Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Quotes

“Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.”

“Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself.”

“Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.”

“It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".”

“You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”

“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self.”

“Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.”

“In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise.”

“When you think you know Everything, you know NOTHING! When you think you know Nothing.. You become KRISHNA- THE UNKNOWN !”

“Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.”