Quotes About Brahman

#1. All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

Ramakrishna

#3. Chandogya-Upanishads. 'In truth, the name of the Brahman is Satyam. Indeed, he who knows it enters the heavenly world each day.

Hermann Hesse

#4. Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone's heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar (Has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman (Supreme transcendental Consciousness) that is all pervading. Believe in this. This is Rudra Puja

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#5. The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

Ramana Maharshi

#6. May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Om is the bow, the arrow is soul, The Brahman is the arrow's target that one should incessantly hit.

Hermann Hesse

#8. The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second one knows how the Absolute Brahman appears as the universe.

Ramakrishna

#10. Was at the core of primeval beliefs. Its names are as old as history itself ... Dharmakaya, Tao, Brahman.

Dan Brown

#11. In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by
restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

#12. He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Hermann Hesse

#13. Tat tvam asi: "Thou art That." Atman is Brahman: the Self in each person is not different from the Godhead.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#14. In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

Kabir

#16. Brahman and I are buddies.

Stephen Beam

#17. The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.

Yann Martel

#18. Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.

Amit Ray

#21. The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world

Ramana Maharshi

#22. The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

Ramana Maharshi

#23. I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.
Nor can I say that I know him not ...
Nor do I know that I know him not.

Swami Prabhavananda

#24. Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. Brahma is the Generator, Vishnu the Organizer and Shiva the Destroyer. Together they are G.O.D. or Brahman. All the millions of Hindu gods are just forms of the one Supreme Being.

Sarah Macdonald

#26. He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. He whose happiness is within, whose contentment is within, whose light is all within, that yogi, being one with Brahman, attains eternal freedom in divine consciousness. BHAGAVAD-GITA

David Lynch

#28. The basic lesson of Indian history was already established. Material power like kingdoms, and kings, including Alexander the Great, comes and goes. But spiritual power, embodied in religion and caste and spiritual unity with Brahman, the changeless essence of the universe, lasts forever. Prime

Arthur Herman

#29. Little given to brahman in distress compensated abundantly,
Is got back not in equal quantity, but in a way higher degree.
[210] 12.2 Chanakya

Munindra Misra

#30. Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.

Anonymous

#31. The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.

Fritjof Capra

#32. Awareness is Brahman. The absolute cosmic consciousness. When you are aware, you are connected with Brahman.

Banani Ray

#33. During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

Hermann Hesse

#34. Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.

Adi Shankara

#35. If Brahman an infinite ocean, then Atma a wave within be,
Ocean not different from its waves, the waves as ocean be;
They are but one and the same very similar in actuality,
So Brahman and Atma are one and the same in reality.
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Munindra Misra

#36. He that distributeth not That which he hath received
His food, his drink, his sustenance
Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer
Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

Gautama Buddha

#37. This burden of Brahmins, no one understands. The sacrifice they make for knowledge, when the whole world sleeps they wake setting standards for the mediocre. But it is their arrogance that is taken note of. They have earned it, haven't they?

Aporva Kala

#38. As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is not touched by the evils of the world. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)

Swami Prabhavananda