Quotations
On Hinduism
"Hinduism.....gave
itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it
claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible
dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was
less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of
the God ward endeavor of the human spirit. An immense many-sided
and many staged provision for a spiritual self-building and
self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only
name it knew, the eternal religion, Santana Dharma...."
Quotes : Sri
Aurobindo
"From
every sentence (of the Upanishads) deep, original and sublime
thoughts arise, and the whole is pervaded by a high and holy and
earnest spirit...."In the whole world there is no study so
beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. They are
destined sooner or later to become the faith of the
people."
" It
has been the solace of my life -- it will be the solace of my
death."
Quotes : Arthur
Schopenhauer
"In the
morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal
philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our
modern world and its literature seems puny."
Quotes : Henry David Thoreau
“Bhagvad-Gita is
the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song
existing in any known tongue…....perhaps the deepest and
loftiest thing the world has to show."
Quotes : Wilhelm
von Humboldt
“In the whole
world there is no study, except that of the originals, so
beneficial and so elevating as that of the Oupnekhat. It has
been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death!”
Quotes : Arthur
Schopenhauer [said for Upanishads]
“It is sublime as
night and a breathless ocean. It contains every religious
sentiment, all the grand ethics which visit in turn each noble
poetic mind…”
Quotes : Ralph
Waldo Emerson [for Bhagwad Gita]
"The strength of
Hinduism lies in its infinite adaptability to the infinite
diversity of human character and human tendencies. It has its
highly spiritual and abstract side suited to the philosopher,
its practical to the man of the world, its aesthetic and
ceremonial side attuned to the man of the poetic feeling and
imagination; and its quiescent contemplative aspect that has its
appeal for the man of peace and the lover of seclusion."
Quotes : Sir Monier Monier-Williams
" I
owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was as if 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
same questions which exercise us."
Quotes : Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"The
most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song
existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and
loftiest thing the world has to show."
Quotes : Wilhelm von
Humboldt
" I am
convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of
the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc."
Quotes : Voltaire
"It may be with
truth be asserted that no description of Hinduism can be
exhaustive which does not touch on almost every religious and
philosophical idea that the world has ever known. It is
all-tolerant, all-comprehensive, all-compliant, all-absorbing.
It has its spiritual and its material aspect; it’s esoteric and
exoteric; it’s subjective and objective; it’s rational and
irrational. It has one side for the practical; another for the
severely moral; another for the devotional and the imaginative;
another for the philosophical and speculative."
Quotes : Sir
Monier Monier-Williams
"Land
of religions, cradle of human race, birthplace of human speech,
grandmother of legend, great grandmother of tradition. The land
that all men desire to see and having seen once even by a
glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest
of the globe combined."
Quotes : Mark Twain
"Perhaps
in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will
teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the
quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the
understanding spirit, and a unifying, a pacifying love for all
living things."
Quotes : Will Durant
“After a study of some forty years and more of the great
religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so
scientific, none so philosophic, and none so spiritual as the
great religion known by the name of Hinduism. The more you know
it, the more you will love it; the more you try to understand
it, the more deeply you will value it”
Quotes : Dr. Annie Besant
Each year, it is
necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves
at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal
freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our
race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the
Ganges....?
Quotes :
Jules Michelet
"That year will
always remain a dear and cherished memory; it was the first time
I had the opportunity to read the great sacred poem of India,
the divine Ramayana. If anyone has lost the freshness of
emotion, let him drink a long draught of life, and youth from
that deep chalice."
Quotes :
Jules Michelet
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