Quotes
satyameva jayate naanrutam satyena panthaa vitato devayaanah |
yenaakramantyrushayo hyaaptakaamaa yatra tatsatyasya paramam nidhaanam ||Truth alone prevails, not untruth for the broad path to heaven runs through truth. The sages who have overcome desires attain that goal which truth leads to.
karmaNyevaadhikaaraste maa phaleshu kadaachana |
maa karmaphalaheturbhurmaa te sangostvakarmaNi ||To work alone you have the right but never claim its results. Let not the results of actions be your motive, nor be attached to inaction.
shashvannashvarameva vishvamakilam nischitya vaachaa guroh
nityam brahma nirantaram vimrushata nirvyaajashaantaatmana |
bhutam bhaavi cha dushkrutam pradahataa samvinmaye paavake
praarabdhaaya samarpitam svavapurityeshaa manishaa mama ||He who has contemplated upon the words of his Guru that the world is in a permanent state of flux; he who has controlled his mind to a true state of quietitude and is equipoised; he who has constantly meditated upon Brahman; he who has burnt up all the past and future vasanas in the fire of pure consciousness; he who has offered his body to live through and exhaust its present destiny – he alone is my Guru, ‘ be he a sweeper, be he a brahmana”.