my Hanuman Chalisa Quotes

“Our psychological birth takes place when we accept a guru who reveals to us the secrets of the Vedas.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“Strength without intelligence makes us dim-witted tools in the hands of others. Intelligence without strength, on the other hand, means we can never realize our dreams, for strength means a body that has stamina, a mind that has patience, and a life with access to resources and agency. Knowledge without intelligence prevents us from being worldly. Intelligence without knowledge makes us narrow-minded, short-sighted frogs in a well. Knowledge is infinite, it has no boundaries, and in Hinduism, God is the personification of that infinite knowledge. Everyone has access only to a slice (bhaga) of reality; the one who knows all slices is God (bhagavan).”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“Ram is a metaphor. So is Ravana. So is Hanuman. The Ramayana takes place in the landscape that is our mind.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“In the Puranas, every deity has a flag (dhvaja) of his own—Vishnu has a flag with the image of a hawk known as garuda-dhvaja, and Shiva has a flag with the image of a bull known as vrishabha-dhvaja—but Hanuman’s dhvaja belongs to Ram, in keeping with his role as Ram’s messenger and commander of his armies.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“In religious traditions around the world, there is invariably a medium between the spiritual and the material, between the deity and the devotee, between the transcendental and the phenomenal.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“The word ‘darshan’ has a double meaning: view as well as worldview, sight as well as insight.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“Christian church, a Muslim mosque, a Buddhist monastery or a Sikh gurudwara are spaces designed to bring the community together and focus on a common goal—confess sins, reaffirm submission, awaken to desires and delusions and learn from the songs of the sages, as the case may be. But a Hindu temple is the house of a deity. We go to see them and be seen by them,”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“Even later, the red colour was replaced by saffron colour, indicating celibacy and continence, a rejection of all things sensory.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“Red became the colour of valour and fertility. Later, as the doctrine of ahimsa (non-violence) gained ground, blood was represented symbolically using sindoor (vermillion).”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“Hanuman stands on the frontier between the wilderness and the settlement, between the animal and the human world, and has the power to turn the negative into positive, poison into medicine.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA

“A king uses his power to serve people and create an ecosystem where people can outgrow hunger and fear. When a king uses his power to dominate those around him, it reveals the king has not outgrown his hunger and fear; he is not yet Ram. Likewise, a king’s agent uses his power to serve his master. When a king’s agent uses his power to dominate those around him, it reveals he has not outgrown his hunger and fear; he is not yet Hanuman.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, MY HANUMAN CHALISA