Daily Inspirations


Let Us All Remember the Real Truth

It doesn’t matter what form you choose to worship. As long as your interest is in recognizing and realizing the presence of that Spirit, you can approach It in any form you like. If you don’t care for any of the traditional forms that have been handed…


Love All

Love is happiness. Love is life. Love is energy. Love is immortality. Love is wisdom. Love never fails. Love is success. Love is victory. Love is eternal sunshine. Love alone creates and unites. Love is the moving principle of all forms of fellowship.…


God Is All of These and More

God is “He” and “She” and “It” and even more than that. In the name of simplifying, we usually say “He” because that has been recognized as the so-called neutral pronoun. But God need not be a father. God can be a mother also. God can be a brother, a s…


True Love of God

My child, you have been extremely fortunate in getting this human birth. Have intense devotion to God and commune with Him. Kindle the light divine within your heart and maintain its flame of devotion through your constant remembrance of the Lord. It i…


The Best Compliment

Question: What would be the greatest compliment a student could show you? Answer: The best compliment would be to make me see him or her experiencing all the joy and happiness and health that I experience. That’s the best compliment. Not just mere word…


Can You Serve?

He who is virtuous, who is kind on all occasions, and who is filled with compassion, obtains great contentment. He ascends the superior path of virtue. Harmlessness, forgiveness, peacefulness, contentment, agreeable speech, control of passions and exci…


The Real Spiritual Experience

Living and working together as one beautiful family with total love is God. People often ask me, “Why is it that I’ve been practicing all these years but I haven’t realized God? I haven’t had any experience.” I don’t know what it is that they are looki…


An Exercise in Developing Virtue

Examine your character. Pick up the defects you find in it, and find their opposites. Let us say that you suffer from irritability. The opposite of irritability is patience. Try to develop this virtue by meditating on the abstract virtue of patience. R…


Nothing Is Impossible

God knows your breaking point. God’s purpose is not to break you. No, not at all. You simply don’t know your own strength. You may think, “I’ve reached my limit. I can’t do any more.” If you couldn’t do it, God would not be putting you into that situat…


Garden of Virtue

Forgiveness is the greatest virtue which shines forth in all its splendour in the devotee. Courage and patience are the twin qualities of a real aspirant. Humility is the highest of all virtues. God helps you only when you feel truly humble. Humility i…


Ultimate Help

On a pilgrimage you learn to depend on a higher source. You learn that you cannot depend on anything else for your safety or for your peaceful life. All other things, though they are around, can only help you to a certain extent. They are limited. The…


Good and Evil

The universe contains two dynamic forces. They are good and evil. Good and evil are twin forces, born of the same father. They are called dvandvas or the pairs of opposites. They have no independent existence. Evil exists to glorify good. This is its o…