Quotes

Our duty towards God is compassion and love towards the poor and needy.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

Look upon others as being part of yourself.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

If we continuously maintain self awareness, we will be able to experience peace and happiness.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

Only God loves us selflessly.

-Mata Amritanandamayi

Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

A life of renunciation is the greatest form of satsang - others can see and emulate it.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same..

- Mata Amritanandamayi

In order to attain this grace, cry and pray, hold on to the feet of the Guru, no matter what happens.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

Innocent prayer, is a very powerful way to please the Lord. You don't need to be a scholar to do that.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

Whenever you get angry, you lose energy through every pore of your body.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

Like an oasis is a mirage of the desert, this world is an illusion of Brahman.

- Upanishad Wisdom

A plate, a cup, and a bowl are all made from the same clay. Like this, all creation is made from the same eternal Brahman.

-Upanishad wisdom

The physician should examine the disease first, then the drug and finally the management. They should always proceed with prior knowledge.

-Charak Samhitä

All our sorrows arise because we do not love or establish friendship with the One with whom we should. We place our love and friendship in people instead of God.

-Swami Shankar Purushottam Tirtha

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest their patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

-Thomas Edison

All human activities are meant for happiness of all living beings.

Such happiness is based on dharma (righteousness, right moral conduct).

Hence, every person should always adopt righteousness.

- Ashtanga Hridayam Su. Ch. 2: ver. 20

Education is not a matter of always seeing new things; education means seeing the same things in a new light.

Being mindful of the nature of people, deal with them in a way that best pleases them.

Become well versed in the art of adoring others.

-Ashtanga Hridayam Sü. Ch. 2: ver. 26-28

Persons should not engage in occupations that are lacking, or going contrary to the three pursuits; righteousness, wealth, and pleasure...one should be moderate and avoid extremes

-Ashtanga Hridayam Sü. Ch. 2: ver. 30

Tradition, ethics, knowledge, humility; these are the four doors to a good mind.

-Mahabharata

For an intelligent person, the whole world is a teacher, so one should imitate the world after carefully considering their meaning and effects of such actions.

-Ashtanga Hridayam Sü. Ch. 2: ver. 45

Education is a development from within, not an accretion from without; it comes through the workings of natural instincts and not in response to external force; it is an expansion of natural powers, not an acquisition of information; it is life itself not a preparation for a future state remote in interests and characteristics from the life of childhood.

-Rousseau

Nothing in this universe is non-medicinal; all substances can be used for various healing purposes.

-Ashtanga Hridayam Su. Ch. 9: ver. 10

Modern science is based on the study of physical principles to conquer nature. Ayurveda requires spiritual insight in order to live in harmony with natures.

-Swami Sadashiva Tirtha

Thinking of sense objects causes attachment. From attachment arises longing and from longing anger is born [anger causes fever]. From anger arises delusion; from delusion, loss of memory is caused. From loss of memory, the discriminative faculty is ruined, and from the ruin of discrimination, one perishes. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2; verse 62-63

It is desire, it is anger, born of Rajas Guna (passion); of unappeasable craving and great sin; know this as the foe in the world. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3; verse 37

Physicians should not feel shy if they don't know the nomenclature of the disease, for there is no rule, custom, or state that every disease has a name.

-Ashthanga Hridayam Su. Ch. 12: ver. 64

One who knows how to reduce, nourish, dry, oleate, foment, and use the astringent therapies is the real physician.

-Charak Su:Ch. 22 verse 4 .

Limitted power comes from knowledge and action. Unlimitted everlasting power exists in being.

-Swami Narayan Thirtha

Like salt that is tasted in water though we cannot see it, so too, merging into Brahman we are everywhere, but we cannot see it.

- Vedic saying

People are bound by rites and freed by knowledge, thus the sages have known this truth do not perform rites.

-Upanishadic wisdom

When one realizes Brahman, what is there to realize, and who is there to realize it?

-Upanishadic wisdom