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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

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

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

The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

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.

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

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.

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

The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.