“Only with the heart, one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eyes.”[4]
“The Upanishad laments that some individuals do not understand reality and keep fearing nature and the various natural entities. Such individuals start worshipping the sun, the moon, the fire, etc. out of a sheer sense of fear. The Upanishad clearly relates the sense of fear with the lack of knowledge; the lack of knowledge inculcates fear, while perfect knowledge makes one absolutely fearless.”
― Hinduism Beyond Ritualism
― Hinduism Beyond Ritualism
“Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.”
― Angels & Demons
― Angels & Demons
“Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage … an assimilated historical record of man’s quest to understand the divine.”
― Angels & Demons
― Angels & Demons
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