I don’t care if someone sacrifices an animal. I *do* care if someone has no clean water, nothing to eat, or can’t find a safe place to sleep. India has a 61% literacy rate. Think about that while you rail against Hindus practicing animal sacrifice. What’s more important to you – goats or people?
– Saraswati, on animal sacrifice.
It’s amazing to me how far up their asses some people can fit their heads.
– Saraswati, on the willfully ignorant
Spirituality is more than one’s religion, and faith is more than belief. My only desire is to love.
While a thick skin may be a good thing to cultivate, insensitivity to the feelings of others is not.
– Saraswati, on interpersonal relationships
Too many humans think that humility is only a virtue for humans.
– Saraswati, on double standards
Always be polite, even to those who are rude to you. It confuses them. In fact, you should be polite especially to those who’ve been rude to you, because it confuses them the most.
– Saraswati, on the importance of good manners (but not being a doormat)
People try to treat the gods as if they’re all so simple. Like they’re vending machines. You put in X offering and get Y result. Let me tell you, it’s not that simple. The gods, they’re these big balls of wibbly-wobbly-diviney-winey stuff.
– Saraswati
No, not all religions are the same. Not all paths go up the same mountain. Some paths don’t even go up the mountain – they go down into a ditch. Some paths go right off a cliff. Whatever. It’s fine. Some people really do need to go jump off a cliff.
– Saraswati’s thoughts on Universalism vs. Pluralism
30 Days of Devotion
Day 22: A Quote, Poem, or Piece of Writing that resonates with this deity
From the Rig Veda, Book X: Hymn cxxv: translated by Ralph T.H Griffith
I travel with the Rudras and the Vasus, with the Adityas and All-gods I wander.
I hold aloft both Varuna and Mitra, Indra and Agni, and the pair of Ashvins.
I cherish and sustain high-dwelling Soma, and Tvashtar I support, Pushan and Bhaga.
I load with wealth the zealous sacrificer who pours the juice and offers the oblation
I am the Queen, the gatherer-up of treasures, most thoughtful, first of those who merit worship.
Thus the Gods have established me in many places with many homes to enter and abide in.
Through me alone all eat the food that feeds them – everyone who sees, breathes, and hears the word outspoken.
They know it not, but yet they dwell beside me. Hear, one and all, the truth as I declare it!
I, verily, myself announce the words that Gods and Man alike shall welcome.
I make the one I love exceedingly mighty; I make him a sage, a rishi, a brahman.
I bend the bow for Rudra, that his arrow may strike and slay the hater of devotion.
I rouse and order battle for the people, and I have penetrated Heaven and Earth.
On the World’s summit I bring forth the Father; my home is in the Waters, in the ocean.
Thence I extend over all existing creatures, and I touch even the far side of Heaven with my brow.
I breathe a strong breath like the wind and the tempest, while I hold together all creation.
Beyond this wide earth and beyond the heavens, I have become so mighty in my grandeur.
We dream this bitter dream called life
And gather things that we think dear
But in the end these things shall pass
And though we wake from shallow sleep
How hard it is to wake from life!
Flight of the Hamsa 