“Hinduism advises such people not to try to think of God as the supreme instance of abstractions like being or consciousness, and… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' -… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“As the Hindu gods are ‘immortal’ only in a very particular sense – for they are born, and they die – they… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“जटाटवीगलज्जलप्रवाहपावितस्थले गलेऽवलम्ब्य लम्बितां भुजङ्गतुङ्गमालिकाम्। डमड्डमड्डमड्डमन्निनादवड्डमर्वयं चकार चण्ड्ताण्डवं तनोतु नः शिवः शिवम्॥१॥ His neck, with thick forest-like locks of hair, holy by water… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As Sri Krishna says, And when he sees me in all and sees all in me, then I never leave him and… — Vanamali Copy Share Image
There are some Muslim leaders whose wives are Hindu. There are some Hindu leaders who are married to Muslim women. These have… — Ravish Kumar Copy Share Image
Hindu nationalist outfits like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh perpetuate a false notion of the 'love jihad' - the false idea that young… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
“Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and… — William Jones Copy Share Image
Much of India's Hindu-Muslim divisions can also be located in the context of history, fomented further by the politics of divide and… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
“Aropit bhaav (the belief ‘I am Chandubhai’) is karma and suffering is karma-effect. Aropit bhaav (the belief ‘I am Chandubhai’) indeed is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that. Anger-pride-deceit-greed… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
One has to inculcate a feeling that if I build a road, then a Hindu or a Muslim or a Parsi or… — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
In terms of cultural upbringing, I'd be at the temple at the weekend - I'm a Hindu - but I'd also be… — Rishi Sunak Copy Share Image
BJP are opposed to a Muslim boy marrying a Hindu girl. Then how did BJP have an alliance with Mehbooba Mufti or… — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Marxists worked from within the communal divides, never challenging them, never appearing not to. They offered a cocktail revolution. A heady… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image