He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy. Dayananda Saraswati Read Quote
It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion. Dayananda Saraswati Read Quote
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not. Dayananda Saraswati Read Quote
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India. Dayananda Saraswati Read Quote
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism – nothing can touch it because it is empathy. Dayananda Saraswati Read Quote
The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible. Dayananda Saraswati Read Quote
Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness. Dayananda Saraswati Read Quote
I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life. Dayananda Saraswati Read Quote
Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves. Dayananda Saraswati Read Quote
