Quotessence
Home / Topics / Vedanta Concepts Quotes

Vedanta Concepts Quotes

Browse 22 quotes about Vedanta Concepts.

Vedanta Concepts Quotes

“The whole is the Absolute; but within it every particle is in a constant state of flux and change. It is unchangeable and changeable at the same time, Impersonal and Personal in one. The Personal God and all that exists in the universe are the same Impersonal Being seen through our minds. When we shall be rid of our minds, our little personalities, we shall become one with It. This is what is meant by "Thou art That". For we must know our true nature, the Absolute. The finite, manifested man forgets his source and thinks himself to be entirely separate. We, as personalised, differentiated beings, forget our reality, and the teaching of monism is not that we shall give up these differentiations, but we must learn to understand what they are.”

GodTheologyHinduismVedantaVedanta ConceptsMonism
Book:Practical Vedanta
Create image

“Emotions and feelings are like this sand. Circumstances are like the beach. You, my dear, are like your sunglasses. If you are in a dire circumstance, emotions and feelings, the less pleasurable ones, perhaps, the more painful ones will cling to you. On the other hand, if the circumstances you are in are the best, perhaps, the one with a lover or family, a pleasant set of emotions and feelings cling to your personality. Just like the sand clinging to your glasses is natural on a beach, emotions and feelings clinging to your personality are natural products of diverse circumstances.”

Self Help BookInspirational BookVedanta ConceptsMotivational BookSelf Development BookBuddhism BookLife Changing BookEncouraging BookShort Books Are Better
Book:Buddha's House of Mirrors
Create image

“I imagine standing in the center of this house of mirrors and looking at my infinite reflections. Each of the personalities we live, if they are just reflections on the mirror, then they are illusions. What we strive for is to unlearn the vocabulary, energy, and awareness of each of these reflections to reach our dissolving ‘self’, the one standing in the center. The observer.”

Self Help BookInspirational BookVedanta ConceptsMotivational BookSelf Development BookBuddhism BookLife Changing BookEncouraging BookShort Books Are Better
Book:Buddha's House of Mirrors
Create image

“Everything in that flow – the many pains and pleasures – are just an ephemeral burst of energy. At the end of it, they are as much on the fabric of nothingness as life. It means nothing. We mean nothing. The atman has a purpose, not the identity we assume.”

Self Help BookInspirational BookVedanta ConceptsMotivational BookSelf Development BookBuddhism BookLife Changing BookEncouraging BookShort Books Are Better
Book:Buddha's House of Mirrors
Create image

“The baggage of past memories, the present contradictions, and the many choices from the future. “They are all just words,” I say, as I become aware of my breath. My bong feels ignored, my mind feels betrayed and the incessant pain in my chest ceases. I drop everything. I let go.”

Self Help BookInspirational BookVedanta ConceptsMotivational BookSelf Development BookBuddhism BookLife Changing BookEncouraging BookShort Books Are Better
Book:Buddha's House of Mirrors
Create image

“The idea of reward and punishment also springs from this law. Whatever we sow, we must reap. It cannot be otherwise. [...] If a person spends all his life in evil-thinking and wrongdoing, then it is useless for him to look for happiness hereafter; because our hereafter is not a matter of chance, but follows as the reaction of our present action. [...] We should, however, never lose sight of the fact that all these ideas of reward and punishment exist in the realm of relativity or finiteness. No soul can ever be doomed eternally through his finite evil deeds; for the cause and effect must always be equal. Thus we can see through our common sense that the theory of eternal perdition and eternal heaven is impossible and illogical, since no finite action can create an infinite result. Hence according to Vedanta, the goal of mankind is neither temporal pleasure nor pain, but Mukti or absolute freedom ; and each soul is consciously or unconsciously marching towards this goal through the various experiences of life and death.”

SalvationKarmaHinduismVedantaHinduVedanta Concepts
Author:Paramananda
Create image

“Shankara’s views were gradually accepted, possibly because he presented brahman both as the cosmic principle and as a personal god (isvara), which added emphasis to the teaching of the later Upanisads and to that of Patañjali. Advaita Vedanta thus reinforced the teaching of the Bhagavadgitä and the concept of liberation (mukti) by grace (prasäda), faith (sraddha), and devotion (bhakti). It succeeded in reviving the ancient belief in the affinity of mankind with the world of nature. From being merely one of the darsanas, the Vedanta became an element that permeated all Hindu cults and dissolved sectarian distinctions. It gave to the Supreme Essence (paramätman), Vishnu and Shiva the common, all-inclusive designation, ‘Isvara’.”

HinduismVedantaVedanta ConceptsUpanishadsIndian PhilosophyShankara
Book:Dictionary of Hinduism: Its Mythology, Folklore and Development 1500 BC - AD 1500
Create image