Omkarananda Saraswati

 

“With each of us, God is as fully and as powerfully present now, as He was with the great founders of the world's imperishable religions. The space around and within us is as completely lit up with the splendid Light of God, as the space was around and within the greatest saints, sages, mystics of the ancient world.”

Fred B Eiseman

 

"The five fundamentals of Hindu philosophy are: Brahman, the one God, atman, the imperishable spirit, samsara, reincarnation; karma-pala, action and resulting reward and punishment; moksha, uniting with God after the disappearance of desire. These are called the Panch Crada, or "five principles."

Omkarananda Saraswati

 

“ All is but One Stupendous Whole. Nothing is except the Plenum of Being, the One Essence of Existence. This outer world is the manifestation of the all-pervading Life-Force: analyse this manifoldness of the external world, O Beloved one, and you shall inevitably come to the conclusion that it is only Pure Consciousness, the Awareness Supreme alone, that is appearing, and that It is One, besides and beyond which there is nothing and can be no reality truly existing.”

S K Kulkarni

 

1. The concept of all pervading which is immutable and eternal. 2. The concept of an omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, personal God. 3. Concept of salvation, defining it as emancipation from the cycle of life and death.

 

Its origin is generally assigned to the primeval waters (Taittiriya Brahmana, 1.1.3,5), from which it emerged on the eve of creation or cosmic renewal as a thousand leafed plant from Visnu's navel (representing the center of the energy of the universe). Seated on the opened flower was the Lord Brahma. Thus in Hinduism the lotus became the "visible representation of the womb of creation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

His cardinal doctrine, reminiscent of the Vedanta, was the wholeness of, and continuity in, self-consciousness as the basis of mental experience which was all absorbed into a single dynamic force, the divine spark in each person, the "I" of every rational being,

Makarand R. Paranjape

 

The Rshis were able to perceive the interdependence of all inanimate and animate objects, which they called Rta, or the great cosmic order. To live in harmony with Rta was considered the greatest good and happiness

‘Guru Vachaka Kovai’

 

“With true love and faith, follow that religion in which you have belief and turn within; do not jump outwards, criticizing and arguing against other religions on account of bigotry for your own religion.”

Rumi 💖 Nothing can nourish the soul but light.

 

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.