 

a silence that will kill the scream of evil!

Harsh behavior comes from a mind that has developed anger and bitterness of his own constant failures...

Harsh behavior comes from a mind 

that has developed anger and bitterness 

of his own constant failures. 

Your success becomes his envy, 

and the envy shows the ugly face of pride - 

and pride will only scorn the one that is humble 

and blame him to be weak. 

But you must not pay 

any heed to these insane remarks. 

When you, too, will react with anger, 

you are only allowing evil to make its short-term victory. 

Evil must be destroyed by 

your reaction of its nonrecognition. 

Look only for the happiness that

lies within you and emanate with it.

Hold on to only what is right, today and not to what was wrong yesterday...

Hold on to only what is right, today, and not to what was wrong, yesterday.

Peace will only come, 
when you are the first to make its offering. 

Peace will only come, 
when you are the first to make its offering.

Peace will only come, 
when your path of right will shine before you. 

The one that wrongs is the one that will suffer - 
suffer, one day, with the same weapon that 
will be the course of his death - 
then why must you analyze, judge, 
and punish the one that is the unfortunate of tomorrow? 

Fill yourselves with pity - not the pity of pride, 
but the pity of love and compassion, 
ignoring the attack of the wrong doer 
and become the medicine of his disease.

By learning to forgive, you give another the chance to take a new step ahead..

By learning to forgive, you give 
another the chance to take a new step ahead,
allowing the repentance of his wrong to burn his impurities, 
and encouraging him to develop the strength to fight his failures. 

When you will remember every wrong, 
you My dears, will become his barrier 
from being able to rise from his fall. 

As long as you will hold on to the wrong, 
he, too, will only be compelled to live with it. 
As long as you will resent that wrong, 
he will only be forced to justify it with 
the defense of his failing dignity. 

Do not dwell on another's wrong done to you, let the memory erase....

Do not dwell on
another's wrong done to you, 
let the memory erase,
make it a new beginning,
and with every fresh start, 
let the pain of blame leave you, forever.