Dharmic Wisdom Quotes

[Agnideva]

Namaste.

This will be a thread dedicated to Dharmic wisdom. Please post quotes or passages dealing with any subject from books, scriptures, sayings, words of wise men and women as you come across them. I will begin by posting the first one.

[Agnideva]

Hold not that the immature, the credulous, the foolish, the slow, the layman and the fallen to have nothing good in them. They all teach something. Learn from them. Surely we do not give up a game although we have mastered it? Think not lightly of thy Guru should he lack letters and learning. Take the truth he teaches and ignore the rest. Know well that a boat, painted and adorned, will carry you across the river; so also will one that is plain and simple.

Sage Dattātreya (Avadhūta Gītā II.1-2)

[satay]

Thanks Agni, Great idea!
Here is one from a zen master...

"A great philosophical official, Riko, once asked the strange Zen Master Nansen, to explain to him the old koan of the goose in the bottle.

"If a man puts a gosling into a bottle," said Riko, "and feeds him until he is full-grown, how can the man get the goose out without killing it or breaking the bottle?"

Nansen gave a great clap with his hands and shouted: "Riko!"

"Yes, Master," said the official with a start.

"See," said Nansen, "the goose is out!""

http://www.osho.nl/New-Osho-NL/EnglBooks/GooseOut.htm

[Agnideva]

Namaste.

I thought this would be appropriate to add under Dharmic Wisdom since it is something we’ve discussed here recently:

When meditation is completed, i.e. when identity with God is realized, only then it becomes possible to renounce the results of actions. Otherwise, how can one surrender the fruits of action to God, if God’s nature remains hidden from him? When one is able to renounce the fruits of action then one attains the utmost peace.

Āchārya Abhinavagupta’s commentary on Bhagavad-Gitā XII.12
Gitārtha Samgraha XII.12

[satay]

OM, may my speech be rooted in my mind,
and my mind rooted in my speech.
O self-illumined Brahma, be manifest unto me.
Speech and mind form the basis of my knowledge,
so please do not undo my pursuit of knowledge.
Day and night I spend in this pursuit.
I shall speak the law;
I shall speak the truth.
May Brahma protect me; may he protect the speaker, protect the speaker.
OM, shanti, shanti, shanti.

[satay]

Unless the divine is your experience, the belief is futile!

[mirabai]

"Where Râma is, there is no room for any desire — where desire is, there is no room for Rama; these never coexist — like light and darkness they are never together."
........The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3, Para-Bakta or Supreme Devotion

[Agnideva]

Look to this Day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendor of beauty;
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision;
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation of the Dawn!
Listen to the exhortation of the Dawn!

~ Kalidasa
Usha Vandanam
(Salutations of the Dawn)

[Agnideva]

Namaste MG,

Hey you found the source! KOOL

Yes! I came across this last week and I thought of you, so I posted it here. It is called the Usha Vandanam written by the poet Kalidasa, who is very famous for his Sanskrit plays. Apparently, it is written from the perspective of the Dawn ... it is the Dawn (Usha) speaking to us!

Now is the time to come home to myself….

Wow, how profound. Thanks .

OM Shanti,
A.

[Agnideva]

Father, there is little to tell. My consciousness has never associated itself with this temporary body. Before I came on this earth, Father, I was the same. As a little girl, I was the same. I grew into womanhood, but still I was the same. When the family in which I had been born made arrangements to have this body married, I was the same ... And, Father, in front of you now, I am the same. Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change[s] around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

~Anandamoyi Ma