Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan More Quotes by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan More Quotes From Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan helping teacher thinking Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan my-birthday would-be teacher When we think we know Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan cease knows thinking The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan imagine saint past God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan beauty-and-love suffering god Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan errors religious mean My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan india ambition profound True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan diversity justice enemy Religion is behavior and not mere belief. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan behavior belief religion The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan confused spiritual god God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan soul spiritual god Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan illusion make-you-think thinking Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan historical humanity civilization Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan literature mind people The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan grief self spiritual It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan spirituality india political We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan self god needs It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan atheism names integrity Homeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. This was also recognized in the Upanishad which spoke of human organs as combination of body mind and spirit. Homoeopathy would pay an important part in the Public Health of the country along with other systems. Medical facilities in India are so scanty that Homoeopathy can confidently visualize a vast field of expansion. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan important mind country The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan grief god past
