simplyknowledge | Quotations

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

-Swami Vivekananda "Swami Vivekananda"

Since, O Mazda, from the beginning, Thou didst create soul and body; mental power and knowledge and since Thou didst place life within the corporeal body and didst bestow to mankind the power to act, speak and guide, you wished that everyone should choose his or her own faith and path freely.

-Scriptures "Yasna 31, Verse 11"

The soul dwelling within each one of us is the most powerful energy of the universe. And this soul is only the supreme power. Now despite knowing and understanding all this, if we still visit temples, mosques and religious places... then does it show anything other than distrust on our own soul?

-Deep Trivedi

Prana, the vital breath, is born of Self. Like a person and his shadow, the Self and Prana are inseparable. Prana enters the body at birth, but does not die with the body.

- Upanishads "Prana Upanisad"

He who knows his soul knows this truth: “I am beyond everything finite; I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with its ever-new joy, has expressed itself as the vast body of nature…I am the wisdom and power that sustain all creation.”

-A Spiritual Leader "Paramhansa Yogananda"

O Lord of all, hail unto Thee! The Soul of all, causing all acts, enjoying all, all life art Thou! Lord of all pleasure and delight!

- Upanishads "Maitri Upanishad 5.1"

A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception, perfect knowledge, perfect power, and perfect bliss…Have compassion towards all living beings. Hatred leads to destruction. Respect for all living beings is non-violence…

-Vardhaman Mahavira "Mahavira"

For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 2.20"

When salt mixes with water, it takes the form of water. In the same way samadhi or trance means the mind merging with the cosmic soul or God.

- Upanishads "Saubhagya Lakshmi Upanishad"

One who identifies himself with his soul regards bodily transmigration of his soul at death fearlessly, like changing one cloth for another.

-Scriptures "Pujyapada, Samadhishataka 77"