#hindu

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth... Hinduism is the religion of truth. Truth is God. Denial of God we have known. Denial of truth we have not known. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it. ↗

— Swami Bhaskarananda

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Should even one's enemy arrive at the doorstep, he should be attended upon with respect. A tree does not withdraw its cooling shade even from the one who has come to cut it. ↗

— Mahabharata

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A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist ↗

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles. ↗

— Russell Brand

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Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

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Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly. ↗

— Stephen Mitchell

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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you. ↗

— Ram Dass

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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did. ↗

— Sunil Gangopadhyay

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