Well Known Western philosophers on Hinduism,
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
“Hindus and Hindutva will one day rule the world, because this is a combination of knowledge and wisdom”.
- Herbert Wells (1846 – 1946)
“Until the effectiveness of Hindutva is restored, how many generations will suffer atrocities and life will be cut off, then one day the entire world will be attracted to it, on that day there will be Dilshad and on that day the world will be inhabited.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“I understand that through his intelligence and awareness he did that which the Jews could not do. In Hinduism, t is the power that can lead to peace.”
“When I read the Bhagavad Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous. “
“We owe a lot to Indians who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
- Huston Smith (1919)
“The faith which is upon us and this is better than us in the world, then it is Hindutva. If we open our hearts and minds for it, then it will be good for us”.
- Michael Nostradamus (1503 – 1566)
“Hindutva will become the ruler religion in Europe, but the famous city of Europe will become the Hindu capital”.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)
“I read Hinduism and realized that it is for the religion of all the world and all mankind.” Hindutva will spread throughout Europe and in Europe, big thinkers of Hinduism will emerge. One day it will come that Hindus will be the real stimulus of the world. “.
- Gosta Lobon (1841 – 1931)
“Hindus speak of peace and reconciliation. I invite Christians to appreciate the faith of reform.”
- Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
“The entire world will accept Hindu religion one day and if it can not even accept the real name it will accept it by name only.” West will accept Hindutva one day and Hindu will be the religion of those who have studied in the world “.
- Johann Geith (1749 – 1832)
“We all have to accept Hinduism now or later and this is the real religion. If I say no to Hindu, I will not feel bad, I accept this right thing.”
- Robert R. C. Zaehner (1913-1974)
“In the family of religions, Hinduism is the wise old all-knowing mother. “
- Carl Sagen, (1934-1996)
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, to those of modern scientific cosmology.
A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.
- Count Hermann Keyserling (1880-1946)
Hinduism at its best has spoken the only relevant truth about the way to self-realization in the full sense of the word.
Hinduism has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of.
The absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad-Gita, perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world.
- Mark Tawin (1835-1910) also known as Samuel Clemens
Land of religions, the cradle of human race, the birthplace of human speech, grandmother of legend, ggreat-grandmotherof tradition. The land that all men desire to see and having seen once even by a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest of the globe combined.
- Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962)
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
- Christopher W. B. Isherwood (1904-1986)
“I believe the Gita to be one of the major religious documents of the world. If its teachings did not seem to me to agree with those of the other gospels and scriptures, then my own system of values would be thrown into confusion, and I should feel completely bewildered. The Gita is not simply a sermon, but a philosophical treatise.”
- Professor Arthur Holmes (1895-1965) in his great book, The Age of Earth (1913)
“Long before it became a scientific aspiration to estimate the age of the earth, many elaborate systems of the world chronology had been devised by the sages of antiquity. The most remarkable of these occult time-scales is that of the ancient Hindus, whose astonishing concept of the Earth’s duration has been traced back to Manusmriti, a sacred book.”
- Vecente Avelino who was the Consul General for Brazil in India in 1930
“India is the only country which has known God and if anyone wants to know God he must know India.”
- Klaus L. Klostermaier
Hinduism has proven much more open than any other religion to new ideas, scientific thought, and social experimentation. Many concepts like reincarnation, meditation, yoga and others have found worldwide acceptance. It would not be surprising to find Hinduism the dominant religion of the twenty-first century.
It would be a religion that doctrinally is less clear-cut than mainstream Christianity, politically less determined than Islam, ethically less heroic than Buddhism, but it would offer something to everybody. It will appear idealistic to those who look for idealism, pragmatic to the pragmatists, spiritual to the seekers, sensual to the here-and-now generation.
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