Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.
—Albert Einstein about Gandhi
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Selected Quotations from Mahatma Gandhi
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth
in flesh and blood.
—Albert Einstein about Gandhi
Bhagavad Gita
"I find a solace in the Bhagavad-Gita that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. When disappointment stares me in the face and all alone I see not one ray of light, I go back to the Bhagavad-Gita. I find a verse here and a verse there , and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming tragedies -- and my life has been full of external tragedies -- and if they have left no visible or indelible scar on me, I owe it all to the teaching of Bhagavad-Gita." - MK Gandhi (Mind of Mahatma Gandhi, Eds. Prabhu & Rao, 3rd Ed, 1968).
"My life has been full of external tragedies and it they have not left any visible effect n me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita." - MK Gandhi (Message of the Gita, RK Prabhu, 1959).
Brahmanism
"Where is the real Brahmin today, content with a bare living and giving all his time to study and teaching?" - MK Gandhi (Mahatma, Vol. 5, Ed. DG Tendulkar, 2nd., 1960).
"I have the highest reverence for Brahminism, under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty." MK Gandhi (Mahatma, Vol. 3, Ed. DG Tendulkar, 2nd., 1960).
"A true Brahmin should be the very image of humility and not be proud of his knowledge or wisdom." - MK Gandhi (Mahatma, Vol. 3, Ed. DG Tendulkar, 2nd., 1960).
"It is impossible to wait and weigh in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition, that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism." - (Mahatma, Vol. 3, Ed. DG Tendulkar, 2nd., 1960).Test of Devotion
"A devote may use, if he likes, rosaries, forehead marks, make offerings, but these things are not test of his devotion." - MK Gandhi (Mahatma, Vol. 2, Ed. DG Tendulkar, 2nd., 1960).
Cow Protection
"Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world." - MK Gandhi (Mahatma, Ed. DG Tendulkar, Vol. 2, 2nd Ed., 1960)"Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf." - MK Gandhi (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. XXVI).
"My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow-killing is a sin." - MK Gandhi (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. XXV).
"When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat; it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world." - MK Gandhi (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. XXV).
Jesus Christ
"It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice." - MK Gandhi (Truth is God, Ed. RK Prabhu, 1955)."I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or it the only son of God." - MK Gandhi (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. XXV).
Conversion
Go to: Mahatma Gandhi on the Christian Missionary Menace
Koran
"I would like to say that even the teaching themselves of the Koran cannot be exempt from criticism." - MK Gandhi (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. XXVI).Duty
"He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty." - MK Gandhi (Mahatma, Vol. 2, Ed. DG Tendulkar, 2nd., 1960).
Seeking God
"If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right
to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?" - MK
Gandhi (Mahatma, Vol. 8, Ed. DG Tendulkar, 2nd., 1960).
Temptation
"Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation." - MK Gandhi (Mahatma, Vol. 8, Ed. DG Tendulkar, 2nd., 1960).