I.R. Shankar Quotes

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.

The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.

Feel indebted. Feel grateful. Then abundance grows.

Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.

In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen.

Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!

If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.

You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.

In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest

Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.

One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one.

The bigger our vision for the world, the less personal worries we have.

Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.

Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings - how you feel, what you think, what you do... You are responsible.

In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness.

Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment.

Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.

Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.

When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.

If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.

Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun

Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'

A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.

In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

Through knowledge and devotion, transcend all karma and be free.

There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again.

The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.

Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.

Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.

Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!

Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?

Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.

The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.

Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work