29 quotes found
“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man ...”
“What does spirituality, money and happiness have in common? Everything.”
“In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse. The object was to find a verbal formula to define the...”
“A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.”
“Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those...”
“The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.”
“I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.”
“An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.”
“The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all tha...”
“One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtu...”
“God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount Sumeru, unattached, and beyond pain and pleasure. There is much confusion in this...”
“Then, O King! the God, so saying,Stood, to Pritha's Son displayingAll the splendour, wonder, dreadOf His vast Almighty-head.Out of countless eyes beholding,Out of countless mouths commanding,Countl...”
“Lovers of God possess intense concentration. In prayer their attention rivets itself so completely onto God that nothing can tear it away. Even a suggestion of the divine may draw them into a highe...”
“Mahatma Gandhi was as devout a Rambhakt as you can get he died from a Hindu assassins bullet with the words H Ram on his lips but he always said that for him, Ram and Rahim were the same deity, a...”
“Terrorism has no religion, but secularism has one and only one.”
“Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent ...”
“Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or formthe cosmic radiation that is thought to come from the explosion of c...”
“In his numerous works, especially in The Idealist View of Life and Eastern Religions and Western Thought, the great Eastern Philosopher, Professor Radhakrishnan, advocates the necessity for the rev...”
“The ultimate goal of human life is to transcend culture and personality to the unconditioned pure being. But the means to do this is through our culture and way of life.”
“Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion. I find it immensely congenial to be able to face my fellow human beings of o...”
