Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.

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

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 philosophic, and none so spiritual as the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. The more you know it, the more you will love it; the more you try to understand it, the more deeply you will value it

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.

I've had a Hindu upbringing. There's a lot about it I think is cool. Temples are amazing. It's a nice vibe when people are praying. And there's lots about it where I understand why they believe those things. But I'm not practising.

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

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

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

My mum told me once I was a Hindu.

I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.

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.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

A Hindu is interested in the welfare of all: not merely humans, but all living beings.

I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always very drawn to Buddhism, Hinduism. I still meditate.

I like people of faith, and I believe the more people who have spirituality, the better the world will be. It's about peace and tolerance.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

I'm a Buddhist.

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.