3 Quotes & Sayings By Vimalakurti

Vimalakirti was born in the year of 1915 at Kapurthala, Punjab. He was the son of a Sanskrit scholar. His childhood was spent in the midst of learning, memorizing Sanskrit verses and reading Vedantic treatises. At the age of fourteen he had made an ardent resolve to free himself from all worldly desires Read more

At the age of twenty-four, after many years of intense meditation, Vimalakirti attained supreme self-realization. The last days of his life were spent teaching the philosophy of Vedanta to students gathered around him. He left this world on February 5, 1971, at the age of fifty-eight, just after midnight.

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You associate with living beings by frequenting their migrations. Yet your mind is liberated from all migrations. Just as the lotus, born of mud, is not tainted thereby, So the lotus of the Buddha preserves the realization of voidness. Vimalakurti
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Passions consist of conceptualizations. The ultimate non-existence of these conceptualizations and imaginary fabrications--that is the purity that is the intrinsic nature of the mind. Misapprehensions are passions. The ultimate absence of misapprehensions is the intrinsic nature of mind. The presumption of self is passion. The absence of self is the intrinsic nature of mind. Vimalakurti