Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads," and the "Bhagavad Gita."

The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

I brought Bhagawad Gita as a gift for the Japanese PM...I don't have anything better than Gita to give & nor does the World has anything better to receive.

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

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.

Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!

In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.

Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.

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

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

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

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.