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 sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and
nationalities and is the royal
road for the attainment of the Great
Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that
I am under the spangled heavens
of a summer night.
Thoreau (American Thinker)
If
I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed
some of
its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest
problems of life,
and has found solutions, I should point to India.
Max
Muller (German Scholar, 1823-1900)
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)
The
surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A
special branch
of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for
improving deformed
ears, noses and forming new ones, which European
surgeons have now borrowed.
Sir
W. Hunter (British Surgeon, 1718-1783)
After
the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of
Quantum Physics
that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
W.
Heisenberg (German Physicist, 1901-1976)
In
the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or
unworthy,
but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old
intelligence, which in
another age and climate had pondered and thus
disposed of the questions that
exercise us.
R.W
Emerson (American Essayist, 1803-1882)
In
religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all
men desire
to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not
give that glimpse
for all the shows of all the rest of the globe
combined.
Mark
Twain (American Author, 1835-1910)
It
is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western
beginning will
have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the
self-destruction
of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment
in history, the only
way of salvation for mankind is the Indian Way.
Dr
Arnold Toynbee (British Historian, 1889-1975)
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, 1886-1994)
In
India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not
adhering to
it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them,
possessing everything,
but possessed by nothing.
Apollonius
Tyanaeus (Greek Traveller, 1st Century CE)
