Devotee Quote by Mahatma Gandhi Download Open image “A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.” — Mahatma Gandhi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devotee Gita May Rama Said Steadfast
Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“One day Jatadhari requested Sri Ramakrishna to keep the image and bade him adieu with tearful eyes. He declared that Rāmlālā had fulfilled his… — Swami Nikhilananda Copy Share Image
“The thought of the Gita is not pure Monism although it sees in one unchanging, pure, eternal Self the foundation of all cosmic existence, nor Mayavada although it speaks of the Maya of the three modes of Prakriti omnipresent in the created world; nor is it qualified Monism although it places in the One his eternal supreme Prakriti manifested in… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share
Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The Hindu deity Hanuman offers a similar example of devotional service. Every act he performs becomes an offering to Rama (God). His service brings… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Pure devotional service is śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam. Pure devotees, who take transcendental pleasure in hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord, do not care for any kind of liberation; even if they are offered the five liberations, they refuse to accept them, as stated in the Bhāgavatam in the Third Canto. Materialistic persons aspire for the sense enjoyment of heavenly… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share
My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Yam hi na vyathayanthy, ete purusan purursarsabha, Sama-dhuka-sugam dhirm so mrtavaya kalpate - Bhagavt Gita "The person who is not disturbed by happiness or… — Bhagavatam Copy Share Image
Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of science require that the evidently magnified principles of vitality should be reduced to their natural spheres, or if truth requires, wholly subverted in favor of those more cognizable by the human understanding. The spirit of… — John Gorrie Copy Share
Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or repel each other but included each other, and went together in friendship; that it was approached in different ways and through many symbols; that it resided in the hearts of its devotees. Here there were no chosen people,… — Ram Swarup Copy Share
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the… — Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr Copy Share Image
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet. — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I have not come on behalf of any exclusive religion. I have not come on a mission of publicity for a sect or creed or cause, nor have I come to collect followers for a doctrine. I… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share
What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he… — Chanakya Copy Share Image