Hinduism Quotes - Page 13

• A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Discovery, Self

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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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• The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Real, Night

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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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• 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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• The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Awareness, Liberation

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mahatma Gandhi (1972). “Collected Works”

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• I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Buddhism, Light, Stronger

  Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

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• I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Islam, Rebel

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.7, Rajpal & Sons

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• I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Untouchability, Died

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.268, Tara Publishing

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• Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

  Shashi Tharoor

  Identity Politics, Vedas, Fundamentals

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.75, Penguin Books India

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• I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

  George Harrison

  Believe, Gita, Scripture

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• They have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice.

  Pat Robertson

  Karma, Country, Buddhist

  "The new world order". Book by Pat Robertson, 1991.

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• Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.

  Kevin Martin

  War, Men, Symbolism

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• Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Yoga, Mean

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• Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Focus, Mind

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• Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.

  Frederick Lenz

  Illumination, World, Matter

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• The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Giving, Meditation

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• When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attachment, Self, Suffering

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• Yes, there are siddha powers. Yes, you can heal people, transform attention. You can flood the sky with light at night so you can't even see the stars. But the greatest miracle is the spirit - it is light

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Night, Light

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• In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Arjuna, Gita

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• Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enjoy Life, Doe, Consciousness

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• 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

  Buddhism, Thinking, Christianity

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• The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.

  Camille Paglia

  Buddhism, Followers, Pieces

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.211, Vintage

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• Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.

  Katha Pollitt

  Sex, Character, Buddhism

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