THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

[Anandashram]

"Cheer up!  Cheer up! We are safe in the keeping of the Almighty Lord. He may test us in various ways. But He never abandons us."

- Swami Ramdas

[Anandashram]

"Immortal we are always. Immortality is not a goal to be reached. We are immortal already. But our life has to be lived for joy alone; and this we can do by putting ourselves under the guidance of the all-pervading and all-powerful God of Love, who is within our heart. This God of Love manifests in our heart when it is filled with compassion, forgiveness and peace. Where His remembrance is, there all these virtues reside. Let us be humble, pure, gentle, simple and loving. Let us love all for His sake; for He is in all. Not only that; He is all. "

- Swami Ramdas

[Anandashram]

"What a wonderful manifestation of Prem this universe is! There is nothing but He; there is none but He. He appears in all, in His blissful variety, He has assumed innumerable forms, masks and parts and is enacting the world drama. He acts and plays in a variety of ways for the fulfilment of love - which is absolute joy. The giant wheel of form, change and movement is turned by His power. In the midst of this vast medley of appearance and disappearance He is there, all glorious, immutable, imperishable, the one eternal, blissful, sole Reality beyond time, space and causation, beyond the three Gunas, beyond name, form and motion, the supreme immortal Master and Lord of the worlds."

- Swami Ramdas

[Anandashram]

"Know once for all that you are always united with your Lord. You have only to realise it. The Spirit or Atman is one. So you are all one in the infinite existence of God."

- Swami Ramdas

[Anandashram]

"God is all love and mercy. We want this God to be realised as seated in our hearts. His love and light manifest in us when we serve Him in our fellow-creatures, with all our heart." 

- Swami Ramdas

[Anandashram]

"The supreme God you love is within your heart. The greatness and the glory of the Atman is ever dwelling within you. You possess a heart, pure and noble, through which Premanand is flooding your entire being and the whole world. You are He, the supreme Reality."

- Swami Ramdas

[Anandashram]

"Whatever you do is done by Prakriti, with ego-sense or without it. So, external renunciation of work, in which God has engaged us, is not necessary. No action by itself is sinful. No field of work is undesirable. Our ignorance, the cause of misery, consists in our thinking 'I', the individual, as the doer of work." 

- Swami Ramdas

[Anandashram]

"Our goal here is to seek rest in activity. In the rush of movement and work, find the haven of peace and joy. Identifying yourself with the Immortal, do all work as His worship, as His service. This is Yoga. Shrink not. Faint not. Trust the Almighty Lord of the worlds. He is in you; you are in Him; He and you are one."

- Swami Ramdas