Quotes by foremost thinkers of the world about Sanatana Dharma
Robert Oppenheimer ( father of the atomic bomb ), Carl Sagan ( worlds foremost cosmologist ), Nikolas Tesla ( arguably the most prolific inventor of modern times ), Heisenberg ( one of the key founders of quantum mechanics that has made modern life even possible ), the list can go on, to understand how these highly intelligent ppl of the world were drawn to the wisdom found in Vedanta and related schools of thoughts by themselves with no need for prostelizying, with no need for someone promising a heaven with 72 virgins or with the fear of an eternal Hell.
Any decent man should be able to see through the grandeur of Sanatana Dharma and it's mind boggling sanity that every great mind that comes in touch with it is influenced by it. And history is proof that all great minds have been at odds with other religions, starting with Galileo.
Here is a list of quotes on Hinduism by various ppl around the world.
Http://www.hinduwisdom.info/quotes1_20.htm
One excerpt by Voltaire: source: The Invasion That Never Was - By Michel Danino and Sujata Nahar p. 12 - 13 and 18 and 90 - 91).
11. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1774) France's greatest writers and philosophers, was a theist, and a bitter critic of the Church, which he looked upon as the instigator of cruelty, injustice, and inequality. No wonder that Voltaire, who strongly opposed the Church's totalitarian grip over men's lives, and may count as one of the ideologues of secularism, mentioned the religions of India and China as a model of how religion could be a free exploration by the individual. He said :
"We have shown how much we (Europeans) surpass the Indians in courage and wickedness, and how inferior to them we are in wisdom. Our European nations have mutually destroyed themselves in this land where we only go in search of money, while the first Greeks traveled to the same land only to instruct themselves."
Voltaire concluded, " I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganga (Ganges), - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc."
" It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganga (Ganges) to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe..."
Any decent man should be able to see through the grandeur of Sanatana Dharma and it's mind boggling sanity that every great mind that comes in touch with it is influenced by it. And history is proof that all great minds have been at odds with other religions, starting with Galileo.
Here is a list of quotes on Hinduism by various ppl around the world.
Http://www.hinduwisdom.info/quotes1_20.htm
One excerpt by Voltaire: source: The Invasion That Never Was - By Michel Danino and Sujata Nahar p. 12 - 13 and 18 and 90 - 91).
11. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1774) France's greatest writers and philosophers, was a theist, and a bitter critic of the Church, which he looked upon as the instigator of cruelty, injustice, and inequality. No wonder that Voltaire, who strongly opposed the Church's totalitarian grip over men's lives, and may count as one of the ideologues of secularism, mentioned the religions of India and China as a model of how religion could be a free exploration by the individual. He said :"We have shown how much we (Europeans) surpass the Indians in courage and wickedness, and how inferior to them we are in wisdom. Our European nations have mutually destroyed themselves in this land where we only go in search of money, while the first Greeks traveled to the same land only to instruct themselves."
Voltaire concluded, " I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganga (Ganges), - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc."
" It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganga (Ganges) to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe..."
As a side note I am sure you already know they found the ruins of Dwaraka, the city from whee Lord Krishna is said to have ruled according to popular " myths " called the Mahabharata and the Puranas (Bhagavatam). Contact me for links.
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