Only with the help of nature and nature's energy can you create artificial things.
Spiritual energy is not magic or illusionary energy.
It is the original true energy.

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To spin a top, both rope and power are needed.
Similarly, for spirituality to thrive both 'Adigalar' and 'Annai' are needed.

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A binder is needed to stick one thing to another.
Similarly, a binding link is needed between spiritual feeling and spiritual work.
If one pretends at spirituality, it is a wasted effort.

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For sprituality to grow one should do good to others and pray regularly.

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If the servant is bad, work cannot be done.
If the ground is bad, the plants cannot be grown.
If the spirit is bad, spirituality cannot be achieved.

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For spirituality and knowledge to grow one should have faith in God.

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Just as a fetus in a mother's womb gets nourishment from its mother,
so also mankind grows and thrives through spirituality only.

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The world is moving towards destruction.
Your wealth and your comforts will not come and help you, only the Dharma you do will stay with you.
By involving yourself in spirituality you become indestructable.

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Life in the world of today is going beyond control.
Only spiritualistic powers can contain it.

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What happens if an iron filing falls into one's eye?
What happens if iron rusts?
It is a catastrophe.
One should see to it that spirituality does not develop any rust.

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The plant of spirituality needs to be watered to flourish.
Both Bhakthi (devotion) and Annathanam must excel.

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What can not be achieved by man and medicine can be obtained through spirituality.

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Wonders beyond man's knowledge can be obtained through spirituality.
Science (without spirituality) can only bring about downfall.

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If one realises one's own thought, it becomes a stepping stone to spirituality.

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When you engage in spirituality with sincerity and devotional service,
I shall reveal My presence to you.

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The spirituality within you is more powerful than the deity within the temple.

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Iron is attracted by a magnet.
So also spirituality has magnetic powers to attract anything in this earth.

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The beauty of yourself is spirituality and the beauty of spirituality is doing good to others.

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A man who is greedy for money, position and power;
a man who does not respect his parents, cannot progress in spirituality.

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A gain in spirituality can be obtained by Dharma and good deeds.

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Plants and trees should be well cared for in order to grow.
Similarly, Godly festivals and Dharma are needed for spirituality to grow.

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Evils that you can see, that you can hear, and that you can read are all around you.
Spirituality is needed to protect you against all these evils.

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Even those who lead a family life can obtain special spiritual instructions from their Guru
and progress on the path of spiritual knowledge.
Even after obtaining special instructions they should continue with their daily meditations, however.

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The spiritual pathway includes nature, nothing artificial.
Spirituality is there to gain control over the five senses.
In the future, as material knowledge grows faster than spiritual knowledge there will be disasters.

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If you must administer a bitter medicine to a child you either inject it or give through food.
Either way it will help the child.
Likewise, in order to advance spiritually you need bitterness and challenges.

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If you want to reach spiritual maturity you should serve the living of the world.
You should do spiritual activities with fasting and self-sacrifice.

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In sprituality there should be selfless thoughts.
Take others troubles/difficulties and treat them as yours.
In the older days people had these kinds of feelings.

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The ocean waves are contained by the seashore.
Likewise man's spiritual thoughts are not realised because they get caught up in family, debt, love.

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When you try to sleep in a brand new place you have trouble falling asleep.
Once you get used to the place you sleep very well.
In the same way, in the beginning it will be difficult doing spiritual activities
but in the course of time you will learn to do things more easily.

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You must place one brick on top of another to build a house.
Likewise, in spirituality, each individual should join with others so that a good society can be created.

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When you come forward to help even before someone asks, that is good spirituality, good devotion.
The helping tendencies should come out of you on their own. That is great.

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In politics/government you pay and buy the political workers,
but in spirituality the workers pay themselves in order to do service.
That is the greatness of spirituality.

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Like walking on a tight rope you will have to walk carefully in spirituality.
You should try to understand yourself and try to understand your soul.

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If you want permanent progress in your life, the only way is through spirituality.
Some plants can live in dry, arid conditions.
Likewise poverty and poor conditions test you but you still bear them.
However, make sure you are making spiritual progress.

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Last updated on Wed Jan 20 2010 at 9:58:01pm