Top 100 Quotes About Rama
#1. I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .
Ramakrishna
#2. Curses are our conscious choices, so is grace," said Rama. Every error is an invitation to see our reality better, to realise where our consciousness is and where it can be. When we refuse to reach out to the potential of our consciousness, a curse befalls us.
Tomichan Matheikal
#3. All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.
David Frawley
#5. My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, "why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?
Eknath Easwaran
#8. Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It's just a name I liked.
Frederick Lenz
#9. The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow!
John Gaver
#10. A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?
Neil Gaiman
#14. Rama's experiments suggest that some metaphors can be understood as mild forms of synesthesia. In
Jaron Lanier
#15. Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.
Frederick Lenz
#16. Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.
Trish Stratus
#17. For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?
Barry Mann
#19. Hinduism, the predominant religion (in India), believes in the existence of multiple gods, many of whom are androgynous (having both female and male characteristics). Many Hindu sects are devoted to the worship of specific deities, such as Rama, Vishnu, and Shiva.
James Peoples
#20. All the names of the ultimate truth are
given by human beings. Whether you call it Allah or God or Jehovah or Rama or Krishna,
these names are given by human beings and hence they cannot be eternal. You are playing
one sided game. The truth has nothing to do with these names.
Rahul Karn
#21. One can know oneself only with one's own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else's. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?
Ramana Maharshi
#22. One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Rama glanced at her whenever a beautiful object caught his eye. Every tint of the sky, every shape of a flower or bud, every elegant form of a creeper reminded him of some aspect or other of Sita's person.
R.K. Narayan
#24. Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama ... or something.
Daniel Palladino
#25. Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.
Erma Bombeck
#26. Abandon pride, which is the same as Tamas-guna (darkness), rooted as it is in ignorance and is a source of considerable pain; and adore Lord Shri Rama, the Chief of the Raghus and an ocean of compassion.
(Page 787).
Tulsidas
#27. Lord Rama renounced his kingdom and became the most powerful king in the land. Buddha renounced the world and the world fell at his feet. Cornelia, my innocent girl, please do not believe that renunciation is to forsake power. Rather, it's the very means to power!' Chandragupta
Ashwin Sanghi
#28. The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.
Sathya Sai Baba
#29. It's fucking lame, is what it is! The swords look like they were made out of tinfoil. And that soundtrack is epically lame. Full of synthesizers and shit. By the motherfucking Alan Parsons Project! Lame-o-rama! Beyond lame. Highlander II lame.
Ernest Cline
#30. It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.
Stephen Lang
#33. La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.
Maria Bethania
#34. Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.
Sathya Sai Baba
#35. The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.
Dave Barry
#36. As to the nature of that drive, one thing was now certain, even though all else was mystery. There were no jets of gas, no beams of ions or plasma thrusting Rama into its new orbit. No one put it better than Sergeant Professor Myron, when he said, in shocked
Arthur C. Clarke
#37. Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.
Frederick Lenz
#38. It means that Rama was born on 10 January in 5114 BCE at precisely 12.30 pm.' 'And
Ashwin Sanghi
#39. When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
Edi Rama
#41. As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.
Frederick Lenz
#42. In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.
Frederick Lenz
#43. It is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.
Santha Rama Rau
#44. All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners who dare to embrace an Eastern belief-system.
Frederick Lenz
#45. I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.
Frederick Lenz
#46. I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.
Frederick Lenz
#47. Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
Edi Rama
#48. Memory. Such a strange phenomenon. What does a person remember, and what does he choose to forget? Perhaps he's not choosing, but forgetting. And what does he remember, and for what reason?
Rama Marinov Cohen
#49. As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.
Frederick Lenz
#50. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#51. I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.
Frederick Lenz
#52. Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.
Rama Swami
#53. I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
#54. I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.
Frederick Lenz
#55. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.
Frederick Lenz
#56. I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.
Frederick Lenz
#57. Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.
Rama Swami
#59. To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.
Rama Swami
#60. We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.
Rama Swami
#62. I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.
Frederick Lenz
#63. I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.
Frederick Lenz
#64. I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.
Frederick Lenz
#65. I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.
Frederick Lenz
#66. I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.
Frederick Lenz
#67. I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.
Frederick Lenz
#68. The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.
Frederick Lenz
#69. God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One - One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him.
Rama Swami
#70. In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.
Frederick Lenz
#71. In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.
Frederick Lenz
#72. My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.
Frederick Lenz
#73. I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
Edi Rama
#74. As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.
Frederick Lenz
#75. I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems.
Frederick Lenz
#76. It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.
Rama Swami
#77. I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.
Frederick Lenz
#78. I do have a staff of what some people would consider to be very attractive, chic women. They are not on the staff because they are attractive and chic but because they care about the welfare of others.
Frederick Lenz
#80. I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.
Frederick Lenz
#81. I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer.
Frederick Lenz
#82. India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them.
Santha Rama Rau
#83. You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.
Frederick Lenz
#84. It is more about how do you allow, shine through, or align with that which is already within you.
Danielle Rama Hoffman
#85. I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.
Frederick Lenz
#86. With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#87. Our world is defined by the pace of change. We can all change the world.
Edi Rama
#88. Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding!
Frederick Lenz
#89. I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.
Frederick Lenz
#90. I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.
Frederick Lenz
#91. I'm only here for a while, so I'd like to do what I can.
Frederick Lenz
#92. Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.
Frederick Lenz
#94. I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#95. The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.
Frederick Lenz
#96. I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.
Frederick Lenz
#98. Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.
Rama Swami
#99. Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.
Arthur C. Clarke
#100. Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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