The Eternities - Vedanta Treatise Quotes

“Your motto in life should be to strive, to struggle, not to succeed. Work well accomplished is the joy of life. Success or failure is immaterial. What really matters in life is your ability to adopt action to obligation. Your business lies in action alone, not in the reward accruing from it. Let not the anxiety for enjoying the fruit disturb the course of your action.”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

“For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul. Vedanta”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

“macrocosm applies equally to the microcosm. Every human being is subject to this law. It operates at the physical, mental and intellectual levels. If the physical body has gone through a proper discipline of yoga and exercise it would presently be hale and healthy. And if the body has had no proper physical training, been sensually indulgent it would be pale and sickly. Similarly, the flow of thoughts and emotions towards the positive or negative would determine the nature of the present inner personality. So what you are now is a result of what you have been doing in the past, dating back from this moment. And what you would be in the future would depend upon what you do from this moment. It is an irrefragable law. The above”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

“It is difficult to find happiness in oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

“Your Self is the theme of all religions. Preceptors and preachings cannot help you find It unless you enquire into yourself. External sources of knowledge can only set you thinking. But you must make good use of the scriptural knowledge by engaging your intellect to reflect independently upon the truths therein. Do not sell your liberty of reflection to spiritual personalities regardless of their merit. You must seek the truth yourself. The Godhead lies within you. Remove the veil of ignorance and revel in the supreme bliss that lies within. Not realising your inherent wealth you try in vain to find peace and joy in the external world. So the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson rightly quipped: Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

“distinguish the Eternal from the ephemeral.”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

“Keep your thoughts in your divine centre while you function in the world.”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

“All bliss lies within you.”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

“As you think so you become is a law of life. Thus when you constantly think of, feel for the body you identify with it, you become one with it. You believe you are the body. Thereafter, whatever happens to your body happens to you. So when your body is warm, you say ‘I am warm’. And when your body is cold, you say ‘I am cold’. Similarly, you identify with the mind and become one with it. And when your mind is happy, you say ‘I am happy’. When it is unhappy you say ‘I am unhappy’. Again, identifying with the intellect you say ‘I am brilliant, I am dull’, when your intellect is brilliant or dull. The body is bound to be affected by the heat or cold of the world outside. So is the mind affected by joy or sorrow. The intellect by honour or dishonour. But your Self within is immaculate. It remains ever unaffected by the attraction or repulsion of the changing world.”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

“Sattvik actor is not egoistic. Does not have the I-am-the-doer attitude. And is free from attachment. With no preferential relationship binding him to the world. Besides, a sattvik actor possesses steadfastness, dhriti and enthusiasm, utsaha. He is energetic, cheerful and joyful in what he does. And does it with consistency of purpose until the work is done. All along his course of activity he remains disinterested in the result thereof. Success or failure means nothing to him. He maintains a balance of mind through the fluctuations of life’s experiences.”
― A. Parthasarathy, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities