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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 8h

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole … This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express … tat tvam asi, this is you.

Irwin Schrodinger

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 20h

Micro Meditation (Advaita edition)

Look outward — Let the eyes rest on whatever is before you: colors, shapes.

Note quietly: All this is seen.

Close the eyes — Thoughts, sensations—these too are seen.

Ask: Who is the Seer of all this?

Do not answer — just feel the Presence. Just be.

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 21h

Where there is Dharma, there is Victory.

Where there is Krishna, there is Dharma.

Mahabharata

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

There is but one Supreme Reality, the root of the universe, the highest abode. By That alone is all this pervaded.

Vishnu Purana

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Chanakya

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

The facts that cause gloom are mere mist. Through the gleams of beauty, we realize: Peace is true, not conflict. Love is true, not hatred. Truth is the One, not the disjointed multitude.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

Pete Townsend, of The Who, with his spiritual guru, Meher Baba.

“I don’t really know who he is, but I have come to love him.”

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

The cloud gives rain and asks for nothing — so should the wise give freely.

Kālidāsa (in Meghadūta)

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

What greater virtue than to lighten another’s sorrow?

Kālidāsa (in Śākuntala)

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

I searched and searched — until I found that seeker and sought are one.

Lalleshwari

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

God is not merely the object of love; God is the act of loving itself.

Raimon Panikkar

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

Forgiving others for their mistakes is genuinely divine, because each one of us is the same divinity.

Swami Medhananda

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

As fragrance abides in the flower, and reflection in the mirror, so does God dwell within you — why search outside?

Guru Nanak Dev Ji

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

That which shines just before and after every thought and feeling is the 'I.' That is objectless consciousness.

Atmananda

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

The greatest Guru is your inner Self. Truly, he is the only Guru. The rest are but tunnels leading to him.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

manuṣyāḥ = human beings, men (in the general, not gendered, sense)

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

In any way that men love me in that same way they find my love: for many are the paths of men, but they all in the end come to me.

Bhagavad Gita

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Tashi @dualnondual.bsky.social · 3d

Reminds me of:

"The hidden activity of those who are fully consecrated to abiding in Presence is the highest form of skillful action."

- Manjushrimitra's Bodhicittabhavana

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

In Japan, Ganesha is known as Kangiten.

“The joyous deity.”

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

Ganesha

Lord of beginnings and endings, of the movement from chaos to order. Remover of obstacles.

He embodies intellectual and spiritual power - and prosperity.

In Thailand, they call him Phra Phikanet.

The first offering in any puja (ritual to awaken the Divine Presence) goes to Ganesha.

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

Mention is made of two classes of yogis: the hidden and the known. Those who have renounced the world are “known” yogis: all recognize them. But the “hidden” yogis live in the world. They are not known.

Ramakrishna

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 4d

All the other theistic schools … stop with three things, a triangle: God, individual, and the world. … Advaita Vedanta goes beyond that and says that there is a deeper reality, a higher reality. Beyond the individual, beyond the world, and beyond God even.

Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 4d

Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

BKS Iyengar

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 4d

Diversity

To obliterate every other religion than one’s own is a sort of Bolshevism in religion which we must try to prevent.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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