Quotes by Vedas Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world. Arthur Schopenhauer vedas india book May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy. Guru Nanak vedas giving men There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas. Horace Greeley vedas doctrine atheism Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. J. Robert Oppenheimer atomic-weapons vedas may The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century. J. Robert Oppenheimer vedas privilege century Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot. Johannes Itten vedas teacher book The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism. Mahatma Gandhi vedas hinduism god I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth. Mahatma Gandhi vedas names believe In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself for his ancestors for his intellectual development a study of the Vedic literature is indeed indispensable. Max Muller vedas who-cares intellectual The Vedas inform us that because God is absolute, there is no difference between God the person and His holy name; the name is God. Mukunda Goswami vedas differences names We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world. Norman Mailer vedas names men What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is. Ramakrishna vedas philosophy world Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world. Sathya Sai Baba vedas past world Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics? Shashi Tharoor vedas identity-politics fundamentals All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders. Sri Aurobindo vedas lines book When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion. Sri Aurobindo vedas gita atheist The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge. Sri Aurobindo vedas language men The whole world is one family. Sun Yat-sen vedas failure family Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation? Swami Vivekananda vedas secret giving The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration. Swami Vivekananda vedas karma essentials 12»
