Top 41 Ananda Quotes
#1. Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
Madeleine L'Engle
#2. The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.
Sathya Sai Baba
#3. Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
Adi Shankara
#4. This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.
Gautama Buddha
#5. Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday
Sathya Sai Baba
#6. The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#7. I think it's all that's holding me together," Kade said. "Then perhaps you should fall apart," Ananda replied.
Ramez Naam
#8. His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#9. Apo deepa bhawa"Sanskrit ; Be a light upon yourself
Buddha to Ananda during his last talks
Buddha Gautama
#10. The highest octave kundalini is the golden light which occurs in the supraconscious; it is the supraconscious. It's what they call Sat Chit Ananda - existence, consciousness, bliss ... full consciousness.
Frederick Lenz
#11. The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar?s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.
Sathya Sai Baba
#12. The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals.
Goswami Kriyananda
#13. I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.
Ananda Krishnan
#14. What we see in a democracy governed by "representatives" is not a government "for the people" but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
#15. We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#16. The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#17. Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#18. In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.
Ananda Krishnan
#20. All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#23. There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
#24. It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value ...
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#25. Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.
Ananda Shankar Jayant
#26. The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#27. From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
#28. Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)
Ananda Maitreya
#31. It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#32. Those who think of their house as only a 'machine to live in' should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
#33. The life or lives of man may be regarded as constituting a curve - an arc of time-experience subtended by the duration of the individual Will to Life.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
#36. Their nasty whispering made me angry. They had a neat way of tucking their point inside something softseeming and neighborly. The cutting edge was hidden in a joke or a piece of advice. It was like being sliced by a tiny blade hidden in a goose feather; it took a moment to realize the wound.
Ananda Braxton-Smith
#37. No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#38. The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#39. Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#41. The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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