167 Quotes About Vedanta

True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.

When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.

The universe is dark and infinite. Then how come this little scene happening before me so vibrant with colours, shapes, patterns, sounds, sensations? This childlike wonder will keep you in eternal bliss. On the other hand, human characters and stories will give you highs-lows, pain-pleasure, hope-fear, stress-release and so on.

When the mind is completely still, then all movement ceases. Beneath the substrate of consciousness is that which the sages of Vedanta call the Absolute. While the Absolute cannot be described, it is only known by negation. Remove everything from the equation, and there it is, right here all along.

Joy knows itself. As children we didn’t even know the word joy, we were joy.

Know yourself and you will know God. Are you a body, a mind, a soul or something else or nothing? Can you be anything you want to be or you are already everything you want to be?

You are the guest of joy, you cannot impose yourself.

In silent surrender there is bliss and prayer without request or demand. There is no doer, experiencer, lover or beloved. There is only a divine current. You see that the very act of welcoming is itself the solution to the problem and the action which follows your comprehension is very straightforward. When you become familiar with the act of surrender, truth will solicit you unsought.

Mind is like a wild horse that either runs after something or runs away from something. You are not the mind. You are the rider sitting still.