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Prahlad Baba Quotes

( Prahlad Chandra Brahmachari (1900-1982) was a well-known Hindu holy man and Mystic from West Bengal, India )

Before you undertake any work, you should weigh it in terms of karma - good or bad.
If you see that truth, there is no more desire to see any other thing. If you hear that truth in your ear, then there is no more desire to hear anything else.
World is unreal. Guru is real. Guru takes you to God and you become one with Him.
The real thing is that "guru" means showing one, making one feel that ineffable truth. He who does that is the real guru.
Take care of your family responsibilities, but whatever you do, keep God in your mind and believe that this universe is His.
Sadhana shown by guru helps in meditation. Faith is the most important thing. If you immerse yourself in dhyana, divine light speads like moonlight, rays emanate.
He is not far away. He is near you. If you open the secret inner door you will see Him. But to open that inner door is a hard thing.
The devotees must try within themselves to keep their minds pure, to train their own minds. Just as ordinary people, living a family life, prepare a house to live in, in the same way in the path of sadhana we must make our mind pure. Wiping the dirt away from the mind. We must keep the mind clean. If, in our mind, we are always thinking of Him, then no other thought will be able to come in.
The mind. Restlessness. The mind is always restless. Do you know what our mind is like? As the water on a lotus leaf shakes like quicksilver, our mind is restless just like that.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna said to Arjuna: "Abhyasha Jugo Jukteno Chetusang Annogaminang." Practice. One must practice. How to practice? Maybe the mind does not sit. In meditation maybe the mind does not go high. Even so, you won’t give up. Still you will sit. Or perhaps I am thinking of my revered Guru’s form and other kinds of thoughts come into the mind. Then in your mind, don’t just give up sadly. Even if the mind is obstinate, still you don’t give up. This restlessness of the mind is the thorn on our path of spiritual practice.
Don’t forget. Always think of Him. then you will see that your mind spontaneously has become alright. When the mind spontaneously becomes still, then that’s enough! Ishwar, or the true self, or that true "I", the true person who is within, then you will see Him.
Peace is within you. You cannot get that peace outside, it is inward. The inner peace is the real peace. Illusory peace is not peace. In illusion there are all kinds of peace, but it is not genuine peace. Peace is within. This inner peace is easy, and again, it is not easy.
Everybody can have spiritual feeling. It does not belong to castes or birth. Whoever wants to know the truth about spiritual knowledge becomes great and becomes God.
If you do meditation and prayer with sincerity of heart, then you will be able to keep your mind from falling into evil or filth.
What is holy, what in unholy, these are all wrong ideas of the mind. Forget all these. In whatever state of mind you are in, in that state call on God.
If you start knowing a beautiful girl, you want to meet her often and you want to be near her all the time, knowing that she will return your love. Spiritual life is like this, then you will get Him. If you love your guru like this, you will get God.