Tulsidas: Quotes about faith

Tulsidas was Hindu poet-saint. Explore interesting quotes on faith.

Tulsidas: 58 quotes 6 likes

“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.”

Tulsidas

His counsel on Humanism in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 32

God , Faith

“Faith is that which dispels desire,
Devotion is that which generates knowledge.
And Vedas say that knowledge is that which fashions freedom.”

Tulsidas

Tulsidas in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 37

Faith , Fashion , Knowledge , Freedom

“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.”

Tulsidas

Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 5

Faith , Effort , Passion

“Tulsidasa alone, though the most famous of them all, has no disciples that are called after his name. There are Vallabhachars and Radha Vallabhs and Maluk Dasis, Pran Nathis and so on in interminable succession, but there are no Tulsidasis. Virtually, however, the whole of Vaishnava Hinduism has fallen under his sway; for the principles that he expounded have permeated every sect and explicitly or implicitly now form the nucleus of the popular faith as it prevails throughout the whole of the Bengal Presidency from Hardwar to Calcutta.”

Tulsidas

F.S.Growse, in According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=GrMwdEqHLzEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=Tulsidas&f=false, p. 80

Faith , Success