simplyknowledge | Quotations

Hanuman is the breath of Rama, the breath of God. God is not far away from us but as close as our breath. Symbolically Hanuman represents the breath, our constant companion and aid along the spiritual path.

-A Spiritual Leader "Tulsidas"

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

-Charles H. Spurgeon

Universal religion has no location in time or space. Its area is infinite, like the God it preaches. It is an experience. It is God-consciousness… All religions are challenged today by a common enemy: the rising tide of skepticism and secularism.

-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Nikhilananda"

Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).

-Scriptures "Samayasara, 153"

You look at it, but it is not to be seen; Its name is Formless. You listen to it, but it is not to be heard; Its name is Soundless. You grasp it, but it is not to be held; Its name is Bodiless. These three elude all scrutiny. And hence they blend and become one.

-Scriptures "Tao Te Ching 14"

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

-Seneca the Younger "Seneca the Younger"

Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…

-Scriptures "Bhagavata Purana"

The measure in which a person is blind in the field of religion, he is equally blind in understanding all the other truths of life. This is the reason why the world is full of mentally and intelligently blind people.

-Deep Trivedi

The role of religion is to make one righteous and loving. Politics means caring for people and their welfare. When religion and politics don’t coexist then you have corrupt politicians and pseudo-religious leaders.

-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

-Søren Kierkegaard