Philosophers From India

"I do not see any difference between people. Because the Creator of all people is one, his name is different, the method of worship is different."

"If one cannot work for the welfare of others as a human being, then even as a human being, he is equivalent to a violent animal."

"Love cannot be forced on people. It is possible only by speaking the truth and having a good character."

"A true and righteous person is not good in the eyes of everyone. Because this age is Kali's lie, suppressing his truth and calling him into darkness."

"A person made a false promise in front of the public for the completion of his personal work. It is seen that after the completion of his work, not to mention the promise, not even his shadow is seen."

"It would be wrong to judge a person as bad because he is inferior in his professional work or neglected by society. You have to see whether his mind, thoughts and consciousness are positive or not."

"Don't waste your time working hard by chasing someone's promise. Think about what will happen to you, not at the mercy of someone."

"Younger ones: We know what you will understand by working hard in unnecessary and fruitless work, sitting at home. Because we are your elders."

"Everyone in society tries to be good. But how many can do it."

"One of the cruelest yet most efficient Dewan of Mayurbhanj. Both horror and business is skyrocketing in Mayurbhanj"

"Lacks sympathy for the local populace, enjoys the power given to him by the Maharaja. Being from East Bengal, he filled several appointments with individuals from his region, including appointing his own brother as a Sub-Registrar. This decision marginalized Uriyas and domiciled Bengalis, leading to disappointment and discontent among them. Although Dhar enjoyed the confidence of the Maharaja, the local public opinion was against him."

"To rule is not to be loved, but to be obeyed without question. Fear is a far more reliable currency than affection."

"Mayurbhanj could not reach the position, where it is now, if Dhar Babu was not the Dewan"

"I am to be reborn and watch over my lineage, my family. There is a responsibility to nurture and protect them, my dearest son Dhiru and my cherished grandchildren. The return will happen, just as my grandfather, Raja Mukunda Mohan Dhar, did before."

"Dhar is bringing a colony of men from East Bengal to Mayurbhanj and employing them in various state departments"

"Adversity is the chisel that shapes the unyielding stone of potential into a masterpiece."

"The places where I found true solace are the homes I built—19 Kabir Sarani Road, Dacca, and 19 Kabir Road, Calcutta. Within their walls reside the love and labor I poured into them, the blessings of my forefathers, and the cherished memories of my beloved grandmother Tarini, my grandfather Raja Mukunda Dhar, and my devoted parents, Hara Mohan Dhar and Elokeshi."

"They rail against the darkness and the shadows. However, they fail to grasp a simple truth: it is merely a reflection. A perfectly sharpened mirror held up to the ugliness they refuse to acknowledge within themselves. Every act of depravity, every desperate betrayal, and each whispered compromise are not inventions, but the masterpieces born of flawed desires. The catalyst brings them forth into the light."

"The strength of a lion isn't in its roar, but in the silent determination of its hunt."

"Every tick of the clock is a step closer to the grand finale – a cosmic joke where everyone's the victim of time's indifference. What's so precious about something that will betray you in the end?"

"I don't simply take what I want; I make them beg to give it to me."

"True power lies not in controlling others, but in mastering oneself."

"Ganapati was a Vedic scholar, a Tantric yogi, an Ayurvedic doctor and a Vedic astrologer, as well as an active social thinker and reformer – covering the same basic range of fields that I had and at a much deeper level. He even researched the history of the Vedas and the Mahabharata. He was probably the greatest Sanskrit poet and writer of this century. His greatest work, Uma Sahasram, has a thousand verses and forty chapters each down flawlessly in a different Sanskrit meter. I recognized him as a model for what I was attempting in all aspects of my work. He also presented an approach that balanced my connection with both Aurobindo and Ramana. Through Ganapati I was able to bridge the gap between the two. No doubt a secret affinity with him was behind the position that I had taken."

"Kapali was the chief disciple of Ganapati Muni, who was perhaps the chief disciple of Ramana. Ganapati had first discovered Ramana as a young boy then called Brahma Swami, because he was a Brahmin boy. He renamed him Ramana and Bhagavan. Ganapati wrote several important Sanskrit works on the Maharshi and also put Ramana’s teachings into Sanskrit, which Kapali as his disciple commented on. I decided to search out the works of Ganapati Muni, particularly on the Vedas, as he was reputed to be a Vedic scholar as well. I asked M.P. Pandit about Ganapati and whether his Vedic work was important. He said that there was little about the Vedas in the scattered works of Ganapati, though Ganapati did accept an exalted status for the Vedic mantras. I asked at the Ramanashram about Ganapati and his Vedic works but at first nothing came of it. In 1992, I came in contact with K. Natesan, who in his eighties, was one of the oldest living disciples of Ganapati and Ramana. When Natesan discovered my interest in Ganapati he revealed his great secret. He had collected Ganapati’s work for decades. Besides copies of Ganapati's printed works, most of which were out of print; he had painstakingly transcribed Ganapati’s handwritten manuscripts and gathered nearly all of them. He had much material that even M.P. Pandit never knew about, including extensive works on the Vedas by Ganapati. He happily made copies of all these works for me and I took them back home to America to study. Natesan guided me to Ganapati and became a source of his grace and his influence. In Ganapati’s works I found an approach to the Vedas in harmony with my deepest thoughts."

"He (Chinmayananda) stayed for nine summers with the latter as his disciple. Discipleship, however, was not easy and once he even packed his bags determined to leave. His guru had accused him of having torn his robe while washing it. Chinmayananda had denied it. It had not been him for sure. Yet from now onwards, Tapovan Maharaj called him a liar, often in front of other disciples. Chinmayananda felt hurt and decided to leave, never to come back. An elder ashram resident saw him packing and convinced him that the accusation was just one of the guru’s ways to hit at his ego, in his (Chinmayananda’s) best interest. Chinmayananda got the point. When he saw his guru the next time, the guru laughed, “Why are you so touchy when I call you a liar? Aren’t we all liars as long as we don’t know the truth? Do you know the truth?”"

"Forts are the bedrock of swarajya."

"Rising beyond the waves is not just about swimming; it’s about refusing to sink in the face of adversity."

"The real barriers are not in the body but in the mind. Once you break them, the world is yours to conquer."

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"The ocean doesn’t ask if you’re ready—it challenges you to prove that you are."

"The sorrow that arises from the displeasure of relatives is from disillusionment. It will be avoided by men with threats. The sorrow caused by slander and contempt of others is the root of one's own pride. No harm is done by actual blasphemy. Because there is no one who gives different results. And the sorrow that is due to the contempt of others, about the encounter, suppresses one's own arrogance and benefits. By keeping such thoughts in your mind, you will adopt peace."

"May God bless you. Do din karola — anand hai behind. Everyone has to suffer. If you enjoy it for two days (initially) - you will get pleasure (grace) afterwards"

"Bonding in the mind is freedom in the mind. There is no bond in the world. The sense of self in wife, son, wealth and people is the bond. Otherwise release"

"He does not work inside, nor does he look at praise or criticism. Do your duty without looking at criticism or praise or judging what others say or not"

"Philosophy of fault is the greatest fault. At the sight of evil, the mind is immediately polluted."

"The joys and sorrows of the body happen to everyone, it is wise to bear them with patience. Being detached from it and having the patience to do one's duty, one will know that ultimate peace is near."

"There will be more work than chanting if you keep the knowledge that God exists in all situations and do all the work with the wisdom of serving God. If you can hold this spiritual wisdom."

"If a Brahmin male/ Is known by the thread he wears, / How is a woman known? A Muslim is marked by the sign/ Of circumcision; but how should you / Mark a woman?"

"Sanatana means Eternal. In its purest form, this religion is Sanatana, because it is based on Truth. Truth is immortal and is never annihilated. It remains the same yesterday, today and forever. Therefore our true Sanatana Dharma, in its purest form, cam never be exterminated. It, however, does not follow that we should relax into inaction, in the belief that our religion is the best or that it can never be destroyed. No, no. This idle thinking is the result of our indolent minds. It is, therefore, absolutely essential for the followers of Sanatana Dharma to keep it safe from the evil and aggressive designs of the non-Hindus, who are generally ever ready to malign us."

"About the same time I discovered the teachings of Swami Rama Tirtha, who lived at the turn of the century and was another great Vedantin. I felt a special inner kinship to Swami Rama, who was a poetic, inspirational and independent figure."

"Hinduism stands like a huge banian tree spreading its far reaching branches over hundreds of sects, creed and denomination and covering with innumerable leaves, all forms of worship, the dualistic, the qualified non-dualistic and monistic worship of the one Supreme God, the worship, of the Incarnation of God and also hero worship, saint worship, ancestor worship and the worship of the departed spirit. It is based on the grand idea of universal receptivity. It receives everything."

"If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to `normalize’ formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality."

"It was our dream to get Homi Bhabha, said Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of the Afro-American studies department, where Mr. Bhabha will begin teaching in the spring. Reaction in the English department, where Mr. Bhabha will be spending the bulk of his time, was just as enthusiastic. He's manifestly one of the most distinguished cultural theorists of the postcolonial and diasporic experience in the world, said Lawrence Buell, the department chairman. Elsewhere, however, news of the appointment, which was first announced a year ago, provoked less jubilation than disbelief. When I heard that, I was dismayed, said Marjorie Perloff, an emeritus professor of English at Stanford University. For Harvard to be thrilled to be hiring Homi Bhabha -- he doesn't have anything to say.... One could finally argue that there is no there there, beyond the neologisms and latinate buzzwords, said Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at New York University. Most of the time I don't know what he's talking about."

"There are so many antecedents alongside the usual postcolonial triad of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. Important as they are, we have to remember figures like Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire."

"The Entire Cosmos is all pervaded by the same divine power. There is no ultimate duality in human existence or in consciousness. This is a truth, which in the West is only recently being understood after Einstein and Heisenberg and quantum mechanics. The Newtonian-Cartesian-Marxist paradigm of a materialistic universe has now been finally abolished; it has collapsed in the face of the new physics. Our ancient seers had a deeper insights into the nature of reality than people had even until very recently."

"The Hindus no less than the Greeks have shared in the work of constructing scientific concepts and methods in the investigating of physical phenomena, as well as of building up a body of positive knowledge which has been applied to industrial technique; and Hindus scientific ideas and methodology (eg. the inductive method or methods of algebraic analysis) have deeply influenced the course of natural philosophy in Asia - in the East as well as the West - in China and Japan, as well as in the Saracen Empire."

"Nasîru’d-Dîn’s leading disciple, Syed Muhammad Husainî Banda Nawãz Gesûdarãz (1321-1422 A.D.), went to Gulbarga for helping the contemporary Bahmani sultan in consolidating Islamic power in the Deccan."

"An anecdote relating to Shaikh Jalalu’d-Din’s stay in Deva Mahal reads like other stock-in-trade stories and fairytales. It was related by such an authority as Gisu Daraz. According to him Shaikh Jalalu’d-Din stayed at Pandua in the house of a flower vendor. On the day of his arrival, he found each of the house members crying. On enquiry he was told there was a demon in the temple who daily ate a young man. It was the king’s duty to provide the demon with his daily food. On that day it was the turn of the young son in the family. The Shaikh requested them to send him in place of their son but they refused to accept the offer for fear of the king. The Shaikh, then followed the young man to the temple and killed the demon with a single blow from his staff. When the king accompanied by his retinue reached the temple to worship the demon they were amazed to find the demon killed and an old man dressed in black with his head covered with a blanket. The Shaikh invited them to see the fate with their god. The sight of their vanquished idol prompted them to accept Islam."

"But as we prepare for the future, there’s something that philosophy cautions us; the world is not an infinitely malleable matter that we can freely mould according to our world picture, whether through technological exuberance or hypophysical discipline."

"When the white nationalists come, I will be right here, waiting, with all the arms that I can gather to give their final farewell. Know this, the white nationalist moth is now whirling faster as it is approaching the flame."