Inspiring quotes from hinduism and other sources

AD GURAY NAMEH, JUGAD GURAY NAMEH,​

SAT GURAY NAMEH, SIRI GURU DEVAY NAMEH


The Mangala Charan Mantra is chanted for protection. It surrounds the magnetic field with protective light, and means:

"I bow to the primal Guru (guiding consciousness who takes us to God-Realization), I bow to wisdom through the ages, I bow to True Wisdom, I bow to the great, unseen wisdom."​

 

What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroying life,
for killing leads to every other sin.

Of all virtues summed by ancient sages, the foremost are to
share one's food and to protect all living creatures.

-Tirukkural 33: 321-322

 

Approach someone who has realized the purpose of life and question him with reverence and devotion; he will instruct you in this wisdom. Once you attain it, you will never again be deluded. You will see all creatures in the Self, and all in me.

-Bhagavad Gita 4:34-35
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Prayer for Those Seeking Meaning

Eternal Wisdom,
source of life and grace,
bless all who are seeking
the meaning of life.
Endow them with courage
to risk the unknown.
Bless them with wonder
to be still and rejoice.
Anoint them with wisdom
to understand the potential
of their dreams.
Blessed is your name,
now and evermore. Amen.

- Vienna Cobb Anderson

 

From 'The Proverbs of Hell' (in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell') by William Blake:


A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The eagle never lost so much as when he submitted to learn from the crow.

Expect poison from the standing water.

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.

The crow wished everything was black, the owl that everything was white.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of Genius.

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.

 

Sri Sankara, the famous Advaita philosopher, makes this point in his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita 18.66:

" ...... The appeal to the infallibility of the Vedic injunction is misconceived. The infallibility in question refers only to the unseen force or apurva, and is admissable only in regard to matters not confined to the sphere of direct perceptions etc. ..... Even a hundred statements of sruti to the effect that fire is cold and non-luminous won't prove valid. If it does make
such a statement, its import will have to be interpreted differently. Otherwise , validity won't attach to it. Nothing in conflict with the means of valid cognition or with its own statement may be imputed to sruti."





Yoga Vasishta Ramayan (II-18) says:
Though human in origin, an exposition of truth is to be accepted; otherwise even what is regarded as divine revelation is to be rejected. Even a young boy's words are to be accepted if they are words of wisdom; else reject it like straw even if uttered by Brahma the creator."


Vacaspati Misra, the author of Vamati, says, "Even one thousand scriptural statements cannot transform a jar into a piece of cloth".

 

How shall we seek real knowledge? By renouncing knowledge. How shall we seek salvation? By renouncing our own salvation. How shall we seek Existence? By renouncing our existence.

- Rumi ​

 

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Om purnam adah, purnam idam, purnat purnam udacyate purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate ​

"The great fullness or plenum is Brahman', the Absolute. From fullness, nothing that is not full can come."​

 

John 17:20-26

"I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me. I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."
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Prayers also for our brothers and sisters at VTech. May they find hope and love in the face of an awful tragedy.

 

Well, I don't know what has happened, but if anything tragic has happened , and people has died, then I wish to give my condolences and prayers to these people and their families.

 

Yesterday there was a shooting at Virginia Tech College...and 33 people (including the gunsman) were killed as well as 20something injured and another 5 or so in critical condition. This is the biggest massecre in the history of the United States.

 

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
-LOTR- JRR Tolkien

 

"It may be the devil, or it may be the lord, but you got to serve somebody"

Bob Dylan

 

"Believe nothing, O monks merely because you have been told it...or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings-that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."​

Buddha.

(I know we've seen this before, but worth the repitition I think.)

 

a bhakt asked once of bhagwan Vishnu in viraat swarup (multi-armed, multi faced): "Bhagwan, i understand that you have innumerable inconceivable potencies. But out of all of them the energy of light amazes me the most, it pervades the spiritual world, illuminates the material world, and without it life is impossible. How do you make it work?"
Reply: " Oh, thats easy...many hands make light work!"

 

Rabia was asked, "Do you love God?"


She answered: "Yes"

"Do you hate the devil?"

She answered, "No, my love of God leaves me no time to hate the devil."​

- Rabia (Essentials of Sufism)​

 

Hare Krishna!

That is a unique example of devotion from the great devotee Rabia.

Thank you, dear Mandell.

Love,

Kumar.

 

GAYATRI MANTRA​

AUM BHOOR BHUWAH SWAHA,​

TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM​

BHARGO DEVASAYA DHEEMAHI​

DHIYO YO NAHA PRACHODAYAT.​

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"May the Almighty God illuminate our intellect to lead us along the righteous path".​

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When the boat is full of holes, how can one stop the waters from rushing in? So, contemplate thou the One whose boat it is, and by whom the sinners are also ferried across along with the pious.

- Guru Granth Sahib Ji

 

"If you ask, "why yet another ramayana?"
my answer is: in this world,
everyone eats the same rice every day,
but the taste of life is your own.
people make love, over and over, but only you
know how it feels. i write about the same rama
everyone else has known, but my feelings of love
are mine. ninety per cent of what makes a poem
is the genius of the poet. poets in india know
that the way you tell a tale
weighs a thousand times more
than some facile, novel theme. "

- satyanarana vishwanatha,
intro sloka to his ramayana kalpavrksamu [ramayana, the tree of wish-fulfilment]

 

What is the cause of the cosmos? Is it Brahman?
From where do we come? By what live?
Where shall we find peace at last?

What power governs the duality
Of pleasure and pain by which we are driven?

Time, nature, necessity, accident,
Elements, energy, intelligence--
None of these can be the First Cause.
They are effects, whose only purpose is
To help the self rise above pleasure and pain.

-Shvetashvatara Upanishad