Piyawadana

In this life our actions are the ink and mind the paper, We inscribe on it the two writings of good and evil. -Guru Gobind Singh Ji-

There is no failure in spiritual life. Even if you seem to fail or stop, what has been gained will not be lost. It is stored, put in a kind of deposit from which you can draw the next time around. -Prabhavananda-

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. -Vivekananda

If you wish to have your mind fixed in order to succeed in various kinds of meditation, do not be deluded by or attached to beneficial objects and do not be averse to harmful objects. -Nemichandra-

Seated in a solitary place, free from desires and with senses controlled, one should meditate free of thought on that one infinite Self. -Shankara-

A man must adopt a vocation appropriate to his age, intellect, means, ability in speaking, dress, learning, family and activity, a vocation free from crookedness and dishonesty. -Yajnavalkya Smriti-

Truth is the highest of all virtues, but higher than truth is true conduct. -Guru Gobind Singh Ji-

Misapprehensions are passions. The ultimate absence of misapprehensions is the intrinsic nature of mind.  -Vimalakirthi-

Death subdues a man who, full of lust, gathers flowers of sensual pleasure and is insatiate. -Gauthama Buddha-

Like one who picks and chooses flowers, a man who has his mind attached to sensual pleasures and is insatiate in them is over powered by Death. -Buddha-