Gautam Buddha

Buddha, means 'the enlightened one'. And Gautam Buddha was one of the greatest religious teachers that the world has seen. His teachings expounded in Buddhism, are immensely popular in Burma, China, Japan and other South Eastern Countries
A Search for Light
Despite this, Siddhartha found no happiness in materialistic pleasures and so left the palace in search of salvation - ' Moksh'. He was only 29 years old. He roamed the country, meeting various sadhus and saints in his search for inner peace. He lived the life of a hermit and underwent rigorous ' tapasya' to achieve his purpose, but still could not understand the meaning of or reason for life and death.
Finally, one day he reached Bodh Gaya. He was very tired and so sat under the shade of a tree. He shut his eyes and was blessed with a divine light. This was the turning point, as he realized the truth is within every human being. The search outside was pointless. After this he was known as ' Buddha' or the enlightened one.

Quotes- Albert Einstein

• "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be".
• "Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction".
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new".
• "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. z
• "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. "
• "Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. "
• "Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889 in Allahabad, central India. His father Motilal Nehru was a prominent advocate and early leader of the Indian independence movement. The younger Nehru graduated from Cambridge University, and returned to India in 1912. Over the next thirty years, he rose to become the top political leader of the Indian National Congress Party and its struggle for independence from Britain. He was jailed seven times.

After independence he served as India first Prime Minister from 1947 until he died in May, 1964. He was also a great internationalist, and one of the founders of the non-aligned movement.

Quotes-Swami Vivekananda

• “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions,
• it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
• “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
• “The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside.
• What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.”
• “If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”
• "Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”
• "Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man”
• "GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”"
• “The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”
• “It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that”

Quotes - Mother Theresa

• "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies".
• "Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing"
• "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other"
• "It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters".
• "Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. "
• "Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. "
• "Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them"
• "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop".