Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Hinduism

• I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

• It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Thoughtful

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “The Health Guide”

• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

• Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ocean, Treasure, Priceless

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1972). “Collected Works”

• Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Cows, Protection

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.176, Courier Corporation

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Untouchability, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dream, Imagination, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

• If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Unity, Dying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cows, Hinduism, Preservation

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Scripture, Study, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

• I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Buddhism, Religion, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.104, Rajpal & Sons

• I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Names, Vedas

• If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  "Hindu Dharma".

• After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Errors, Long, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brotherhood, Hinduism, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

• Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhist

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jinnah, Slave, Hinduism

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Book, Keys

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.117, GENERAL PRESS

• The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Animal, Reptiles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, World, Today

• I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian Love, Islam, Christianity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.238, Vintage

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Duty, Castes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Class, Generations, Poverty

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

• The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Moving, Law, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.238, Courier Corporation

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