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Quotes by Indian Authors
"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model."
"An empty mind is not a devil's workshop; it is God's temple."
"A totally new kind of education is needed in the world. The person who is born to be a poet is proving himself stupid in mathematics and the person who could have been a great mathematician is just cramming history and feeling lost. Everything is topsy-turvy because education is not according to your nature: it does not pay any respect to the individual. It forces everybody into a certain pattern."
"Let's make this Independence Day one to remember with love, gratitude, and pride for our great nation. Happy 4th of July! ['Independence Day'"
"I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity."
"If I bad mouth the Truth, and nothing but the Absolute Truth, then, kick my butt. Otherwise, ye of bad faith, keep your stupid trap shut."
"Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them."
"A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode."
"There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls."
"The second Green Revolution will take place in eastern India. including here in eastern Uttar Pradesh."
"What is the value of the Gnani's [the enlightened one's] feet? It is a value that is immeasurable. The Gnani's feet is one & the only solvent to dissolve egoism."
"When we say "transformation," it means that nothing of the old has remained. Something totally new has flowered within you. Now you look at a rose plant that is full of thorns. Springtime came and rose flowers burst out - it is a transformation. The thorns are still there - there are more thorns than flowers - but we do not call it a thorn plant. We call it a rose plant because of that single rose. Everyone's attention goes more towards that single rose than a hundred thorns that are on the plant, isn't it? So all the thorns in you, maybe you cannot remove them right now, but if one rose flower blossoms, everyone is willing to overlook those things."
"The main task before India today is to consolidate herself into a well-knit and united power."
"With you by my side, I feel complete. You are my everything. Happy Valentine's Day!"
"I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years."
"Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities."
"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?"
"Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint."
"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."
"Those who have anger, they try to take control others with the heat of anger and those who do not have anger are able to take control of others with their strength of character known as sheel. Even it can take control of animals (with it's strength)!!!"
"Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness."
"The path of spirituality is a path where one has to keep on reducing his wishes for worldly happiness, as one moves on the path ahead. And ultimately there, natural and spontaneous bliss of the Self will arise. Your own true happiness, eternal happiness will arise."
"Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person."
"Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated."
"Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice."
"Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence."
"I don't want to die while I still have beautiful reasons to die for."
"The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included."
"Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy."
"Whenever we come across 'Viklang' person, our attention goes towards their disability but we do not notice the immense capabilities and strength they have to accomplish a task. And, that is why I urge everyone to use the word 'Divyang' instead of 'Viklang'."
"Did you know, ji,' Zulu offered, 'that the map of Tolkien's Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst."
"Don't be a slave to expectations - yours or others'."
"When you are no longer seeking, you have arrived."
"The satyagrahi enters the jail cell as the bridegroom enters the bridal chamber."
"When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being."
"Any given day is a second chance, after yesterday. Make the best of it today."
"Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will 'realize' true happiness."
"The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion)."
"There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul]."
"If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty."
"Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path."
"The human life is the only one in which one can experience the Soul [One' own Real Self]. There is no other life form, not even that of the celestial beings that can attain the experience of the Self [Self Realization]."
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