Inspirational Quotes by Dada J. P. Vaswani (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

Inspirational Quotes by Dada J. P. Vaswani (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

Great thoughts are nourishment for our soul. If you do not have such thoughts of your own, you can always borrow them from some of the great ones of humanity.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

I don’t believe so much in religion as I do in spirituality.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Never do anything which you would not wish to do during the last hour of your life.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Debates and discussions cannot prove the truth of life. Only experience can. You know whether a shoe fits you only by wearing it!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

The source of energy is within you! It is inexhaustible.
It is the Divine within you!
To contact it, practice silence everyday!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Everyday I must try to do something I think I cannot do. That is the way to develop strength, courage and confidence.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

If in your thinking, there is no evil, you verily dwell in Heaven!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

The hands that help are holier than those that turn the beads of the rosary.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

There are many ways to God. But the surest and shortest is the way of love.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Life’s greatest achievement is to establish a living link with God. Let everything else be taken away from us, but let the link be maintained. For this, it is necessary to develop awakened consciousness.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Think little! Feel Less! Love more!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

The call of life is: Onward! Forward! Upward! Inward! Godward!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

If you would walk the way of love, never feel hurt nor yield to anger, but accept pain as a part of life.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

The very first right of every animal is the right to live. As you cannot give life to a dead creature, you do not have the right to take life away from a living one.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

The Guru loves all: but he who loves the Guru and surrenders himself to Him, serving Him day and night, will attain the Highest!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Religion divides, creates discord, but spirituality unites.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Love the world, and you become worldly.
Love the Lord, and you will grow Godlike!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Man lives not by the beats of his heart, but by the grace of God. Alone the grace of God sufficeth.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

May my face be always turned to Light!
May my footsteps always lead me to the right:
And even if I stumble, may I be granted
The strength to rise and get back to the Path.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

More than developed brains, we need enlightened hearts!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

The true teacher is a lamp-lighter. He keeps on kindling lights in the lamps (students) that come to him. He is not a pump who keeps on filling the brains of students with facts and figures.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

All good things come from God!
And they come like the tide
At their own right time!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Fulfill all your obligations, attend to your daily duties, be attached to nothing, no one—and be ever ready to depart when the call comes!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

I seek to tread the path of humility and love. The wisdom of the ages, the wisdom of the sages, is in this one world – Love. Love everyone not only those that are good but those whom the world regards as evil. Love not only men but all creatures who breathe the breath of life. Love every ray of sunshine, every drop of water,, every grain of sand. And I ask you to bless me that I may try, in my daily life, to bear witness to this teaching.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

If there is a language, which the deaf can hear and the blind can see, it is the language of love!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

You may develop a thousand virtues and be reckoned as the greatest in the land. But the lotus of your heart will not blossom until you receive the grace of the Guru, the grace of God.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Which is the best exercise for the heart? Reach down and lift up as many as you can.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Happiness belongs to those who live for others!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

We identify ourselves with our mind and body. But we are neither the mind nor the body.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Men are so busy changing conditions and circumstances that they have no time to change themselves. Until man learns to change himself all other change is futile!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

Without God we can do nothing. With God there is nothing that we cannot do!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

The way to peace and joy is the way of letting go. Let go of people and things: let God take over!
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

He who loses himself in his teacher is the true disciple.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

The test of a man is how much he can bear and how much he can share and how soon he confesses a mistake and makes amends for it.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

When will the day come when, out of the very depths of a yearning heart, will come forth the cry: ‘I need nothing, neither pleasures or possessions nor power do I need. I need Thee and Thee alone!’
—Dada J. P. Vaswani

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