The Sleepwalkers - pg. 255

For the man who wills Goodness and Righteousness wills thereby the Absolute, and it was revealed to Esch for the first time that the goal is not the appeasement of lust but an absolute oneness exalted far above its immediate, sordid and even trivial occasion, a conjoint trace, itself timeless and so annihilating time; and that the rebirth of man is as still and serene as the universal spirit that yet contracts and closes round man when once his ecstatic will has compelled it, until he attains his sole birthright: deliverance and redemption.

India After Gandhi - pg. 91

"Through the pages of SWATANTRA I wish to send my message of frateternity to the people of the south. Far back in the annals of India the south and north met in the land of Kashmir. The great Shankaracharya came to Kashmir to spread his dynamic philosophy but here he was defeated in argument by a PAnditani. This gave rise to the peculiar philosophy of Kashmir -- Shaivism. A memorial to the great Shankaracharya in Kashmir stands prominent on the top of the Shankaracharya Hill in Srinagar. It is a temple containing the Murti of Shiva. 

More recently it was given to a southerner to take the case of Kashmir to the United Nations and, as the whole of India knows, with the doggedness and  tenacity that  is  so usual to the southerner, he defended Kashmir. 

We in Kashmir expect that we shall continue to receive support and sympathy from the people of the south and that some day when we describe the extent of our country we shall use the phrase "from Kashmir to Cape Comorin.""

-- Sheikh Abdullah

writing in a Tamil Newspaper.

The Upanishads - Opening

In the first mantra of the first chapter the student asks the teacher: "Directed by whom does the mind think, impelled by whom does Prana, or vital force, function, and willed by which god does speech utter, eyes see and the ears hear?"

To Adi Shankaracharya

The greatest teacher of the Vedanta

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