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‘That’s how you are’ is a translation of a famous Sanskrit phrase, ‘Tat tvam asi’.
Kim Knott • Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Reconciling Samkhya, Vedanta and Tantra
kriyā-yoga being more action oriented, devotion to Īśvara takes the form of renunciation of self-centered deeds and the offering of action to God.
Edwin F. Bryant • The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
In the sacred Hindu text Uddhava Gita, Lord Krishna teaches, “One who desires to adopt the third order of life, vanaprastha, should enter the forest with a peaceful mind, leaving his wife with his mature sons.” But then he adds, “Or else taking her along with him.”[8]
Arthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
“Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,”
Amrutur V. Srinivasan • Hinduism For Dummies
pratyatma gati: “personal/inner/self-realization,” or he qualifies the nature of such realization as sva–pratyatma arya–jnana: “the self–realization of buddha knowledge.”
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
Tradition has isolated four powerful formulaic utterances (mahavakyas) embedded in the early Upanishads. One is sarvam idam brahma, “All is Brahman” (Chandogya III.14.1), which states the foundation of mysticism: that everything is ultimately one.
Eknath Easwaran • The Upanishads (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality Book 2)
The Yogasutras and the Philosophical Life, part 2
mail.google.comThe first chakra is known in Sanskrit as Muladhara.