11 quotes found
Advaita Vedanta scripture
“Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.”
“भावस्य भावकः कश्चिन् न किंचिद् भावकोपरः । उभयाभावकः कश्चिद् एवमेव निराकुलः ॥ १८- ४२॥”
“You may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything.”
“One man believes in existence, Another says, There is nothing! Rare is the man who believes in neither. He is free from confusion.”
“He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .”
“Some think that something exists, and others that nothing does. Rare is the man who does not think either, and is thereby free from distraction.”
“What is this power of words? In our everyday routine, we use words to carry out all our transactions. If someone praises us then we get happy and if someone criticizes us then we get annoyed. If we...”
“The goal of spirituality is total and permanent freedom from psychological sorrows and sufferings. This is only possible when we will stop taking birth as individuals again and again.What makes us ...”
“While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.”
“Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.”
“This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish being from non being.”
