1.
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Encourage us to contemplate independently.
2.
Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
I would take great honor if 5 September were commemorated as Teachers' Day in lieu of celebrating my birthday.
3.
When we think we know
we cease to learn.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Once we become certain, our education stalls.
4.
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
'No one is beyond redemption, no matter the mistakes they have made in the past. Nobody can be so wholly virtuous or wicked as they perceive themselves to be.'
5.
God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Divinity abides within us, and eventually its qualities of acumen, radiance, and affection will be exposed in each person.
6.
Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
7.
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Authentic faith is a transformative power: it is an implacable foe of subjugation, advantage, and inequity.
8.
My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
My objective is not only to document but to elucidate and expose the progression of thought and expose the roots of India in the deep realm of human character.
9.
The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
10.
Religion is behavior and not mere belief.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Religious observance is action rather than just dogma.
11.
Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Nurture yourself as you would another, for ultimately everyone is connected and indistinguishable.
12.
God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
'God is the Essence of all essences - The Highest Being - The Ultimate Awareness.'
13.
Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
14.
Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
15.
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The quintessential essence is liberated from wickedness, devoid of decrepitude, impervious to sorrow and bereavement, unaffected by appetite and craving, wishing for nothing and conjuring up nothing.
16.
Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Humankind is an enigmatic entity - the perpetual triumph and blemish of this universe.
17.
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
18.
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
It is not God that is venerated but the organization or power that pretends to speak in His stead. Transgression becomes insubordination to authority not breach of morality.
19.
Homeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. This was also recognized in the Upanishad which spoke of human organs as combination of body mind and spirit. Homoeopathy would pay an important part in the Public Health of the country along with other systems. Medical facilities in India are so scanty that Homoeopathy can confidently visualize a vast field of expansion.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
20.
We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
We need not search for an explanation or justification for that which is, innately everlasting and unrestricted.
21.
The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
22.
Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
23.
Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
24.
Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
25.
His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
