Vedanta Institute Madras

If your mind is good the world is good. If your mind is bad the world is bad. Therefore change the pattern of thought and feeling in your mind, the entire world changes of the World Parthasarathy

Educational institutions everywhere commit the blunder of merely providing knowledge without attempting to develop the fallen intellect. The problem is that they do not realise the need to rehabilitate the intellect #
Educational System # Intellect Over Intelligence Fall of Human Intellect Parthasarathy

It is futile to try and instil knowledge into a person who firmly believes he knows it all. If you wish to acquire knowledge you must keep the shutters of learning wide open ready to gain knowledge

One force from the past shapes your destiny known as Prarabdha and the other which gives you the freedom to choose your action, Purushartha of Karma

The creatures of a species do not differ from one another. Whereas human beings do not possess a common nature, collective vasanas. They have different traits and characteristics. No two humans are of the same kind. Every human possesses a distinct, different nature, individualistic vasanas

Just as waves arise, exist and merge back into the ocean, so too living beings are caught up in a cycle of birth and death. They born, exist, die and again born. Adi Shankara in Bhaja Govindam says punarapi jananam punarapi maranam # phenomenon

The scripture warns that even to maintain your body you must be active. The neglect of physical exercise would prove detrimental to your material and spiritual wellbeing #