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

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.

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

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.

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

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 Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

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

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

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.

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.

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.

Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

Your heart is my piñata.

According to Zen Buddhists, all things have their existence in The Void. The Void is that which is no-thing, but contains all things within it, or as some Christian mystics state, “God is Nothing; He is Utterly Other; He is the VOID.

Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion. I find it immensely congenial to be able to face my fellow human beings of other faiths without being burdened by the conviction that I am embarked upon a “true path” that they have missed.

A Christian must worship the Self as Christ, not Christ as Christ. A Muslim must worship the Self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed. A Hindu must worship the Self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others. Also, atheists are no different from all those orthodox believers.

Although I had become disillusioned with certain aspects of Roman Catholicism, yet I was finding similarities between that religious system and my new-found philosophies. I sought to clear up my own confusions by developing an ecumenical reasoning, accommodating both Christian and Hindu schools of thought. This led to a sense of spiritual superiority for being 'tolerant' both of Eastern and Western religions. I welcomed the idea that all paths led to the same God and that all beliefs were equal.

ADOU RAM TAPOVANADI GAMANAM

All the variety of species of life created be, By combination of three basic material energy; - 45 - These Guna modus operandi of material energy, They are called tamo, rajo and sattva clearly; - 46 - Tamo-guna associated with inertia, ignorance be, The rajo-guna associated with passion, activity; - 47 - Sattva-guna associated with goodness, harmony, And all three of them associated with thinking truly. - 48 -

All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as Phi—known as the Golden Ratio or Golden Mean—was used in the constructions of their sculptures and architecture.

As a child, I truly believed that there was some blue alien-like god named vishnu looking after humanity, and when the time comes, another angry god, named shiva, would destroy everything, and then the god of creation with four heads, named brahma would create the world all over again. That’s what my environment conditioned me to believe. It wanted me to conform to its delusional thoughts and beliefs. But as I grew up, I discovered something rather remarkable. It was that, all those stories were mere means for an uncivilized and ignorant people to be content with their lack of real understanding of the world.

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or cleaned from time to time, it loses its usefulness and cannot relate anymore to changed times and people.

A prayer from Shri Vishwanatha Suprabhata Morning Salutations to Shiva त्वमेव माता च पिता त्वमेव, त्वमेव बन्धुश्च सखा त्वमेव । त्वमेव विद्या द्रविणं त्वमेव, त्वमेव सर्वं मम देव देव ॥ tvameva mata cha pita tvameva, tvameva bandhush-cha sakha tvameva tvameva vidya dravinam tvameva tvameva sarvam mama deva deva You my mother and father be, You are kin and friend to me; You my knowledge, wealth be, God of gods! You my all do be.

Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity, Its realization on righteous and moral basis be; - 5 -

As a caterpillar, having come to the end of one blade of grass, draws itself together and reaches out for the next, so the Self, having come to the end of one life and dispelled all ignorance, gathers in his faculties and reaches out from the old body to a new

Ask the person who found you about what kind of people she was looking for before meeting you, as she may not know that she has found one of them already.

Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already.

Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me; this I promise; for you are dear to me.

As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is not touched by the evils of the world. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)