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Some quotes related to India
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Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some
unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching
of the Vedas, there is no touch of the sectarianism. It is of ages,
climes, and natinalities and is the royal road for the attainment
of the Great Knowledge. When I am at it, I feel that I am under the
spangled heavens of a summer night. - Henry David Thoreau
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating
as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life; it
will be the solace of my death. - Schopenhauer
India's spiritulity is undoubtedly the most versatile in the world.
Nowhere on earth has the impulse toward trascendence found more
consistent and creative expression than on the Indian peninsula.
- George Feuerstein
In religion and culture, India is the only millionaire! There is
only one India! The land of dreams and romance. The one land all
men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would
not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the globe
combined. - Mark Twain
If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most
richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature
can bestow - in some parts a very paradise on earth - I should
point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has
most fully developed the choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered
on the greatest problems of life, and has found solution of some of
them which well deserve the attention even of those who have
studied Plato and Kant - I should point to India. And if I were to
ask myself from what literature we here in Europe, we who have been
nurtured almost exclusively on the thought of Greeks and Romans,
and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which
is most wanted in order to make our inner life more truly human, a
life not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life -
again I should point to India. - Max Muller
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of
Europe's languages; she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,
through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the
Buddha, of ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the
village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India
is in many ways the mother of us all. - Will Durant
