Inspirational Quotes By Tulsidas: Tulsidas was a Hindu Vaishnava saint and poet, often called philosopher & reformer from Ramanandi Sampradaya, in the lineage of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya renowned for his devotion to the Lord Shri Rama. Tulsidas was born on 13 August 1532.
Tulsidas wrote several famous books in Awadhi and Sanskrit; he is also best known as the author of the great epic Ramcharitmanas, a detailed version of the Sanskrit Ramayana based on Lord Rama’s life in the vernacular Awadhi (a Regional language of Hindi)
Tulsidas’s Dohavali, Kavitavali are supplementary poems derived from the life of Lord Rama and Sita, and the sacred places and deities associated with them.
Here is the collection of popular Quotes by Tulsidas.
“Lust, anger, vanity, and covetousness are all paths leading to hell. Abjuring, all these adore the Hero of Raghu’s line, whom saints worship.”
“In dependence, there is no happiness, even in a dream.“
“No virtue is equal to the good of others and no vice greater than hurting others.“
“Mother and father abandoned me at birth and the author of my life also did not write any worth or merit on the page of destiny.“
“There is no difference between knowledge and devotion, Both of them save the soul from the miseries of worldly life.“
“The world knows that to quell the belly-fire, I ate crumbs and morsels given by men of caste, high-caste, low-caste, or no cast.“
“Abandon pride, which is the same as Tamas-guna (darkness), rooted as it is in ignorance and is a source of considerable pain; and adore Lord Shri Rama, the Chief of the Raghus and an ocean of compassion.”
“To follow the path of knowledge is to tread on the edge of a sword. Once you get into it, there is no escape.“
“What did I not do, where did I not go, to whom did I not bow.“
“There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger, and greed.”
“I call him Rama. You can call him by any other name but have faith in him, surrender all worldly desires and passions to his will, and without effort, become disciplined and principled.“
“Faith in the Creator, who is mainly in his Godness and Godly in his man-ness, is like a human-self and can take him along.“
“Nothing is unattainable, my Lord, to him who enjoys Your grace. Through Your might, a mere shred of cotton can surely burn a submarine fire (the impossible can be made possible).”
“Unless one cultivates a slave-master relationship with the Lord, no one can go across the ocean of this material world. Who is as virtuous a master as Rama? And who is as vicious as I am?“
“The Ramacharitamanas undoubtedly is the great poem worthy to rank among the great classical masterpieces of world literature.“
“Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.”
“While Kabir’s or Dadu’s adherents may be numbered by hundreds of thousands, no less than ninety million Indians acknowledged him as their spiritual guide.“
“The elephant passing through the market-place is always beset by curs, but he cares not. He goes straight on his own way. So it is always when a great soul appears there will be numbers to bark after him.”
“It is sinful to even see the face of a man who does not feel his friend’s pain. Treat your own mountain-like pain as though it were a speck. Treat your friend’s speck-like pain as though it were a mountain.”
“All the sleepers in a night of delusion beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the material world, become absorbed in the contemplation of the supreme. None can be regarded as really woken up from sleep till they have renounced all sensuous delights.”
“When a minister, a physician and a religious preceptor; these three use pleasing words from fear or hope of reward, the result is that dominion, health, and faith, all the three immediately set towards destruction.”