Hinduism Quotes

“For those who choose the worldly way, tantra works wonders... It helps us transform our desires into divine experiences. Imagine sexuality as the gateway to moksha rather than a hindrance”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“Who really knows, and who can swear,
How creation came, when or where!
Even gods came after creation's day,
Who really knows, who can truly say
When and how did creation start?
Did He will it? Or did He not?
Only He, up there, knows, maybe;
Or perhaps, not even He”
― Vyasa

“A man should not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.”
― Swami Vivekananda , The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Eight-Volume Set

“Hinduism is both polytheistic and monotheistic. Both the many and the One have a place within it, and within the common experience of most Hindus themselves.”
― Kim Knott, Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction

“If one thinks of sex and sexual act in isolation, then they become a problem…Thus sex becomes a sacrilegious act only if we divorce it from [spirituality.]”
― majupurias

“Our senses are imperfect. We are very proud of our eyes.Often, someone will challenge, "Can you show me God?"
But do you have the eyes to see God? You will never see if you haven' the eyes. If immediately the room becomes dark, you cannot even see your hands. So what power do you have to see? We cannot, therefore, expect knowledge (Vedas) with these imperfect senses.
With all these deficiencies, in conditioned life, we cannot give perfect knowledge to anyone. Nor are we ourselves perfect.
Therefore we accept the Vedas as they are.”
― A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Sri Isopanisad

“Mantras are all about observing, learning, evolving, and passing the wisdom on to next generation.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Gayatri Mantram - Coloring Book

“The Hindus do not blame an invisible Providence for all the suffering in this world, but explain it through the natural law of cause and effect. If a man is born fortunate or wretched, there must be some reason for it; if therefore we cannot find the cause for it in this life, it must have occurred in some previous existence, since no effect is possible without a cause. All the good that comes to us is what we have earned through our own effort; and whatever evil there is, is the result of our own past mistakes. As, moreover, our present has been shaped by our past, so our future will be moulded by our present.”
― Paramananda

“The obsessive passion of Pururava for Urvashi that led to his downfall would become manifest generations later in Shantanu, not once but twice, first in his love for Ganga and then his love for Satyavati, with the same disastrous consequences. Because human memory is short, and history always repeats itself.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, Jaya

“Within a Hindu universe the proper ordering of society rather than the desire of the individual was of first importance.”
― Kim Knott, Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction

“Bus carrying Hajj pilgrims attacked at Kota in India , Hajis forced to raise Jai shri Ram slogans”
― Hinducracy and India

“Sanatana Dharma is advaita sanskriti,
that is, a culture of nonsectarianism,
Hindutva means mindless saffronization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Hinduism is spreading rapidly in India. Jaishree Ram !!”
― Jaishree Ram

“As India specialists point out, the diverse beliefs and practices that came to be called Hinduism only became a single tradition when the British colonial administrators decided they had to count heads and control subjects. But we cannot toss the term. We are stuck with it.”
― Thomas A Tweed, Religion: A Very Short Introduction

“Systems of faith are systems before they are places of faith. They are made by people
and share the flaws of their builders.”
― Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

“Nepal is regarded as a nexus for three religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, and tourism, all of which are found in abundance.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

“The religions of the world made room for Jesus, but Jesus never budged. His teaching mattered to the other religions, but Krishna, the Buddha, Muhammad, Baha'u'llah, and Ahmad combined didn't have a similar impact on Christianity. *That,* I thought, was remarkable.”
― J. Warner Wallace, Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible

“They call it good, but I call it evil. So both good and evil belong to the relative world, to phenomena. The Impersonal God we propose is not a relative God; therefore it cannot be said that It is either good or bad, but that It is something beyond, because It is neither good nor evil. Good, however, is a nearer manifestation of It than evil.
What is the effect of accepting such an Impersonal Being, an Impersonal Deity? The Personal God will remain, but on a better basis. He has been strengthened by the Impersonal. We have seen that without the Impersonal, the Personal cannot remain. If you mean to say there is a Being entirely separate from this universe, who has created this universe just by His will, out of nothing, that cannot be proved. Such a state of things cannot be. But if we understand the idea of the Impersonal, then the idea of the Personal can remain there also. This universe, in its various forms, is but the various readings of the same Impersonal.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The Buddha believed in reincarnation, which means he thought that something reincarnates. The Pali literature says: “There are no real ego entities hastening through the ocean of rebirth, but merely life waves, which, according to their nature and activities, manifest themselves here as men, there as animals, and elsewhere as invisible things.” “Life waves”—that’s a nice image. In Hinduism they’re called vasanas, subtle thought-forms. Every act we do creates vasanas, life waves, based on the desires connected with the act. Those life waves go out and out. Even when we die, they continue; the physical body dies, and what remains are those subtle life waves, those mental tendencies that function like a kind of psychic DNA code to determine your next round. In Hinduism that’s called karma. Karma is basically a pattern of life waves, or desire waves, that keep going and going, life after life, until they spend themselves. When they do, there’s no more individual desire, no more separation, and therefore no more incarnation. The game is over.”
― Ram Dass, Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita

“in old times, whole communities used the method of passive resistance to redress a grievance. The technique was to sit motionless in a public place, without food and exposed to the weather, until the ruler agreed to the people’s demands. Sometimes, when he was particularly tyrannical, his subjects would desert the land, leaving the ruler to live in loneliness and mend his ways. In ancient India it was considered the duty of a wise man to abandon the kingdom when all methods of weaning a king from bad ways had failed.”
― Elizabeth Harrower, The Watch Tower

“There is no such thing as Hinduism - the actual phrase is Sanatana Dharma, which is not a religion, but an everyday sense of oneness or advaita - which is the very backbone of the Indian society. Only in India people celebrate Eid with as much enthusiasm as they celebrate Diwali - they celebrate Christmas with as much enthusiasm as they celebrate Nanak Jayanti - and that's Sanatana Dharma for you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“The idea of reward and punishment also springs from this law. Whatever we sow, we must reap. It cannot be otherwise. [...] If a person spends all his life in evil-thinking and wrongdoing, then it is useless for him to look for happiness hereafter; because our hereafter is not a matter of chance, but follows as the reaction of our present action. [...] We should, however, never lose sight of the fact that all these ideas of reward and punishment exist in the realm of relativity or finiteness. No soul can ever be doomed eternally through his finite evil deeds; for the cause and effect must always be equal. Thus we can see through our common sense that the theory of eternal perdition and eternal heaven is impossible and illogical, since no finite action can create an infinite result. Hence according to Vedanta, the goal of mankind is neither temporal pleasure nor pain, but Mukti or absolute freedom ; and each soul is consciously or unconsciously marching towards this goal through the various experiences of life and death.”
― Paramananda

“Prophet refers to our own soul. When we resolve to do good things alone, we make it certain that we would have success in life. Thus, we can make the prophecy of our bright future and hence we become Prophets. There is a Prophet in each of us. And there is no Prophet outside us. [...] Satan is the villain in each of us. Let us kill the urge to conduct vices and hence win over Satan. Satan lies inside us; it does not come from outside.”
― Sanjeev Newar, Essence of Vedas: Know the startling facts about “Vedas” – a timeless heritage that humanity possesses

“Judgment Day refers to every moment in life when we must decide between doing good deeds and bad deeds. This alone shapes our destiny in the next moment. Judgment Day does not refer to any fictitious event in the calendar of God when people will rise from graves and line up in a queue to be allotted some Heaven or Hell. God does not need to do such shows and employ some prophets as lawyers.”
― Sanjeev Newar, Essence of Vedas: Know the startling facts about “Vedas” – a timeless heritage that humanity possesses

“In this task of freeing my mind of superstitions,
Vivekananda was of great help to me. The religion that he preached——including his conception of Yogawas based on a rational philosophy, on the Vedanta, and his conception of Vedanta was not antagonistic to, but was based on, scientific principles”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“During the last fifty years, owing to the gradual impoverishment of the country and migration from the villages, these religious festivals have been considerably reduced and in some cases have ceased altogether. This has affected the circulation of money within the village economy and on the social side has made life dull and drab.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“A pure monotheistic God, unrelieved by polytheistic elements, tends to become lifeless and abstract. A purely monotheistic unity fails to represent the living unity of the Spirit and expresses merely the intellect’s love of the uniform and the general.
Similarly, purely polytheistic Gods without any principle of unity amongst them lose their inner coherence. They fall apart and serve no spiritual purpose.”
― Ram Swarup, The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods

“It is, therefore, a travesty of truth to say that Islam enjoyed an empire in India for six centuries. What happened really was that Islam struggled for six centuries to conquer India for good, but failed in the final round in the face of stiff and continued Hindu resistance.

Haji was not at all wrong when he mourned that the invincible armada of Hijaz which had swept over so many seas and rivers met its watery grave in the Ganges.
Iqbal also wrote his Shikwah in sorrowful remembrance of the same failure. In fact, there is no dearth of Muslim poets and politicians who weep over the defeat of Islam in India in the past, and who look forward to a reconquest of India in the future.

Hindus have survived as a majority in their motherland not because Islam spared any effort to conquer and convert them but because Islamic brutality met more than its equal in Hindu tenacity for freedom.”
― Sita Ram Goel, The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India

“74. I’m no hero

They say that Rama,
parted from Sita,
held back the mighty ocean
to build a bridge.
And here I am,
parted from her –
can’t even
hold back
a few tears.

Vidyakara Mishra’s Thousand, 1800 CE”
― Anusha Rao, How to Love in Sanskrit

“We are neither just nothing nor absolutely everything despite prevailing science and philosophies saying so.”
― Arne Klingenberg