Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 285

Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
God is within you, open your heart and uncover that godliness.
Amit Ray
Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young,they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond.
Gautama Buddha
Mind knows the questions, soul knows the answers.
Amit Ray
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.
Amit Ray
Without peace, we cannot be creative.
Kamlesh D. Patel
For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.
Amit Ray
Strengthen your heart muscles by removing the sufferings of others.
Amit Ray
Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage.
Abhijit Naskar
Man-eaters are finally shot dead.
Mahendra Jakhar
Spirituality is feeling a oneness with humanity.
Debasish Mridha
...only a fool would believe in miracles because - let us say you are a child and an adult lifts this table. That's a miracle. Or you're a chemist and you combine acid and base and you make smoke, an explosion or whatever. To somebody ignorant, that's a miracle. But for everything there is a process, and so when you see a miracle, it's just ignorance of the process. So that only a fool would believe in miracles...
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.
Amit Ray
World needs positive energy. Put your happy energy into the universe.
Amit Ray
A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.
Amit Ray
If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, "why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?
Eknath Easwaran
Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.
Amit Ray
Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .
gaurav rao
Time Management means managing ourselves with the timezones when we are naturally energetic.
Rajasaraswathii
Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul.
Amit Ray
Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth.
Amit Ray
Love is not an Emotion, It is your very Existence.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Religion doesn’t mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
A person’s affinity towards his or her own religious beliefs, has the same neurological qualities as of his or her emotional affinity towards the romantic partner. In fact the symptoms that follow the early euphoric phase of romantic love are often seen in religious people when their beloved religious faith is challenged.
Abhijit Naskar
To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing off every form of fear, that energy itself produces the radical inward revolution.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA
Amit Ray
Oneness is God.
Abhijit Naskar
Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times.
Abhijit Naskar
If a religion cannot help a human wherever he or she stands, it is not of much use.
Abhijit Naskar
Someone burns your beloved scripture in front of you, yet you are not bothered even the slightest bit. That's when you know, you have achieved divinity.
Abhijit Naskar
Religion is to be realized, not read or taught.
Abhijit Naskar
Spirituality is keeping the spirit up against all odds and obstacles of life.
Amit Ray
Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness.
Abhijit Naskar
Man’s earliest prereligious fear of the natural forces gradually became religious in nature and got personalized and spiritualized. Eventually he learnt to say 'God works in a mysterious way'.
Abhijit Naskar
As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find support by leaning on all sorts of things - gold, books, learning, sensory stimulation - and if these things are taken away, we fall over. To the extent that we are dependent on these external supports, we grow weaker and more liable to upsets and misfortune.
Eknath Easwaran
We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us.
Eknath Easwaran
Good books are rare, and to have a really good library, a few shelves are all we need. When I was still on my campus in India, I was convinced, like many professors, that if the Lord was to be found anywhere, it was in the lower stacks of the library. But now - just as when I go into a big department store, I can say, "How many things I don't need! How many expensive suits I don't want!" - when I enter a big library I say, "What tomes I don't have to read again! What folios I will never open!" This feeling of freedom will come to all of us when we realise, in the depths of our meditation, that all wisdom lies within.
Eknath Easwaran
The Secret to FlightDon't flap your wings so hard. It only exhausts you. Close your eyes. Lean into the currents, say yes. Let the wind raise you higher and higher. So easy. That's what Eagles do. Oh, this is the secret to life as well.
Kamal Ravikant
Chopra concludes his work with, "Your goal and mine isn't to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him----or, as he said, to abide in him.
Deepak Chopra
Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).
Dada Bhagwan
It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Self’s-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a beating and that hurts our own-Self.
Dada Bhagwan
I don’t see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All I see are different experiential realities of the one and the same neuronal Kingdom of God.
Abhijit Naskar
Self- Perception blossoms only in pure hearts! We have to first win our internal enemies. These are the enemies who damage the strong layer of conscience.
Rajasaraswathii
Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.
Sadhguru
Today people just go on working, working and working. Not because they are creating something fantastic, but simply because they have to work, otherwise they don’t know what to do with themselves.
Sadhguru
So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.
Gautama Buddha
Those who preach bookish religion are the greatest atheists of all, because they don’t have the slightest idea of neither God nor religion. Their beloved religion is their book. And their God is in the doctrines.
Abhijit Naskar
I am not this hair and skin, I am the SOUL that lives within.
Sukhraj Dhillon
For generations, the Gandhi family has been more spiritual than religious. This may seem to be a contradiction, but it is not. The Gandhis have drawn a clear distinction between two terms. Spirituality refers to the aspiration of our true nature, and ultimate realization of the Self. Religion, on the other hand, as in many cases come to mean a dogmatic observance of rituals that one practices at specified times of the day or week.
Arun Gandhi
Spirituality is about developing the inner sights by opening the third eye and the eyes of the heart.
Amit Ray
Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.
Rabindranath Tagore
Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.
Abhijit Naskar
If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that God in its lifeless structure of orthodoxy, in order to have authority over people and sell tickets to the Kingdom of that God. Thus emerged all the pompous lies about the extraterrestrial Kingdom of God or Heaven.
Abhijit Naskar
We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our Muslim sisters and brothers behind to be oppressed by their own priestly tyrants, while the rest of the world keeps progressing with an open mind. The entire civilized society of the world, must put their heart and soul to get Islam liberated from the shackles of fundamentalism. Conscience must triumph over orthodox barbarianism, otherwise there would be no hope for the progress and wellbeing of humanity as a truly wise species.
Abhijit Naskar
So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives delight - if you can look at it without wanting the experience to be repeated, then there will be no pain, no fear, and therefore tremendous joy. It is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure which turns it into pain. Watch it in yourself. The very demand for the repetition of pleasure brings about pain, because it is not the same, as it was yesterday. You struggle to achieve the same delight, not only to your aesthetic sense but the same inward quality of the mind, and you are hurt and disappointed because it is denied to you.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want to, but don't just slip into it. If you want to end pleasure, though, which is to end pain, you must be totally attentive to the whole structure of pleasure - not cut it out as monks and sannyasis do, never looking at a woman because they think it is a sin and thereby destroying the vitality of their understanding - but seeing the whole meaning and significance of pleasure. Then you will have tremendous joy in life. You cannot think about joy. Joy is an immediate thing and by thinking about it, you turn it into pleasure. Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind, not a mind that agrees and disagrees, taking sides in an argument, disputing over mere words, but rather following with an intention to understand - a very difficult thing to do because most of us don't know how to look at, or listen to, our own being any more than we know how to look at the beauty of a river or listen to the breeze among the trees
Jiddu Krishnamurti