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Excerpts from Rev Sushil Kumar Ji's Speeches
On Faith :
"Do not believe anything out of force or a sense of duty. Faith should come from direct experience.” On Receptivity:
"If you have nothing, you are an empty vessel. You can receive anything you want. You are open-minded.” On Thought:
“Thought is a force. Thought has unlimited power. You are what you think. Anyone can achieve complete success by spiritual awareness. 2,500 years ago Lord Mahävir gave us this perfect truth that "All mankind is one." There is no superiority or inferiority, no caste or creed, Caucasian or Aryan. Weather conditions in various areas may have produced amounts of pigmentation as far as our skin is concerned, but since our systems of birth and death are the same, our smiling and weeping are the same, our reactions to pain and pleasure are similar, how can we make distinctions by caste, color or religion? A cow's skin may be red, white or black but the milk is the same.” On Being Here Now:
"Catch the moment of the present and the future is in your hands." On Truth and Spiritual Practice (Sadhana):
“Truth is one, but there are many aspects and many pathways to that truth. We must become open minded. There is so much confusion on the spiritual path because people think that theirs is the only way, and all other ways are not correct. There is no one way.
Some people think SO-HUM practice is the only way to meditate, while others think navel practice, or third eye center practice is better. All of these are related. Many spiritual groups promote their gurus as the one true master for this era. They feel their way is completely
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