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Discrimination

Discrimination refers to the act of distinguishing between right and wrong across spiritual traditions. Many traditions converge on the importance of self-reflection and awareness in overcoming discriminatory tendencies. However, they diverge in their approaches and perspectives on addressing discrimination.

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Love transcends discrimination and separation.
Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingLoveDiscrimination
Stream of Thoughts, p. 60
The essence of all spiritual discipline is the love of God. Through love, one naturally acquires renunciation and discrimination.
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
HinduTeachingLoveOneness
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, p. 100
True religion teaches us to come together, rise above all kinds of discrimination, and treat all beings as children of the same Supreme Father, serving and loving them selflessly and genuinely.
Baba Hardev Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingAltruismBenevolence
Gurdev Hardev Part 2, p. 71
Initially, the psychic being can only exert a hidden, partial, and indirect influence through the mind, life, and body, as these aspects of nature need to be developed into instruments for its self-expression. As a result, it remains confined by their development for a long time.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingLongingMind
The Life Divine, p. 253
The mind attempts to understand the truth, but it only succeeds in partially grasping it. There must be a higher faculty or principle that can see the truth clearly and directly, corresponding to the eternal nature of truth.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingMindTruth
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 125
He follows a knowledge that is personal in his goals and methods, which is governed by desire, thought patterns, obscure subconscious impulses, or at best, a partial and changing understanding.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingKnowledgeLust
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 81
The earth, the monkey, and the guru represent great knowledge. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva are partial manifestations of the Supreme Deity, responsible for the creation of one of the countless universes ruled by Rama, who represents the Supreme Deity.
Tulsidas
HinduTeachingGuruKnowledgeSanskrit
Ramcharitmanas — Sundar Kand (verses 745–804), p. 25
Whoever steals the lotus stalk should be cruel and unjust towards women, relatives, and cattle.
Bharadwaja
HinduTeachingDiscriminationSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5205
Just as someone who wants milk will not get it by cutting off a cow's udders, a kingdom that is ruled by unfair means will not yield any profit for the king.
Vyasa
HinduParableObedienceRighteousnessSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 3836
When one's time arrives, no one can escape. Time affects all creatures equally, showing no favoritism or bias to anyone.
Vidura
HinduTeachingAttainmentEqualitySanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 3602
You are fighting unjustly. Your time of death has come. Put down your weapons and see us standing here.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingTimeVisionSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 3055
Arjuna's mind was not at peace, as he remembered the unfair dice game by Sakuni and thought of Dussasana's death with rage.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingContentmentHarmonySanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 929
One who is defeated by unjust means should not be distressed by such a defeat.
Vidura
HinduTeachingOnenessDiscriminationSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 812
You are indeed good, and I am evil. You are merciful, and I am impious. You are holy, I am miserable. You are just, I am unjust. You are light, I am blind. You are life, I am death. You are medicine, I am sick. You are supreme truth, I am utter vanity.
Augustine
ChristianRighteousnessTruth
Ascent of Mount Carmel, p. 88
Right thought is a necessary step, and once it becomes a habit, free from errors of the senses, desires, old associations, and intellectual prejudices, the understanding becomes purified and no longer poses a significant obstacle to further knowledge.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingKnowledgeLonging
The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 319
The gnostic existence is a universal and total being and delight. In each movement, there will be the presence of that totality and universality, not just a partial experience of self or a fraction of its joy, but the sense of the whole movement of an integral being and its entire and integral bliss of being.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingHappinessJoy
The Life Divine, p. 1028
If the work were done from a spiritual height, it might lead to a sublimation or uplifting, or the creation of a new structure, forced by the sheer power of the influence from above. However, the lower being might not accept this change as its own, and it would not be a complete growth or an integral evolution, but rather a partial and imposed formation, affecting or liberating some parts of the being while suppressing or leaving others as they were.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingLiberationSoul
The Life Divine, p. 965
For humans to expand beyond their current state, there are four essential requirements. Without these, they will remain on the surface, plagued by ignorance, blindly seeking truth, and gathering fragmented knowledge, thus remaining limited and partially capable.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingCongregationKnowledge
The Life Divine, p. 909
We find that the human being can partially project himself into these higher planes under certain conditions, even while in the body.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingBodyDiscrimination
The Life Divine, p. 835
Man's purpose is to affirm himself in the universe, but also to evolve and transcend himself, expanding his limited being into a complete one, and his partial consciousness into a unified whole.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingMindOneness
The Life Divine, p. 727