We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.
Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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