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“Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.”
― Christopher Pike, Red Dice

“The only way you can conquer me is through love and there I am gladly conquered”
― Krishna

“The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.”
― Christopher Pike, Red Dice

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

“காக்கைச் சிறகினில�� நந்த லாலா!-நின்தன��
கரியநிறந�� தோன்று தையே நந்த லாலா!
பார்க்கும் மரங்�� ளெல்லாம் நந்த லாலா!-நின்தன��
பச்ச�� நிறந�� தோன்று தையே நந்த லாலா!
கேட்கு மொலியி லெல்லாம் நந்த லாலா!-நின்தன��
கீ�� மிசக்குதடா நந்த லாலா!
தீக்குள் விரல�� வைத்தால் நந்த லாலா!-நின்னைத்
தீண்டு மின்பந�� தோன்று தட�� நந்த லாலா!”
― Subramaniya Bharathiyar, பாரதியார�� கவிதைகள் [Bharathiyar Kavidhaigal]

“One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction- he is a wise man.”
― Gopi Krishna

“It is I who remain seated in the heart of all creatures as the inner controller of all; and it is I who am the source of memory, knowledge and the ratiocinativefaculty. Again, I am the only object worth knowing through the Vedas; I alone am the origin of Vedānta and the knower of the Vedas too. �� Krishna; Chapter 15, verse 15”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous with God.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Each man has to follow truth as he sees it.”
― K.M.Munshi

“The greatest killer and healer at the same time, is time.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“Shri Krishna never meant, “Keep on doing Karmas and don’t bother about the fruits or outcome.�� It was mistranslated and misunderstood.

Shri Krishna meant, “While doing your Karma, you should concentrate only on your performance, not on results.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“Don’t worry about what is uncontrollable or unpredictable. All that is in your hand is to do your karma and act NOW. Past is uncontrollable and the future is unpredictable. The only time to live, learn and grow is now.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“But Krishna liked that about her. It had made her�� realistic about things. She laughed with the knowledge that it wasn’t meant to last, and cried with the self assurance that it was futile. She was like a glacier, relentless and implacable. But eyeing the letter from Panchal, he reckoned that sometimes even a vast glacier could crack into crevasses under deer hooves.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“He (Abhimanyu) picked up a chariot wheel and angrily rushed at Drona. His limbs blazed because of the dust raised by the wheels. He was radiant with the chariot wheel raised high in his arms. In that battle, for a short while, Abhimanyu looked beautiful and seemed to replicate the deeds of Vasudeva.”
― Bibek Debroy, The Mahabharata

“Whatever you do, do it with passion, humility and devotion, not with lust, ego or envy.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“You are not a body that has a soul. You are a soul who has a body.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“Energy can never be created or destroyed, it can just be transformed from one source to another. Similarly, a soul can never be created or destroyed, it just changes its form, from one body to another.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“The body takes birth and dies, not the soul. The body has a new beginning and end, not the soul.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“It’s not about the beginning and end of the journey called life, but the path in between that matters. How you made your and others' journey wonderful with your efforts, learnings, struggles and teachings is all that matters.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“It’s not wrong to have Expectations. The reason for worries is wrong expectations from right people in wrong situations or from wrong people in right situations.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“But he had no understanding of the virtues of moderation. He had the kind of generous nature that reckoned panic was not something you hoarded for yourself; you shared it with family.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Even Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, was a believer of Bhagwat Gita and quoted the Shloka 32 (Chapter 11) that actual meant, "Time I am; destroyer of the worlds." whereas he mis-translated TIME as DEATH.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“The religious wars between the Hindus and Moslems and Christians and non-Christians were all conducted on the basis of ignorance. One who is in knowledge knows that God is one; He cannot be Moslem, Hindu or Christian.
It is our imagination that God is such and such and such and such. That is all imagination. The real wise man knows that God is transcendental. When we leave the body, God also goes with us, and when we take on another body, He goes with us there just to see what we are doing.
The wise man, the jñānī, actually understands the science of God. One who only understands that “God is good�� is in a preliminary stage, but one who actually understands how great and good God is, is further progressed. That knowledge is to be had in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā. One who is actually interested in God should study the science of God, Bhagavad-gītā.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“He who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not care for material distress, insult or honor because he is aloof from all these. �� Socrates, for instance, who believed in the immortality of the soul, was condemned to death, and upon being asked how he would like to be buried, replied, “First of all you may have to catch me.�� So one who knows that he is not the body is not disturbed, for he knows the soul cannot be caught, tortured, killed or buried. �� He is not concerned with the modes of goodness, passion or ignorance, but with Kṛṣṇa. One who understands this is a jñānī, a wise man, and he is very much dear to Kṛṣṇa.”
― A.C. Prabhupāda, On the Way to Krsna

“Krishna sees her looking at him and Draupadi nods slightly at him and then looks back at the pyres, for she has understood a small, insidious truth. She remembers their precipitous flight from the camp in the middle of the night while her sons and brothers were left behind to be murdered in their sleep. There is no Vrishni pyre at this mass funeral and while all the major clans of the river valleys are laid low, Krishna's clansmen are unscathed. Moreover, the only heir with a claim to the throne of Hastinapur to have survived is the secret that Uttara hides in her frail body. So Krishna's nephew is dead but through his hastily arranged marriage to Uttara, the clan of the Vrishnis finally has a claim to kingship and the eternal kingmakers will at last be rajas.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Song of Draupadi: A Novel

“In 1976, Iskcon's publishing house had ordered what was then the largest single print-run of any book in history: one million copies of Bhagavad Gita as it is, his edition of India's essential wisdom text. Ninety-five flatbed railcars were needed to deliver the paper to the printer's warehouses at Kentucky”
― Joshua M. Greene, Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

“Problem is not a Problem, unless you think it is a problem”
― Krishna, Bhagavad Gita

“It now
seems probable that the Krishna statue was erected at the place which was
revered as the site of the founding Khmer myth: the place where the newly
arrived Indian Brahmin Kaundinya was believed to have met and married
local Mera the naga princess (we will hear more of this myth shortly). By
erecting a major temple there to Lord Krishna, ‘Phnom Da becomes a new
Mount Govardhan, and probably, by extension, the Mekong River becomes
the holy river Yamuna,�� thereby ritually extending the sacred geography of
India to South-east Asia.”
― william dalrymple, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

“Nothing is concealed from your gaze.
My heartbeat is merely your flute song.
Fuse your flame with me, dispel this dark,
I'm done with these lifetimes of fooling around.”
― Arundhathi Subramaniam, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry