Man’s Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 1

Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have. If you conduct yourself in accord with the truths I am telling you, you will find your life beautifully di

You should learn now to be obedient to the will of the Almighty. This is how I try to be. Every morning I ask Him to tell me what He wants me to do; then I see Him working through my hands and brain, and everything goes as He wishes.

You can never know Him except through humbleness, wisdom, and devotion. The humble man is the one who will know God.

“Believing that fulfillment of bodily desires is man’s highest aim, confident that this world is ‘all,’ such persons are engrossed till the moment of death in earthly cares and concerns.”6 Parents should try to equip their

Your outer experiences should be only fun.

not permit yourself to be bound by any habit of living; be able, rather, to change your habits as wisdom dictates. Learn to live rightly, using your power of free choice, guided by wisdom. Be able to sleep comfortably on a soft bed one night and just as comfortably on the floor the next night. That divine nonattachment to habit is the freedom advoc

am telling you of a happiness that will intoxicate you night and day—you won’t need sense temptations to enthrall you. Discipline your body and your mind. Control your senses. Find God!

Rather one should vow, “I shall use memory only to recall good thoughts and experiences. From this moment I banish from my mind all unpleasant memories.

When you can see “behind the scenes” you will realize that life on earth is a puppet show. It seems real to us now, but what we are experiencing at this moment will have a dreamlike unreality to us a few years hence.