Obedience

The mind is unable to possess the infinite, it can only be affected by it or be completely taken over by it. All it can do is blissfully surrender to the real, under the radiant presence that extends from planes of existence beyond its grasp.

Show great devotion to your parents, but do not obey them if they stand in your way to God.

Then the bull addressed him, "Satyakama!" "Sir!" he answered. "Dear boy, we have reached a thousand; take us to the teacher's house."

"A diver-bird will declare to you another quarter." The next morning he drove the cows onward, and where they arrived by evening, there he laid a fire, penned in the cows, put fuel on the fire, and sat down behind it, facing east.

"A swan will declare to you another quarter." The next morning he drove the cows onward, and where they arrived by evening, there he laid a fire, penned in the cows, put fuel on the fire, and sat down behind it, facing east.

"Fire will declare to you another quarter." The next morning he drove the cows onward, and where they arrived by evening, there he laid a fire, penned in the cows, put fuel on the fire, and sat down behind it, facing east.

Naciketas said to his father: 'Father, to whom will you give me?' He asked a second and third time. The father replied: 'To Death I give you.'

He who demands the price of his service is not a disciple. A disciple always serves without any self-interest. Service is not something that you choose to do; service is what is accepted or recognised, what has been done on order.

By giving away land, a person acquires a land that yields nectar in their next life.

The one who obeys my command is my servant and dearest to me.

One should worship the one who is the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe. Renouncing all worldly ties, my lord, worship the same hero of Raghu's line, who is fond of those who surrender to him.

I must respectfully obey your orders; this is my paramount duty, my lord.

Obey your Guru's command with reverence, care for your subjects, and alleviate your family's suffering.

Never surrender to passion, anger, jealousy, arrogance, or infatuation, not even in your dreams. Abandon all negative feelings and serve them with your mind, words, and actions.

After spending four years and ten in the forest and obeying my father's commands, I will return and behold your feet again; do not be sad at heart.

The earth became a cow of plenty, yielding all one's coveted products. The people were happy and free from all sorrows, and both men and women were good-looking and virtuous.

My Lord, You are all-powerful, all-wise and all-blissful; You are a repository of all arts and virtues and a storehouse of Yoga, wisdom and dispassion. Your Name is a wish-yielding tree as it were to the suppliant.

The Prophet said that every unbeliever, after death, suffers from the pangs of grief and remorse for not having believed and obeyed in this world.

The bath taken after completing the Horse Sacrifice is highly purifying and yields great merit.

The mind is undoubtedly superior. The Word said to the mind, 'I yield to you the fulfillment of all your desires.'