Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Hinduism
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
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The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.
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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
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Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.
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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
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I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.
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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
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For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.
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The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
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My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
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The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.
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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
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If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.
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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
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Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.
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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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