Hinduism Quotes · Page 8

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

— Anonymous

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

— Anonymous

“Veda is in the form of Gnan [spiritual knowledge] and God is in the form of Vignan [spiritual science].”

— Dada Bhagwan

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“When you see faults in others, you bind karma and when you see your own faults, you are released from karmas.”

— Dada Bhagwan

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of…

— Swami Vivekananda

“between March and August there was a steady flow of urban and rural Sikhs and Hindus from Rawalpindi, Multan, Attock, Lahore and…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think the BJP is a joke. It is a party of semi-literates and has fascist tendencies. Such a party can never…

— Subramanian Swamy

I have never yet failed to get a hearing (with a Hindu) if I talk to them about forgiveness of sins and…

— Bakht Singh

“Akbar took Brahmins to task for misrepresenting Hindu texts to lower castes and hoped that translating Sanskrit texts into Persian would prompt…

— Audrey Truschke

Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake…

— Jennifer Beals

“The Hindu sage Ramakrishna once said that the mind is like fabric; it takes the color of the dye it’s soaked in.…

— Jay Michaelson

“If you do not believe in reincarnation then the word “prarabdh” (karma effect) should not be present in your vocabulary. Christian, Muslim,…

— Dada Bhagwan

Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his…

— Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

“The world is broken up by tribalism—the British, the German, the Swiss, the Hindu, the Buddhist, are tribes. See the fact that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“People never remember who helped them conquer their dreams. When they truly achieve a lot, they often forget me easily. I’ve noticed…

— Robin Sacredfire

“Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation…

— Yann Martel

“There is no environment "out there" that is separate from us. We can't manage our impact on the environment if we are…

— David Suzuki

“The Muslims had become masters of Hindustan. They were quite willing to let us Hindus live our lives as we wanted to…

— Khushwant Singh

“Let me end this chapter with an encouraging story. A young man found his way up to the small apartment of Nisargadatta,…

— Jack Kornfield

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an…

— Frederick Lenz

“The notions of creation, preservation and destruction in Hindu mythology thus deal with culture, not nature.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

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

— Frederick Lenz

Hindus and Jains (Lord Digambar) exist and are living inside sun from many centuries.

— Ashwani Kumar Ojha

I am a proud Hindu, but that doesn't I mean I disrespect others' religion.

— Payal Rohatgi

The real Hindu vision is that nobody will be discriminated against or favoured. Everyone is equal.

— Yogi Adityanath

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

— B. R. Ambedkar

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

— Frederick Lenz

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the…

— Frederick Lenz

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

— Swami Vivekananda

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

— Mark Twain

“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more…

— Terry Pratchett