Tulsidas: Quotes about life

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

Tulsidas: 58 quotes 6 likes

“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.”

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His confessional statements on his own experiences made in Kavitavali quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 49

Life , Birth

“There is no difference between knowledge and devotion,
Both of them save the soul from the miseries of worldly life.”

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Tulsidas's philosophical approach, quoted in "Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern", p. 80

Life , Soul , Knowledge

“Tuslidas’s attitude toward life and literature was distinctly more objective. Quite naturally, therefore, he has used the objective forms–the epic and the narrative- besides of course, the lyric as vehicles of his devotional poetry.”

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K. R. Sundararajan in Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern http://books.google.co.in/books?id=LO0DpWElIRIC&pg=PA306&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Bhakti&f=false, p. 73

Life , Literature , Nature

“Tulsidas was a poor recluse who lived an ascetic life and prompted by an inner light, adapted an old epic in folk-verse which broke all barriers and spread far and wide.”

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Shiva Kumar Tripathi in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 36

Light , Life