"A crow when it sees some foodstuff, it crows, gathers other crows and shares it with them. Crows and fowl have a better social etiquette than a man."

"By dipping in the river everyday a Brahmin were to jump to heaven, the frog which is born and lives in water should surely go to heaven."

"By dabbing sandalwood paste on the forehead one were to reach heaven, the stone used to grind the paste should be first to go there."

"By wearing a mark of ash one were to reach heaven, a donkey (that rolls in ash) should reach there surely."

"No one knows everything. The learned are few. There is no guarantee that the smart bring wisdom. Knowledge is not available for all."

"One who gives [alms] without advertising is superior. One who gives and talks about it is medium. Only a knave talks much and gives nothing."

"The company of good men is like enjoying sweet honey. The company of evil men is like the stinking stuff in the sewer."

"Learn some things from those who know; Watch some things from those who do; Learn other things by self experience."

"One who walks a hundred feet in a cool breeze after his meal and one who sleeps on his left side will never need a physician."

"Offering food [to the hungry], telling the truth and putting others above oneself is a happy way to heaven."

"One who makes a gift to the deserving and needy attains the everlasting abode of Shiva."

"A wife who keeps the home warm, watches expenses, knows what is on your mind and acts accordingly is everything. Who cares if the heavens catch fire!"

"A drunkard is like a pig. The poor pig, however, is helpful. The drunk is worse and useless."

"While borrowing it is like eating a meal of milk and honey. When the loan is due to be paid, it feels as if the bones in the body are broken."

"What is the use of circling round the temple without any feeling? It is like the ox which circles round the oil crusher."

"Means of knowledge are sensory perception, inference and holy scriptures."

"What use is giving advice to a fool a hundred times? It is like raining on a rock for hundred years. Will it ever soak in?"

"A service without flowers, the king without a horse and friendship with one who does not know the language are a waste."

"There is a hierarchy amongst living beings, that is eternal [without beginning or end]."

"All living beings are dependent upon Vishnu for their existence."

"Salvation lies in the soul experiencing its intrinsic joy."

"Vishnu is to be perceived in His nature through the holy scriptures and only through them."

"Salvation can be attained only through pure and unsullied love of God (combined with knowledge of His greatness)."

"If fools claim that they jumped over six mountains, agree to it. It is not worth fighting over."

"All living beings are different from Him and from each other and are subordinate to Him, all their actions are controlled by Him."

"Sriman Narayana is the Lord of the universe, and the creation, destruction, sustainanance, control, etc., are according to his wish. He is the one called Brahma in the vedas and HE is full of knowledge, bliss, and power [strength]."

"All inanimate objects are different from Him and from each other and from all living objects."

"God Vishnu has complete power over souls and matter and that Vishnu saves souls entirely by his grace which is granted to those who live pure and moral lives. Evil souls are predestined to eternal damnation and should of mediocre quality will transmigrate eternally."

"The world is real."

"The final emancipation called mokhsha for the beings who are bound to the problems of samsara can be attained by intense devotion to the Lord with the true knowledge of HIM."

"There is no Metaphysics superior to that of Shankara."

"For one who knows how to speak, it is like water pouring out of Eta [a device to draw water from a well]. For one who does not know, it is just the rope hanging down."

"From woman comes the new life on earth and woman is the source of all prosperity here and hereafter."

"The five-fold difference between God, living and non-living beings is an eternal fact"

"It is not possible to speak with too much applause of so excellent a work."

"All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold."

"He who renouncing all activities, who is free of all the limitations of time, space and direction, worships his own Atman which is present everywhere, which is the destroyer of heat and cold, which is Bliss-Eternal and stainless, becomes All-knowing and All-pervading and attains thereafter Immortality."

"Atman is an ever-present Reality. Yet, because of ignorance it is not realised. On the destruction of ignorance Atman is realised."

"Ancient or pre-Buddhistic Hinduism sought Him both in the world and outside it; it took its stand on the strength and beauty and joy of the Veda, unlike modern or post-Buddhistic Hinduism which is oppressed with Buddha's sense of universal sorrow and Shankara's sense of universal illusion,-Shankara who was the better able to destroy Buddhism because he was himself half a Buddhist."

"Though he lives in the conditionings (Upadhis), he, the contemplative one, remains ever unconcerned with anything or he may move about like the wind, perfectly unattached. On the destruction of the Upadhis, the contemplative one is totally absorbed in "Vishnu", the All-pervading Spirit, like water into water, space into space and light into light. Realise That to be Brahman, the attainment of which leaves nothing more to be attained, the blessedness of which leaves no other blessing to be desired and the knowledge of which leaves nothing more to be known."

"Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with or opposed to ignorance. Knowledge does verily destroy ignorance as light destroys deep darkness."

"The Soul appears to be finite because of ignorance. When ignorance is destroyed the Self which does not admit of any multiplicity truly reveals itself by itself: like the Sun when the clouds pass away."

"I find that Shankara had grasped much of Vedantic truth, but that much was dark to him. I am bound to admit what he realised; I am not bound to exclude what he failed to realise."

"Like bubbles in the water, the worlds rise, exist and dissolve in the Supreme Self, which is the material cause and the prop of everything."

"Deities like Brahma and others taste only a particle, of the unlimited Bliss of Brahman and enjoy in proportion their share of that particle."

"Ramanuja is first and last a Master of Vedic personality that is the vital breath of Indian Society from its every birth."

"Brahma satyam jagat mithyam, jivo brahmaiva naparah"

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