Hinduism Quotes

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

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

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

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.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

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

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.

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.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

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

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

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

Hinduism is the mother of all religions

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

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

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

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

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

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

Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.

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

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

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