Gandhi Hinduism Quotes & Sayings

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence. — Mahatma Gandhi

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector. — Mahatma Gandhi

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty. — Mahatma Gandhi

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere. — Mahatma Gandhi

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines. — Mahatma Gandhi

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive. — Mahatma Gandhi

I read with interest Max Muller's book, India - What Can It Teach Us? and the translation of the Upanishads published by the Theosophical Society. All this enhanced my regard for Hinduism, and its beauties began to grow upon me. It did not, however, prejudice me against other religions. — Mahatma Gandhi

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection. — Mahatma Gandhi

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so. — Mahatma Gandhi

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood. — Mahatma Gandhi

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals. — Mahatma Gandhi

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings. — Mahatma Gandhi

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation. — Mahatma Gandhi

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before. — Mahatma Gandhi

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth. — Mahatma Gandhi

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability. — Mahatma Gandhi

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it. — Mahatma Gandhi

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi

... the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi — Virchand Gandhi

Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him. — Nicholas Kristof

In Hinduism, incarnation is ascribed to one who has performed some extraordinary service of mankind. All embodied life is in reality an incarnation of God, but it is not usual to consider every living being an incarnation. Future generations pay this homage to one who, in his own generation, has been extraordinarily religious in his conduct. I can see nothing wrong in this procedure; — Mahatma Gandhi

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya. — Mahatma Gandhi

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence. — Mahatma Gandhi

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives. — Mahatma Gandhi

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree. — Mahatma Gandhi

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are. — Mahatma Gandhi

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. — Mahatma Gandhi

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction. — Mahatma Gandhi

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 Gandhi

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

We are all born into different beliefs, and therefore, we should leave it that way" - so goes the tolerant "wisdom" of our time. Mahatma Gandhi, for example, strongly spoke out against the idea of conversion. When people make such statements, they forget or don't know that nobody is born a Christian. All Christians are such by virtue of conversion. To ask the Christian not to reach out to anyone else who is from another faith is to ask that Christian to deny his own faith. One of India's leading "saints," Sri Ramakrishna, is said to have been for a little while a Muslim, for a little while a Christian, and then finally, a Hindu again, because he came to the conclusion that they are all the same. If they are all the same, why did he revert to Hinduism? It is just not true that all religions are the same. Even Hinduism is not the same within itself. Thus, to deny the Christian the privilege of propagation is to propagate to him or her the fundamental beliefs of another religion. If — Ravi Zacharias

Hinduism is not a codified religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live. — Mahatma Gandhi