Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan quotes

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Teacher #My Birthday #Proud

Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Religious #Mean #Errors

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Past #Saint #Imagine

When we think we know we cease to learn.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Thinking

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Teacher #Thinking #Helping

The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#God #Confused #Mean

The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#God #Grief #Past

Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#God #Spring #Men

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Integrity #Names #Groups

Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Men #World #Scandal

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Thinking #Make You Think #Illusion

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Justice #Enemy #Privilege

God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#God #Soul #Spirituality

Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#God #Reality #Soul

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Religion #Belief #Behavior

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#Political #India #Spirituality