Thought of the day # 328

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 the 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. Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India....This is the India that patient scholarship is now opening up like a new intellectual continent to that Western mind which only yesterday thought civilization an exclusive Western thing.
 

~ Will Durant (American philosopher)

Thought of the day # 327

 

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
 

~ Mark Twain 

Thought of the day # 320

"It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system."

~Will Durant (American Historian, 1885-1981)

Thought of the day # 319

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!"

~Albert Einstein

Thought of the day # 318

"If there is one place on the face of this Earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest day when man began the dream of existence, it is India."

~ Romain Rolland (French Philosopher, 1886-1944)

Thought of the day # 317

"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either."

~ Sir William Jones (British Orientalist, 1746-1794)

Thought of the day # 315

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!" 

~Mark Twain

Thought of the day # 309

Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.

~ Mark Twain

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Thought of the day # 304

It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

~J Krishnamurti

Thought of the day # 303

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

~Buddha 

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Thought of the day # 300

"Asato Maa sad gamaya

Tamaso Maa jyotir gamaya

Mrityor Maa Amritam gamaya

Aum shanti shanti shanti"

God, please lead me (by giving me knowledge) from the unreal to the real;

from the darkness (of ignorance) to the light (of knowledge);

from the death (limitation) to immortality (liberation).

~ Rig Veda

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Thought of the day # 296

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty".

~ Mahatma Gandhi 

Thought of the day # 295

The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge.

~ Bhagavad Gita 4:19-21

Thought of the day # 294

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

~Mahatma Gandhi

Thought of the day # 289

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It can not be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

~ Gautama Buddha

Thought of the day # 287

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

~Rabindranath Tagore

Thought of the day # 284

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

~ Goutama Buddha

Thought of the day # 280

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

~ Chanakya (Chanakya Niti 39)

Thought of the day # 270

Death is but changing of our robes to wait
In wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

~ Sri Aurobindo

Thought of the day # 268

"Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it."

~ Rabindranath Tagore



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