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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 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 would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

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

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

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.

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 Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

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

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

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

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

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.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

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

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

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

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.

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

Your heart is my piñata.