Jnana Quotes

#1. Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

Vinoba Bhave

#4. Lady with fair countenance! Understand that one who is not able to realise the Truth in his Heart by this knowledge of spiritual wisdom known as Kala Jnana, can never attain it even by studying countless crores ofsastras (scriptures) spread out like the sky.

Ramana Maharshi

#5. Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#6. If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'.

Ramana Maharshi

#8. That which is worth taking up is the self-enquiry that reveals jnana; that which is worth enjoying is the grandeur of the Self; that which is worth renouncing is the ego-mind; that in which it is worth taking refuge, to eliminate sorrow completely, is one's own source, the Heart.

Ramana Maharshi

#9. Jnana yoga is practical.

Frederick Lenz

#10. To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Jnana yoga is the yoga of kindness and compassion - serving the self that is everywhere.

Amit Ray

#14. Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Ramakrishna says, "One who has merely heard of fire has ajnana, ignorance. One who has seen fire has jnana. But one who has actually built a fire and cooked on it has vijnana." In

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#17. Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.

Frederick Lenz

#19. She calls me 'bird boy' and Hawkeye every time she gets a chance. Last year she bought me a bow and arrow for my birthday and told me it was for when the Avengers were called into action.

Lila Felix

#20. All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#21. Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

Alex Chilton

#22. Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

Neal Shusterman

#23. The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

Salva Kiir Mayardit

#24. It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.

Nelson Mandela

#25. The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I'd measure my progress in inches. One more inch I've swum - one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody's river can bring you down.

Bette Greene

#26. Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

Bayard Taylor

#27. I live always in my dream,
so reality is my dream and dream is my reality.

Debasish Mridha

#28. When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

Anne Akiko Meyers

#29. A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

Henry Fielding