Bhaskarananda > Quotes

“A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.”
― Swami Bhaskarananda, The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion

“Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or cleaned from time to time, it loses its usefulness and cannot relate anymore to changed times and people.”
― Swami Bhaskarananda, The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion

“It is not possible for my average mind to grasp anything that is not related to its opposite.”
― Bhaskarananda, Journey from Many to One: Essentials of Advaita Vedanta

“Hindu philosophers say that as long as this world seems real to us, we live in a world of pairs of opposites. Everything that we know in this world belongs to a pair of opposites. For example, if we know joy we must know sorrow also. These two opposites constitute a pair. It is impossible to know one without knowing the other. They are always interrelated. To understand one it has to be related to the other. In this sense we can call this world a world of relativity and all the words and expressions that we use also belong to this world of relativity.”
― Bhaskarananda, Journey from Many to One: Essentials of Advaita Vedanta