Top 27 Quotes About Mahabharata
#1. To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Since ancient times, sacred texts from around the world foretold about a time period in human history when a mighty demi-god would appear on earth. Whether we call this figure Perseus, Krishna, or Messiah, he is epitomized in the figure of Jesus Christ - the modern equivalent of which is Superman!
Eli Of Kittim
#4. Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma
Gurcharan Das
#5. It seems we would rather have a past filled with great scientists than just great artists and writers who could dream up these wonderful and awe-inspiring creations. It's a strange irony: we're spending our time trying to find the truth in our past, but creating myths of ourselves in the present.
Aditya Iyengar
#6. In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic ... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious, ... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India ... Energetic and eventful.
M.G. Vassanji
#7. Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.
Gerald Stern
#8. The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#9. Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.
Sharad Devarajan
#10. Whoever declared that love at first sight doesn't exist has never witnessed the purity of a puppy or looked deep into a puppy's eyes. If they did, their lives would change considerably.
Elizabeth Parker
#11. We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
Dorothea Lange
#13. May no woman give birth to one who would mutely suffer insults, who is devoid of vigour and manly prowess and one who would bring joy to the enemies.
-Mahabharata
Vyasa
#14. It was Vyasa's genius to take the whole great Mahabharata epic and see it as metaphor for the perennial war between the forces of light and the forces of darkness in every human heart.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#15. They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.
Shashi Tharoor
#16. The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. Just once - and that was a long time ago, in a star system far, far away. This
George Lucas
#18. The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.
Shashi Tharoor
#19. 'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#20. Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157)
Piero Ferrucci
#21. We condemn the Inquisition in the name of Christian values. After all, we can't condemn it in the name of the Mahabharata, which is comprised of a series of alternating murders, rather like the Iliad!
Rene Girard
#22. national television broadcast a fifty-two-episode serialization of the Mahabharata, the script was written by a Muslim poet, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza.
Shashi Tharoor
#23. Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
Aaron Sorkin
#24. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. We can only interpret the behavior of others through the screen we create.
David Mamet
#26. One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself. This, in brief, is the law of dharma. - Mahabharata XVIII.113.8
Gurcharan Das
#27. Discussions do not lead to definite conclusions. The Srutis are divided in opinion. And there is not a single Rishi whose opinions can be accepted as conclusive. Truth about religious matters is hidden in caves. Therefore that is the proper path which has been followed by great men.
Mahabharata
