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You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to see your own eyes without a reflection, or cut a knife with the tip of its own blade—it is impossible. The subject can only observe the object; it cannot make an object out of itself. But by the very act of observing, you indirectly know yourself as the observer, as the subject. No witnessing of the witness is needed to prove its existence.

You can't protect Dharma if you don't know what it is.

You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.

You dream of a new world to come, a new world to be birthed, a new dream to be dreamt. In the dream, a flower grows, a lotus from which the creator and the creation will unfold. From which light will begin to shine upon this vast dark sea, unveiling all the magic sleeping within. From this flower, infinite worlds and universes will be born. Each will contain a seed of light. And these seeds will light the heavens for all to guide their journeys by.

You kill life and call it an act of religion. Then what is irreligion?

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

Your body and my body are both totally made up of and dependent upon the elements of the earth—the water, the air, the heat, the land, the soil and the food it produces—as well as all of the elements that these elements are dependent upon—the sun, the stars, the galaxies, and a vast field of energy and space to contain them in. Nature is our extended body, and the elements outside of our skin are just as important to our health as the elements within our skin. Our bodies are connected to the universe as a whole, and consequently to each other and the many ways in which we influence our shared environment.

You're right [Joshua], I have taught you nothing. I could teach you nothing. Everything that you needed to know was already there. You simply needed the word for it. Some need Kali and Shiva to destroy the world so they may see past the illusion to divinity in them, others need Krishna to drive them to the place where they may perceive what is eternal in them. Others may perceive the Divine Spark in themselves only by realizing through enlightenment that the spark resides in all things, and in that they find kinship. But because the Divine Spark resides in all, does not mean that all will discover it. Your dharma is not to learn, Joshua, but to teach." "How will I teach my people about the Divine Spark?" ... "You must only find the right word. The Divine Spark is infinite, the path to find it is not. The beginning of the path is the word.

A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It is the formless and eternal quality within you that expresses itself through the world of form.

You will breathe throughout your life, every moment of it, but an opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime, and not even to everyone. Go for it!

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

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.