fanabba
12/24/2011 7:50:00 PM
On Dec 24, 2:08 pm, use...@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr.
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> TRIBUTES TO HINDUISM
>
> 1. Mahatma Gandhi:
>
> "Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of
> religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for
> these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the
> material progress that western science has made. Ancient
> India has survived because Hinduism was not developed
> along material but spiritual lines.
>
> "India is to me the dearest country in the world, because
> I have discovered goodness in it. It has been subject to
> foreign rule, it is true. But the status of a slave is
> preferable to that of a slave holder."
>
> 2. Henry David Thoreau:
>
> "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.
>
> "What extracts from the Vedas I have read fall on me like
> the light of a higher and purer luminary, which describes
> a loftier course through purer stratum. It rises on me
> like the full moon after the stars have come out, wading
> through some far stratum in the sky."
>
> 3. Arthur Schopenhauer:
>
> "In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and
> so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the
> solace of my life -- it will be the solace of my death."
>
> 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson said this about the Gita:
>
> "I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was as
> if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but
> large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old
> intelligence which in another age and climate had
> pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which
> exercise us."
>
> The famous poem "Brahm" is an example of his Vedanta
> ecstasy.
>
> 5. Wilhelm von Humboldt pronounced the Gita as:
>
> "The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical
> song existing in any known tongue ... perhaps the deepest
> and loftiest thing the world has to show."
>
> 6. Lord Warren Hastings, the Governor General, was very
> much impressed with Hindu philosophy:
>
> "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."
>
> 7. Mark Twain:
>
> "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.
>
> "Land of religions, cradle of human race, birthplace of
> human speech, grandmother of legend, great grandmother of
> tradition. The land that all men desire to see and having
> seen once even by a glimpse, would not give that glimpse
> for the shows of the rest of the globe combined."
>
> 8. Rudyard Kipling to Fundamental Christian Missionaries:
>
> "Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle
> the Hindu brown for the Christian riles and the Hindu
> smiles and weareth the Christian down; and the end of the
> fight is a tombstone while with the name of the late
> deceased and the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here who
> tried to hustle the east".
>
> 9. Jules Michelet, a French historian, said:
>
> "At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races
> and religions, the womb of the world." This is what he
> said of the Raamyana in 1864: "Whoever has done or willed
> too much let him drink from this deep cup a long draught
> of life and youth .. . Everything is narrow in the West -
> - Greece is small and I stifle; Judea is dry and I pant.
> Let me look toward lofty Asia, and the profound East for
> a little while. There lies my great poem, as vast as the
> Indian ocean, blessed, gilded with the sun, the book of
> divine harmony wherein is no dissonance. A serene peace
> reigns there, and in the midst of conflict an infinite
> sweetness, a boundless fraternity, which spreads over all
> living things, an ocean (without bottom or bound) of
> love, of pity, of clemency."
>
> 10. Shri Aurobindo:
>
> "Hinduism.....gave itself no name, because it set itself
> no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion,
> asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single
> narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or
> cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the
> Godward endeavor of the human spirit. An immense many-
> sided and many staged provision for a spiritual self-
> building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of
> itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion,
> sanaatan dharm...."
>
> 11. Will Durant would like the West to learn from India,
> tolerance and gentleness and love for all living things:
>
> "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."
>
> 12. Joseph Campbell:
>
> "It is ironic that our great western civilization, which
> has opened to the minds of all mankind the infinite
> wonders of a universe of untold billions of galaxies
> should be saddled with the tightest little cosmological
> image known to mankind? The Hindus with their grandiose
> Kalpas and their ideas of the divine power which is
> beyond all human category (male or female). Not so alien
> to the imagery of modern science that it could not have
> been put to acceptable use.
>
> "There is an important difference between the Hindu and
> the Western ideas. In the Biblical tradition, God creates
> man, but man cannot say that he is divine in the same
> sense that the Creator is, where as in Hinduism, all
> things are incarnations of that power. We are the sparks
> from a single fire. And we are all fire. Hinduism
> believes in the omnipresence of the Supreme God in every
> individual. There is no 'fall'. Man is not cut off from
> the divine. He requires only to bring the spontaneous
> activity of his mind stuff to a state of stillness and he
> will experience that divine principle with him."
>
> 13. Sir Monier-Williams:
>
> The Hindus, according to him, were Spinozists more than
> 2,000 years before the advent of Spinoza, and Darwinians
> many centuries before Darwin and Evolutionists many
> centuries before the doctrine of Evolution was accepted
> by scientists of the present age.
>
> 14. Carl Sagan, (the late scientist), asserts that the
> dance of Nataraj signifies the cycle of evolution and
> destruction of the cosmic universe (Big Bang Theory). "It
> is the clearest image of the activity of God which any
> art or religion can boast of."
>
> 15. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a professor of Eastern
> Religions at Oxford and later President of India:
>
> "Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason
> and intuition that cannot 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."
>
> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> Om Shanti
>
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> About the terrorist Goon Squad:
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> opposition.
>
> "Myself, Mallu. Yourself?" (V. Bhattathiri) <KalluMallu...@gmail.com>
> tries his best to be a bully -- telling others what and when to post,
> where to post and where not to post, deliberately publishing lies
> about others, stalking and abusing them with hate speech -- but fails
> miserably. He is really stressed out, and like his lap dog Prem
> Thomas (who currently posts as "P. Rajah", and issues *death threats*
> to people), is priming himself for conditions such as stroke and
> heart disease.
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Dhanyavaad for the valuable quotes !
Sanaatan Dharm Kee Jai Ho !