Dharma, Karma, Yoga & the Eternal Atman
Explore the timeless wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita—spanning Dharma, selfless action (Karma Yoga), devotion, and self-realization.
“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.”
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
“Truth is one; the wise call it by various names.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“If superstition enters, the brain is gone.”
“Brahma satyam jagat mithyam, jivo brahmaiva naparah”
“God is truth. The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).”
“God's servant is something; God's slave is greater.”
“Religion is a kind of life or experience.”
“Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.”
“Do yourself what you wish others to do. (1021)”
“Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.”
“Where there is fear there is aggression.”
“A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.”
“Like bubbles in the water, the worlds rise, exist and dissolve in the Supreme Self, which is the material cause and the prop of everything.”
“A prayerful heart is the vehicle and service makes the heart prayerful.”
“Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.”
“A stone is not self any more than a self is a stone.”
“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”
“Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic. (307)”
“Thou art I, I am Thou,Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!”
“In the denial of disorder there is order.”
“Every step I take in light is mine forever.”
“Atman is an ever-present Reality. Yet, because of ignorance it is not realised. On the destruction of ignorance Atman is realised.”
“The man who does not do yajna can win nothing in this world.”
“All can be done if the god-touch is there.”
“Poets and prophets do not go into committees.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“As long as I live, so long do I learn. (1036)”
“Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!”
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