Best 255 quotes in «hinduism quotes» category

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.