Vedanta Quotes

Vedanta Quote of the day

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

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.

To think, or not to think...This is the true question.

Who do you love more, your thoughts or God?

Isn't Existence is the only thing that make us feel as ONE.

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

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.

You may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything.

The mind never has anything new to say-all it knows is of the past.

In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to think about both the sides and design the best life and stand in their true values.

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.

The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within.

The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.

Spirituality is not creating boundaries but creating space for others to come into your life.

Oneness is God.

The changless part in you recognizes change

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not.

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.

Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

The true essence of vedanta focuses upon subject rather than object.

In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

Ayurveda teaches us to love "as is" - not as we think people "should be.

Awareness is Brahman. The absolute cosmic consciousness. When you are aware, you are connected with Brahman.

I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything--what a relief!

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

Universe is an empty mirror. Life is just the reflection of your deep thoughts.