Samskara Quotes:

The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

- Frederick Lenz

source: Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

topic: Personality, Samskara, Infancy

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

- Frederick Lenz

source: Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

topic: Mature, Pursuit, Samskara

The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.128, editionNEXT.com

topic: Soul, Form, Samskara

It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.

- Ramana Maharshi

source: "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

topic: Real, Book, Creating, Self Realization, Samskara

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

- Vinoba Bhave

topic: Play, Action, Life Is, Samskara

As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Past, Light, Samskara

You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Energy, Different, Samskara

The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Religious, Sex, Practice, Religious Practices, Samskara

There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Karma, Strong, Way, Samskara

The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Enlightenment, Wonderful, Reaching, Samskara

If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Karma, Way, Enlightened, Samskara

The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Karma, Religious, Battle, Samskara, Good Karma

Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.

- Frederick Lenz

source: Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

topic: Buddhist, Yoga, Essence, Samskara

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Karma, Mean, Meditation, Samskara

In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhist, Yoga, Patterns, Samskara