Top 52 Vyasa Quotes
#1. Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea
Sarada Devi
#2. Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.
Abhijit Naskar
#3. It was Vyasa's genius to take the whole great Mahabharata epic and see it as metaphor for the perennial war between the forces of light and the forces of darkness in every human heart.
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#4. By associating Arjuna and Krishna to Nara and Narayana, Vyasa makes them creatures of destiny. Their birth is not random; they are born for a reason.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#6. Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.
Vyasa
#7. Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will.
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#10. To save the family, abandon a man;
to save the village, abandon a family;
to save the country, abandon a village;
to save the soul, abandon the earth.
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#11. Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself.
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#12. Krishna was the unborn original Personality of Godhead, appearing on earth to destroy demonic men and to establish the eternal religion, pure love of God.
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#14. The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind.
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#16. This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
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#18. It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".
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#19. Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.
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#20. While seeing or hearing, touching or smelling; eating, moving about, or sleeping; breathing 9 or speaking, letting go or holding on, even opening or closing the eyes, they understand that these are only the movements of the senses among sense objects. 10
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#21. Tat tvam asi: "Thou art That." Atman is Brahman: the Self in each person is not different from the Godhead.
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#23. What is the greatest wonder in the world?
That, every single day, people die,
Yet the living think they are immortal.
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#24. Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit.
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#25. Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.
Vyasa
#26. Having no knowledge of models other than what they meet with in their own tongue, the standard they have formed of purity and taste in composition must necessarily be a narrow one.
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#27. Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery, Arjuna.
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#30. 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
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#31. This chapter also explores the question, "Who is the true yogi?" This word yogi may bring to mind images of amazing people who do strange contortions with their bodies.
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#32. Our mistake is in taking this for ultimate reality, like the dreamer thinking that nothing is real except his dream.
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#33. makes his sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends rain to the righteous and to the unrighteous
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#34. free of the five evils which assail men: excessive sleep, fear, anger, weakness of mind, and procrastination.
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#36. without being able to arrive at its end, then, O Sanjaya, I had no hope of success. When I heard that Yudhishthira, beaten by Saubala at the game of dice and deprived of his kingdom as a consequence thereof, had still been attended upon by his brothers of
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#37. Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me; this I promise; for you are dear to me.
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#39. But when you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, 65 there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you live in the wisdom of the Self. 66
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#40. Scriptural knowledge is successful when it results in humility and good conduct, wealth is successful when it is both enjoyed and given away in charity, and marriage is successful when the wife is enjoyed and bears offspring.
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#41. No one belongs to me; I belong to no one. There is no "I" or "mine"; all is blissful aloneless.
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#42. Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.
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#44. One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self.
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#45. As for those who seek the transcendental Reality, without name, without form, contemplating the Unmanifested, beyond the reach of thought and of feeling, 4 with their senses subdued and mind serene and striving for the good of all beings, they too will verily come unto me.
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#46. May no woman give birth to one who would mutely suffer insults, who is devoid of vigour and manly prowess and one who would bring joy to the enemies.
-Mahabharata
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#47. We are not cabin-dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.
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#49. Time is the seed of the Universe.
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#50. The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge.
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#51. Those unacquainted with any language but their own are generally very exclusive in matters of taste.
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