All Quotes By Tag: Hinduism

“Nervously I looked around, but most of the audience joined in. They seemed unaware that they were praying. They didn’t realize they were invoking and praising an Indian deity.”

“Even in Bengal, where I had spent most of my growing years, this sect (which was established there in the fifteenth century A.D.) did not display the sort of fanatic trancelike madness that we witnessed on Oxford Street or on the stage of ‘Hair’.”

“I wondered why Westerners were so enthralled with a religious activity that didn’t incite much enthusiasm even among its own people in India.”

“The show moved along captivatingly. In the same way that the Hare Krishna sect was glorified, suddenly so was Yoga. Yoga! Alarm bells rang in my mind. The Yoga I had seen in India was intense, arduous and serious — a discipline taught by avowed spiritual masters who prepared their disciples for death. So why did ‘Hair’s’ hero in the song ‘Donna’ go to India to see the Yoga light? Why was it associated with drugs and reincarnation and presented as such a sweet, new spiritual experience?”

“Now I look back and realize the devastating impact that Hair’s message had on my thinking, religious outlook, attitudes and morality.”

“Hair represented the foundational ideas that prepared us and our world for the principles that underlie today’s most influential mindset — New Age thinking.”

“I became deeply committed to the New Age agenda, although I must admit I did not understand the spiritual implications. I merely longed for self-improvement and hungered after some kind of peace and love.”

“My life experiences had taught me more about India and its religious ramifications than any of my enlightened friends would have dared guess. And in my recollection, nothing to be found along the streets of Calcutta, Bombay or Madras promised a better life to anyone.”

“So, in accepting the New Age teachings in the 1960s, had I somehow accepted the very religion that had frightened me so much as a child?”

“Little did I comprehend at the time that through this musical I was being subtly introduced to a new religious system. One song ridiculed the faith of my youth. It encouraged us not to believe in God per se, but instead, to see that we ourselves were like gods.”

“If a king decides that the fate of his kingdom depends on a game of ludo, he must be Yudhishthir.”

“ADOU RAM TAPOVANADI GAMANAM”

“I den vedisk-hinduiska traditionen är varje enskild människa ansvarig för hela samhällets väl och ve. Kungar har en särskild skyldighet att ta hand om sitt folk.”

“You can’t protect Dharma if you don’t know what it is.”

“Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so-called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair-minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity’s own traditions of holy war and ‘texts of terror.’ Like Hinduism’s Mahabharata epic, the Bible devotes entire books to war and rumors thereof. Unlike the Quran, however, it contains hardly any rules for how to conduct a just war.”