Upanishad Quotes

“Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.”
― Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

“Acel gest simbolic de a o întrona pe Déesse Raison la Notre-Dame pare să fi însemnat pentru lumea apuseană ceva asemănător cu tăierea Stejarilor lui Wotan de către misionarii creştini, căci nici atunci, nici acum, fulgerul răzbunător nu i-a lovit pe nelegiuiţi. Este probabil mai mult decât o glumă a istoriei universale faptul că tocmai în acel moment şi tocmai un francez, Anquetil du Perron, se afla în India şi, la începutul secolului al XIX-lea, aducea acasă o traducere a Oupnek’hat, o culegere de cincizeci de Upanişade, care au permis pentru prima oară Occidentului să arunce o privire mai adâncă înăuntrul enigmaticului spirit al Orientului … Masa anonimă de oameni întunecaţi, care s-a adunat cu gânduri distrugătoare în Notre-Dame, s-a năpustit şi asupra individului, nimerindu-l şi pe Anquetil du Perron, în care a provocat un răspuns devenit istoric. De la el se trag Schopenhauer şi Nietzsche, de la el apare acea influenţă spirituală încă incalculabilă a Orientului.”
― C.G. Jung, Civilization in Transition

“Nachiketa went to Yama (God of death) to know the mystery of death (Katho Upanishad), that means to know what was after death. They did not want to see this life. They did not know how wonderful this life was. Whatever you can do, do it within this present life.
They didn’t want to know what was light, on the contrary searched for what was in the dark.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“In the religion these words ‘save me’ were created to suppress the truth of the human life. These words ‘save me’, indicates that you are sinner and so you are uttering these words. But see how wonderful the human life is! Yes, I am Universal. Upanishad is saying ‘Amritasya Putrah’ (Sons of Amrita or Immortal self). What a wonderful version! And in that case they are crying ‘save me’! Upanishads created heaven by saying ‘Sons of Immortal self’ and on the contrary they have created hell by uttering the words ‘Save me’.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“Our senses are imperfect. We are very proud of our eyes.Often, someone will challenge, "Can you show me God?"
But do you have the eyes to see God? You will never see if you haven' the eyes. If immediately the room becomes dark, you cannot even see your hands. So what power do you have to see? We cannot, therefore, expect knowledge (Vedas) with these imperfect senses.
With all these deficiencies, in conditioned life, we cannot give perfect knowledge to anyone. Nor are we ourselves perfect.
Therefore we accept the Vedas as they are.”
― A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Sri Isopanisad

“Man is the expression
of God, and God is the reality of man.
Real man and God are inseparable.
"This Atman is not to be realized by the intellect, nor by words, nor by hearing from many sources; but by him by whom this Atman is beloved, by him alone is the Atman realized."
The thing necessary for us is to feel intense love in our hearts for this Atman, or God; otherwise He is not attainable. There is no other way that man can reach unto God, except through love — love always unites. This love for God comes unto those blessed beings who are pure in heart, from whom all attachment for unreal things, all selfish desires have vanished. This purity of heart and love for God are the sum and substance of all religious teachings”
― Swami Paramananda, Vedanta In Practice

“Upanishads have said against idol worship. Even Koran was against idol worship. What is the flaw of idol worshiping? Those, who worship idols do not have this knowledge that God is within this body. If you say anything to them, they will be agitated.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad mentioned ‘Ekoham Bahusyam’ (I was alone then become many). But this is merely a theory of the creation of the universe, which is fundamentally wrong. Actually it is the esoteric condition of a human body – merely yogic phenomenon. The creation exists as it was, it was eternal.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“So many thousand years have passed, Upanishad narrates that Rishi Jagyabalka was saying, ‘Those who worship others except himself, they are like the offered animal for ritualistic performances.’ That means they are animals. How foolishness! A man is God or Brahma. Oh! The whole human race is Brahma or God. And I will not accept anything except human being because I have got no proof of other objects. So let others be kept aside. Some hundreds of years ago, Chandidas said, ‘Above all man is the Truth, nothing is above that’. This living human being is the Truth, nothing else is there.”
― Sri Jibankrishma or Diamond

“As Hindu thought and metaphysical experiences evolved even further (as I said, the Hindu lineage is very long), the two previous focuses of exploration—nature and the individual—were combined. You could find the Eternal by either means, they discovered, and they combined the two in the form of a summary of all previous findings. This summary was called the Bhagavad Gita.”
― Matthew Barnes, The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 101: a modern, practical guide, plain and simple.