Hinduism Quotations

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

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

These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.

Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

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.

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

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

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

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

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

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Hinduism is not a codified religion.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

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.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

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

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

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

It made me high. It really did.

Hinduism is the mother of all religions

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.