Hinduism Quotes - Page 10

• Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Action, Consciousness, Busy

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• If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

  Tom Krause

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Growth

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• It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Thoughtful

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “The Health Guide”

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• 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

  God, Philosophical, Islam

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.221, Tara Publishing

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Untouchability, Ifs, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the Western world the contrary is true. By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith will lose much of its individuality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3224, Manonmani Publishers

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• The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy the world a little with its frivolities? Just as our religion takes in all, so should our society. This is to be worked out by first understanding the true principles of our religion and then applying them to society. This is the slow but sure work to be done.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Crush, Spiritual, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1993, Manonmani Publishers

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• Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

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• 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

  Unity, Progress, Elements

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• In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Development, Kind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2599, Manonmani Publishers

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Analysis, Grammar, Abstraction

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2599, Manonmani Publishers

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• 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

  Errors, Long, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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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 with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Animal, Reptiles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, People, Hatred

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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• This is how you falsify reality, ... The problem in India is not the Islamic fundamentalists. It's the Hindu fundamentalists, who will destroy India in the end.

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Islamic, Reality, India

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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 Kalma.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Doe, Common

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.120, Orient Paperbacks

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• Hinduism is not a codified religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

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• What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Real, Mistake

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• There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Years, People

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• The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Fleeting, Body

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• If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Soul, Quality

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• Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Realization, Liberation

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• 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

  Littles, Tiny, Aspects Of Life

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• Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Oneness, Perfection

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  New Life, Interpretation, Rejected

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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