By Saurav Pandey| August 14, 2025
“I am proud to belong to a religion that has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration but we also accept all religions as true.”
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“I am proud to belong to a nation that has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.”
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“We have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny.”
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“Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair.”
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“I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen.”
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“I am a Hindu. I am sitting in my own little well and thinking that the whole world is my little well. The Christians sit in their little well and think the whole world is their well. The Muslims sit in their little well and think that is the whole world.”
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“From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy to the low ideas of idolatry, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu’s religion.”
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“The Vedas are without beginning and without end. By the Vedas, no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times.”
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“I am a spirit living in a body: I am not the body. The body will die, but I shall not die. Here I am in this body; it will fall, but I shall go on living.”
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“As the law of gravitation existed before its discovery, so do the laws of spiritual truth exist whether we recognize them or not.”
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