Top 173 Hinduism Quotes & Sayings

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

To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, since it doesn't link salvation to divine worship, but to me this is just a quibble. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all perceive human beings as flawed, wounded creatures in need of salvation, and all rely fundamentally on revelations that spell out how salvation is to be attained, either by departing from this life or rising above it.

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Hinduism, being one of the world's oldest, largest and most diverse traditions, also provides inspiration toward deities in our game. In fact, given Hinduism's concept of a single truth with multiple physical manifestations one could validly interpret ALL the gods within SMITE to be Hindu. And all gods outside of SMITE as well. Ponder that for a minute. Anyway, going forward SMITE will include even more deities, not fewer.

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.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

We are not insisting on planting trees just because of global warming. Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam insist on the necessity of trees. Especially in Hinduism, the peepal tree is worshiped as Lord Ganesha while neem is worshiped as a goddess.

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

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

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

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.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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

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

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

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

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.

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

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

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

It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

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

Through Hinduism, I feel a better person. I just get happier and happier. I now feel that I am unlimited, and I am more in control of my own physical body. The thing is, you go to an ordinary church and it's a nice feeling. They tell you all about God, but they don't show you how the way. They don't show you how to become Christ-concious yourself. Hinduism, however, is different.

Hinduism is not a codified religion.

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

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

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

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

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

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

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.

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.

You see, Hinduism is not confined to the strictness of the desert, but belongs to the universe. Judaism, Christianity and Islam become limited by desert boundaries, but Hinduism is much freer - there are no set rules.

The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.

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.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods — Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America. We've got the best defense, if you will — a good offense.

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

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

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

Hinduism is the mother of all religions

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

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

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.

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

There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them.

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