Brahmananda Quotes & Sayings

Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop. — Sathya Sai Baba

How can you be a 'Former-Father'? Is it possible to be a father but, because someone or something is determined to illegalize it, being a father becomes a thing of the past? Should you simply consign yourself to be effectively dead to your living children; as though the fact of being their father has somehow been terminated, nullified or otherwise, deemed non-existent? I believe the basic answer to be 'No! — H. Kirk Rainer

However you try to define meditation, it's not that. — Swami Brahmananda

Wanna learn something, Get out there and start ... — Brahmananda Patra

Being a Workaholic is Good as long as you love your work.. — Brahmananda Patra

Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi. — Frederick Lenz

I have no idea why people get stuck in traffic, because I work from my desktop — Brahmananda Patra

You want to hunt, then stop being the Prey. — Brahmananda Patra

Working good brings me closer to the man in the mirror ... — Brahmananda Patra

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it. — Swami Brahmananda

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter. — Pat Paulsen

My Favourite hobby is to sit still and convert oxygen into Carbon Dioxide. Love to Live. — Brahmananda Patra

The best part, however, was watching Rocky eat a pile of custard-filled, hot fudge-topped profiteroles. He could swear, after the third bite, she was going to have an orgasm and, watching her, he nearly had one. — Kristen Ashley

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably. — Swami Brahmananda

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always. — Brahmananda Saraswati

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages. — Swami Brahmananda

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meditate, meditate, meditate. Then you will find that people suffer for no reason when there is the mine of bliss in everyone's heart. Then your heart will go out in sympathy and compassion for everybody. — Swami Brahmananda

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. — Swami Brahmananda

Imagine what you'll know tomorrow — Tommy Lee Jones

I love being around myself and that is cool — Brahmananda Patra

Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls - 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. — Anonymous

Artists are never poor, they just don't get enough time to make money ! — Brahmananda Patra