Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

We are already divine. No one has to redeem us; Divinity is in there. We just have to find it.

3 Modern day Vedantists

How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

Anandamayi Ma

We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

Sri Ramakrishna

John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

Swami Sivananda

 

Madhva said, “Man is the servant of God,” and established his Dvaita philosophy. Ramanuja said, “Man is a ray or spark of God,” and established his Vishishtadvaita philosophy. Sankara said, “Man is identical with Brahman or the Eternal Soul,” and established his Kevala Advaita philosophy.

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

 

“Practice makes perfect” applied to efforts in our spiritual life takes on a different meaning. Our inner essence, our soul nature, is already perfect. Our practice, or self effort, is to bring that inner perfection into our outer intellectual, emotional and instinctive nature. Thus we could modify the adage to be “practice manifests perfection.”

THE WESTERN CHILDREN’S GAME SNAKES AND LADDERS

Comes from the Indian game for adults called Gyan Chaupar, the “Game of Knowledge.” Gyan Chaupar teaches the Hindu spiritual path to moksha, which is liberation from reincarnation. There are 72 numbered squares on the board listing various virtues, vices, states of consciousness and planes of existence. The ladders start from squares with virtues, such as devotion, and move the player up the board. Snakes are found on squares of vices, such as jealousy, and take the player back down the board.

The Shvetashvatara Upanishad

 Him(Brahman) do I know, the unaging primeval atman who pervades all with penetrating power. Birth—they say it stops for the one who knows Him whom the Brahman-knowers call Eternal.

Ashtavajra Gita

We already have what we need to succeed: purity in our heart, clarity in our mind, and skill in our actions. We already have it - it just needs to be kindled, and supported through our sadhana

RELIGIONS– Swami Sivananda

“A proper understanding of the essential unity of religions is the most effective and powerful factor in bringing about peace in this world. It will remove all superficial differences and conflicts, which create restlessness, discord and quarrels. “

Omkarananda Saraswati

 

O Man! discern the objective of your existence on earth, which is a spiritual awakening, a gradual yet grand process of the unfolding of the Consciousness of the Divine, which you are essentially. Through Wisdom, master the secrets of all sciences, know the exact nature of things, tune your self to the workings of the Divine Nature of the Laws of Truth. Wisdom is the key to the Plenitude of Power and Joy. It saves one from countless sufferings and innumerable sins, cuts at the root of ignorance and confers upon you Peaceful Harmony and Absolute Perfection.

Man is whirled round and round in the storm of life when he clings to his ego, his lower self, his limited life. The sorrow of phenomenal life is rooted in the idea of individual living; a living of isolation and suffering, which is fed by the delusion of separative independence and permanent multiplicity of beings. To escape from such a self-made net-work of tormentations, Wisdom is the only means, as that alone will lead you to a realization of the real Oneness of Being.

Wisdom is acquired through right thinking, philosophical reflection, negation of creative imagination in relation to phenomena, attainment of equanimity in pairs of opposites like pleasure and pain and direct experience of spiritual verities.