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• Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Independence, India

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• I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Book, Keys

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.117, GENERAL PRESS

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• I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.

  Daniel Dennett

  Buddhism, Thinking, Religion

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

  Alan Watts

  Dance, God, Sports

  Alan Watts (1997). “Zen and the Beat Way”

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• 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

  Character, Animal, Unique

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• A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.

  Carl Sagan

  Biblical, Thinking, Years

  "Cosmos". Book by Carl Sagan (p . 213 -214),

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• It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, India, Chess

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1930.

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• Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Summer, Spring, Book

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• I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Facts, Belief, Study

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.193, GENERAL PRESS

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• Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

  Amartya Sen

  Race, People, Giving

  Amartya Sen (1999). “Reason Before Identity: The Romanes Lecture for 1998”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Hindu religion is the only one 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. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Night, Ideas

  "Cosmos". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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• I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

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• Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Buddhism, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2610, Manonmani Publishers

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• The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in Judaism it is called ashrei, an inner sense of holiness and health. Is Islam it is called falah, happiness and well-being, and in Hinduism it is called ananda, or pure bliss.

  Marci Shimoff

  Happiness, Buddhism, Joy

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

  Bill Watterson

  Life, Running, Live In The Moment

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• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  Radhanath Swami

  Oneness, Way, Spirit

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Struggle, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.13, editionNEXT.com

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• One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Men, Light

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• 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

  World, Humans, Hindu Religion

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• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Vedas, May, Atomic Weapons

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• But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Peace, Fear, Moving

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Feet, Admirable

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• 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

  Roots, Tree, Soul

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