Hold firmly to goodness
Saint Auvaiyar (ca 200 bce), a renowned female saint of Tamil Nadu
One becomes like that which is in ones mind–this is the everlasting secret. Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishad 6.24
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practice even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886)
Those who cannot live in harmony with the world, though they have learned many things, are still ignorant. Tirukural 140
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), mystic poet
Until we discover this Spiritual Center in ourselves, the God in us, we will be confused, miserable, unsatisfied and disturbed, an enigma to ourselves and to others. Swami Chinmayananda (1916–1993), founder of Chinmaya Mission
Because one believes in oneself, one doesnt try to convince others. Lao Tzu (4th or 6th century bce), author of Tao Te Ching
Self-control will place one among the Gods, while lack of it will lead to deepest darkness. Tirukural 121
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. James Clear, American writer
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. Rumi (1207–1273), Sufi mystic and poet
Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning, weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 ce), Roman emperor and philosopher
After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box. Italian proverb
There is no death. Only a change of worlds. Chief Seattle (1780-1866), leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes
Self-inquiry directly leads to Realization by removing the obstacles which make you think that the Self is not already realized. Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
It is now clearly evident that there is a God, and that He is everywhere and so am I. Yet this body must remain in this hut. Satguru Siva Yogaswami (1872-1964), Sri Lankan mystic
The way to freedom is a way of silence–of silent resolve and silent service. Sadhu Vaswani, (1879-1966), founder of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission
God is not a limited individual who sits alone up in the clouds on a golden throne. God is pure consciousness that dwells within everything. Understanding this truth, learn to accept and love everyone equally. Amritanandamayi Ma
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden. Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)
Todays youth value direct experience over inherited belief. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today
Hindu Dharma is working for the Gods, as opposed to working and living for our own personal wants and needs. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today.
Did You Know?
You Can Alter Time!
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o start this exploration, let’s first look at gravity. Gravity is not a force. It is not objects pulling on each other across empty space. It is not even—despite the famous analogy—heavy things making dips in a cosmic trampoline that other things roll into. All of these images, while compelling, miss what relativity actually reveals: that gravity is not primarily bent space, it is mostly bent time. This is not a metaphor. Clocks closer to Earth tick measurably slower than those farther away—GPS satellites constantly correct for this drift to stay accurate.
Every object in the universe is always moving through spacetime—a four-dimensional fabric weaving together the three dimensions of space (x, y, z) with that of time. Because the speed of light remains constant to every observer—wherever and whenever they are—that unchanging constant forces space and time to trade against each other like a fixed budget between the two. If you could sit perfectly still in motionless space, you’d travel through time at maximum speed, but if you moved through space—even walking to the next room—you’d move more slowly through time. The faster you move, the slower you age. At the speed of light, time stops. If a photon could reflect on its journey, the history of the universe would unfold in a single, eternal moment.
Mass (any amount of matter) warps this fabric, primarily along the time dimension. When you drop a ball, Earth’s time curvature redirects the ball’s passage through time into motion through space. The ball is not being pulled—it follows the straightest possible path through curved spacetime. What we call falling is simply what a straight line looks like when time itself is bent. This is also why light bends around the Sun: it follows the geometry, and that geometry is curved in both time and space. You can alter time in two ways: by how fast you move, and by how much mass surrounds you (but we still recommend a moderate appetite, despite your wishes to bend the fabric of the universe).
Hindu sages describe a state reached in deep meditation when, in perfect stillness, they’ve withdrawn awareness from the senses and back into itself. Here, one does not see light but becomes light. Also known as Savikalpa Samadhi, it is experienced as a boundless, radiant field without edges and without time—correlating, with striking resonance, with what physics tells us light actually is: the last knowable thing at the threshold where time reaches zero. And just as light is the last knowable or calculable thing before the Singularity, the meditator who collapses awareness beyond light into Nirvikalpa Samadhi—the timeless, spaceless, Absolute Self—also crosses a timeless, spaceless threshold that no equation or word can describe.