About This Quote
One day, a sage was sitting near a lake. The sound of a bell in the distance disturbed him, and he asked his pupils to find out who was making such a noise. One of them went to investigate and found a man engaged in the practice of yoga. The man was chanting and humming while he performed his actions with mind absorbed in the Divine.
The scholar approached him and asked whether he really believed that his actions had any value. “I do," said the yogi. "Once I was enchanted by the beauty of the God-haunted Himalayas and I wanted to live there.
The more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that only through devotion to God could I hope to attain that divine experience. So I decided to undertake a pilgrimage to Him. On reaching the Himalayas, however, I discovered that all my hopes were in vain: I had come too late; She was no longer there.
“But she must be somewhere," I thought, "She must still be somewhere." That is how my pilgrimage began: looking for an object which had already disappeared! And so, after many wanderings and years of wandering, I finally found this lake where She had appeared long ago. She is here again!”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita
Some Similar Quotes
- I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
- I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
- That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
- Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To...
- Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8....
More Quotes By Anonymous
- Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices...
- Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It...
- And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear...
- I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)