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“Young Shani Deva was extremely attached to his mother. She became fatally Ill. To get a cure for her, he decided to climb mount Kailash and meet the supreme God. To climb higher and higher, he had to let go of all his baggages, including the baggage of attachment to mother. Then two things happened at the same time: God met him and his mother got cured. Attachment harms our loved ones, love heals them.”

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Author:Shunya
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“And that is why all of us with one voice call one God differently as Paramatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada Hormuzda, Jehova, God, and an infinite variety of names. He is one and yet many; He is smaller than an atom, and bigger than the Himalayas. He is contained even in a drop of the ocean, and yet not even the seven seas can compass Him. Reason is powerless to know Him. He is beyond the reach or grasp of reason.”

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Book:What is Hinduism?
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“Eventually everyone dies, but death, in various forms and ways, still comes as a shock. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Or they consign you to flames. The flesh sizzles and the bones crackle. be grateful it happens in that order.”

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Author:Mahendra Jakhar
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“ভারতের সর্বত্রই মেয়েদেরকে প্ররোচিত করা হয়েছে মাতৃকাশক্তির সঙ্গে নিজেদেরকে আইডেন্টিফাই করতে। কিন্তু দেবী হবার লোভ একটা বিরাট লোভ, একটা দুর্দান্ত নাগপাশ। এই লোভ যখন ভিতর থেকে মেয়েদেরকে একবার পেয়ে বসে, তখন তাদের বাইরের ইডিওলজি আর ভিতরের ইল্যুশন একেবারে একাকার হয়ে যায়। তখন তারা যাবতীয় অবিচার ও অত্যাচার সহ্য করতে পারে, সবরকমের আশাভঙ্গ ও ক্ষতিবোধকে সাবলিমেট করতে পারে, মেগালোমেনিয়াক দুঃসাহসে আগুনে পর্যন্ত ঝাঁপ দিতে পারে। এই দেবীবিলাস বাঙালী হিন্দু মেয়েদের সর্বনাশ করেছে : সিঁথির সিঁদুর আর কবজির শাঁখা থেকে পায়ের আলতা পর্যন্ত মাঙ্গলিক চিহ্ন ধারণ করে, গৃহের অধিষ্ঠাত্রী দেবী তথা পুরুষের গৃহলক্ষ্মী হয়ে, নিজেরা সাক্ষাৎ মা লক্ষ্মী সেজে, লক্ষ্মীপ্রতিমার সামনে গড় হয়ে পেন্নাম করে নিজেদের মনুষ্যত্বকে তারা জলাঞ্জলি দিয়েছে।”

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Book:রবীন্দ্রনাথ ও ভিক্‌তোরিয়া ওকাম্পোর সন্ধানে
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“जयति महाकाली जयति, आद्य काली माता जय कराला वदने जयति, जगाता मातु विख्याता Victory to you, O Mahakali! - To you Victory, The primordial source of all beings - Victory! The formidable-looking goddess - To you Victory, Renowned as the mother of the world - Victory!”

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Book:Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
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“कंदर्प अगणित अमित छवी नव नील नीरज सुन्दरम। पट्पीत मानहु तडित रूचि शुचि नौमी जनक सुतावरम॥ To Sri Ram, whose beauty is incomparable, I am bowing, His body like a newly formed dense blue cloud I am seeing, His shining yellow robes over his body are like lightening, He is the consort of Janak’s daughter his beauty is gleaming.”

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Book:Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
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“Judgment Day refers to every moment in life when we must decide between doing good deeds and bad deeds. This alone shapes our destiny in the next moment. Judgment Day does not refer to any fictitious event in the calendar of God when people will rise from graves and line up in a queue to be allotted some Heaven or Hell. God does not need to do such shows and employ some prophets as lawyers.”

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Book:Essence of Vedas: Know the startling facts about “Vedas” – a timeless heritage that humanity possesses
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“सक्ताः कर्मण्यविद्वांसो यथा कुर्वन्ति भारत। कुर्याद्विद्वांस्तथासक्तश्चिकीर्षुर्लोकसंग्रहम्॥ ॥३- २५॥ न बुद्धिभेदं जनयेदज्ञानां कर्मसङ्गिनाम्। जोषयेत्सर्वकर्माणि विद्वान्युक्तः समाचरन्॥ ॥३- २६॥ `Ignorant toil for result; wise – selflessly, Blaze the trail for detached action clearly, For the common weal, path to eternity, For the benefit of the entire humanity.’ 3. 25-26”

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Book:Bhagwat Gita - Its Essence
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“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian. All are human beings. Further, the atheistic outlook puts man on his legs. There is neither divine will nor fate to control his actions. The release of free will awakens Harijans [lowest caste] and the depressed classes from the stupor of inferiority into which they were pressed all these ages when they were made to believe that they were fated to be untouchables. So I find the atheistic outlook helpful for my work [helping people]. After all it is man that created god to make society moral and to silence restless inquisitiveness about the how and why of natural phenomena. Of course god was useful though a falsehood. But like all falsehoods, belief in god also gave rise to many evils in course of time and today it is not only useless but harmful to human progress. So I take to the propagation of atheism as an aid to my work. The results justify my choice.”

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Book:An Atheist with Gandhi
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“Our senses are imperfect. We are very proud of our eyes.Often, someone will challenge, "Can you show me God?" But do you have the eyes to see God? You will never see if you haven' the eyes. If immediately the room becomes dark, you cannot even see your hands. So what power do you have to see? We cannot, therefore, expect knowledge (Vedas) with these imperfect senses. With all these deficiencies, in conditioned life, we cannot give perfect knowledge to anyone. Nor are we ourselves perfect. Therefore we accept the Vedas as they are.”

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Book:Sri Isopanisad
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“Man is the expression of God, and God is the reality of man. Real man and God are inseparable. "This Atman is not to be realized by the intellect, nor by words, nor by hearing from many sources; but by him by whom this Atman is beloved, by him alone is the Atman realized." The thing necessary for us is to feel intense love in our hearts for this Atman, or God; otherwise He is not attainable. There is no other way that man can reach unto God, except through love — love always unites. This love for God comes unto those blessed beings who are pure in heart, from whom all attachment for unreal things, all selfish desires have vanished. This purity of heart and love for God are the sum and substance of all religious teachings”

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Book:Vedanta In Practice
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“नमस्तेशरण्येशिवेसानुकम्पे, नमस्तेजगद्व्यापिकेविश्वरूपे। नमस्तेजगद्वन्द्यपादारविन्दे, नमस्तेजगत्तारिणित्राहिदुर्गे॥१॥ She the refuge, peaceful and merciful undoubtedly, She pervades over all, is universal form certainly, Her lotus feet worshipped by universe – all Glory, On your appeal “Protect me Durga” saves entirely. - 458 -”

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Book:Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
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“From Brahma Puran ब्राह्मीं च वैष्णवीं भद्रां, षड्-भुजां च चतुर्मुखीम्। त्रि-नेत्रां खड्ग-त्रिशूल-पद्म-चक्र-गदा-धराम्॥ पीताम्बर-धरां देवीं, नानाऽलंकार-भूषिताम्। तेजः-पुञ्ज-धरीं श्रेष्ठां, ध्यायेद् बाल-कुमारिकाम्॥ Meditate on youthful Brahmi* and Vaishnavi* surely, With six hands, four faces, three eyes gives safety, With sword, trident, lotus, wheel, globe, mace be, Greatest – yellow dressed, well decorated elegantly.”

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Book:Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
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“If you can go to a movie and see a picture of war and suffering, and afterward say, “What a wonderful picture!” so may you take this life as a cosmic picture-show. Be prepared for every kind of experience that may come to you, realizing that all are but dreams. Each human life constitutes a drama; and the events of each day represent a drama. You are living a fresh one each of the year’s 365 days. The thought that you are merely a player in these dramas is very comforting. Realize that the acting out of whatever part you are called upon to play does not affect your real being. At the end of every earthly incarnation you are the same—the immortal soul—untouched by sickness, sorrow, or death. “He who cannot be ruffled by these (contacts of the senses with their objects), who is calm and evenminded during pain and pleasure, he alone is fit to attain everlastingness!” (Bhagavad Gita II:15.)”

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Book:Man's Eternal Quest
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“The man who wishes to know the "that" which is "thou" may set to work in any one of three ways. He may begin by looking inwards into his own particular thou and, by a process of "dying to self" --- self in reasoning, self in willing, self in feeling --- come at last to knowledge of the self, the kingdom of the self, the kingdom of God that is within. Or else he may begin with the thous existing outside himself, and may try to realize their essential unity with God and, through God, with one another and with his own being. Or, finally (and this is doubtless the best way), he may seek to approach the ultimate That both from within and from without, so that he comes to realize God experimentally as at once the principle of his own thou and of all other thous, animate and inanimate.”

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Book:The Perennial Philosophy
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“As I reflect on the caste system today, I realize that while laws may change, the deeper transformation must occur in the human mind. The sense of hierarchy, of being superior or inferior by birth, cannot be erased merely through legal frameworks. It must dissolve through education, compassion, and spiritual awakening.”

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Book:Glimpses of My Worldview
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“The Hindu civilisation’s thought processes were never overwhelmed, even when its people were conquered. This is important, because monuments can be destroyed, but the fortress of ideas is imperishable. The core of this thought process was spiritual, as distinguished from simply religious practice. The spiritual vision both transcended and guided religious rituals, and spilled over into the secular realm. This did not make it a religious civilisation. The spirituality was more about ultimate truths, an exploration of the world of ideas, and not a manual only for religious worship. This spiritual churning could have a religious counterpart, but would survive even without it. As Rabindranath Tagore says: ‘In reality, our history had deeply serene and contemplative phases—for the longest period of time—periods not without war or turmoil, but essentially grappling with pivotal concepts in the realm of thought [emphasis mine].’2 Sri Aurobindo also speaks about ‘an ingrained and dominant spirituality, an exhaustive vital creativeness and … a powerful, penetrating and scrupulous intelligence … each at a high intensity of action … the stamp put on her by that beginning she has never lost”

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Book:The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward
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“Their vision, their perception, heretofore limited, becomes unlimited. The mode of their actions becomes absolutely unique. They see each and every action in their God consciousness. They exist in the state of sadasiva. Each and every action of their life becomes glorious. This is the awareness that comes from the practice of pratibimba.”

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Book:Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme
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