“Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.” GivingHelpingSpiritualGoalPrayerMeditationEffectsDisciplineHolyEgoHighestIndiaScriptureBlissVedantaHoly ScripturesSpiritual Disciplines Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.” ClassPracticePsychologyFocusMeditationTroubleStudentsCollegeAnxietyIndiaAncientHandleAsiaFellowshipHarvardAdjustingFreshmanMeditation PracticeGrad Author:Daniel Goleman
“Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.” PersonsPhilosophyActionSpiritIndividualMeditationDisciplineYogaIndiaDevotionBetter Person Author:Narendra Modi
“I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background in college, but he had so much love. To be with him, there was nowhere else to be and nothing else to do. Nothing he taught, philosophy or meditation, are the things I went to India to look for, or was interested in, but he sort of jumped into my heart and then pulled, he pried it open.” LooksHeartPhilosophyWantedMeditationTaughtCollegeMy HeartIndiaBackgroundsPsychologicalBuddhistGuruMuch LoveBuddhist Philosophy Author:Surya Das
“My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.” ThinkingNightPracticeMorningMeditationWifeMonthsCircumstancesSixYogaEuropeIndiaDefinitionsMy WifeTraditionalOnenessSuperficialSix MonthsMeditation And YogaSabbatical Author:Karan Bajaj
“You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.” HousePracticeKindnessMeditationExerciseIndiaPrisonMillionaireTibet Author:Pico Iyer
“I am totally amazed at the spread of interest in meditation. When I first came back from studying in India in 1974, I would be asked in social situations what I did. When I replied, "I teach meditation" they would frequently look at me as though to say "That is weird," and sort of sidle away.” FirstsLooksWould BeSocialInterestSituationTeachStudyMeditationIndiaSpreadAmazedLook At Me Author:Sharon Salzberg
“It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.” MotherMeditationTeachingYogaFlowAll ThingsIndiaProfoundTraditional Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation for two and a half months. While the other three Beatles went back to London to start the beginning of their Apple empire, George and I went to Madras for a week’s relaxation. I took this photograph of George one morning, as I thought the light on his face was lovely. I think this was the last time that I saw him looking so calm.” ThinkingTwoLightLastsFacesThreeHalfMorningStudySawsMeditationWeekMonthsIndiaPhotographCalmLondonLovelyIndianApplesEmpiresLast TimeInvitedRelaxationHimalayasMadras Author:Pattie Boyd
“One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it."” MenFacesEvilBeliefWonderSawsPiecesMeditationFrontsIgnoranceHe ManWalkingOne DayIndiaBuddhistBotherVillageLitWalking Meditation Author:Jack Kornfield
“By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.” JesusConsciousnessKnownMeditationUniversalIndiaDefiniteSageSeekersYogiCaliberOmniscience Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.” IfsLoveLifeMeditationIndiaMiracleInspiredPopulationFocusedLove LifeBalanced Author:Jaggi Vasudev