simplyknowledge | Quotations

This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.

-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 13.11"

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book?

-Swami Vivekananda "Swami Vivekananda"

The Mother’s Grace is boundless. Her mercy is illimitable; her knowledge infinite; Her power immeasurable; her glory ineffable; and her splendor indescribable. She gives you material prosperity as well as spiritual freedom.

-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"

All the effective knowledge is very much hidden in the deep recesses of human mind. This is the reason, be it melodies of Mozart or Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat, Krishna's Bhagavad Gita or Einstein's formula which transformed the world E=mc²; all of them have stemmed from within.

-Deep Trivedi

Scholars who incessantly contemplate acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.

-Vedas "Yajurveda"

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

-Chanakya "Chanakya"

Scholars who incessantly contemplate on acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.

-Vedas "Yajur Veda"

One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge.

-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 2.58"

The third eye is associated with alertness and awareness. When you are alert, awake, more into knowledge, then naturally the energy has moved from the lowest chakra to the highest. You know when you are very alert and awake the sexual energy has transformed itself into a different quality of consciousness.

-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar " Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"

The amount of knowledge that is hidden in the deep recesses of the mind... the outside world does not have even a fraction more to offer. Of course, the information updates have to be sourced from the outside world... Here, the difference between 'knowledge' and 'information' is worth understanding.

-Deep Trivedi