Veda Quotes

#1. There was something unnatural, a little unhealthy, about the way she inhaled Veda's smell as she dedicated the rest of her life to this child who had been spared.

James M. Cain

#2. Thou hast come into being by the toil; the work of the gods thou art the way of holy order. With the Vasus, the gods, as deity, with the Gayatri metre I yoke thee, with the spring season as oblation I consecrate thee. - Yajur Veda, Taittiriya Samhita, Khand VII 1.18

Aparna Sinha

#3. These chants relieved vedana, the yearning of the restless human soul, hence became collectively known as the Veda. Those who heard them first came to be known as the Rishis.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#4. You may ask, "Who wrote the Vedas?" They were not written. The words are the Vedas. A word is Veda, if I can pronounce it rightly. Then it will immediately produce the [desired] effect.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. One of its earliest sacred scriptures, known as the Rig Veda, declares "Let noble thoughts come to us from all directions.

Amrutur V. Srinivasan

#6. By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.

Frank Tipler

#7. A man who has control over his mind is able to realize its full potential. - The Sama Veda

Tom Hoobyar

#8. I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha. He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

Hermann Hesse

#9. She was speaking in tongues?"
"What da f**k else she gonna speak with?" Veda rolled her eyes. I saw no reason to explai, so I let her go on.

Sierra Dean

#10. No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. One should never fear sorrow because it is the stepping stone to happiness," - Rig Veda

Bharadwaj

#12. Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda,

Wendy Doniger

#13. Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.

Johannes Itten

#14. Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world ...

Sathya Sai Baba

#15. The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge.

Sri Aurobindo

#16. India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.

Narendra Modi

#17. The Sama Veda of India contains the world's earliest writings on musical science. The

Paramahansa Yogananda

#18. I am Sama Veda among the Vedas; I am Indra among the Devas; I am the mind among the senses; I am the consciousness in living beings.

Anonymous

#19. The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.

Deepak Chopra

#20. In Sanskrit this ardent, one-pointed, self-transcending passion is called tapas, and the Vedas revere it as an unsurpassable creative force. From the tapas of God, the Rig Veda says, the cosmos itself was born.

Anonymous

#21. There are many ways to tell the history of the world. Oral histories that were later written down, including the Book of Genesis, the Rig Veda, and the Popul Vuh, focused especially on the actions of gods and on human/divine interactions. The

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

#22. A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Deepak Chopra

#23. 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

#24. Love is stealthy hiding under ribs.

Veda Hille

#25. Wisdom most of the time takes form of advice.

Veda Catherine Storey

#26. Oh precious heart, you think you're lost, look down look down and find your feet. The next step is the path you're on

Veda Hille

#27. Two things are easiest to do. One, to carry water in a sieve. Two, to still the mind. Freeze water. Breathe calm. Only two secrets to learn.

Swami Veda Bharati

#28. Sweet be the glances
we exchange,Our faces
showing true concord;
Enshrine me in your
heart and let one spirit
dwell within us.

Atharva Veda 7.36

#29. Do you wake up in the morning and first thing, centre yourself by looking at your palms together? Thereby have a nice day.

Swami Veda Bharati

#30. Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still.

Swami Veda Bharati

#31. Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.

Veda Hille

#32. The next step is the path you're on.

Veda Hille