Nirmala Srivastava Born : March 21, 1923 Died : February 23, 2011 Browse All Authors Top 303 quotes by Nirmala Srivastava You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you. Nirmala Srivastava yoga connected meditation The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you've done your job because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental. Nirmala Srivastava wisdom love jobs There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love "I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it. Nirmala Srivastava wisdom beautiful love Within us lies the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There is an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside, we have to go within. Nirmala Srivastava wisdom love lying Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body. Nirmala Srivastava giving-up wisdom love Unless and until you introspect you cannot even respect yourself. You cannot even love yourself. If you love yourself you will introspect and find out what's wrong. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace. Nirmala Srivastava ocean wisdom love To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent. Your attention becomes innocent. Nirmala Srivastava wisdom mistake love The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be auspicious. You have to clear and clean your being completely so it's a beautiful temple for God to reside. Nirmala Srivastava wisdom beautiful love To think that the woman is dominated by man or man is dominated by woman comes from a kind of a complex and this complex must be given up. You are complimentary to each other. You decorate each other. Never talk ill of your husbands and never talk ill of your wives. This is the key of having an exclusive married life. Nirmala Srivastava husband wisdom love The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace. Nirmala Srivastava yoga wisdom love
