Quotes on
The enigma and charm of
This is indeed
The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of traditions, whose yesterday's bear date with the modering antiquities for the rest of nations-the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien prince and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the world combined.
~~~ Mark Twain
In religion,
~~~ Mark Twain (American writer)
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
~~~ Albert Einstein (German Physicist)
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
~~~ Albert Einstein
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in
~~~ Abdul Kalam (President of
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~~~ Sylvia Levi
If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
~~~ Max Mueller (German scholar)
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented zero.
~~~ Lancelot Hogben (English mathematician)
~~~ Wheeler Wilcox (American poet)
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
~~~ W. Heisenberg (German Physicist)
Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with the internal descriptttion of the human body given in the Vedas (5000 years ago). Then the question arises whether the Vedas are really religious books or books on anatomy of the nervous system and medicine.
~~~ Rele (Jewish writer)
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of
~~~ George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwrite)
~~~ Hu Shih (former Ambassador of
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make
~~~ Mark Twain (American writer)
~~~ Mark Twain (American writer)
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.
~~~Sir William Jones (English scholar)
You'd have to be brain dead to live in
“Hinduism has a playful aspect which I've not experienced in any other religion. Its not so righteous or sober as is Christianity, nor is it puritanical. That's one of the reasons I enjoy
~~~ Marcus Leatherdale (Canadian photographer)
After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect ,none so scientific, none so philosophical and no so spiritual that the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. Make no mistake, without Hinduism,
~~~Annie Besant (English theosophist)
To the philosophers of
~~~ Alan Watts (English philosopher)
Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with
~~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)
Perhaps in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit, and a unifying, a pacifying love for all living things.
~~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier
has sent to us such unquestionable gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all our numerals and our decimal system. But these are not the essence of her spirit; they are trifles compared to what we may learn from her in the future.
~~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is
~~~ Romaine Rolland (French writer)
The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the
~~~Jean Sylvain Bailly (French astronomer)
Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but
~~~Swami Vivekananda (Indian philosopher)
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together in to a single family.
~~~
Reporter: Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
Well,
~~~ Gandhi (
God forbid that
west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic
exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
~~~ Gandhi
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
~~~ Gandhi
Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Hindu brown for the Christian riles and the Hindu smiles and weareth the Christian down ; and the end of the fight is a tombstone while with the name of the late deceased and the epitaph drear , " A fool lies here who tried to hustle the east.
~~~ Rudyard Kipling (British writer and poet.He told this in the context of the missionaries who came here with the Good News)
I will lay my bones by the
~~~ Alexander Duff (British missionary)
~~~ Shashi Tharoor (Indian author . In his ‘The Great Indian Novel’)
It is not only a country and something geographical, but the home and the youth of the soul, the everywhere and nowhere, the oneness of all times.
~~~ Herman Hesse (German poet and novelist)
Perhaps in return for conquest, arrogance and spoilation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit, and a unifying, a pacifying love for all living things.
~~~ Will Durant ( American Historian)
As flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their name and form, thus a wise man, freed from name and form, goes to the divine person who is beyond all." Such a theory of life and death will not please Western man, whose religion is as permeated with individualism as are his political and economic institutions. But it has satisfied the philosophical Hindu mind with astonishing continuity.
~~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)
The strength of Hinduism lies in its infinite adaptability to the infinite diversity of human character and human tendencies. It has its highly spiritual and abstract side suited to the philosopher, its practical to the man of the world, its aesthetic and ceremonial side attuned to the man of the poetic feeling and imagination; and its quiescent contemplative aspect that has its appeal for the man of peace and the lover of seclusion.
~~~ Sir Monier Williams (English professor)
Enter Hinduism’s myths, her magnificent symbols, her several hundred images of God, her rituals that keep turning night and day like never ending prayer wheels. It is obtuse to confuse Hinduism’s images with idolatry, and their multiplicity with polytheism. They are 'runways' from which the sense-laden human spirit can rise for its "flight of the alone to the Alone.
Even village priest will frequently open their temple ceremonies with the following beloved invocation:
O Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations:
Thou art everywhere, but I worship you here;
Thou art without form, but I worship you in these forms;
Thou needest no praise, yet I offer you these prayers and salutations,
Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations.
~~~ Huston Smith (American professor)
Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 is personified in
as Shakti in her various guises.
~~~ Roger Housden (American writer)
~~~ J. Donald Walters (Swami) (American philosopher)
Where can we look for sages like those whose systems of philosophy were prototypes of those of
~~~Colonel James Todd (American pioneer)
~~~Shri Aurovindo (Indian philosopher)
Hinduism has a playful aspect which I've not experienced in any other religion. Its not so righteous or sober as is Christianity, nor is it puritanical. That's one of the reasons I enjoy
You'd have to be brain dead to live in
~~~Marcus Leatherdale (Canadian photographer)
It will no longer remain to be doubted that the priests of
~~~Friedrich Mejer (English statesman)
Towards the Orient, to the banks of the Ganges and the Indus, it is there our hearts feel drawn by some hidden urge - it is there that all the dark presentiments point which lie in the depths of our heart...In the Orient, the heavens poured forth into the earth
~~~Friedrich Mejer (English statesman)
I come from an Indian Muslim family, but I experience
~~~ Salman Rushdie (Indian novelist)
A kind of
~~~ Salman Rushdie (Indian novelist)
~~~ Salmon Rushdie (in his novel The Moor's Last Sigh)
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of
~~~John Archibald Wheeler (American scientist)
Going forward, you have a broad and beautiful street, full of rows of fine houses and streets of the sort I have described, and it is to be understood that the houses belong to men rich enough to afford such. In this street live many merchants, and there you will find all sorts of rubies, and diamonds, and emeralds, and pearls, and seed pearls, and cloths, and every other sort of thing there is on earth and that you may wish to buy
~~~ Domingos Paes (Portuguese traveler who visited Hampi during (AD 1520-22) during the reign of Vijayanagar Empire)
In
~~~ Apollonius Tyanaeus ( Greek Thinker and Traveler)
Towns and villages have inner gates; the walls are wide and high; the streets and lanes are torturous, and the roads winding. The thoroughfares are are dirty and the stalls arranged on both sides of the road with appropriate signs. Butchers, fishers, dancers, executioners and scavengers, and so on, have their abodes without the city. In coming and going these persons are bound to keep on the left side of the road till they arrive at their homes. Their houses are surrounded by low walls and form the suburbs. The earth being soft and muddy, the walls of the town are mostly built of bricks or tiles. The different buildings have the same form as those in
~~~ Huen Tsiang (Chinese traveler visited
There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me,
~~~ Keith Bellows (Vice-President, National Geographic Society)
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the
~~~ Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (French writer and philosopher)
There is a striking resemblance between the equivalence of mass and energy symbolized by Shiva's cosmic dance and the Western theory, first expounded by Einstein, which calculates the amount of energy contained in a subatomic particle by multiplying its mass by the square of the speed of light : E=MC2 .
~~~ Richard Waterstone (Author & Journelist)
The most elegant and sublime of these is a representation of the creation of the universe at the beginning of each cosmic cycle, a motif known as the cosmic dance of Lord Shiva. The god, called in this manifestation Nataraja, the Dance King. In the upper right hand is a drum whose sound is the sound of creation. In the upper left hand is a tongue of flame, a reminder that the universe, now newly created, with billions of years from now will be utterly destroyed. These profound and lovely images are, I like to imagine, a kind of premonition of modern astronomical ideas.
~~~Dr.Carl Sagan (American astrophysicist)
It is
~~~ Pierre Simon de Laplace ( French mathematician & philosopher)
According to me, the influence of Sanskrit literature on our time will not be lesser than what was in the 16th century
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either. ~~~Sir ~~~William Jones (English scholar)
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be law or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and instructive materials of the history of man are treasured up in India and India only.
~~~ Friedrich Maximilian Müeller ( German philologist )
The writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion in
~~~ Lord Warren Hastings ( first governor general of
~~~ Sri Aurobindo (Indian philosopher)
I believe that the civilization
~~~ Gandhi
~~~ Nani Ardeshir Palkhiwala ( Indian lawer & philanthropist)
The strength of Hinduism lies in its infinite adaptability to the infinite diversity of human character and human tendencies. It has its highly spiritual and abstract side suited to the philosopher, its practical to the man of the world, its aesthetic and ceremonial side attuned to the man of the poetic feeling and imagination; and its quiescent contemplative aspect that has its appeal for the man of peace and the lover of seclusion.
~~~Sir Monier Williams (Indologist)
How glorious the epoch that then presented itself to my study and comprehension! I made tradition speak from the temple’s recess. I enquired of monuments and ruins, I questioned the Vedas whose pages count their existence by thousands of years and whence enquiring youth imbibed the science of life long before Thebes of the hundred gates or Babylon the great had traced our their foundations.
~~~ Louis-François Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)
Ancient civilizations of
~~~ Allama Iqbal (Indian philosopher & poet)
We of the Occident (west) are about to arrive at crossroads that was reached by the thinkers of
~~~ Heinrich Zimmer (German historian & Indologist)
The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of
~~~ Henrich Heine (German poet)
~~~
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier
~~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is
~~~ Romaine Rolland (French writer)
Our sublimest delusion is that
~~~ W. J. Grant
~~~ W. J. Grant
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 scriptttures. It does not derive its authority from one book.
~~~ Gandhi
Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but
~~~Swami Vivekananda (Indian philosopher)
And then India appears to me in all the living power of her originality – I traced her progress in the expansion of her enlightenment over the world – I saw her giving her laws, her customs, her morale, her religion to Egypt, to Persia, to Greece and Rome – I saw Jaiminy and Veda Vyasa precede Socrates and Plato, and Krishna, the son of the Virgin Devajani precede the son of the Virgin of Bethelehem.
~~~ Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)
~~~ Roger Housden
You live in time, we live in space. You’re always on the move; we’re always at rest. Religion is our first love; we revel in metaphysics. Science is your passion; you delight in physics. You believe in freedom of speech; you strive for articulation. We believe in freedom of silence; we lapse into meditation.
~~~Prof. Hari Dam (Indian Professor of Philosophy )
In the literature of
~~~ Thomas Stearns Eliot (American poet & playwright)
During the early life of a Nation, religion is an essential for the binding together of the individuals who make the nation.
~~~Annie Besant (English theologiest)
Perhaps in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit, and a unifying, a pacifying love for all living things.
~~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of
~~~ George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwrite)
Modern
~~~ Nani Ardeshir Palkhiwala ( Indian lawyer & philanthropist)
~~~ Mark Twain (American playwrite)
To the philosophers of
~~~ Alan Watts (English philosopher)
In Hinduism, there can be as many spiritual paths as there are spiritual aspirants & similarly there can really be as many Gods as there are devotees to suit the moods, feelings, emotions & social background of the devotees.
~~~ Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bengali Saint)
As flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their name and form, thus a wise man, freed from name and form, goes to the divine person who is beyond all. Such a theory of life and death will not please Western man, whose religion is as permeated with individualism as are his political and economic institutions. But it has satisfied the philosophical Hindu mind with astonishing continuity.
~~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)
Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 is personified in
~~~ Roger Housden (American writer)
The whole edifice of Indian civilization is imbued with spiritual meaning. The close interdependence and perfect harmonization of the two serve to counteract the natural tendency of Indian philosophy to become recondite and esoteric, removed from life and the task of the education of society. In the Hindu world, the folklore and popular mythology carry the truths and teachings of the philosophers to the masses. In this symbolic form the ideas do not have to be watered down to be popularized. The vivid, perfectly appropriate pictorial scripttt preserves the doctrines without the slightest damage to their sense.
~~~ Heinrich Zimmer (German Indologist)
In religion,
~~~ Mark Twain (American playwrite)
It is important to appreciate that the historical achievements in
~~~ Amartya Sen (Indian economist)
By what strange social alchemy has
~~~ Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Indian philosopher & scholar)
Peaceful Indians,... did the rumor of your riches have to penetrate a clime in which artificial needs know no bounds? Soon, new foreigners reached your shores; inconvenient guests, everything they touched belonged to them.... If the British ...neglect any longer to enrich Europe's scholars with the Sanskrit scriptttures...they will bear the shame of having sacrificed honor, probity, and humanity to the vile love for gold and money, without human knowledge having derived the least lustre, the least growth from their conquests.
~~~ Anquetil Duperron (French Orientalist)
It has been my long-standing conviction that
~~~ Nani Ardeshir Palkhiwala ( Indian lawyer & philanthropist)
The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian genius as well as their fundamental unity gives
~~~ Sylvain Levi (French Orientalist)
When a religious method recommends itself as 'scientific',it can be certain of its public in the West. Yoga fulfills this expectation. Quite apart from the charm of the new and the fascination of the half-understood, there is good cause for Yoga to have many adherents. It offers the possibility of controllable experience and thus satisfies the scientific need for 'facts'; and, besides this, by reason of its breadth and depth, its venerable age, its doctrine and method which include every phase of life, it promises undreamed of possibilities.
~~~ Carl Gustav Jung (German Yogic teacher)
We do not yet realize that while we are turning upside down the material world of the East with our technical proficiency, the East with its psychic proficiency, is throwing our spiritual world into confusion. We have never yet hit upon the thought that while we are overpowering the Orient from without, it may be fastening its hold upon us from within. ~~~ Carl Gustav Jung (German Yogic teacher) Very few travelers have sought to understand
~~~ Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)
Enter Hinduism’s myths, her magnificent symbols, her several hundred images of God, her rituals that keep turning night and day like never ending prayer wheels. It is obtuse to confuse Hinduism’s images with idolatry, and their multiplicity with polytheism. They are 'runways' from which the sense-laden human spirit can rise for its flight of the alone to the Alone. Even village priest will frequently open their temple ceremonies with the following beloved invocation: O Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations: Thou art everywhere, but I worship you here; Thou art without form, but I worship you in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer you these prayers and salutations, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations.
~~~ Huston Smith (American professor)
In
~~~ Apollonius Tyanaeus ( Greek Thinker and Traveler)
The strength of Hinduism lies in its infinite adaptability to the infinite diversity of human character and human tendencies. It has its highly spiritual and abstract side suited to the philosopher, its practical to the man of the world, its aesthetic and ceremonial side attuned to the man of the poetic feeling and imagination; and its quiescent contemplative aspect that has its appeal for the man of peace and the lover of seclusion. ~~~ Sir Monier Monier-Williams (Indologist) 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, 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. And there are much longer time scales still.
~~~ Dr.Carl Sagan (astrophysicist)
Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with the internal descriptttion of the human body given in the Vedas (5000 years ago). Then the question arises whether the Vedas are really religious books or books on anatomy of the nervous system and medicine.
~~~ Rele (Jewish writer)
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
~~~ Alfred North Whitehead ( British mathematician)
It is not only a country and something geographical, but the home and the youth of the soul, the everywhere and nowhere, the oneness of all times.
~~~ Herman Hesse (German poet and novelist)
When Confucius and the Indian Scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom could be thought of. It is only within this century (in the 1800s) that England and America discovered that their nursery tales were old German and Scandinavian stories; and now it appears that they came from India, and are therefore the property of all the nations.
~~~ Emerson (American philosopher)
The Hindu genius is a love for abstraction and, at the same time, a passion for the concrete image. At times it is rich, at others prolix. It has created the most lucid and the most instinctive art. It is abstract and realistic, s*xual and intellectual, pedantic and sublime. It lives between extremes, it embraces the extremes, rooted in the earth and drawn to an invisible beyond.
~~~ Octovio Paz (Mexican Nobel Prize laureate in Literature)
A special charm of studying Indian philosophy today is that it is more truly Western, in the modern, scientific sense, than any system of philosophy that the West has produced. Whereas Western rationalism has broken down under the impact of scientific discoveries, Indian thought cheerfully rides the crest of the wave, and is only pushed higher by every new scientific finding.
~~~J. Donald Walters ( singer & composer)
~~~ Dr.Jean LeMee (French author)
~~~ Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet & philosopher)
Yoga, as a science of achieving this transformation of finite man into the infinite One, has to be recognized as something intrinsically Indian or, as 'a specific dimension of the Indian mind. Yoga constitutes a characteristic dimension of the Indian mind, to such a point that whatever Indian religion and culture have made their way, we also find a more or less pure form of Yoga. In
~~~ Mircea Eliade (Romanin philospoher,author)
It is certainly true that Hinduism has provided the broad cultural and religious framework that has held
~~~ Dr.Karan Singh (Indian Diplomat & politician)
~~~ J. Donald Walters
Indeed, if I may be allowed the anachronism, the Hindus were Spinozites more than two thousand years before the existence of Spinoza; and Darwinians may centuries before Darwin; and evolutionists many centuries before the doctrine of evolution had been accepted by the scientists of our time, and before any word like 'evolution' existed in any language of the world.
~~~ Sir Monier Monier-Williams (British Indologist)
The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the
~~~Jean Sylvain Bailly (French astronomer)
Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with
~~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)
We find among the Indians the vestiges of the most remote antiquity....We know that all peoples came there to draw the elements of their knowledge ... India, in her splendor, gave religions and laws to all the other peoples; Egypt and Greece owed to her both their fables and their wisdom.
~~~ Pierre Sonnerat (French naturalist & author)
She (
~~~ Sylvia Levi
Almost all the theories, religious, philosophical, and mathematical, taught by the Pythagoreans were known in
~~~ H. G. Rawlinson (English Historian)
The Entire Cosmos is all pervaded by the same divine power. there is no ultimate duality in human existence or in consciousness. This is a truth which in the West is only recently being under stood after Einstein and Heisenberg and quantum mechanics. The Newtonian-Cartesian-Marxist paradigm of a materialistic universe has now been finally abolished, it has collapsed in the face of the new physics. Our ancient seers had a deeper insights into the nature of reality than people had even until very recently.
~~~ Dr.Karan Singh (Indian Diplomat & politician)
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of
~~~John Archibald Wheeler (American scientist)
Towns and villages have inner gates; the walls are wide and high; the streets and lanes are torturous, and the roads winding. The thoroughfares are are dirty and the stalls arranged on both sides of the road with appropriate signs. Butchers, fishers, dancers, executioners and scavengers, and so on, have their abodes without the city. In coming and going these persons are bound to keep on the left side of the road till they arrive at their homes. Their houses are surrounded by low walls and form the suburbs. The earth being soft and muddy, the walls of the town are mostly built of bricks or tiles. The different buildings have the same form as those in
~~~ Huen Tsiang (Chinese traveler visited
Besides the discoverers of geometry and algebra, the constructors of human speech, the parents of philosophy, the primal expounders of religion, the adepts in psychological and physical science, how even the greatest of our biological and theologians seem dwarfed! Name of us any modern discovery, and we venture to say that Indian history need not long be searched before the prototype will be found on record. Here we are with the transit of science half accomplished, and all our Vedic ideas in process of readjustment to the theories of force correlation, natural selection, atomic polarity and evolution. And here, to mock our conceit, our apprehension, and our despair, we may read what Manu said, perhaps 10,000 years before the birth of Christ: The first germ of life was developed by water and heat. Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals.
~~~ Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented zero.
~~~ Lancelot Hogben (English mathematician)
It is impossible not to be astonished by
~~~A Rough Guide to
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
~~~ Gandhi
At its starting point in
Compared to Islam and Christianity, Hinduism’s doctrines are extraordinarily fluid, and multiform.
~~~Sir Charles Eliot ( British diplomat )
The Hindu understanding of the universe has often been misunderstood as bizarre and primitive. The Hindu imagery is in fact a sophisticated iconography conveying universal religious truths only now beginning to be understood in the West.
~~~ Alistair Shearer (English spritual teacher)
~~~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (German philosopher)
Where can we look for sages like those whose systems of philosophy were prototypes of those of
~~~Colonel James Todd (American pioneer)
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