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Quotes on India

The enigma and charm of India has caught the imagination of endless number of poets, thinkers, scientists, and philosophers. India offered something to ponder everyone?s perspective. Quotes by the eminent people are one interesting way to get a glimpse of India

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)

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)

This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of


its people. ~~~ Gandhi

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 NewtonianCartesian-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. ~~~ Dr.Karan Singh (Indian Diplomat & politician)

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)

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)

India has all along been trying experiments in

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

It has been my long-standing conviction that India is

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)

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)

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)

In Hinduism, there can be as many spiritual paths as


~~~ Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bengali Saint)

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.

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)

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)

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

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken


~~~ Sri Aurobindo (Indian philosopher)

her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

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

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)

India is eternal. Though the beginnings of her

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. And that which must seek now to awake is not anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma. ~~~Shri Aurovindo (Indian philosopher)

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?)

Reporter: Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of


Western Civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

Well, India is a country of nonsense


~~~ Gandhi (India's father of the nation)

God forbid that India should ever take to


industrialism after the manner of the

west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~~~ Gandhi

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of


its people. ~~~ Gandhi

Tell me, why is the media here so negative?

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? ~~~ Abdul Kalam (President of India)

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