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- I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as…
- Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings,…
- Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related…
- Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will…
- . . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India…
- I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a…
- With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be…
- The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to…
- Above all, India is the land of religion.
- Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along…
- Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.
- Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which…
- I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.
- In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.
- Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms,…
- Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be…
- Religion in India culminates in freedom.
- Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.
- Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.
- Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.
- Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.
- This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the…
- To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social…
- I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from…
- The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the…
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