167 Quotes About Vedanta

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

The supreme knowledge is fatal. It kills your ego. Ego loves ancient books because it has developed immunity against them.

Crying is sacred. When you break down and cry, your mind loosens its grip on the soul. (Mind's grip on the soul is root cause of all misery).

Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline. While trying to find the path which is beyond all opposites, you will realize that you are not mind.

A bird is inside a moving car. He is flapping his wings and thinking that car is moving because of him. That is your life: Bird is your soul, car is your body-mind. You say, “There is no satisfaction in the journey.” Guru says, “Detach from the car.” But you panic as soon as you hear the word “detach”. It only means, fly above the car, not inside it.

When we have reached the outposts of the mind, we are ready for the journey to the heart.

This world is an illusion." Only the awakened beings have the right to make this statement. They feel compassion for even a broken car because they can see God in everything. Other people may draw a completely negative meaning out of this statement.

Mind is like a net that can catch many things. Supreme truth is the fragrance it can never catch.

But when you live in beauty and look from beauty, everything points in different ways to your wholeness.