Top 90 Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Tat tvam asi: “Thou art That.” Atman is Brahman: the Self in each person is not different from the Godhead.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

2. “Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do. 50 When consciousness is unified, however, all vain anxiety is left behind. There is no cause for worry, whether things go well or ill.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

3. “When everything in this world is temporary, why do you grieve for that which is lost?”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

4. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. We are made of our thoughts; we are molded by our thoughts.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

5. “When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently, Arjuna. Those who are not affected by these changes, who are the same in pleasure and pain, are truly wise and fit for immortality.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

6. “Those established in Self-realization control their senses instead of letting their senses control them.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

7. “Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve. Realize the truth of the scriptures; learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. 2 Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. 3 Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

8. “When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

9. “Gold is tested by fire; a well-born person, by his deportment; an honest man, by his conduct. A brave man is tested during a season of panic; he that is self-controlled, in times of poverty; and friends and foes, in times of calamity and danger.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

10. “Krishna introduces the idea that it is not enough to master all selfish desires; it is also necessary to subdue possessiveness and egocentricity.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

11. “Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

12. “Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results. Those who understand this and practice it live in freedom.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

13. “When your mind has overcome the confusion of duality, you will attain the state of holy indifference to things you hear and things you have heard.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

14. “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.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

15. “The Yaksha asked, ‘What is that which, if renounced, maketh one agreeable? What is that which, if renounced, leadeth to no regret? What is that which, if renounced, maketh one wealthy? And what is that which if renounced, maketh one happy?’ Yudhishthira answered, ‘Pride, if renounced, maketh one agreeable; wrath, if renounced leadeth to no regret: desire, if renounced, maketh one wealthy: and avarice, if renounced, maketh one happy.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

16. “Just as a seed can grow into only one kind of tree, thoughts can produce effects only of the same nature. Kindness to others, to take just one example, favors a nervous system that is kind to itself. The.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

17. “In profound meditation, they found, when consciousness is so acutely focused that it is utterly withdrawn from the body and mind, it enters a kind of singularity in which the sense of a separate ego disappears. In this state, the supreme climax of meditation, the seers discovered a core of consciousness beyond time and change. They called it simply Atman, the Self.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

18. “God is the ground we walk on, the food we eat, and the gratitude we express, to no one in particular, as naturally as breathing.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

19. “Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

20. “This does not mean, however, that the phenomenal world is an illusion or unreal. The illusion is the sense of separateness.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

21. “The law of karma states simply that every event is both a cause and an effect. Every act has consequences of a similar kind, which in turn have further consequences and so on; and every act, every karma, is also the consequence of some previous karma. This.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

22. “Our mistake is in taking this for ultimate reality, like the dreamer thinking that nothing is real except his dream.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

23. “The battlefield is a perfect backdrop, but the Gita’s subject is the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage if he or she is to emerge from life victorious. THE.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

24. “Thus the Gita places human destiny entirely in human hands. Its world is not deterministic, but neither is it an expression of blind chance: we shape ourselves and our world by what we believe and think and act on, whether for good or for ill.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

25. “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.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

26. “His judgment will be better and his vision clear if he is not emotionally entangled in the outcome of what he does.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

27. “18 The wise see that there is action in the midst of inaction and inaction in the midst of action. Their consciousness is unified, and every act is done with complete awareness.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

28. “Just as a reservoir is of little use when the whole countryside is flooded, scriptures are of little use to the illumined man or woman, who sees the Lord everywhere.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

29. “The image of God is found essentially and personally in all mankind. Each possesses it whole, entire and undivided, and all together not more than one alone. In this way we are all one, intimately united in our eternal image, which is the image of God and the source in us of all our life.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

30. “Guna means strand, and in the Gita the gunas are described as the very fabric of existence, the veil that hides unity in a covering of diversity.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

31. “Such a person, the Upanishads stress, can actually shed the body voluntarily when the hour of death arrives, by withdrawing consciousness step by step in full awareness.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

32. “The word dharma means many things, but its underlying sense is “that which supports,” from the root dhri, to support, hold up, or bear. Generally, dharma implies support from within: the essence of a thing, its virtue, that which makes it what it is.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

33. “The Yaksha asked, ‘What enemy is invincible? What constitutes an incurable disease for man? What sort of a man is called honest and what dishonest?’ Yudhishthira answered, ‘Anger is an invincible enemy. Covetousness constitutes an incurable disease. He is honest that desires the weal of all creatures, and he is dishonest who is unmerciful.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

34. “Krishna warns Arjuna that a life of work, even successful work, cannot be fulfilling without Self-knowledge. Ultimately, the true Self within him is not affected by what he does, whether good or bad. Only knowledge of the Self, which rises like the sun at dawn, can fulfill the purpose of his life and lead him beyond rebirth. This.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

35. “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. This.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

36. “In the Gita, maya becomes the creative power of the Godhead, the primal creative energy that makes unity appear as the world of innumerable separate things with “name and form.” Later.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

37. “Man is the slave of money, but money is no man’s slave.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

38. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts; it is made of our thoughts.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

39. “You have the right to action, but not to the fruits of action”: each of us has the obligation to act rightly, but no power to dictate what is to come of what we do.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

40. “When meditation becomes very deep, breathing becomes slow, steady, and even, and the windows of the senses close to all outward sensations. Next the faculties of the mind quiet down, resting from their usually frantic activity; even the primal emotions of desire, fear, and anger subside. When all these sensory and emotional tides have ceased to flow, then the spirit is free, mukta – at least for the time being. It has entered the state called samadhi. Samadhi.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

41. “Valor, strength, fortitude, skill in weaponry, resolve never to retreat from battle, large-heartedness in charity, and leadership abilities, these are the natural qualities of work for Kshatriyas.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

42. “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.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

43. “If our eyes were sensitive to a much finer spectrum, we might see the world as a continuous field of matter and energy.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

44. “On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

45. “Health, unindebtedness, living at home, companionship with good men, certainty as regards the means of livelihood, and living without fear, these six. O king, conduce to the happiness of men.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

46. “Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own dharma, but competition in another’s dharma breeds fear and insecurity.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

47. “Nor earth, nor heaven is forfeit, even for him, Because no heart that holds one right desire Treadeth the road of loss! He who should fail, Desiring righteousness, cometh at death Unto the Region of the Just; dwells there Measureless years, and being born anew, Beginneth life again in some fair home Amid the mild and happy.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

48. “They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart. 56.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

49. “The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

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.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa