Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Scripture

• It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sympathy, Men, Diversity

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

• Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person
  accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Flower, Essence

• We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

• 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 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

• The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Teaching, Scripture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.126, Orient Paperbacks

• I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, People, Diversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.55, A&C Black

• Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Average, Important

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

• Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Gita, Today

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

• Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Scripture, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

• God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Scripture

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1973). “Collected works”

• The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Keys, Gita, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

• A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men, Discipline

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

• Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Scripture, Devotion

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Scripture, Study, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

• A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Essentials, Scripture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Summer, Spring, Book

• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ambition, Mean

• Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Reading, Religion

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