589 Quotes About Hinduism

Enlightenment is death before death, death of everything you are not. And a seeker's journey is like a soldier climbing a hilltop in the shower of bullets, not like a tourist trekking a hill.

Everybody is trying to put clothes of their own size on the Eternal Truth.

A scientist is more doubtful of his theories than the science teacher who teaches those theories. A Guru is more doubtful of his words than his followers because he knows that everything except silence is a corruption of truth.

There is a beautiful custom in India: On her first Makar Sakranti after marriage, the bride pretends to awaken her in-laws who pretend to be deep asleep. Similar thing happens between the Guru and seekers. God inside seekers is pretending to be deep asleep. God inside Guru pretends to awaken them. It's all a divine play.

Many seekers start "overdoing" it. They become like a fish that desperately wants to get out of ocean. Calm down. Fish can't get out of ocean. Ocean is all there is. And you're the ocean, not a fish.

The information that you get from outside is at best the general truth; it applies to many people in general. It isn't your truth. Your truth is inside you. You can't express it to anyone else. It takes you into silence, which is the supreme truth.

Some people are like echo. They will always have the last word in an argument, Even if you tell them that they are like echo, they will retort. Finally you have to settle for silence.Not just some people but the entire Space-Time is an echo chamber of duality. When you realize this, you settle for the eternal silence.

If the God Consciousness is at the centre of Indra’s Net and the diamonds of the net are our individual consciousnesses then his consciousness is in all of us, and ours in his. Ultimately, we and God are one. And that is the essence of enlightenment. That is the supreme prize awaiting us all.

The Self, smaller than small, greater than great, is hidden in the heart of every creature. A man who has left all grief behind, sees the majesty, the Lord, the passionless, by the resting of the mind and senses.