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Language refers to the symbols and sounds used to convey meaning. Across traditions, there is convergence on its power to shape reality. Divergence occurs in the emphasis and interpretation of language's role in spirituality.

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Whoever hears my words and believes in the one who sent me will have eternal life, will never be condemned for their sins, and has transitioned from death to life.
Holy Bible
UniversalScriptureFaithOneness
The Unique Mission, p. 11
There is nothing higher than the Guru — nothing higher than the Guru — nothing higher than the Guru — nothing higher than the Guru. Thus declares Śiva, thus declares Śiva, thus declares Śiva, thus declares Śiva.
HinduScriptureGuruEducationSanskrit
Guru Gita 96
Everyone follows their own imagined path; the endless variety of misdeeds cannot be put into words.
Tulsidas
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Ramcharitmanas — Uttar Kand Part 2 (verses 1023–1101), p. 33
My servant seeks closeness to Me so I can make them My friend, and once they're My friend, I become their ear, eye, and tongue.
Al-Ghazali
SufiScriptureVisionLanguage
Alchemy of Happiness, p. 43
Complete self-knowledge at all times is a gift of supramental gnosis, leading to complete self-mastery and perfect self-expression in nature.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingEnlightenmentGuru
The Life Divine, p. 1024
Non-injuring in thought, word, and deed is the highest of all virtues.
Swami Sivananda
HinduScriptureMindMorality
All About Hinduism, p. 52
Truth must be observed in thoughts, words, and actions. If you are established in truth, all other virtues will naturally follow.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingMindMorality
All About Hinduism, p. 38
One can see God's form when all limitations and reasoning disappear, and a person becomes speechless and enters a state of deep meditation.
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, p. 697
Pride, whether based on caste, state, language, or the strength of one's body, mind, or wealth, always gives rise to feelings of hatred and jealousy.
Baba Hardev Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingEgoMind
Gurdev Hardev Part 2, p. 72
A poet says, 'Whether your sorrow or mine, sorrow has the same definition. Whether your tears or mine, tears have the same language.'
Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
UniversalGriefLanguage
Stream of Thoughts, p. 26
Beyond the Guru there is nothing — this is what the scriptures proclaim with 'not this, not this.' Therefore, one should always worship the Guru with mind and with speech.
HinduScriptureGuruMindSanskrit
Guru Gita 82
O great-minded one, I shall now tell you what purpose this Guru Gītā serves. O Goddess, it is not intended for worldly gains — it is for the benefit of all beings.
HinduScriptureAttainmentGuruSanskrit
Guru Gita 129
Wise disciples should never speak to the Guru with arrogance or a dismissive tone, nor should they ever utter anything untrue in the Guru's presence.
HinduScriptureDevoteeGuruSanskrit
Guru Gita 103
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
O Pārvatī, even the foremost gods — Gaṇeśa and the divine lords, Viṣṇu and the rest — hold this within their minds but speak it not. I tell you this in all truth, I speak the truth.
HinduScriptureMindTruthSanskrit
Guru Gita 179
We shall now expound the teaching of phonetics. The elements are: the phoneme and its pitch, the measure of duration and the force of utterance, the quality of melody and the continuity of sound. Thus is declared the chapter on the discipline of sacred speech.
HinduTeachingKnowledgeEducationSanskrit
Taittiriya Upanishad 1.2
Man cannot attain God through the mind, nor through speech, nor through the eyes.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingAttainmentMind
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 225
Let the wise person restrain speech in their mind, and the mind in the self, and knowledge in the great self. Let them also restrain that in the peaceful self.
Vedic Sages
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The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 213
A person of little understanding, in whose house a Brahmin guest fasts without being honored, will lose all their hopes, expectations, gains, good deeds, truthful words, dug wells, offered sacrifices, sons, and cattle.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingAttainmentGood Deeds
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 197
The eye cannot see, speech cannot describe, nor can other gods or austerity or works grasp Him. Only when the inner being is purified by a glad serenity of knowledge can one, while meditating, behold the indivisible Spirit.
Vedic Sages
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The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 191