Hinduism Quotes - Page 5

• India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Religious, Land, Ideas

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• Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?" the Swami was asked. "Yes", answered the Swami. "And what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and I have added to this is, that the Many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the same mind at different times and in different attitudes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Attitude, Real, Ego

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3717, Manonmani Publishers

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• One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Play, One Day

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• The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Awareness, Liberation

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• Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Kings, Yoga

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• We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Self

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• Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Self, Realization

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• The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Self, Unfolding

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• The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cows, Facts, Protection

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.123, Rajpal & Sons

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• Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

  Yann Martel

  Jesus, Muhammad, Mary

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.143, Canongate Books

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• Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Weight Problems, Ego

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• Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Self, Enlightenment

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• The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Looks, Way, Waste

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

  Wesley Snipes

  Buddhism, Islam, Different

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• I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Names, Vedas

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• It made me high. It really did.

  John Lennon

  Made

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• Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Mind, Awareness

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• For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.

  Alfred Ford

  Priorities, Soul, Important

  "Orthodox Russians See Red Over Plans for 'Hindu Vatican' in Moscow". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2003.

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• Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Ignorance, Animal, Taste

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• In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moon, Self, Path

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• Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable - in countless myriad universes, forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, World, Ephemeral

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• In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Exercise, Voice

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• What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is

  Brad Thor

  Writing, Thinking, Islam

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• Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Eye, Discovery

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• The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Views, Diversity, Humanity

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