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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Hinduism is the mother of all religions

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.

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.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

It made me high. It really did.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

Hinduism is not a codified religion.

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.

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

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

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.