20 Quotes by A. Parthasarathy

For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul. Vedanta.

The procedure for rehabilitation of the intellect needs to be undertaken by the individual, by the society and educational institutions throughout the world.

William Shakespeare: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances.

Your motto in life should be to strive, to struggle, not to succeed. Work well accomplished is the joy of life. Success or failure is immaterial. What really matters in life is your ability to adopt action to obligation. Your business lies in action alone, not in the reward accruing from it. Let not the anxiety for enjoying the fruit disturb the course of your action.

Humanity has long disregarded the intellect. People have denied themselves the ability to think, reason independently. That has rendered humans helpless victims of the devastating mind. The once sovereign state of human beings has fallen into abject slavery to the mind’s endless desires and demands.

The pressure of desires never ceases until you find your original Self. In truth, the purpose of human birth is to regain one’s primal nature.

Richness and poverty is actually determined by the equation between the wealth a person possesses and the desires he entertains.

To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Due to the paucity of intellect people do not realise that it is through the discipline of regulated abstinence that one can really enjoy the world. Your intellect must constantly check and control indiscriminate indulgence.