Top 200 Nirmala Srivastava Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you should be surrendered.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

152. “First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That’s the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that’s another way.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

153. “Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

154. “Let somebody insult you and see that that you do not answer back. Just see it, not to get into temper. Try that your ego doesn’t react. That can be achieved very easily if you try in the mirror, look at yourself and laugh at yourself, make fun of yourself.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

155. “People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

156. “A person who is innocent is extremely humble.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

157. “Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

158. “Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

159. “It is everyone’s right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!”

— Nirmala Srivastava

160. “So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

161. “So spirituality itself should be self satisfying. If you are spiritually endowed, then you are self satisfied. And this self satisfaction within you will lead you to that ocean of joy about which I’ve been telling you and all the scriptures have described.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

162. “The absolute awareness only comes when you become the Spirit. When you get your realization and you become the Spirit. When you are the Spirit, then what happens that you start feeling on your central nervous the centers of all the people who are around you and your own centers.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

163. “If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself and laugh at your mechanism that is out of gear.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

164. “The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

165. “The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

166. “You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don’t like this, I don’t do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?”

— Nirmala Srivastava

167. “Yoga is a big misnomer in the west, people don’t know what this yoga is. Yoga means union with the divine. When you become one with the divine, the divine starts flowing through you and you become part and parcel of the whole.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

168. “We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

169. “Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of your being. You have to become that.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

170. “There is no need to condemn yourself in any way, or to elate yourself, but just be your Spirit. The best way to be with your Spirit is to forgive.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

171. “We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

172. “In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really cares for the benevolence of the whole world, it will have to turn to introspection.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

173. “Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

174. “You have to develop that peace of mind within yourself by which you can become the witness of yourself first. You should be able to witness yourself and see what are the things, which are putting you down.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

175. “Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

176. “When the Kundalini rises, automatically you develop your own balances and that balanced life manifests outside. Now this ecological problem can be solved as soon as human beings get transformed and develop their balances. Because we are imbalanced, that’s why the nature has gone into imbalance.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

177. “Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

178. “Once you jump in the ocean of love there’s nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but – is love.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

179. “One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

180. “All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

181. “Matter can never give you joy. It’s the Spirit that gives you joy.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

182. “To be generous is the best way to live in this world.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

183. “Truth is in your sahasrara. And when the truth comes in, you are surprised that truth is love and love is truth, pure love.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

184. “One has to practice wisdom through living in the present.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

185. “Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God’s blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

186. “The main thing is you have to be under the protection of spirituality, under the protection of morality, under the protection of divine laws. If you’re not under that protection, you can get caught up into anything.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

187. “The evolution has to take place still within us to know ourselves. We can say that unless and until it is put to the mains, it has no meaning. Unless and until we are connected with the whole, we have no meaning.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

188. “Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

189. “What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

190. “Now the best thing is to put attention to your spirit. If you start putting your attention to spirit, the sweetness of the spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

191. “Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won’t see bad points of the other person, never.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

192. “The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

193. “Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude – the gratitude which is not just wordly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart – the gratitude of the heart.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

194. “Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

195. “Everybody must decide to reach a state where you everyday see the blessings of God manifesting.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

196. “What you have to get is a ocean of love within your heart and to seek that in others also.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

197. “Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

198. “And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

199. “Through Sahaja Yoga what happens to you, that you become a collective personality.”

— Nirmala Srivastava

200. “You are not to be guided by your intellect, but by your wisdom, as you are Sahaja Yogis. So, you have a very good instrument of feeling it. Through your vibrations you can make out what is good and what is bad.”

— Nirmala Srivastava