Sadhu Paksha Continues

During these few weeks of Sadhua Paksha, the monastics have been enjoying a different morning routine. Instead of their usual group Siva puja and meditation they are rising before the sun to wander through nature and perform their sadhana. Here are a few images from their wanderings.

\"When the Creator dances, the worlds He created dance. To the measure that He dances in our knowledge, our thoughts, too, dance. When He in heart-endearing dances, the several elements, too, dance. Witness in rapture surpassing the dance of that One who is a glowing flame.\" Tirumantiram, 2786

\"Silence is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.\"

\"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.\"

\"To give love is true freedom; to demand love is pure slavery.\" Swami Chinmayananda

\"My God is the melter of my heart of love. Let all adore my God, the Lord of primal love, first of beings, my iva, who again and again melts my heart. May He render me His love in foremost measure! Praise Him but once, the Pure and Holy One, and He will be your escort to heaven. He, Lord iva, decked in honeyed konrai blooms, sits enthroned in my love, steadfast and free.\" Tirumantiram274-275

\"The secret of the true life is to remain still in the midst of activity and vibrantly awake while in meditation.\" Dada Vaswani

\"In my silence, I experience one vast garden, spread out through the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher devas are about it in various ways and each has his own uniqueness and beauty. Their presence and variety give me great delight. Every one of you adds in a special way to the glory of this garden.\" Sri Anandamayi Ma

\"Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you have got it, you have lost it.\" Swami Chinmayananda

\"Because you think I am capable of loving or despising you, you cannot know who I am.\" Satguru Yogaswami

\"You are God. I am God. Only one. You cannot separate me from you.\" Satguru Siva Yogaswami

\"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\" Mark Twain

\"The happiness of one\

s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must include, as necessary to one\'s own happiness, the happiness of others. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.\" Paramahansa Yogananda'

\"Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.\" Swedish proverb

\"Do what you should, not what you can.\"

\"If you want to be happy, be.\" Leo Tolstoy

\"Hindu sages have told us that to live the spiritual life, no matter how hampered it might be, no matter with what limitations, is infinitely superior to having a mental grasp of things Divine. They have taught us that until we have woven these things into our lives, one by one and step by step, we would not be able to have a grasp of the whole of the Divine teaching.\" Mahatma Gandhi

\"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.\" Swami Sivananda

\"The end of ego is the mystic death of the meditator.\" Swami Chinmayananda

\"The practice of yoga is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature into the life of humanity. It is not personal ananda, but the bringing down of the divine ananda, the Satya Yuga, upon the Earth.\" Sri Aurobindo

\"You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself. You love the discipline, because it brings more love.\" Gurudeva

\"As long as there is searching, Parasiva has not been found, for searching is two, while It is one.\" gurudeva

\"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.\"

\"Give! Give! Give without any expectation of reward. Give the best in you!\" Dada Vaswani

\"A happy man is he who desires nothing, claims nothing, expects nothing and is free from hatred and fear.\" Dada Vaswani

\"Self inquiry directly leads to Realization by removing the obstacles which make you think that the Self is not already realized.\" Ramana Maharshi

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