Quotes About Upanishads

#1. You are all bound by the law of Karma, the Upanishads admit, but they declare the way out.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.

Sivananda

#3. 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

#4. The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. The Gita is a commentary on the Upanishads. The Upanishads are the Bible of India.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Hermann Hesse

#7. I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

Niels Bohr

#8. 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

#9. I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. The Gita is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Vedas and the Upanishads.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. Blessed are the ones who offer coffee to writers, for they will get all the rewards mentioned in the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.

Robin Sacredfire

#12. When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

Huston Smith

#13. Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

Frederick Lenz

#14. The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the West.

Erwin Schrodinger

#15. One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes. - Maitri Upanishads

Steven D. Price

#16. Great difference between the priests and the Upanishads. The Upanishads say, renounce.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

Max Muller

#18. If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."

Swami Vivekananda

#19. The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that out of which these are manufactured. We must be masters of the situation at its very root, as it were.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. I read with interest Max Muller's book, India - What Can It Teach Us? and the translation of the Upanishads published by the Theosophical Society. All this enhanced my regard for Hinduism, and its beauties began to grow upon me. It did not, however, prejudice me against other religions.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#22. 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

#23. In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

Frederick Lenz

#24. 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

#25. The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#26. Om is that divine elixir that can clear away all the obstructions in our energy bodies.

Banani Ray

#27. Those wise ones who see that consciousness within themselves is the same consciousness within all consciousness beings obtain eternal peace.

Anonymous

#28. As by knowing one tool of iron, dear one, we come to know all things made out of iron: that they differ only in name and form, while the stuff of which all are made is iron- so through that spiritual wisdom, dear one, we come to know that ll of life is one.

Eknath Easwaran

#29. You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny.

Upanishads

#30. As a caterpillar, having come to the end of one blade of grass, draws itself together and reaches out for the next, so the Self, having come to the end of one life and dispelled all ignorance, gathers in his faculties and reaches out from the old body to a new

Anonymous

#31. Om is that eternal music which can smooth away all the creases of negativity in our Karmic database.

Banani Ray