Quotes About Hindu

In Hindu philosophy the three tenses—past, present, future—were said to exist simultaneously in God. God was timeless, but time was personified as the god of death. Descartes, in his Third Meditation, said that God re-created the body at each successive moment. So that time was a form of sustenance.

The energy or essence or breath of being that is called prana by Hindu yogins and chi by the Chinese is known as orenda to the Cree.20

The energy or essence or breath of being that is called prana by Hindu yogins and chi by the Chinese is known as orenda to the Cree.

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.

The fact that no material from brahminical Hindu scriptures or the Qur'an is included is easily explained. Either it could result in the charge that the Gurus were merely plagiarists or to the assertion that they did accept the authority of these scriptures. What they certainly were is eclectic in their view of scripture, refusing to claim that God spoke only through the revelation that was given to them.

The audacity of the Gurus in using Muslim and Hindu names for God is noteworthy. Partly a prudent move – because going to a Muslim village and preaching about Krishna using terms completely unfamiliar would have been unwise – it is also a mark of the inclusiveness which was intrinsic to Sikhism from its outset.

Today, 500 years since Guru Nanak began to preach, it is still common to find families with both Sikh and Hindu members.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18 ' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

There had been earlier incidents of sacrilege by placing heads and other parts of the anatomy of cows in Hindu temples,

Hindu love? Is it by Rudyard Kipling?

In that moment, standing alone in my bedroom, I felt so connected to my mother. It was finally clear. The reason I'm Kind of Hindu and will raise my daughter to be Kind of Hindu is to have this connection deep inside my own heart to other people who look like us and have shared key experiences, thousands of miles away.

I doubt I'll ever be knowledgeable enough to satisfy her or my curiosity about our faith, but I'm really going to try. As long as Kit and I are Kind of Hindu, we will never be alone.