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Friday, August 19, 2011

Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti Quotes




Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti Quotes

  • Love Towards All, Malice Towards None.
  • The spiritual disciple deserves to be called a Dervish only when he lives in the world with no self-interest.
  • There are such lovers of God, whom the love of God has made quiet to an extent that they do not know that there is anything else existing in the world.
  • He is a hardened sinner who commits sin and yet simultaneously entertains the belief that he is one the God’s ‘chosen few’.
  • A friend of God must be generous like a river. We all get water from the river to quench our thirst. It does not discriminate whether we are good or bad or whether we are a relation or a stranger.
  • The noise of the lover is only while he has not seen his Beloved. Once he sees the beloved, he becomes calm and quiet, just as the rivers are boisterous before they join the ocean, but when they do so, there are becalmed forever.
  • The heart was essentially created for making rounds of the love of God.
  • Whosoever received any blessings, received them due to his generosity.
  • The Enlightened becomes perfect only when all else is removed from in-between him and the Friend. Either he remains or the Friend.
  • When one comes on the path of love of the Friend, he becomes nonexistent (loses himself).
  • Those devoted to the path of the ‘knowledge of God’s realisation’ (Irfaan ) have nothing to speak of except God.
  • A seer of the ‘essence of things’ is characteristically mute and meditative.
  • Be overflowing with peace and joy,
    and scatter them wherever you are
    and wherever you go.
  • He indeed is a true devotee blessed with the love of God, who is gifted with the following three attributes: river-like charity, i.e his sense of charity has no limits and is equally beneficial to all the creatures of God who approach him, Sun-like affection, i.e. his affection may be extended indiscriminately to all like sunlight and Earth-like hospitality, i.e. His loving embrace may be open to 

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Guru Nanak Dev Sayings
  • his (god) compassion is beyond all description.
    the lord's gifts are so great he expects nothing in return.
     
  • all creation is his (god) name;
    there is no place that is not his name.
     
  • countless are the names and the places where you (god) dwell,
    countless worlds that have never been reached.
    to say countless is to burden the mind.
     
  • those in whose heart rama (god) abides
    never die nor can be cheated.
     
  • his (god) is the timeless form.
    never born, self-creating.
    he is attained by the guru's grace.
     
  • the real power lies in his hands
    -- who creates and keeps on watching.
    nanak says, no one is high and no one is low before him.
     
  • were you to live through four ages,
    or even ten times more,
    were you known on all nine continents,
    and were to gain universal following,
    were you to earn fame and praise from all of mankind,
    if you have not his grace, nothing will save you.
     
  • he makes the worthless worthy,
    and showers the gifted with more gifts.
    none but god can bestow such excellence

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Guru Nanak Dev Quotes
  • the lord is truth. truth is his name.
    his praises are sung in endless ways.
     
  • oh yogi, assume the posture of contentment and modesty.
    pick up the carrying bag of dignity and honor,
    and apply the sacred ash of meditation.
     
  • if you must bow, bow to him (god).
    he is the primal being, pure, without beginning or end;
    he is the unstruck sound.
    he is immutable through all time.
     
  • saint or sinner are no empty words;
    all our actions have been recorded.
    man sows and he himself reaps the harvest.
     
  • if my single tongue becomes a hundred thousand,
    and this hundred thousand becomes twenty times more,
    with each tongue would i sing a hundred thousand times
    the only name of the master of the world.
     
  • if i have succeeded in attaining his (god) pleasure,
    i have bathed in all the holy rivers.
    and if i fail to please him,
    why should i bathe and adorn myself?
     
  • remember the true name
    and meditate on its glory in the ambrosial hour.
    through your actions you receive this body,
    and by his grace the door to salvation opens.
     
  • however well i know him, he cannot be described.
    he cannot be expressed by words.
    the guru is the secret that solves the riddle.
    he is the benefactor of all.
    let me never forget him.



Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes
  • In the waters of purity, I melted like salt
    Neither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nor doubt remained.
    In the center of my heart a star has appeared
    And all the seven heavens have become lost in it.
     
  • When you do things from your soul, you feel a river
    moving in you, a joy.
     
  • Without cause God gave us Being;
    without cause, give it back again.
     
  • How long will you think about this painful life?
    How long will you think about this harmful world?
    The only thing it can take from you is your body.
    Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking.
     
  • There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
    There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
    O traveler, if you are in search of That
    Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That.
     
  • Hundreds have looked for you and died searching
    in this garden where you hide behind the scenes.
    But this pain is not for those who come as lovers.
    You are easy to find here. You are in the breeze and in this river of wine.
     
  • There is a way between voice and presence
    where information flows.
    In disciplined silence it opens.
    With wandering talk it closes.
     
  • When your chest is free of your limiting ego,
    Then you will see the ageless Beloved.
    You can not see yourself without a mirror;
    Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.
     
  • In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness,
    nothing else exists.
    There is no reason for living except for giving one's life.
    I said, "First I know you, then I die."
    He said, "For the one who knows Me, there is no dying."
     
  • Come, Come again !
    Whatever you are...
    Whether you are infidel,
    idolater or fireworshipper.
    Whether you have broken your vows
    of repentance a hundred times
    This is not the gate of despair,
    This is the gate of hope.
    Come, come again...

Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes


Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes
  • Open the love window.
    The moon won't use the door,
    only the window.
     
  • A lifetime without Love is of no account
    Love is the Water of Life
    Drink it down with heart and soul!
     
  • Love is the cure,
    for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
    until your eyes constantly exhale love
    as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
     
  • The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon
    So powerful I fell to the ground
    Your love has made me sure
    I am ready to forsake this worldly life
    and surrender to the magnificence of your Being
     
  • If I love myself
    I love you.
    If I love you
    I love myself.
     
  • I see so deeply within myself.
    Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly.
    Why would I want to bother my eyes again
    Now that I see the world through His eyes?
     
  • With passion pray.
    With passion work.
    With passion make love.
    With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
    Why look like a dead fish
    in this ocean of God?
     
  • Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
    The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
    Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
    The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
     
  • This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
    This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
    To be one with the truth for just a moment,
    Is worth more than the world and life itself.
     
  • The intellectual is always showing off,
    the lover is always getting lost.
    The intellectual runs away.
    afraid of drowning;
    the whole business of love
    is to drown in the sea.

Saint Kabir Quotes
  • If there be lust, how can love be there?
    Where there is love, there is no lust.
     
  • It is the mercy of my true Guru
    that has made me to know the unknown.
     
  • Your Lord is near:
    yet you are climbing the palm-tree to seek Him.
     
  • Where is the night, when the sun is shining?
    If it is night, then the sun withdraws its light.
    Where knowledge is, can ignorance endure?
     
  • Serve your God, who has come into this temple of life!
    Do not act the part of a madman, for the night is thickening fast.
     
  • The man who is kind and who practises righteousness, who remains passive amidst the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, He attains the Immortal Being, the true God is ever with him.
     
  • You are alone, you have no companion:
    you will suffer the consequences of your own deeds.
     
  • You are weaving your bondage of falsehood,
    your words are full of deception:
    With the load of desires which you hold on your head,
    how can you be light?
     
  • The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing,
    and its sound is love:
    When love renounces all limits, it reaches truth.
    How widely the fragrance spreads! It has no end, nothing stands in its way.
     
  • O my heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master,
    is near you: wake, oh wake!
    Run to the feet of your Beloved:
    for your Lord stands near to your head.
    You have slept for unnumbered ages;
    this morning will you not wake?
     
  • Subtle is the path of love!
    Therein there is no asking and no not-asking,
    There one loses one’s self at His feet,
    There one is immersed in the joy of the seeking:
    plunged in the deeps of love as the fish in the water.
    The lover is never slow in offering his head for his Lord’s service.