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<blockquote>''Virya'' is often praised by the Mahayanist writers, and its fundamental importance is indicated in unequivocal terms. Enlightenment depends entirely on ''virya''; where there is ''virya'', there is ''bodhi''. ''Virya'' is the chief and paramount cause of all the auspicious principles that are conducive to Enlightenment. It promotes a ''bodhisattva’s'' material and spiritual well-being. It is far better to live only for a day with full ''virya'' than to vegetate without energy during a hundred years.<ref>Har Dayal, ''The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature'' (1932; reprint, New York: Samuel Weiser, 1978), pp. 216–17.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>''Virya'' is often praised by the Mahayanist writers, and its fundamental importance is indicated in unequivocal terms. Enlightenment depends entirely on ''virya''; where there is ''virya'', there is ''bodhi''. ''Virya'' is the chief and paramount cause of all the auspicious principles that are conducive to Enlightenment. It promotes a ''bodhisattva’s'' material and spiritual well-being. It is far better to live only for a day with full ''virya'' than to vegetate without energy during a hundred years.<ref>Har Dayal, ''The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature'' (1932; reprint, New York: Samuel Weiser, 1978), pp. 216–17.</ref></blockquote> | ||
Helena Roerich, who in the 1920s began releasing the teachings of [[El Morya]] through the Agni Yoga books, wrote of Maitreya and the path of the Bodhisattva. In her book Foundations of Buddhism, she presents a profile of the Bodhisattva and lists energy among his chief qualities: | [[Helena Roerich]], who in the 1920s began releasing the teachings of [[El Morya]] through the Agni Yoga books, wrote of Maitreya and the path of the Bodhisattva. In her book ''Foundations of Buddhism'', she presents a profile of the Bodhisattva and lists energy among his chief qualities: | ||
<blockquote>What qualities must a Bodhisattva possess? In the Teaching of Gotama Buddha and in the Teaching of Bodhisattva Maitreya, given by him to [[Asanga]] according to tradition in the fourth century (Mahayana-Sutralankara), the maximum development of energy, courage, patience, constancy of striving, and fearlessness was underlined first of all. Energy is the basis of everything, for it alone contains all possibilities.</blockquote> | <blockquote>What qualities must a Bodhisattva possess? In the Teaching of Gotama Buddha and in the Teaching of Bodhisattva Maitreya, given by him to [[Asanga]] according to tradition in the fourth century (Mahayana-Sutralankara), the maximum development of energy, courage, patience, constancy of striving, and fearlessness was underlined first of all. Energy is the basis of everything, for it alone contains all possibilities.</blockquote> | ||