Spritual Gems

1. 'Seekers of the world are doomed, seekers of paradise are mercenaries and seekers of the Supreme Being are blessed.'

-An unknown Persian Saint

2. 'Among thousands of men, one perchance strives for perfection.'

-Radhaswami

3. 'Only a perfect Master and the Word are your two real friends. Give your heart to them and throw and throw out all else from it.'

-Radhaswami

4. 'The soul loves God intensely, but God, and the Master who is His son, love the soul even more intensely.'

-Radhaswami

5. 'Prayer is necessary to obtain blessing and mercy to help man's perfect salvation, but it must be offered from the inmost of heart and not confined to mere utterance. It must also be backed up by works of faith and charity performed through love and affection for the Supreme Being.'

-Radhaswami

6. 'Speak to him, thou, for He hearth
And spirit to spirit can speak.
Nearer is He than breathing,
Closer than hands and feet.'
Into the Temple-cave of thine own self,
There, brooding by the central altar, thou
Mayst haply learn the Nameless hath a voice,
By which thou wilt abide, if thou be wise.'

- St. Paul

7. 'Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.'

- St. Matthew 7 : 7-8

8. 'He that heareth my word . . . hath everlasting life.'

- St. John 5:24

9. 'Man has been sent to the world and granted the precious gift of human life for the sole purpose of realizing his self and the source of the self-God.'

-Radhaswami

10. 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.'

- St. John 8 : 32

11. 'And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.'

-Rev. 22 : 4

12. 'The single most important factor in developing spirituality is the cultivation of love for the true Beloved.'

-Radhaswami

13. 'I seldom pray! for worldly things. “Praying” to me, is trying to either convince God about something, He already knows about, and hasn’t decided to act on yet, or its like trying to convince Him to do something on my behalf, that I know is better for the outcome of the practical situation, than He does. "Praying” is talking to God, while “Meditation” is listening to God. I prefer to listen. “Not my will, but Thy Will, be done, O Lord!”

-Unknown

14. 'Inside ourselves is the true Heavenly Melody.'

- The Adi Granth

15. 'Every day of forgetfulness of the Bestower of joy of life, is a day wasted.'

- Guru Arjan Dev

16. 'No one is deprived here; O Bhikha! everybody has got bundle of true jewels, but those who do not know how to open the knot are living in frustration of (spiritual) poverty.'

-Saint Bhikha Ram

17. 'And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.'

-Gn. 1:26-27

18. 'Render therefore unto Casear the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

- ST. Mathew 22 :21

19. 'Strive to enter in the strait gate : for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.'

- ST. LUKE 13:24

20. 'Where there is, KAM (lust), there is no NAAM (holy name) and where there is NAAM, there is no KAM. Both are just like day and night, can never remain together. Therefore, we should use NAAM, this is the only antidote to lust as well as all other temptations'.

- Saint Kabir

21. 'Ounces of action (spiritual practice) is better then Oceans of talks'.

- Saint Kabir

22. 'Listen! A voice is calling you!' Then I looked up at the clouds, and two men were coming there, headfirst like arrows slanting down; and as they came, they sang a sacred song and the thunder was like drumming. I will sing it for you. The song and the drumming were like this: 'Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.'

- Oglala Holy Man From the Book 'Black Elk'.

23. 'Two Brahmans are to be known, the sound-Brahman and the highest Brahman; he who is perfect in the sound-Brahman attains the highest Brahman' and 'He who is the high and the highest god, by name Om-kara, he is soundless and free from all distinctions: therefore let a man dwell on him in the crown of his head.'

- Maitri Upanishad

24. 'For what else is Christ, but the word, the sound of God?'

- Acts of Peter The Apocryphal New Testament

25. 'Meditation on Nad or the Sound Principle is the royal road to salvation.'

- Hansa Naad Upanishad

26. 'At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe. The act of getting in touch with this pulse can transform our personal experience and in some way alter the world around us.'

- "The Silent Pulse" by Leonard George

27. 'By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the hosts of them at the breath of his Mouth.'

- PSALM 33:6

28. 'And when the sun is high in the heavens, then shall you seek the Holy Stream of Sound. In the heat of noontide, all creatures are still and seek the shade; the angels of the Earthly Mother are silent for a space. Then it is that you shall let into your ears the Holy Stream of Sound; for it can only be heard in the silence. ....... it is the Holy Stream of Sound that traverses the vault of stars and crosses the endless kingdom of the Heavenly Father. It is ever in our ears, so do we hear it not. Listen for it, then, in the silence of noontide; bathe in it, and let the rhythm of the music of God beat in your ears until you are one with the Holy Stream of Sound. It was this Sound which formed the earth and the world, and brought forth the mountains, and set the stars in their thrones of glory in the highest heavens.'

'And you shall bathe in the Stream of Sound, and the music of its waters shall flow over you; for in the beginning of the times so did we all share in the Holy Stream of Sound that gave birth to all creation. And the mighty roaring of the Stream of Sound will fill your whole body, and you will tremble before its might. Then breathe deeply of the angel of air, and become the sound itself, that the Holy Stream of Sound may carry you to the endless kingdom of the Heavenly Father, there where the rhythm of the world rises and falls.'

- The Essene Gospel Of Peace

29. 'I cannot speak for the 'Tao', for the 'Sound' that I speak of is to be realized, for gnosis to occur, but I can state through experience that it was during a time of my life when I was engaged in Taoist practice, that a state of harmony occurred in which I had awakened to the symphony of life and could not tell from where the sound came or where it went ... a harmonious rainbow-body state in which every particle of my being was vibrating and aglow with the song of light, and in that timeless sacred space, I knew what it was to be born again.'

- Raymond St-Martin

* Radhaswami *