Hinduism Quotes · Page 9

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“When by the power of evil karma, misery is being tested, may the tutelary deities dissipate the misery.”

— W.Y. Evans-Wentz

We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.

— Azim Premji

Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

We Hindus have a long-recognised tradition of being religious liberals by nature.

— Subramanian Swamy

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Someone should tell the fundamentalists that even Advaita philosophy in Hinduism talks of oneness in all existence.

— Aparna Sen

“Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot…

— Swami Vivekananda

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation,…

— Barack Obama

I love Pushkar because of the Pushkar Fair, which happens every fall - it's this camel festival, with ornately-dressed camels, camel races.…

— Maneet Chauhan

Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the…

— Frederick Lenz

“[Veda:] 'Sure. Let me put these [books] back and we can go.' Cora looked at the number of volumes on the table…

— Jessica Lave

I am Hindu, upper-caste, male, and able-bodied. So everything is on my side. That gives me the extra cushion that Swara Bhaskar…

— Varun Grover

I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational,…

— William Jones

“Arjuna quotes old scriptures to support his conclusions and his “I’. Krishna had to say Geeta to dissolve his “I” so that…

— Shunya

“Afghanistan, believed by anthropologists to be one of the original historical meeting places between the East and the West, has in fact…

— Jenny Nordberg

I'm not really hip to too much of the Zen or the Buddhist point of view, but you see I don't have…

— George Harrison

“You can do it at any time. You can do it when you are sitting in a bus – that is, watch,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can keep your own religion - Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism - you just need to add Jesus to the equation. Then…

— Rick Warren

300 years after the rise of Islam there were Zoroastrians in Iran. The Muslim armies never forced people to accept Islam. It…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's…

— Robyn Davidson

I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important…

— Chitra Ganesh

The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical…

— Aurel Stein

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.”

— Stephen H. Wolinsky

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I don't believe in differentiating between Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian - we are all one, and Mumbai is for everyone.

— Rakhi Sawant

“You are never a real guru until you understand that you are serving others and delivering them to the light.”

— Robin Sacredfire

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu”

— B.R. Ambedkar

In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves…

— Frederick Lenz

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I appeal to Muslims and Hindus, beware of the election plans of the BJP.

— Raj Thackeray

“I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of…

— Anonymous

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.

— Swami Vivekananda

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For the BJP, the conversion of Bengal's cultural Hindu into a political Hindu is a long-standing project.

— Barkha Dutt

Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I…

— Diana L. Eck