Vedas Quotes - Page 2

• There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

  Horace Greeley

  Atheism, Doctrine, Christianity

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• I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Names, Scripture

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• How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Latin, Book, Soul

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• No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Commentary, Has Beens, Written

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1174, Manonmani Publishers

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• I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wisdom, Yoga, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). “Siddhartha”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is.

  Ramakrishna

  Philosophy, World, Able

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• The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Flower

  "Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge".

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• May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.

  Guru Nanak

  Men, Giving, May

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• If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the whole you, the whole of the experience of being human, and the nature of the universe in which you live. There may be no step more important to achieving ultimate fulfillment than accepting what the Vedas teach us about desires--that some desires are inpsired by your soul.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Yoga, Mean

  Rod Stryker (2011). “The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom”, p.14, Delacorte Press

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• We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Done, Want, Mankind

  Swami Vivekananda (1994). “Swami Vivekananda, a Hundred Years Since Chicago: A Commemorative Volume”

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• Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

  Wendy Doniger

  Sacred, Study, Ancient

  Wendy Doniger (2010). “The Hindus: An Alternative History”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Surround yourself with those who are moving very quickly towards Unity. Be in the presence of those who are running forward. Besides the knowledge the Veda, the greatest thing we can do is be surrounded by those who are living and seeking the highest value of life, Brahmi Chetana. This is why yogic flying with groups is so much greater than flying alone. To live and work with others who are moving and aspiring fast towards Unity consciousness is the great force to help you achieve Unity.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Running, Moving, Flying

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• The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects were separated from religion - when astronomy and astrology were taken out of religion - these subjects, being connected with the Vedas and being ancient, were considered very holy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Taken, Astrology

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4503, Manonmani Publishers

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• Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.

  Max Muller

  Buddhist, Kings, Book

  "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, Vol. II, Ch. XXXII, 1902.

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• The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Real, Islamic, Reflection

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Religious, Spring

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• When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Atheist, Gita, Agnostic

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• It's interesting to see what's going on with physics these days because they're starting to come out with stuff that sounds remarkably like Buddhism and even more specifically like the ancient Hindu Vedas. Physics isn't necessarily saying the exact same thing but I think eventually it will merge.

  Brad Warner

  Buddhism, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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• The Vedas inform us that because God is absolute, there is no difference between God the person and His holy name; the name is God.

  Mukunda Goswami

  Names, Differences, Holy

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality' Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/hinduism/2001/12/the-mantra-keeps-me-in-tune-with-reality.aspx?p=2#0ff8Fqj6EKLZ0Ij9.99". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

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• Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.

  Johannes Itten

  Teacher, Book, Ends

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• God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount Sumeru, unattached, and beyond pain and pleasure. There is much confusion in this world of His maya. One can by no means say that 'this' will come after 'that' or 'this' will produce 'that'.

  Ramakrishna

  Pain, Mean, Confusion

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Truth Revealed, Eternal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2168, Manonmani Publishers

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• Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

  Shashi Tharoor

  Identity Politics, Fundamentals, Majesty

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.75, Penguin Books India

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• The whole world is one family.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Family, Failure, World

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