Amazing Quotes About India Big Images Version 537

Delhi, India
Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one

as this ever walked upon this earth in flesh and blood.
~~~ Einstein (about Gandhi)
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Belur, Karnataka, India
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical

monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are
beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth,
and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the
meanness of the results at which European genius has
sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee
before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the
human race the native land of the highest philosophy.
~~~ Victor Cousin (French philosopher)
Soil of Ancient India, cradle of humanity, hail! Hail, venerable and

efficient nurse whom centuries of brutal invasions have not yet
burned under the dust of oblivion! Hail, farther land of faith, of
love, of poetry and of science! May we hail a revival of thy past in
our West in future!
~~~ Louis Francois Jacolliot
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Hampi, Karnataka, India
India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.

~~~ Victor Cousin ( French philosopher)
Their (Indian philosopher's) subtleties make most of the great European

philosophers look like schoolboys.
~~~ Thomas Stearns Eliot (American poet & playwright)
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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, -
astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis,..
It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went
from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have
undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not
been long established in Europe...
~~~ Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (French writer and philosopher)
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Talakkadu, Karnataka, India
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 (astrophysicist)
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It is India that gave us the ingenious method of

expressing all numbers by ten symbols, each receiving a
value of position as well as an absolute value, a
profound and important idea which appears so simple to
us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very
simplicity, the great ease which it has lent to all
computations, puts our arithmetic in the first rank of
useful inventions, and we shall appreciate the grandeur
of this achievement the more when we remember that it
escaped the genius of Archimedes and Appollnius, two
of the greatest men produced by antiquity.
~~~ Pierre Simon de Laplace ( French mathematician &
philosopher)
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)
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Sravanabelagola, Karnataka, India
According to me, the influence of Sanskrit literature on our time will not be
lesser than what was in the 16th century Greece's influence on Renaissance. One
day, India's wisdom will flow again on Europe and will totally transform our
knowledge and thought.
~~~ Arthur Schopenhauer(German philosopher)
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) www.pratheep.com
Mysore, Karnataka, India
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 )
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Ajanta, Maharastra, India
The writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British
dominion in India shall long have ceased to exist, and when the
sources which it yielded of wealth and power are lost to
remembrances.
~~~ Lord Warren Hastings ( first governor general of British India)
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last
creative word; she lives and has still something to do for
herself and the human peoples.
~~~ Sri Aurobindo (Indian philosopher)
I believe that the civilization India has evolved is not to be beaten in

the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestry. Rome
went; Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was
broken; Japan has become westernized; of China nothing can be said;
but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
~~~ Gandhi
India is eternal. Though the beginnings of her numerous civilizations

go so far back in time that they are lost in the twilight of history, she
has the gift of perpetual youth. Her culture is ageless and is as
relevant to this present 20th century as it was to the 20th century
before Christ.
~~~ Nani Ardeshir Palkhiwala ( Indian lawer & philanthropist)
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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)
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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.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human

speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and
the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most
astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India
only!
~~~ Mark Twain (American writer)
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We of the Occident (west) are about to arrive at crossroads that was reached
by the thinkers of India hundreds of years before Christ.
~~~ Heinrich Zimmer
The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year,
shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have
been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would
be treasures of spiritual knowledge.
~~~ Henrich Heine (German poet)
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Ellora,Maharastra, India
India is not only the heir of her own religious traditions; she is also the
residuary legatee of the Ancient Mediterranean World's religious
traditions. Religion cuts far deeper, and, at the religious level, India has
not been a recipient; she has been a giver. About half the total number of
the living higher religions are of Indian origin.
~~~Arnold Joseph Toynbee (British historian)
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India 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 India!
~~~ Romaine Rolland (French writer)
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Our sublimest delusion is that India is backward. This predicates, of course,

that we are progressive. If backwardness and progress depend on the rate
at which one can gobble up vanities perhaps India does not need our
aid.....India's devotion to being good rather than being clever comes nearer
the heart of a true civilization. Cleverness dies on the tongue like a social
pleasantry, goodness echoes round the universe in an un extinguishable
reality. We in the West are too busy to see that science without soul is like
words without meaning.
India's greatness is in her humility; her weakness is her strength. She is

both wiser and more effective than the West, for she does not declare that
reform is not a new shirt on Sunday morning but a clean heart at the
Throne of Grace. Justice without spirit of justice is as much of an
achievement as a river without its water.
She is grave and old and stupendous. Her accents are for the calm and
gracious. Her temples are laden with symbolism....and internal beauties. It
is true, that India is royal...India has been royal at heart from her very
foundations of her memory.
~~~ W. J. Grant
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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.
~~~ Gandhi
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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 India for thousands
of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even
Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record,
and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past,
even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from
her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it
and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never
been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and
therefore we live....!
~~~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
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and Plato, and Krishna, the son of the Virgin Devajani precede
Aurangabad, Maharastra, India
India is a vast network of sacred places. The entire country is a sacred land.
The sacrality of the land of India, is what, still today, gives a sense of unity to
this country of so many religions, cultures, races and factions.
~~~ Roger Housden
In the literature of Asia is a great poetry. There is also profound wisdom and
some very difficult metaphysics...Long ago I studied the ancient Indian
languages, and while I was chiefly interested at that time in philosophy, I read
little poetry too; and I know that my own poetry shows the influence of Indian
thought and sensibility.
~~~ Thomas Stearns Eliot (American poet & playwright)
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Sravnabelagola, Karnataka, India
During the early life of a Nation, religion is an essential for the

binding together of the individuals who make the nation. India
was born, as it were, in the womb of Hinduism, and her body
was for long shaped by that religion. Religion is a binding
force, and India has had a longer binding together by religion
than any other Nation in the world, as she is the oldest of the
living Nations.
~~~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.
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Delhi, India
India is not an underdeveloped country, but rather,

in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a
highly developed one in an advanced state of decay
~~~ Shashi Tharoor (Indian author . In his ‘The
Great Indian Novel’)
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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 India are the tender expressions which carry the
mark of the Creators hand.
~~~ George Bernard Shaw
Modern India will find her identity and the modern Indian will regain his soul when our
people begin to have some understanding of our priceless heritage. A nation which has
had a great past can look forward with confidence to a great future. It would be
restorative to national self-confidence to know that many discoveries of today are really
re-discoveries and represent knowledge which ancient India had at her command. World
thinkers have stood in marvel at the sublimity of our scriptures.
~~~ Nani Ardeshir Palkhiwala ( Indian lawyer & philanthropist)
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India had the start of the whole world in the

beginning of things. She had the first civilization;
she had the first accumulation of material wealth;
she was populous with deep thinkers and subtle
intellects; she had mines, and woods, and a fruitful
soul.
~~~ Mark Twain
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is

no new discovery, just as the concept of light years
is no matter for astonishment to people used to
thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is
about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men
of India have not been concerned with technological
applications of this knowledge arises from the
circumstance that technology is but one of
innumerable ways of applying it.
It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when
Western civilization discovers Relativity it applies it
to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas
Oriental civilization applies it to the development of
new states of consciousness.
~~~ Alan Watts (English philosopher)
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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.
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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 India as Shakti in her various guises.
~~~ Roger Housden (American writer)
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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 script preserves the doctrines
without the slightest damage to their sense.
~~~ Heinrich Zimmer (German Indologist)
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This is indeed India!

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.
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~~~ Mark Twain
Delhi, India
In religion, India is the only millionaire......the One land that all men desire to
see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse
for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.
It is important to appreciate that the historical achievements in India in

critical reasoning, public deliberation and analytical scrutiny as well as in
science and mathematics, architecture, medicine, painting and music, are
products of Indian society – involving both the Hindus and non-Hindus, and
including the skeptical as well as the religious.
~~~ Amartya Sen (Indian economist)
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By what strange social alchemy has India subdued her conquerors,

transforming them to her very self and substance..... ? Why is it that
her conquerors have not been able to impose on her their language,
their thoughts and customs, except in superficial ways?
~~~ Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Indian philosopher & scholar)
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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 scriptures...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)
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Bylkuppe, Karnataka, India
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever
having to send a single soldier across her border!
~~~ Hu Shih (former Ambassador of China to USA)
It has been my long-standing conviction that India is like a donkey carrying a sack
of gold - the donkey does not know what it is carrying but is content to go along
with the load on its back. The load of gold is the fantastic treasure - in arts,
literature, culture, and some sciences like Ayurvedic medicine - which we have
inherited from the days of the splendor that was India.
~~~ Nani Ardeshir Palkhiwala ( Indian lawyer & philanthropist)
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Halebeedu, Karnataka, India
The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian

genius as well as their fundamental unity gives India the
right to figure on the first rank in the history of civilized
nations. Her civilization, spontaneous and original,
unrolls itself in a continuous time across at least thirty
centuries, without interruption, without deviation.
Ceaselessly in contact with foreign elements which
threatened to strangle her, she persevered victoriously
in absorbing them, assimilating them and enriching
herself with them. Thus she has seen the Greeks, the
Scythians, the Afghans, the Mongols to pass before her
eyes in succession and is regarding with indifference the
Englishmen - confident to pursue under the accidence of
the surface the normal course of her high destiny.
~~~ Sylvain Levi (French Orientalist)
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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 India, very few have
submitted to the labor necessary to a knowledge of her past splendor,
looking only at the surface they have ever denied them and with an
unreasoning confidence of criticism that made them the easy victims
of ignorance.
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Sravanabelagola, Karnataka, India
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.
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~~~ Huston Smith (American professor)
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 India I found a race of mortals living upon the

Earth. but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not
being fixed to them, possessing everything but
possessed by nothing.
~~~ Apollonius Tyanaeus ( Greek Thinker and
Traveler)
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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)
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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 description 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)
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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)
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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)
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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, sexual 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)
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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)
India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not

only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which
science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics,
airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
~~~ Wheeler Wilcox (American poet)
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Precious stones or durable materials - gold, silver, bronze, marble, onyx or

granite - have been used by ancient people in an attempt to immortalize
themselves. Not so however the ancient Vedic Aryans (Indians). They turned
to what may seem the most volatile and insubstantial material of all - the
spoken word ...The pyramids have been eroded by the desert wind, the
marble broken by earthquakes, and the gold stolen by robbers, while the
Veda is recited daily by an unbroken chain of generations, traveling like a
great wave through the living substance of mind...
~~~ Dr.Jean LeMee (French author)
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Aurangabad, Maharastra, India
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.
~~~Arnold Joseph Toynbee (British historian)
India has all along been trying experiments in

evolving a social unity within which all the different
peoples could be held together, while fully enjoying
the freedom of maintaining their differences. The tie
has been as loose as possible, yet as close as
circumstances permitted. This has produced
something like a United States of a social federation,
whose common name is Hinduism.
~~~ Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet &
philosopher)
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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 India,
Yoga was adopted and valorized by all religious movements,
whether Hinduist or 'heretical. The various Christian or syncretistic
Yogas of modern India constitutes another proof that Indian
religious experience finds the yogic methods of 'meditation' and
'concentration' a necessity.
~~~ Mircea Eliade (Romanin philospoher,author)
It is certainly true that Hinduism has provided the broad cultural and
religious framework that has held India together despite its
astonishing linguistic, ethnic and political diversity and divisions.
Hinduism is as essential for an understanding of Indian culture and
civilization.
~~~ Dr.Karan Singh (Indian Diplomat & politician)
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India, has accomplished in the field of spirituality what, in the world of finance, the
free market (as opposed to a controlled economy) has succeeded in doing:The
individual seeker has been left free to explore and develop his own spiritual
potentials. Other scriptures have hinted at the deeper truths of inward religion. But
the priests in every religion seldom quote those passages, which they rightly see
as threatening to their institutional preeminence.
~~~ J. Donald Walters
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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 school of Alexandria
and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the
school... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest
and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even
the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.
~~~Jean Sylvain Bailly (French astronomer)
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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 India....This is the India that
patient scholarship is now opening up like a new
intellectual continent to that Western mind which
only yesterday thought civilization an exclusive
Western thing.
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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 (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the

human race in the course of a long succession of centuries.
She has the right to reclaim ... her place amongst the great
nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity.
From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of
Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated
her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!
~~~ Sylvia Levi
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Almost all the theories, religious, philosophical, and mathematical, taught

by the Pythagoreans were known in India in the sixth century B.C.
~~~ Professor H. G. Rawlinson
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.
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There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get
into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place.
When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the
land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its
ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated
intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as
if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white
and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced
everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.
~~~ Keith Bellows (Vice-President, National Geographic
Society)
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest

thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to
the philosophy of our times.
~~~John Archibald Wheeler (American scientist)
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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 China; rusher of dry branches, or tiles or
boards are used for covering them. The walls are
covered with lime and mud, mixed with cow dung
for purity. At different seasons, flowers are
scattered about. Such are some of their different
customs.
~~~ Huen Tsiang (Chinese traveler visited India
629-645 A.D.)
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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)
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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 India. Nowhere on

Earth does humanity present itself in such a dizzying,
creative burst of cultures and religions, races and tongues.
Enriched by successive waves of migration and marauders
from distant lands, every one of them left an indelible
imprint which was absorbed into the Indian way of life. Every
aspect of the country presents itself on a massive,
exaggerated scale, worthy in comparison only to the
superlative mountains that overshadow it. It is this variety
which provides a breathtaking ensemble for experiences that
is uniquely Indian. Perhaps the only thing more difficult than
to be indifferent to India would be to describe or understand
India completely. There are perhaps very few nations in the
world with the enormous variety that India has to offer.
Modern day India represents the largest democracy in the
world with a seamless picture of unity in diversity
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~~~A Rough Guide to India (Travel guide book)
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
~~~ Gandhi
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At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the
womb of the world.
~~~ Jules Michelet ( French writer)
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by

man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the
sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing
overlooked.
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Compared to Islam and Christianity, Hinduism’s doctrines are
extraordinarily fluid, and multiform. India deals in images and
metaphors. Restless, subtle and argumentative as Hindu thought is, it is
less prone than European theology to the vice of distorting
transcendental ideas by too stringent definition. It adumbrates the
indescribable by metaphors and figures.
It is not afraid of inconsistencies which may illustrate different aspects
of the infinite, but it rarely tries to cramp the divine within the limits of a
logical phrase.
~~~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
India is the land of dreams. India had always dreamt - more of the bliss
that is man's final goal. And this has helped India to be more creative in
history than any other nation. Hence the effervescence of myths and
legends, religious and philosophies, music, and dances and the different
styles of architecture.
~~~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (German philosopher)
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Where can we look for sages like those whose systems of philosophy were prototypes of those
of Greece: to whose works Plato, Thales and Pythagorus were disciples? Where do I find
astronomers whose knowledge of planetary systems yet excites wonder in Europe as well as
the architects and sculptors whose works claim our admiration, and the musicians who could
make the mind oscillate from joy to sorrow, from tears to smile with the change of modes and
varied intonation?
~~~Colonel James Todd (American pioneer)
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This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it
went into any other country… Here is the same India whose soil
has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever
lived… Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of
the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look
forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much
higher, than she ever was.
~~~ Swami Vivekananda (Indian philosopher)
Another important Vedantic concept is that all human beings,

because of their shared spirituality, are members of a single
family. The Upanishads have an extraordinary phrase for the
human race, ‘Amritasya putrah’ (Children of immortality),
because we carry within our consciousness the light and the
power of the Brahman regardless of race, colour, creed, sex,
caste or nationality. That is the basis of the concept of human
beings as an extended family — ‘Vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ —
which is engraved on the first gate into our Parliament House.
~~~ Dr.Karan Singh (Indian Diplomat & politician)
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I shall now speak of the knowledge of the Hindus...of their subtle

discoveries even more ingenious than those of the Greeks and
Babylonians - of their rational system of mathematics or of their
method of calculation which no word can praise strongly enough -
I mean the system using the nine symbols. If these things were
known by the people who think that they alone have mastered the
sciences because they speak Greek, they would perhaps be
convinced that every folk, not only Greeks, but men of a different
tongues, know something as well as they.
~~~ Severus Sebokbt (Bishop ,Syrian astronomer)
Precious stones or durable materials - gold, silver, bronze, marble,

onyx or granite - have been used by ancient people in an attempt
to immortalize themselves. Not so however the ancient Vedic
Aryans (Indians). They turned to what may seem the most volatile
and insubstantial material of all - the spoken word ...The pyramids
have been eroded by the desert wind, the marble broken by
earthquakes, and the gold stolen by robbers, while the Veda is
recited daily by an unbroken chain of generations, traveling like a
great wave through the living substance of mind...
~~~ Dr.Jean LeMee (French author)
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We, on the contrary, now send to the Brahmans English

clergymen and evangelical linen-weavers, in order out of
sympathy to put them right, and to point out to them that they
are created out of nothing, and that they ought to be grateful and
pleased about it. But it is just the same as if we fired a bullet at a
cliff.
In India, our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient
wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in
Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and
will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought
~~~ Arthur Schopenhauer(German philosopher)
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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)
With one foot grounded in time-honored traditions

and the other fervently striding into the
entrepreneurial e-age, India embraces diversity
passionately as few other countries on earth could.
~~~ Lonely Planet (Travel guide book)
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No other country has lived with so complicated a past so

equably, assimilating everything that has happened to it,
obliterating naught, so that not even the intricate histories
of European states have produced such a rich pattern as
that bequeathed by the Mauryas, the Ashokas, the
Pahlavas, the Guptas, the Chalykyas, the Hoysalas, the
Pandyas, the Cholas, the Mughals, and the British - to
identify a few of the people that have shaped India's
inheritance.
Religion, flourishes here as it does nowhere else. Other
lands may surrender themselves totally to a particular faith,
but in India most creeds are deeply rooted and
acknowledged fervently. Virtually the whole population
practices some form of devotion. The Indian without the
slightest feeling for the divine, without a spiritual dimension
to his life, is exceedingly rare.
Incomparable and inimitable she is, India is also our great

paradigm.
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Delhi, India

Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one

When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical

Soil of Ancient India, cradle of humanity, hail! Hail, venerable and

India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.

Their (Indian philosopher's) subtleties make most of the great European

~~~ Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (French writer and philosopher)

There is a striking resemblance between the equivalence

The most elegant and sublime of these is a representation

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more

I believe that the civilization India has evolved is not to be beaten in

India is eternal. Though the beginnings of her numerous civilizations

The strength of Hinduism lies in its infinite adaptability to the infinite

How glorious the epoch that then presented itself to my study

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human

Our sublimest delusion is that India is backward. This predicates, of course,

India's greatness is in her humility; her weakness is her strength. She is

Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient

And then India appears to me in all the living power of her

During the early life of a Nation, religion is an essential for the

Perhaps in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India

India is not an underdeveloped country, but rather,

India had the start of the whole world in the

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is

In Hinduism, there can be as many spiritual paths as there

As flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their name

This is indeed India!

It is important to appreciate that the historical achievements in India in

By what strange social alchemy has India subdued her conquerors,

Peaceful Indians,... did the rumor of your riches have

The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian

When a religious method recommends itself as 'scientific',it can be

Going forward, you have a broad and beautiful street,

In India I found a race of mortals living upon the

The strength of Hinduism lies in its infinite

The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great

Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind

It is not only a country and something geographical, but the

A special charm of studying Indian philosophy today is that it is

India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not

Precious stones or durable materials - gold, silver, bronze, marble, onyx or

It is already becoming clear that a chapter which

India has all along been trying experiments in

Yoga, as a science of achieving this transformation of finite man into

Indeed, if I may be allowed the anachronism, the Hindus were

The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some

Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

We find among the Indians the vestiges of the most

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the

Almost all the theories, religious, philosophical, and mathematical, taught

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest

Towns and villages have inner gates; the walls are

Besides the discoverers of geometry and algebra,

The first germ of life was developed by water and

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the

It is impossible not to be astonished by India. Nowhere on

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by

The Hindu understanding of the universe has often been misunderstood

Another important Vedantic concept is that all human beings,

I shall now speak of the knowledge of the Hindus...of their subtle