13 Quotes by Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya

Truth, including the very highest of spiritual and philosophical truths, can be known to us with ever-increasing depth and clarity. We can know truth, both in theory, as well as through direct experiential insight, by employing the Vedic tools of Yoga and meditation, all under the capable guidance of the Vedic scriptures, the authentic guru, and the power of our own sincerity and direct insight into the nature of the Absolute. This is the Vedic way of knowing. (p. 80)

The yogi must be prepared to plunge deeply and fearlessly into the ecstatic reality of the sweet Absolute. Nothing less than this sweetness of devotion will suffice. Nothing greater than this sweetness is to be attained. This is the essential teaching of the Bhagavad Gita.

Coupled with the living guidance of a successive lineage of realized Dharma masters (enlightened rishis and Acharyas) stretching back to the beginning of time, and still present in our own era, the philosophy of Sanatana Dharma originates from transcendent perfection. (p. 107)

Having the Supreme Godhead as our source, our souls participate in the positive spiritual qualities of the Absolute. Both our souls (Atman) and God (Brahman) share in the inherent spiritual qualities of necessary being and existence, eternality, wisdom, beauty and goodness.

We do not have a soul. Rather we are soul. Our soul is our innermost identity and synonymous with the most intimate level of "I" that we know to be the core of our personhood. Both God (Brahman) and soul (Atman) are of the nature of pure sentient consciousness. Thus, being spiritual, they both transcend matter itself, as well as all the limitations necessarily associated with matter.

Religion represents the outer form of spirituality, but Sanatana Dharma represents the more important inner heart of all spirituality. (p. 17)

A society that sees humans as soulless is a society that sees human beings as being of no more worth than machines. And machines are simply tools, objects, to be used for the benefit of the state...

[...] the most ancient religio-philosophical system on earth, Sanatana Dharma: the Eternal Natural Way.

Sanatana Dharma is the Eternal Natural Way. As such, this path represents the pre-religious, primordial essence of all true spirituality, philosophy, and yearning to know the higher Reality, as well as the very foundation of any and all attempts to establish any civilizational constructs based upon such eternal ideals.