Hindu Religion Quotes

• I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Acceptance, Tolerance

  Opening Welcome Address at the World Parliament of Religions, delivered 11 September 1893

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• 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”

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• That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Sri Lanka, Hinduism, Embrace

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.16, editionNEXT.com

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• I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Hinduism, Humans

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• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  Radhanath Swami

  Oneness, Way, Spirit

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• India is the meeting-place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Sri Lanka, India

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.

  Carl Sagan

  Biblical, Thinking, Years

  "Cosmos". Book by Carl Sagan (p . 213 -214),

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• For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.

  Alfred Ford

  Priorities, Soul, Important

  "Orthodox Russians See Red Over Plans for 'Hindu Vatican' in Moscow". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2003.

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• It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Godly, Men

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

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• The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Strong, Views, Mystical Experiences

  "The Eye of Shiva: Eastern Mysticism and Science". Book by Amaury de Riencourt, 1981.

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• The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Night, Ideas

  "Cosmos". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• Religion is one of the most important forces in the world. Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, or a Hindu, religion is a great force, and it can help one have command of one's own morality, one's own behavior, and one's own attitude.

  Nelson Mandela

  Christian, Buddhist, Attitude

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• I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Light, Joy, Wish

  Mahatma Gandhi (1972). “Collected Works”

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• I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Errors, Long Ago, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.184, Vintage

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• 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

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• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Struggle, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.13, editionNEXT.com

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• The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

  Carl Sagan

  Ideas, Numbers, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.284, Ballantine Books

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• I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

  Damon Runyon

  Life, Gambling, Long Ago

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• India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Spiritual, Perfect

  Besant's lecture at the Grand Theatre, Calcutta, on January 15, 1906. "Hindu superiority". Book by Har Bilas Sarda, 1906.

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• Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Independence, India

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• 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

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• 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".

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• My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Tragedy, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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