Hinduism Quotes - Page 8

• The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Forever, Suffering

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• All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Mirages, Phantoms

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• One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Thinking, Decision

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• We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.

  Frederick Lenz

  Careers, People, Enlightenment

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• The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Attachment, Battle

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• My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

  Tony Blair

  Buddhism, Understanding, Six

  "Tony Blair, on his faith and religious ideology". Interview with John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• Your heart is my piñata.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Fun, Heart

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.171, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Islam, Favour

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.91, Penguin Books India

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• Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions about what religion is are so influenced by Protestantism - either real Protestantism or the secularized Protestantism that dominates our culture - and its assumption that beliefs are the most important thing.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Real, Buddhism, Important

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian Love, Islam, Christianity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.238, Vintage

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• If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Imagination, Growing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.

  Paul Harvey

  Teacher, Yoga, Two

  Source: www.yogastudies.org

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• If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Roots, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Penance, Untouchability, Castes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Messages, Ahimsa

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Secret, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Being Me, Glory

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• Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Losing, Danger, Kernel

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Varnashrama Dharma”

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• Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dining, Restriction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Way, Patient, Argument

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.106, Orient Paperbacks

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• The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Hair, Sacred

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• Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Secret, Vices

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Government, Joints

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.267, Penguin Books India

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• All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Discipline

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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