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Quotes And Teachings On Humility From Hindu Religion – Hindu Scriptures – Gurus and Saints

A collection of quotes and teachings on Humility from Hindu Religion, scriptures and gurus and saints. Mastery over the senses is the source of humility; from humility flow all noble qualities. True nobility wins human hearts; and people’s love is the fount of felicity. (Bharavi) There are two signs of knowledge: first, absence of pride, and second, a peaceful nature. (Sri Ramakrishna) Be not proud, says Kabir, of your high and tall mansion; death will lay you down to ground and grass will grow over all. (Kabir) Humility is a great aid to self improvement. All virtues come to a humble person. (Swami Turiyananda). Forsaking conceit, force, pride, lust, wrath and (superfluous) possessions; egoless and tranquil at heart, one becomes worthy of becoming one with Brahman. (Bhagavad Gita, 18.53) Forsaking conceit, force, pride, lust, wrath and (superfluous) possessions; egoless and tranquil at heart, one becomes worthy of becoming one with Brahman. (Bhagavad Gita, 18.53

Lokmanya Tilak Quotes On The Bhagavad Gita

Lokmanya Tilak Quotes on the Bhagavad Gita. The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give away to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things. The Gita was not preached either as a pastime for persons tired out after living a worldly life in the pursuit of selfish motives, nor as a preparatory lesson for living such worldly life; but in order to give philosophical advice as to how one should live one’s worldly life with an eye to Release, Moksha, as to the true duty of human beings in worldly life. My last prayer to everyone, therefore is that one should not fail to thoroughly understand this ancient science of the life of a householder, or of worldly life, as early as possible in one’s life. Lokmanya Tilak Bhagavad Gita on the Person who has risen above the Gunas Light, activity, delu