Shastras Quotes & Sayings

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason. — Mahatma Gandhi

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls. — Mahatma Gandhi

Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpot ... I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied that I - even I - had dreamed. — Salman Rushdie

It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion. — Swami Vivekananda

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker. — Josh Klinghoffer

People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste. — B.R. Ambedkar

We go for what feels like hours and also feels like no time at all. — David Levithan

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions ... Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers ... — Bodhidharma

Life,' thought Septimus, ... 'you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. — M.L. Stedman

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do. — Swami Vivekananda

Even if you get the dream, you don't know if it will stay true. — Cheryl Strayed

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little. — Mahatma Gandhi