Quotes About Hinduism

#1. What does spirituality, money and happiness have in common? Everything.

Robin Sacredfire

#2. Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

Terence McKenna

#3. An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.

Aporva Kala

#4. Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.

Amit Ray

#5. I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.

Cory Booker

#7. I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,
Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;
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Munindra Misra

#9. I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.

Rodrigo Santoro

#10. Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. One thing Mr Chaudhuri has overlooked in his remarkable thesis on Hinduism: no religious community in India would take this tarring and feathering of all that they hold sacred save the Hindus.

Khushwant Singh

#14. All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. intrareligious and interreligious. Hinduism interacted

Wendy Doniger

#17. In Hinduism, dharma means realizing our potential: changing ourselves into the best we theoretically can be. What is that? Humans

Devdutt Pattanaik

#18. The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

Ramakrishna

#21. The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.

Frederick Lenz

#22. It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.

Manmohan Singh

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

Anonymous

#25. My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. If you can get out of the mind you will get out of Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and all kinds of rubbish will be just finished. You can come to a full stop.

Osho

#28. Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There's no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.

Ravi Zacharias

#29. Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.

Anonymous

#30. In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. A Christian must worship the Self as Christ, not Christ as Christ. A Muslim must worship the Self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed. A Hindu must worship the Self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. The ultimate goal of human life is to transcend culture and personality to the unconditioned pure being. But the means to do this is through our culture and way of life.

David Frawley

#34. I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

C.S. Lewis

#35. Every single one of the major traditions - Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as the monotheisms - teaches a spirituality of empathy, by means of which you relate your own suffering to that of others.

Karen Armstrong

#36. The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. Om was there in the existence, when no religion was formed or founded. It will be there in the existence, if all the religions are demolished.

Banani Ray

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#39. After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

Mahatma Gandhi

#40. The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

Frederick Lenz

#41. I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world.

Eknath Easwaran

#42. Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#44. I am Sama Veda among the Vedas; I am Indra among the Devas; I am the mind among the senses; I am the consciousness in living beings.

Anonymous

#45. Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

Swami Vivekananda

#46. Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

Swami Vivekananda

#49. The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Robin Sacredfire

#51. I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

Erwin McManus

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

Swami Vivekananda

#53. You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.

Anonymous

#54. How dare you talk of helping the world? God alone can do that. First you must be made free from all sense of self; then the Divine Mother will give you a task to do.

Ramakrishna

#55. The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.

Swami Vivekananda

#56. I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Wesley Snipes

#57. Hinduism, with its openness, its respect for variety, its acceptance of all other faiths, is one religion that should be able to assert itself without threatening others.

Shashi Tharoor

#58. Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

Frederick Lenz

#59. India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Sri Aurobindo

#60. The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe.
The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.

Swami Prabhavananda

#61. Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

Mahatma Gandhi

#62. Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#63. ... the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#64. Rigveda: Book No 1. Hyme No. 164 verse 46:
Truth, one and the same be,
Wise describe it differently

Munindra Misra

#65. Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false

Abraham Eraly

#66. In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

Frederick Lenz

#67. the Lord Ratnasambhava keeps all his treasure inside mongooses. When the god needs his gems and jewels, he squeezes one mongoose and makes it vomit them up!

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#68. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.

Anonymous

#69. Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me; this I promise; for you are dear to me.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#70. I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#71. If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One ... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

The Bhagavad Gita

#72. Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

Swami Vivekananda

#73. I read with interest Max Muller's book, India - What Can It Teach Us? and the translation of the Upanishads published by the Theosophical Society. All this enhanced my regard for Hinduism, and its beauties began to grow upon me. It did not, however, prejudice me against other religions.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.

Ruskin Bond

#76. A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

Frederick Lenz

#77. India is still medieval.

Abhijit Naskar

#78. The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

George Amos Dorsey

#79. If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#80. I want to say a word to the Brahmins: In the name of God, religion, sastras you have duped us. We were the ruling people. Stop this life of cheating us from this year. Give room for rationalism and humanism.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#81. Hinduism - indeed, most eastern religions - tells us that striving, even striving for happiness, is self-defeating. The moment you try to improve yourself, you've failed. Game over. Yet just lie there like a zombie and you lose, too. What to do?

Eric Weiner

#82. Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.

Frederick Lenz

#83. The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.

Sri Chinmoy

#84. In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

Rudolf Steiner

#85. Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

Mahatma Gandhi

#86. How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

Swami Vivekananda

#87. We learn by doing, not just by thinking. So I feel like beyond Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Judaism, or Christianity we need today to think about a global spirituality. We need to make it very personal and transformative for one self, and each other, together for those who are interested.

Surya Das

#88. Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#89. Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

Swami Vivekananda

#90. My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

#91. The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Mahatma Gandhi

#92. Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.

Ramana Maharshi

#93. I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#94. Hinduism, the predominant religion (in India), believes in the existence of multiple gods, many of whom are androgynous (having both female and male characteristics). Many Hindu sects are devoted to the worship of specific deities, such as Rama, Vishnu, and Shiva.

James Peoples

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#96. Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

Mahatma Gandhi

#97. Hinduism is the mother of all religions

Swami Vivekananda

#98. As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

Dave Davies

#99. Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

Mahatma Gandhi

#100. Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.

Abhijit Naskar