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Hinduism Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

104 Hinduism quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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When you scroll through Gandhi’s thoughts on Hinduism, you’ll feel the blend of deep devotion and activist spirit that defined his life. This set captures his nuanced view of faith, duty, and social change, offering a window into the convictions that guided his actions.

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I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.

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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

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Hinduism is not a codified religion.

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Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

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

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It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I…

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It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home…

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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a…

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I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the…

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It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests…

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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even…

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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live…

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Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge…

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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,…

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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and…

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It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and…

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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great…

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If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may…

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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,…

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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

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Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

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

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

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

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

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