Hinduism Quotes - Page 12

• Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Perception, Cosmos

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• Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Loss, Self

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• The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Luxury, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Sacred Scripture, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Successful, Happy Life

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• India is developing a lot of soft power, and it's not just about us providing outsourcing and call centers to the world. We are providing a lot of thought and a way of life. I think we're also respected for fundamentally a non-violent belief thanks to our religious roots whether it's Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, we contributed more religions to the world than any part of the world and that's something which does find its way into how the world looks at it.

  Cyril Shroff

  Religious, Buddhism, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of God lay in this direction. At the same time, these undeniable experiences lit up and were in turn illuminated by all the philosophical and historical knowledge I had by then amassed and I began to understand in an entirely new way the teachings of both Judaism and Christianity as well as the teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.

  Jacob Needleman

  Teaching, Philosophical, Buddhism

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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• I think that in the diaspora, and among immigrants, religion becomes a vehicle for the transmission of cultural information, and cultural codes, and this does end up re-inscribing certain things about the religion - like caste. Caste discrimination and hierarchy are still a very fundamental and violent part of Hinduism. My family was upper caste, and that was very clear. I feel like caste and religious practice are inextricable, actually.

  Chitra Ganesh

  Religious, Thinking, Discrimination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Butterfly, Self, Meditation

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• 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

  Dirty, Buddhism, India

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• Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief.

  Romain Rolland

  Running, Religious, Atheist

  "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1928.

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• Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Responsibility, Play

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• 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

  Yoga, Perfect, Lifetime

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• And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

  Eric Bolling

  Zero, Buddhism, Names

  "Fox Host: Christians Have Killed ‘Zero’ People In The Name Of Religion" by Catherine Thompson, talkingpointsmemo.com. February 9, 2015.

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• After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific, none so philosophic, and none so spiritual as the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. The more you know it, the more you will love it; the more you try to understand it, the more deeply you will value it

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Years, Names

  Annie Besant (1914). “The Relativity of Hindu Ethics”

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• The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

  Carl Sagan

  Ideas, Numbers, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.284, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Religious, Acceptance, Punishment

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• You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Mind, Doe

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• Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created substitutes: for love there is marriage; for real religion there are sects - they are like marriages. Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity, Jainism - they are not real religion. Real religion has no name; it is like love. But because love is dangerous and you are so afraid of the future, you would like to have some security. You believe more in insurance companies than in life. That's why you have created marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Real, Believe

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• Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Quests, Pursue

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• Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Dimensions, Consciousness

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• Hinduism, being one of the world's oldest, largest and most diverse traditions, also provides inspiration toward deities in our game. In fact, given Hinduism's concept of a single truth with multiple physical manifestations one could validly interpret ALL the gods within SMITE to be Hindu. And all gods outside of SMITE as well. Ponder that for a minute. Anyway, going forward SMITE will include even more deities, not fewer.

  Todd Harris

  Inspiration, Games, World

  "Religious group calls for removal of Hindu deities from Hi-Rez's SMITE" by Matt Daniel, www.engadget.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!

  Mary Daly

  Buddhism, Islam, Derivatives

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• All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is within you.' Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself.

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  Ram Dass

  Buddhism, Voice, Space

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.202, Bantam

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• You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.

  Frederick Lenz

  Warrior, Past, Thinking

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