Surrender
The Gita on Surrender E-mail

by Swami Radhanandaji

It is neither scholarship, style, gimmicks, or so called mysterious practices in the name of yogas and meditation that are required of a true Gita-devotee or a Gopi, but surrendering or abandoning ourselves in the lap of Mother Gita, the Lord of Lords Shree Krishna or whatever other form and name may appeal to you, that is an essential practice in spirituality.

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 April 2007 )
 
We Must Submit to God's Will E-mail

By Jean-Pierre de Caussade

If we do not concentrate entirely on doing the will of God, we shall find neither happiness nor holiness, no matter what pious practices we adopt, however excellent they may be.

 
Abandonment E-mail

by Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Abandonment involves the most heroic generosity. There is nothing more generous than a soul which, afire with faith, sees only the working of God in all troubles and the most deadly dangers.

Last Updated ( Friday, 20 April 2007 )
 
Obedience to God's WIll E-mail

by Jean-Pierre de Caussade

I believe that people trying to be holy would be saved a lot of trouble if they were taught to follow the right path, and I am writing of people who lived ordinary lives in the world and of those specially marked by God.

Last Updated ( Friday, 20 April 2007 )
 
Hope in God Alone E-mail

by Jean-Pierre de Caussade

The absence of hope grieves you more than any other trial. Let me, with God's grace, try to cure you of this ill.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 04 March 2007 )
 

Quotes

“The more God takes from the surrendered soul, the more is He really giving her…the more He strips us of natural things the more He showers us with supernatural gifts.” — Saint Jean-Pierre de Caussade