the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.” o SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –”Start the Day with Love; Spend the Day with Love; Fill the Day with Love; End the Day with Love; This is the way to God.” o SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –”The body has to be Utilised for service to others. More bliss can be got from serving others than from merely serving oneself.” o SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –”You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!” o SWAMI PARTHASARATHY –”The teacher proceeds from the known to the unknown…We all know that we hear with our ears. But a set of ears on their own are as deaf as a post. Follow the sound vibrations through the eardrums along the nerves. It is the brain which is actually hearing those vibrations. But that is not the end of it. If the Consciousness leaves the brain you won’t hear. Even if that Consciousness simply shifts the focus of your brain for a moment, the ears are still transmitting sounds to it as it ticks away but you are deafened… Consciousness is the see-er in the eye, the mind in the mind, the speaker in speech. That, says the teacher, is the source of existence, is God (Brahman). So God is the subject of all you see, hear, smell, touch, taste, feel or understand. Therefore, God can never be an object of perception or comprehension.” o SWAMI VIUEKANANDA –”The will is not free — it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect — but there is something behind the will which is free.” o THE BUDDHA –”When wisdom came
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