Recommended Reading
- ‘The Bhagavad Gita: Song of the Supreme‘ by Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
- ‘The Way of Abhyasa: Meditation in Practice‘ by J. P. Vaswani
- ‘The Good You Do Returns: A Book of Wisdom Stories‘ by J. P. Vaswani
- ‘May Paths: One Goal‘ by J. P. Vaswani
- ‘Gateways to Heaven‘ by J. P. Vaswani
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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