Frederick Lenz Quotes About Hinduism

• In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

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  Moon, Self, Path

• Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.

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  Real, Successful, Happy Life

• The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

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  Fighting, Attachment, Battle

• Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.

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  Illumination, World, Matter

• The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.

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  Men, Vacation, Machines

• The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

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  Littles, Tiny, Hinduism

• Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

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  Yoga, Waiting Rooms, Today

• In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

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  Art, Awareness, Hinduism

• Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

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  Pain, Yoga, Mean

• The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.

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  Dream, Real, Night

• Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.

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  Running, Responsibility, Play

• Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

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  Light, Self, Realization

• Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.

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  Yoga, Dimensions, Consciousness

• When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.

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  Attachment, Self, Suffering

• The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

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  Reality, Fleeting, Body

• The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.

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  Yoga, Light, Mind

• Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

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  Self, Weight Problems, Ego

• In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.

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  Forever, Arjuna, Gita

• The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

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  Pain, Forever, Suffering

• Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

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  Enjoy Life, Doe, Consciousness

• Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

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  Self, Realization, Hinduism

• You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.

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  Perfect, Mind, Doe

• Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

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  Heart, Self, Enlightenment

• Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.

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  World, Hinduism, Krishna

• Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation.

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  Isis, Shiva, Goddess

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