Hinduism Quotes

If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara.

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

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

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you and any other Being in the Universe.

You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.

Everything exists as information in a field of infinite possibilities, and it is our Consciousness that renders the information and causes it to appear as the material world.

Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.

Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.

God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.

We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing this, we miss out on gaining any new insight or understanding.

Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest itself in the world around us.

You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.

You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a tree. The entire cosmos is expressing itself through your being.

Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.

The 330 million gods and goddesses of the Hindu culture act as placebo for the masses, just like other gods of other cultures do.

In our dreams we find the dreams of others and in other’s dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.

I’m often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don’t have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.

What does spirituality, money and happiness have in common? Everything.

Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already.

Ask the person who found you about what kind of people she was looking for before meeting you, as she may not know that she has found one of them already.

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones.

Christ attained the ultimate spiritual oneness through prayer and devotion, Moses and Mohammed through prayer, Buddha and all the Indian sages through intense meditation and so did I. And so can you.

Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.

I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.[Trans. Purohit Swami]

When the purpose of clearly exposing the differences between the Aryan and the Tamil culture, civilization, conduct and creed Thirukkural was written. I am of that firm view.

You will breathe throughout your life, every moment of it, but an opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime, and not even to everyone. Go for it!

Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations.

The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.

An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love.

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha - so did I - and so can you.

Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.

As fire, though one, takes the shape of every object which it consumes, so the Self, though one, takes the shape of every object in which it dwells. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)

One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.

May the sunshine ever greet youand sorrows flow away, May the knowledge flow within youand darkness fade away.

Om was there in the existence, when no religion was formed or founded. It will be there in the existence, if all the religions are demolished.

Sikhism emerged as a ray of hope for the people of India who were stuck in obscurity – who craved for a way out from the rigorous battle between Hindu and Muslim orthodoxy.

Terrorism has no religion, but secularism has one and only one.